History Main / ComplainingAboutComplaining

*** "It Just Bugs Me" was changed to {{Headscratchers}} mainly due to complaints about people complaining instead of asking questions about the show.

'''Captain:''' All right, if that's what you... waaait a minute.

** The article you're reading right now is [[SelfDemonstratingArticle complaining about complaining about complaining]]. Congratulations TV Tropes, we've just [[RealityBreakingParadox divided by zero]] :)
*** And the passage above is [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment complaining about complaining about complaining]] about [[OhCrap OH]] [[CurseCutShort SHI-]]

* [[http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/clinton_blasts_obama_for The Onion]] says it best.

* See the page quote from a Machinima about ''VideoGame/TheSims''.

--> '''[=McKenzie=]''': And now you're complaining about me complaining!
--> '''Griffin''': You just complained about me complaining about you complaining.
--->--''Sims Big Brother 5''.
%% One quote per page. More can go on the Quotes page.

* Subverted occasionally in the case of someone who doesn't complain about a thing which everyone is complaining about and is then called delusional or a sheep or immature/uncritical thinker or fan-boy/girl/human for liking the show/book/artist/fanfic, For just enjoying the output, for being chilled about what they like. Complaining about not-complaining.

* The (no longer extant) JustBugsMe page about "School" had someone coming up with reasons to dislike school (Which may or may not apply to them), in which someone responds by complaining that they're just complaining for the heck of it. Without, of course, knowing how much of a problem it was. (As if they went to a perfect school) It used to be much messier, complete with an OverusedRunningGag about "Learn to box" and "You'll get expelled for that".

* In one ''Webcomic/TheHeroOfThreeFaces'' strip, the Shalka-Doctor rants to the Master that the people of 21st century Earth are always complaining about things. When asked why he doesn't bring it up with the people themselves he says "Because then I'll be one of them!"

* ''BobRoberts'': "[[HypocriticalHumor But they complain and complain and complain...]]"

* In a ''FamilyGuy'' FlashbackTwist, a slave on a ship heading for America keeps whining to the captain, "Are we there yet?"

* [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Calvin]] complains about people who can't let one of their pet peeves go... [[HypocriticalHumor in a rant that lasts for three whole panels]]

* [[CalvinAndHobbes Calvin]] complains about people who can't let one of their pet peeves go... [[HypocriticalHumor in a rant that lasts for three whole panels]]

* See the page quote from a Machinima about ''TheSims''.

* In [=MMOs=] with heavy chat traffic, it's not unusual to see people spamming, complaining, or otherwise being annoying. However, alerting that player that they are now on an Ignore list or are being reported to [=GMs=] gets you the treatment of a tattle-taler in preschool.

** TV Tropes: 'This trope is just ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike.'

** The article you're reading right now is [[SelfDemonstratingArticle complaining about complaining about complaining]]. Congratulations TV Tropes, we've just [[DivideByZero divided by zero]] :)

* The "You're not allowed to complain about X because these people have it worse" card.

*** ItJustBugsMe was changed to {{Headscratchers}} mainly due to complaints about people complaining instead of asking questions about the show.

*** And ofcourse every other ItJustBugsMe page will have someone complaining about all the complaints going on in that page.

* {{Community}} often points out the group's dysfunction:

* In the US legal system, there exists a term called [[{{Troll}} "vexatious litigant"]]. This applies when somebody keeps filing suits over [[FrivolousLawsuit frivolous complaints]] until there are so many complaints about his frivolous suit that a judge formally tells him to cut it out.

'''Captain:''' All right, if that's what you...waaait a minute.

* With YouTube's change from a five star voting system to a simple 'Like/Dislike' option, expect to see various comments with "[number of dislikes] people are [negative object related to the video]."

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*** And the passage above is complaining about complaining about complaining about [[OhCrap OH]] [[CurseCutShort SHI-]]

--->--''Sims Big Brother 5''.

* ''MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' seemed to like this one:
** "I think all right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired. I'm certainly not, and I'm sick and tired of being told that I am."

* This is how many {{flame war}}s get started, usually in a couple of ways.
** 1) Someone makes a criticism (different from 2 in that there is actually a reason). Large numbers of people tell them to just shut up. The first person tries to justify their claim. Flame war ensues.
** 2) Someone outright states they don't like the show for very little reason, or complains for the sake of complaining. People then attack the complainer for genuinely complaining. Usually both groups have at least some people who can't let it go and continue to fight while losing whatever reason was behind it (usually just flaming the other side). Back and forth flame war ensues.

* Real Life:

* The (no longer extant) JustBugsMe page about "School" had someone coming up with reasons to dislike school (Which may or may not apply to them), in which someone responds by complaining that they're just complaining for the heck of it. Without, of course, knowing how much of a problem it was. (As if they went to a perfect school) It used to be much messier, complete with an OverusedRunningGag about "Learn to box" and "You'll get expelled for that".

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