Internet Reviewers
On Comic Books
Given Slott's less-than-stellar relationship with the fans, that does a lot to get long-time Spidey readers back into the book. [...] But in order for my analysis of Spencer's book to make sense, I better give some context regarding why the book is so out of line with Slott's vision. Dan Slott isn't an inherently bad writer, in fact, I've loved a couple of his stories. But he's made a lot of decisions to deliberately piss off fans of the book because he has this mantra: 'It's good to show contempt for your audience, just ask Michael Bay!' He was never afraid to challenge the status quo of Spider-Man or try new things. But the irritation with Spidey fans came from his decisions usually having no lasting effect or trampling on established and consistent ideas to fit his own.
— GodzillaMendoza, "How Nick Spencer Redeemed Spider-Man
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"YOU SANCTIMONIOUS SACK OF FECES! YOU'RE TRYING TO PIN THIS ON US? Marville failed sales-wise because "we couldn't accept your grand vision of world peace"? That we only wanted "superheroes punching each other"? GO TO HELL! Your comic didn't succeed because it started as a lame, unfunny parody of the comic book industry, and then was an inaccurate and moronic tale about God and the universe! It failed because it SUCKED!
On Film — Live-Action
So, about 10 minutes into this film—which only wrestling fans would see—we've been insulted by being portrayed at the bottom rung mentally, emotionally, financially, and socially. Thank you, WCW; that's very thorough. Take a bow!
On Live-Action TV
This hatred [towards Sherlock fans] doesn't just manifest in insulting wankery like having it turn out to be a fucking boomerang, or deliberately re-writing one of the first proto-feminist icons in crime-fiction to be a sexy kung-fu dominatrix in love with the main character, but in how the show directly tells you that, if you're a fan, you should personally go and fuck yourself. [...] Season 3 features several characters whose sole job it is to portray fan theories and theorists and make fun of them and call them stupid for bothering to try and figure out what happened based on the information given to them by the show. [...] People trying to figure out the mystery in a mystery-story are presented as a little club of weirdos being weird together. The creator of the story appears to be so fundamentally incapable of recognizing how to tell a mystery, that he's perceived people treating it like one as insane. They even have one of the prospective theories be that Holmes and Moriarty were gay lovers who faked [their deaths] together, and even the other theorists make fun of her for that — even though the same people writing this scene to make fun of that are also the people who purposefully queerbaited the fuck out of the relationships between Holmes and Watson and Holmes and Moriarty. They spend a huge chunk of this episode literally calling people stupid for reading into the story's clear, intentional subtext instead of — you know, writing better text.
(Robert) Holmes’s interest in continuity has always been virtually null. He jettisoned everything we thought we knew about Gallifrey in the Deadly Assassin, and in bringing the Time Lords back as peripheral figures in this story he basically scraps all of that for a whole new set of technology and explanations of things. Tat Wood accuses this of being the point where Holmes starts to believe his own reputation, but I think nothing could be further from the truth. This is the point where Holmes loses patience with being put on a pedestal. It’s much like the classic story of comics legend Jack Kirby being told that someone was drawing one of his characters 'Jack Kirby style' and remarking that Jack Kirby style would have been to create a new character.
Carey is present? Lieutenant Carey of seasons one and two, never to be seen since? Are they taking the piss? Leave it to Voyager to introduce a character, forget about him for five seasons and then bring him back right near the end just to kill him off! ...It feels like a very cynical move that a character should be brought back to silence critics just to kill him off.
— Joe Ford on Star Trek: Voyager, "Friendship One"
on Star Trek: Voyager, "Friendship One"It always bothers me when a show that sustains itself off of the fandom of young women mocks the very people that allow it to survive.
On Music
What especially stands out in the footage of GG’s shows is his relationship with his audience. With your average rock show there’s a sense that the band is being placed on a pedestal for fawning adulation. Punk broke down the barrier between the musicians and their audience and allowed the bands to present themselves as part of the crowd, no better or worse than the people they were playing for. But GG was actively at war with his audience. He cursed them, hit them, threw objects at them, and in the case of women (and some men!) attempted to rape them. And they fought back, throwing epithets, fists and bottles at GG while he was onstage. Watching the pit at a GG Allin show was like looking at some curious rite of passage of an obscure Africa tribe where only the bravest are willing to get close enough to the stage and risk either bodily harm or the possibility of receiving a fistful of shit, piss or blood. (It's strangely ironic that after all the shows GG did with no concern for his audience’s safety, Great White is the band that ends up killing a hundred of their fans.)
— Wil Forbis on GG Allin, Interesting Motherfuckers
on GG Allin, Interesting MotherfuckersOn Video Games
Black Knight: Even as we speak, my Trolls are on YouTube downloading your videos! My Trolls are on your website posting MLP art of you and Dr. Insano. My Trolls are on Twitter redundantly telling you news about Highlander movies and asking you to livestream Deadly Premonition and propagating #spoonyhateseverything.
— Noah Antwiler on Ultima: Runes of Virtue
Scroll down now and read the first five comments under this video! You should be feeling a cold metallic sensation because you're now holding a gun to your head.
