History Main / AccentuateTheNegative

* Over the years, Scans Daily has become somewhat infamous for this kind of behavior (as well as PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad to a lesser extent). So much so that the guy who wrote [[http://www.funnybookbabylon.com/2008/03/31/fandom-readership-and-snark/ this]] article attributes Scans Daily as a major cause of the 2008 spike in comics {{Hatedom}}. This varies by post--many comics are praised beyond all reason, and others have a balanced reception. But if your favorite happens to fall into the "negative" reception zone, it's going to hurt.

* Game developers and publishers. If they make a poorly received game, they must make five more good games before people forget about it... And even then they're lucky if they do. And GOD help these developers and publishers if they got caught in a negative controversy. The fandom will define them on those controversies or negative things more than whatever good things they do, and act like they do it because they 'care about the industry that these companies are destroying'.

** The voice-acting of the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' episodes from Season 9 onwards is constantly panned by fans of the old episodes and is definitely the absolute ''biggest'' complaint about the anime now. Fans hated the new voice-acting in 2006 and they still hate it now.

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* Fossil fuels get this treatment from the mainstream media, with the benefits of cheap, reliable energy largely ignored in favor of the effects of atmospheric carbon dioxide, as well as the effect of atmospheric [=CO2=] on plant growth largely ignored in favor of global warming and ocean acidification, and the positive effects of global warming (like fewer people freezing to death during the winter) ignored in favor of dramatic images of the world either [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFgBFYkBZ6E literally on fire]] or [[Film/{{Waterworld}} entirely underwater]], or other even more absurd scenarios like [[Series/TerraNova all of the world's oceans somehow drying up without atmospheric humidity increasing by eleventy billion percent]]. In the scientific community, there's nothing close to a consensus on whether increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would be a ''net'' positive or a ''net'' negative, or what a "safe" rate of atmospheric [=CO2=] increase would be. However, there is a lot of consensus that, while there will be many small to moderate negative effects, these negative effects will not include the world spontaneously bursting into flames or sea levels rising by more than a hundred meters (and even that would require ''completely'' melting the ice caps, which would take tens of thousands of years). This phenomenon has been taken to such an extreme that ''other negative effects of fossil fuel use'' are ignored in favor of the negative effects of global warming. And they also ignore the negative effects of "renewable" energy, like the very environmentally unfriendly processes involved in manufacturing - and disposing of - solar panels and electric car batteries.
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* Wiki/TVTropes itself tends to have this problem at times. [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools More negative tropes are seen around here more than positive ones.]] Some tropers here tend to be really itching to add negative tropes on [[Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike shows they don't like here.]], or the belief that TVTropesWillRuinYourLife. There has since been a movement to lower such negativity in this wiki. You'll notice that people have to be ''reminded'' to not bash things. From the main page:

* ''WebVideo/AitorMolinaVs'' the first episode of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''.
** UpToEleven when he talks about [[WebAnimation/VeteALaVersh Darkar]] or Elrubius.

* Game developers and publishers. If they make a poorly received game, they must make five more good games before people forget about it... And even then they're lucky if they do.

** Music/JoyDivision: Their two albums, ''Music/UnknownPleasures'' and ''Music/{{Closer}}'' are a veritable DespairEventHorizon. It doesn't help that their lead singer, Ian Curtis, died of suicide.

* WebVideo/TheMusicVideoShow is where one reviewer watches one music video once a week and points out various flaws in them. Since the fourth episode, he decides whether or not he would watch it again.

* Fossil fuels get this treatment from the mainstream media, with (a) the benefits of cheap, reliable energy largely ignored in favor of the effects of atmospheric carbon dioxide; (b) the effect of atmospheric [=CO2=] on plant growth largely ignored in favor of global warming and ocean acidification, and (c) the positive effects of global warming (like fewer people freezing to death during the winter) ignored in favor of dramatic images of the world either [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFgBFYkBZ6E literally on fire]] or [[Film/{{Waterworld}} entirely underwater]], or other even more absurd scenarios like [[Series/TerraNova all of the world's oceans somehow drying up without atmospheric humidity increasing by eleventy billion percent]]. In the scientific community, there's nothing close to a consensus on whether increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would be a ''net'' positive or a ''net'' negative, or what a "safe" rate of atmospheric [=CO2=] increase would be. However, there is a lot of consensus that, while there will be many small to moderate negative effects, these negative effects will not include the world spontaneously bursting into flames or sea levels rising by more than a hundred meters (and even that would require ''completely'' melting the ice caps, which would take tens of thousands of years).
** This phenomenon has been taken to such an extreme that ''other negative effects of fossil fuel use'' are ignored in favor of the negative effects of global warming. For example, how often are you reminded that the reason for rising mercury levels in the oceans is because of the trace amounts of mercury in coal, which then ends up in the atmosphere? Or that trace amounts of sulfur in coal end up in the atmosphere, where it can become sulfuric acid, which is one possible component of acid rain? Remember acid rain? Or the ozone layer? Or ''any environmental issues other than global warming''?
** Likewise, the negative effects of fossil fuel use are accentuated while ignoring the negative effects of "renewable" energy, like the very environmentally unfriendly processes involved in manufacturing - and disposing of - solar panels and electric car batteries.

