History Main / ItsPopularNowItSucks

** The cross-genre reaction to Pandarens. During early years of the game, Pandarens were one of the races most desired as playable by the fans. Two ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' movies later and the announcement of Pandarens has been met with immense ridicule.

* Some people have claimed that this has happened to ''Toys/{{BIONICLE}}'', despite the fact that the line is only marginally more successful than when it started. This stems from the belief that the repetitive design of their recent sets is because they're pandering to their, newer, younger audience, even though these claims come from people in their late teens, early twenties while the series is labeled as ages 7-16. You will constantly see topics like "Is Bionicle Selling Out?" on the forums for popular fansite Website/BZPower.com, which are constantly getting squished out by the, thankfully, more intelligent majority.

* Creator/TomHiddleston has garnered a lot of this due to all of the female fans he garnered playing Loki. A number of comic fans seem to detest his {{fangirl}}s rather than being happy that the character has become exposed to a much wider audience. Sure, some of his fans can be really annoying or creepy, but ''that can be said of elements of virtually every other fandom anyway''.

* Music/DragonForce shows you don't have to do much to get this treatment by allowing the use of "Through the Fire and Flames" as a bonus track for ''VideoGame/GuitarHero III''. Fans at first praised its inclusion, and it would seem that this trope was averted. Then the game came out, and the cries of "Sellout!" came with it. Seriously, just go on to any video of the band on Website/YouTube, either their music videos, their live performances, or their interviews and count how many comments read along the lines of "I liked Dragon Force before ''Guitar Hero.''

* Music/{{Muse}} has suffered a lot of this since the release of ''Music/BlackHolesAndRevelations'', and to a lesser extent since ''Music/{{Absolution|Album}}''. Muse were considered very cool when they were indie artists on their first two albums, ''Music/{{Showbiz}}'' and ''Music/OriginOfSymmetry'', and reached their peak when they hit the mainstream with ''Absolution''. By the time ''Black Holes'' came out, it was considered a disappointment because the singles released from it were pop songs rather than rock. This happens a lot, in fact, if an album is represented by the songs which are atypical for the album itself. Ever since "Supermassive Black Hole" was featured in the first ''Literature/TheTwilightSaga'' film, you can't go to a Muse video on Website/YouTube without fanboys shrieking about ''Twilight'' fans liking Muse due to said song in movie. Sad, because while ''Twilight'' is a polarizing series, almost everyone likes Muse.

* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' has been getting this treatment since the PC games came out. Many question how such a simple shooter series became so unbelievably-popular, or take issue with how many fans of the series [[FanworkOnlyFans have never played one of the official games.]] When a news program highlighted a fan-made ''Touhou'' video, never mind that ''Touhou'' wasn't even ''mentioned'' (and in fact, the newspeople probably didn't even know that ''Touhou'' existed), find a clip of that on Website/YouTube and see how many people are complaining that ''Touhou'' is mainstream now, and thus "ruined".

* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''. Act 5, which properly introduced the [[RubberForeheadAliens trolls]] and their convoluted, [[EveryoneIsBi bisexual]] romance led to a gigantic influx of fans, mostly from Website/{{Tumblr}}, who mostly obsessed over that aspect of the comic. Some readers--mostly on Website/FourChan--believe that this led to the comic jumping the shark, as the author began to pander to the Tumblr demographic's tastes, leading to things such as [[RomanticPlotTumor increased focus on romantic subplots]].

* This is also the attitude about memes from those around during the earlier days of modern Net culture (i.e. 2000-2010). Those who were around back then would use memes as inside jokes. Phrases like "Pool's Closed" were references to ''VideoGame/{{Habbo}}'' raids as opposed to racist phrases like members of the public thought (though the penchant of the raiders to form swastikas with their avatars didn't help). But as with nerd culture, memes started going more mainstream (helped out by Hot Topic making clothing of different memes, and ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' featuring them on their show) until these "inside jokes" weren't inside anymore, and memes started taking on a more "flavor-of-the-month" quality as Website/{{Vine}} grew in popularity. As such, the members of that older generation often lament how memes went from being inside jokes that had staying power to suddenly being fleeting fads that show up, get about two weeks of attention, and are never mentioned again.

* Every widely known social networking site (Website/{{Facebook}}, {{Website/Myspace}}, {{Website/Twitter}}, etc.) '''''ever'''''. Specifically, for Facebook, the introduction of high school and regional networks was what ruined it FOREVER!

* Nightcore emerged in the early 2000's as a style of speeding up slow techno songs to give them a happy hardcore-esque sound. The phenomenon initially had a small fanbase scattered throughout various online communities, but by TheNewTens, it became wildly popular on Website/YouTube, with lots of nightcore channels being created overnight. Nightcore soon became labelled as "lazy", "uncreative", and "oversaturated". As a result, many older listeners stopped following the nightcore scene. It didn't help that many of the new channels strayed from the original happy hardcore sound, even using non-electronic genres such as rock and hip hop.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' hit this somewhere in the latter half of Season 4 with the uprising of SU Critical on Website/{{tumblr}}, to the point where some people join the fanbase just to bash the show. The Zamii Incident did not help matters for the fanbase either.

* Music/BillyJoel was practically a poster boy for this, particularly during his most visible era. For much of TheSeventies, Joel was a one-hit wonder known primarily for "Piano Man", though he still garnered a decent following and a solid reputation among music critics. The commercial success aspect would skyrocket following ''Music/TheStrangerAlbum'', where he pursued a more profitable sound through Phil Ramone at the risk of being dropped by his label, which just so happened to sell monstrously and be released in the year of the punk invasion. But the trope itself did not hit until after ''Music/GlassHouses'', when hit after hit had transformed Joel into a pop culture punching bag among anyone looking to be seen as "cool", in time culminating with his marriage to Christie Brinkley and the novelty hit "We Didn't Start the Fire", which by TheNineties earned him an almost pariah status within the hipster circle. Though the idea of Joel as a {{Yuppie}} sellout has continued to taint his image for a lot of listeners, it's largely died down by the UsefulNotes/TheNew10s as he continues to play packed arenas and [[PopularityPolynomial discovers newfound fans among younger people through their own pop culture and who value the]] [[RockIsAuthenticPopIsShallow rock vs pop dichotomy]] [[PopularityPolynomial far less than their parents did.]]

* Kings of Leon after ''Only By The Night''. Many of their fans who followed them throughout their first few albums felt that particularly "Sex On Fire" was an uninspired sellout compared to their earlier work. It evidently turned several off them, as neither 5th album ''Come Around Sundown'' and its accompanying single "Radioactive" were as much of a critical or commercial success.

* Famous PostHardcore band Jawbox was signed by Creator/AtlanticRecords in 1994, in the midst of the Music/{{Nirvana}}-provoked AlternativeRock craze. Since they'd already had 5 years under their belt, they managed to score a very favourable record contract that allowed them control over their recordings and the ability to organise their own shows. Regardless, the FanDumb came fast and furious: one particularly psychotic fan wrote to the band '''wishing for their death in a fiery van accident'''.

* Music/FallOutBoy. Many fans think that the quality of the albums are negatively proportional to how popular they are, which would mean essentially that they haven't done anything good since "Take This To Your Grave"...or "From Under The Cork Tree", if they're feeling charitable.

** Cries of "sell out" were also heard in the previous decade, once they signed with a major label and released ''Dookie'' -- which committed the extra sin of selling 10 million copies in the US alone!