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* ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'': After installing the emotions chip that Dr. Soong made for him, Data tries a drink for the first time. He finds the drink unagreeable, but can't get enough of it.

* Tycho of ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' [[https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/12/14 once bought]] a copy of ''[[VideoGame/TonyHawksProSkater Tony Hawk: Ride]]'' for 120$ on the basis that the game is, in his own words, "fucking goddamn bullshit, even though it sucks," and later asking the store clerk if they have anything else horrible.

* ''VideoGame/EthnicCleansing'': If the name alone doesn't put you off then the details will. It's pretty much a video game adaptation of ''TabletopGame/RacialHolyWar'', all the way down to the fact that it's an ObviousBeta. It was made by neo-Nazis and hammers its ideas home - for starters, [[RefugeInAudacity blacks make monkey noises when you kill them]].
* ''VideoGame/TheFrontier'': ''Hoo boy.'' This ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' mod gets all its publicity and attention from the ''maelstrom'' of [[OvershadowedByControversy controversy]] that surrounds the game like a dense fog. Spectators to this disaster are treated to unfortunate implications, CanonDefilement, [[AuthorAppeal unsettling fetishistic undertones]], poor writing, [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor developer scandals]] and a [[TroubledProduction behind-the-scenes civil war.]]

* ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfareIII'': The game, especially the campaign, got a lot of attention due to how poorly received was. From the [[ItsShortSoItSucks incredibly short player mode]], [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks the infamous Open Combat Missions]], the costant PanderingToTheBase, a few {{Narm}} inducing scenes, and in top of that, the [[spoiler: UndignifiedDeath of Soap himself]]. All to the price of 70$.

* ''VideoGame/TheFrontier'': ''Hoo boy.'' This ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' mod gets all its publicity and attention from the ''maelstrom'' of [[OvershadowedByControversy controversy]] that surrounds the game like a dense fog. Spectators to this disaster are treated to UnfortunateImplications, CanonDefilement, [[AuthorAppeal unsettling fetishistic undertones]], poor writing, [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor developer scandals]] and a [[TroubledProduction behind-the-scenes civil war.]]

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* ''ComicBook/HeroesInCrisis'' had loads of this, even while it was coming out. With each issue, more people checked out the book just to see why it was so hated by everyone. What they found was a series full of padding, terrible handling of the topic of mental illness, and turning a beloved character into a mass murderer because of ExecutiveMeddling.

* Being a blatant knockoff of ''WesternAnimation/{{Bluey}}'' and made by a conservative right-wing media company, ''WesternAnimation/ChipChilla'' has elicited this reaction from many.

* Creator/DavidLynch famously [[CreatorBacklash disowned]] [[Film/Dune1984 his adaptation]] of ''Literature/{{Dune}}'', though many viewers have enjoyed it nonetheless -- ironically or otherwise. It's too bad to be a good film, but it's too good to be a bad film. Having Music/{{Sting}} play a [[LargeHam hamtastic]] villain in a wing-shaped speedo certainly helps. Curiosity about this loveable trainwreck has multiplied tenfold after the release of Creator/DenisVilleneuve's ''significantly'' better and more successful [[Film/Dune2021 two]] [[Film/DunePartTwo adaptations]].

* Creator/DavidLynch famously [[CreatorBacklash disowned]] [[Film/Dune1984 his adaptation]] of ''Literature/{{Dune}}'', though many viewers have enjoyed it nonetheless -- ironically or otherwise. It's too bad to be a good film, but it's too good to be a bad film. Having Music/{{Sting}} play a [[LargeHam hamtastic]] villain in a wing-shaped speedo certainly helps. Curiosity about this loveable trainwreck has multiplied tenfold after the release of Creator/DenisVilleneuve's ''significantly'' better and more successful [[Film/Dune2021 adaptation]].

** Similarly, ''VideoGame/SonicBoomRiseOfLyric'' is said to be just as bad as, if not worse than, ''06''. People mostly just play this game to pick apart every last flaw, from its [[ChristmasRushed motherload of glitches]], [[FillingTheSilence constant voice clips]], and less-than-impressive gameplay.

* ''VideoGame/Superman64'' is infamously known for its laughable story, the "kryptonite fog" used as an excuse for the game's terrible draw distance, the shoddy controls, the massive amount of levels that amount to just flying through rings, and the many bugs and glitches that can be either hilarious, a game breaker, or game breaking hilarious. LetsPlay/ProtonJon covered the game so that no one else would have to play it and he heavily discouraged people in playing it, but they went and bought/tried the game anyway just to see for themselves how bad it really was.

* While the ''Fanfic/TheConversionBureauTheChatoverse'' does have its sincere fans, there are many more "fans" who are interested in the stories simply because of the strange and disturbing morality that underlies them.

* ''VideoGame/SuicideSquadKillTheJusticeLeague'' was already fraught with [[TaintedByThePreview a ton of bad publicity]] prior in [[DevelopmentHell the months-turned-years]] before release for a multitude of reasons, from concerns to the game [[ToughActToFollow being a follow-up to the beloved]] ''Franchise/BatmanArkhamSeries'' as well as the controversial live-service gameplay model alienating fans, with many expecting to only approach the game from a distance. However, general animosity turned into this trope when the game was finally released and word got out of just how bad its plot actually was, with [[spoiler:the game's handling of genuinely killing off the Justice League, including Batman in what was advertised as the late Creator/KevinConroy's SwanSong for the character]] drawing such backlash that more fans flocked to see if it really was as baffling and tone-deaf as claimed.