* The ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime and movies get a lot of this reaction.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide CO2]] gets a bad rep on account of being toxic to humans, and is often used by climate change fear-mongers to push for non-fossil-fuel energy sources across the globe, that being said, it is extremely beneficial to plants, so much so that the total global emissions of the gas is [[https://youtu.be/CY3IJx8mVbY causing vegetation with a land coverage equal to the combined geographic width of France and Germany to grow in the Sahara desert]].

* Anything released by Creator/{{Activision}} and Creator/ElectronicArts now. Mainly because most of what you see from either publisher is their well-over-known games, like ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' or ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield}}''. That and because both publishers have been known to have incredibly pricy downloadable content because MoneyDearBoy.

** Creator/ElectronicArts gets this the worst amongst other companies. They have a lot of terrible things... But a couple of things they actually funded and saw great interest in are completely forgotten and they go un-credited for. For example, did you know some of Origin's later games (like ''VideoGame/UltimaOnline'') were only possible with their financial support? Or that when a couple of studios who co-developed a game pitched an idea to them, they suggested making it a sequel to another well-received game, and the result was a SacredCow? What game was that, you might ask? ''VideoGame/SystemShock 2.'' And despite being known to have killed ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'' franchise, for its remastered version, EA actually went out of their way to re-gather the original crews of Westwood Studios (that they shut down) and had them recreate the magic of the retro game experience as faithfully as possible, resulting a surprisingly praised remaster of some of the classic titles. And you can probably count with your hands on how many people actually acknowledge that sometimes ''EA can do good things at times'', the rest chose to just remember their ''other'' terrible things.

** Creator/BlizzardEntertainment. Ever since the merger with Creator/{{Activision}}, fans are a lot more willing to point out at how many times they screwed up (or emulating Activision's strategy of being [[MoneyDearBoy profit-driven]]) rather than how many times they pleased their fanbase. And it certainly didn't help that at the tail end of UsefulNotes/TheNewTens, they piled up a lot of negativity such as ''Diablo Immortal'' and most damningly, the incident where they banned ''VideoGame/HearthstoneHeroesOfWarcraft'' pro player Blitzchung for making a political statement that wouldn't go well with their Chinese shareholders. And further ''not'' helping their case was the disastrous remake of their classic game in form of ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} 3: Reforged'' that happened right afterwards to start the year of 2021. Going to the year 2021, it's getting a little harder to look at or enjoy Blizzard-related products without people reminding you about their aforementioned fails (some of them pretty serious) and how much they have fallen from their throne of one of the best Western video game developers. Even at the times when they did actually pretty well (''VideoGame/DiabloII Resurrected'' shaped up to be their AuthorsSavingThrow when it comes to classic game remakes, but people are still aware of how they screwed up before).

** Creator/BlizzardEntertainment. Ever since the merger with Creator/{{Activision}}, fans are a lot more willing to point out at how many times they screwed up (or emulating Activision's strategy of being [[MoneyDearBoy profit-driven]]) rather than how many times they pleased their fanbase. And it certainly didn't help that at the tail end of UsefulNotes/TheNewTens, they piled up a lot of negativity such as ''Diablo Immortal'' and most damningly, the incident where they banned ''VideoGame/HearthstoneHeroesOfWarcraft'' pro player Blitzchung for making a political statement that wouldn't go well with their Chinese shareholders. And further ''not'' helping their case was the disastrous remake of their classic game in form of ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} 3: Reforged'' that happened right afterwards to start the year of 2021. Going to the year 2021, it's getting a little harder to look at or enjoy Blizzard-related products without people reminding you how much they have fallen from their throne of one of the best Western video game developers. Even at the times when they did actually pretty well (''VideoGame/DiabloII Resurrected'' shaped up to be their AuthorsSavingThrow when it comes to classic game remakes, but people are still aware of how they screwed up before).

** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide CO2]] gets a bad rep on account of being toxic to humans, and is often used by climate change fear-mongers to push for non-fossil-fuel energy sources across the globe, that being said, it is extremely beneficial to plants, so much so that the total global emissions of the gas is [[https://youtu.be/CY3IJx8mVbY causing vegetation with a land coverage equal to the combined geographic width of France and Germany to grow in the Sahara desert]].