* The UsefulNotes/Atari2600 version of ''VideoGame/PacMan'': The TropeCodifier for PortingDisaster. [[HilariousInHindsight Hilariously in Hindsight]], the Atari 2600 ports of ''Ms.'' and ''Jr. Pac-Man'' were {{Polished Port}}s. Add the many re-releases of the original [[UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame Arcade]] version on multiple platforms, as well as fan-favorite ''Pac-Man Championship Edition DX'', and there's absolutely no reason to play ''Pac-Man'' on the Atari 2600 other than curiosity as to how bad it is.

* UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch cartridges are very small and could present a choking hazard if a child put one in their mouth. To avoid this, they're sprayed with denatonium benzoate, a harmless chemical that tastes ''horribly'' bitter... which led to a brief fad, shortly after the system's initial release, of people ''licking'' Switch game cartridges just to see how bad it was.

* ''VideoGame/CrazyBus'': This is the reason behind why the "game" is so popular in the first place despite being something someone bored could've coded up one lazy afternoon. It's a tech demo, a sample application provided with a third-party compiler toolchain and you're supposed to study the game's source code and learn how to program using the toolchain from there. And yet all people are after is the "ROM" generated by the compiler. And then there's its [[HellIsThatNoise "theme."]]

* Farrah Abraham's ''Music/MyTeenageDreamEnded'' is a CultClassic of an album that's become infamous for existing in a reputation between this [[SoBadItsGood as well as genuine critical admiration]]. The debut album of a nascent artist who knew very little about music and enforced... ''questionable'' creative direction to producers, it was widely lambasted for just how bizarrely it mangled its attempt at being a sharp dance pop album, filled with ridiculously atonal instrumentals amidst heavily auto-tuned vocals that never properly mixes together. This actually ended up being a point that critics quickly became fascinated with -- Abraham and co were ''so'' off course that it shot the moon and [[AccidentalArt accidentally became an intriguing bit of avant-garde outsider music]], which has been enough to earn it a degree of sincere prestige and placements on "best-of" lists. Even if you aren't into the AccidentalArt angle, it's still experimental and ''weird'' enough to have drawn a long-term audience of varying levels of irony.

* ''ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark'' is largely remembered only for this, thanks to creator Dave Sim's CreatorBreakdown and later issues of the comic devolving into a lot of anti-feminist ranting.

* ''ComicBook/{{Marville}}'' would be completely forgotten if not for this fact. Written by then-president of Marvel Bill Jemas (who had essentially no comic writing experience before this) on a bet, it starts as an unfunny parody of the American media business in the early 00s, becomes an unfunny parody of superhero comics, then turns into a highly-inaccurate AuthorTract on science, organized religion, and the story ends claiming to have solved world peace. The comic continues with a recap issue, which comes across as a TakeThat at comic editors (when this comic itself clearly had ProtectionFromEditors because of being written by the president of the company), and the series finally ends with a submission guide for Marvel's revival of the Epic Comics label, designed to give other creative voices the chance to publish for Marvel with similar creative freedom. That line ended after about a year and the only comic of note it produced was ''ComicBook/TroubleMarvelComics'', another comic that fits this trope. In the end, all the comic accomplished was gaining the notoriety of being one of the worst comics ever made.

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* In the musical version of ''Film/TheProducers'', the opening song implies that the only reason people still go to see the shows Max Bialystock produces is to see for themselves just how much of a disaster it's going to be.
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* ''Custer's Revenge'' for the UsefulNotes/Atari2600: Despite having a ''very'' AudienceAlienatingPremise where the player accumulates points by raping a Native American woman tied to a cactus while dodging arrow fire, the game still managed to sell a decent 80,000 copies approximately in its day, mostly because people first heard about it from the protests enacted by feminists and anti-racist activists, and were curious as to just how bad it really is. The general consensus reached, however, is that the game really ''is'' that bad, not only for its cringe-inducing premise but for its repetitively barebones gameplay, even by the standards of Atari 2600 games.
* The [[UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem NES]] version of ''[[VideoGame/Ghostbusters1984 Ghostbusters]]''. While the original UsefulNotes/Commodore64 game, as well as the UsefulNotes/Atari2600 and UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem versions, were all considered decent games in their time, [[PortingDisaster the NES version]] has earned itself an ''overwhelmingly'' negative reputation for an unfortunate combination of being difficult and boring, leaving curiosity as to just ''how'' bad it is as the only reason to play the game. The only positive thing that can be said about this version is the [[SoBadItsGood unintentionally hilarious]] BlindIdiotTranslation that is its ending, which has become [[MemeticMutation memetic]].

** He also claims the only reason ''VideoGame/{{Daikatana}}'' was released on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} was so people could see how bad it is, adding that the description should have been "roll up, roll up, everyone come and see the freak."

* ''VideoGame/RideToHellRetribution'': The [[ObviousBeta hordes of glitches]] both [[GoodBadBugs amusing]] and [[GameBreakingBug annoying]], repetitive and shallow gameplay, paper-thin story, laughable voice-acting, [[FetishRetardant pointless sex scenes where the characters keep their clothes on the entire time]], and the [[ComplexityAddiction illogical]] and [[DesignatedHero dickish]] actions of the main character (including the scene where he blows up a power plant just to shut off an electric fence) have led to the game becoming renowned as a masterpiece of awfulness that gamers watch solely to see how bad it can get.

* ''VideoGame/RideToHellRetribution'' The [[ObviousBeta hordes of glitches]] both [[GoodBadBugs amusing]] and [[GameBreakingBug annoying]], repetitive and shallow gameplay, paper-thin story, laughable voice-acting, [[FetishRetardant pointless sex scenes where the characters keep their clothes on the entire time]], and the [[ComplexityAddiction illogical]] and [[DesignatedHero dickish]] actions of the main character (including the scene where he blows up a power plant just to shut off an electric fence) have led to the game becoming renowned as a masterpiece of awfulness that gamers watch solely to see how bad it can get.