** Creator/ElectronicArts gets this the worst amongst other companies. They have a lot of terrible things... But a couple of things they actually funded and saw great interest in are completely forgotten and they go un-credited for. For example, did you know some of Origin's later games (like ''VideoGame/UltimaOnline'') were only possible with their financial support? Or that when a couple of studios who co-developed a game pitched an idea to them, they suggested making it a sequel to another well-received game, and the result was a SacredCow? What game was that, you might ask? ''VideoGame/SystemShock 2.'' And despite being known to have killed ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'' franchise, for its remastered version, EA actually went out of their way to re-gather the original crews of Westwood Studios (that they shut down) and had them recreate the magic of the retro game experience as faithfully as possible, resulting a surprisingly praised remaster of some of the classic titles. And you can probably count with your hands on how many people actually acknowledge that sometimes ''EA can do good things at times'', the rest chose to just still remember their ''other'' terrible things.

** Creator/ElectronicArts gets this the worst amongst other companies. They have a lot of terrible things... But a couple of things they actually funded and saw great interest in are completely forgotten and they go un-credited for. For example, did you know some of Origin's later games (like ''VideoGame/UltimaOnline'') were only possible with their financial support? Or that when a couple of studios who co-developed a game pitched an idea to them, they suggested making it a sequel to another well-received game, and the result was a SacredCow? What game was that, you might ask? ''VideoGame/SystemShock 2.'' And despite being known to have killed ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'' franchise, for its remastered version, EA actually went out of their way to re-gather the original crews of Westwood Studios (that they shut down) and had them recreate the magic of the retro game experience as faithfully as possible, resulting a surprisingly praised remaster of some of the classic titles. And you can probably count with your hands on how many people actually acknowledge that sometimes ''EA can do good things at times'', choosing to still remember their ''other'' terrible things.

** Creator/ElectronicArts gets this the worst amongst other companies. They have a lot of terrible things... But a couple of things they actually funded and saw great interest in are completely forgotten and they go un-credited for. For example, did you know some of Origin's later games (like ''VideoGame/UltimaOnline'') were only possible with their financial support? Or that when a couple of studios who co-developed a game pitched an idea to them, they suggested making it a sequel to another well-received game, and the result was a SacredCow? What game was that, you might ask? ''VideoGame/SystemShock 2.''

** Creator/{{Konami}} gets this a lot, particularly [[AmericansHateTingle in the West]] where they've received ''massive'' MemeticLoser status. It would be easier to count how many people in the West still appreciate what they produce today. Since their shifting away from console games, Western fans tend to lash out at anything bad or controversial they do (their scruffs with Creator/HideoKojima and their [[ExecutiveMeddling meddling]] with ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'' being two major examples) and cite those things as examples of "Konami doesn't make games anymore, they're a gambling and ''mobage'' company now!", in spite of Konami continuing to produce well-received arcade games (just ask any fan of current arcade {{Rhythm Game}}s). When ''[[VideoGame/{{Bomberman}} Bombergirl]]'', an actual arcade game and not a pachinko or other gambling-related spinoff, was unveiled at JAEPO 2017, it was singled out as "more proof that Konami only ever does bad things now" while the rest of the arcade games Konami showed at that event were largely ignored by Western fans. Notably, ''Bombergirl'' and Konami pachinko games are [[NoExportForYou Japan-only]], but it doesn't stop Western fans from [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch complaining about games that they don't play]].

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide CO2]] gets a bad rep on account of being toxic to humans, and is often used by climate change fear-mongers to push for non-fossil-fuel energy sources across the globe, that being said, it is extremely beneficial to plants, so much so that the total global emissions of the gas is [[https://youtu.be/CY3IJx8mVbY causing vegetation with a land coverage equal to the combined geographic width of France and Germany to grow in the Sahara desert]].

* ExecutiveMeddling - Normally, when this trope is mentioned on the wiki (As it is in real life), it is almost ''always'' used in a negative context. However, [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools there have been just as many instances where executive meddling didn't actually harm the work or even made it better]] - they rarely if ever get mentioned, since nobody complains if the system works.

* '''[[DysfunctionJunction Everyone Is Messed Up]]''': See that well-adjusted character over there? [[BreakTheCutie Don't expect it to last]]. There's a reason that [[ThereAreNoPsychologists therapists are in short supply]] in many stories, both because of the assumption that TrueArtIsAngsty, and the belief that conflicted characters are more interesting. "Pure" heroes, like the KnightInShiningArmor, are seen as largely generic and similar to each other (and therefore are usually under-represented) while {{Dark and Troubled Past}}s and questionable morals make villains and {{Anti Hero}}es distinct and recognizable, even if the troubled pasts and questionable morals keep expressing themselves in the same ways.