If the nutshell of the story involves shadowy conspirators who construct a command center that allows them to fabricate grand lies, then it's easily an extended metaphor for the game itself, with Raiden being an analog for the player's real-life role as a Metal Gear fan. He's a delusional, video game-addled rookie who was a fan of Solid Snake, and he believed the conspirators' lies up until the very end. And once the curtain's pulled, he's frustrated and confused, and doesn't really know what to think of it all. It was a deliberate bait-and-switch. Kojima knew that players weren't expecting this. He knew that Raiden would be unappealing and unpopular. He knew that people weren't gonna like it. And he used that to tell the story... The message is about fanboyism and hype. It's about the environment that surrounded the game's launch and what they expected it to do.
Fiction
Comic Books
"This is the tale of Teddy Teague,
Who could not wait to read his League.
With each new month, he would complain:
"Where's issue six? It's late again!""
Vexed and frustrated, he would write
Disgruntled letters filled with spite,
That called the authors work-shy fops
And threatened them with riding crops!
Grown vain on cash from Tinseltown,
This pair won't take this lying down!
And finding out where Teddy lives,
Go round and do him in with shivs!
In summary, our tale makes clear
That patience is a virtue, dear.
So gentle reader, know your place...
And don't get on our f***ing case."
Who could not wait to read his League.
With each new month, he would complain:
"Where's issue six? It's late again!""
Vexed and frustrated, he would write
Disgruntled letters filled with spite,
That called the authors work-shy fops
And threatened them with riding crops!
Grown vain on cash from Tinseltown,
This pair won't take this lying down!
And finding out where Teddy lives,
Go round and do him in with shivs!
In summary, our tale makes clear
That patience is a virtue, dear.
So gentle reader, know your place...
And don't get on our f***ing case."
Fan Works
In the afternoon, Bruno thanked his lucky stars that each of Casita's rooms came with its own private bathroom as he settled in for a nice hot bath. (And no, you're not getting a description of Bruno's naked body, you weirdos.)
Film — Animated
I can't believe we're paying to see something we get on TV for free. If you ask me, everyone in this theatre is a giant sucker. [Aside Glance] Especially you!
— Homer, The Simpsons Movie
Literature
"Clocksie," Clockblocker said, deadpan, "Has been the target of a lot of criticism, because he was in charge of the Wards at the time a lot of stuff went down. Some dingbats online speculated that I had a thing for Weaver, and it took off. The people online like to find stuff that fills in blanks, and there were a hell of a lot of blanks around the whole thing with Weaver defecting, and our pseudo-truce with the Undersiders."
— Clockblocker, Worm
Live-Action TV
I know a lot of you out there in social media land think that sometimes, when it comes to judgments, I don't always get it right. Well, you're wrong. And you'd better make sure those comments come from a server in Central Europe. It's not hard for a man with my connections to get a name, do you understand? (getting progressively angrier) You might be Dumbledore online, but I'll find you! And I'll disguise myself as a giant crow in a tree outside your house. YOU EVER BEEN JUMPED ON BY A SIX-FOOT EIGHT CROW?? Then maybe keep your opinions to yourself!
— Greg Davies will not brook criticism of his decisions as Taskmaster, Taskmaster
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Manager, Red Dwarf, "Backwards"
Music
Yo they think you're dumb
I think you're smart
No, wait, I lied
I think you're dumb
I think you're smart
No, wait, I lied
I think you're dumb
— Mindless Self Indulgence, "Stupid MF"
Ya'll don't wanna hear me, you just wanna dance
— OutKast, "Hey Ya!"
There are 10 teams, 40 people
And we're gonna have some fun
Oh my God, all Twitter's fighting
Because they've never seen the sun before
And we're gonna have some fun
Oh my God, all Twitter's fighting
Because they've never seen the sun before
Finally, he's firing in spurts,
It's the last member of the Coconut Crew!
This coconut crap, isn't funny,
If you know the spurts, you need to shoot yourself!
It's the last member of the Coconut Crew!
This coconut crap, isn't funny,
If you know the spurts, you need to shoot yourself!
— Siiva Gunner, "DK Rap (Unused Version)"
Theatre
"Wuuuuuuaaaaargh! What are you?! What are yoooou?! The watchers with a thousand eyes! Why do you want to watch us die? Will that entertain you? (enthusiastic noises from audience) You sick bastards."
"If given the chance to kill any one of us, who would choose one of the children?!"
—Mother, after the Son or Daughter is revealed to be dying of dysentery, The Trail to Oregon!
Video Games
"Is this what the aliens do for fun? At least they're not playing ... computer games.
At least they're not playing ... computer games.Chicken. Fight like a robot.
— The robots in Berzerk, if you leave a room without killing all of them
At least we're better than those sickos that stand around and WATCH it happen... Those pathetic people that want to see it, but are too weak to do it themselves. I bet someone like that's watching right now, aren't they...?
— Flowey Addressing the Player in a "No Mercy" run, Undertale
D.S. McKenna: Kindhearted neighbors turned into savage flesh eating monsters. It will make a fantastic movie!
John Marston: Who would enjoy that?!
D.S. McKenna: What?
John Marston: What kind of a sick person would like that?!!
D.S. McKenna: My kind sir: THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR!!! My people.
John Marston: Who would enjoy that?!
D.S. McKenna: What?
John Marston: What kind of a sick person would like that?!!
D.S. McKenna: My kind sir: THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR!!! My people.
— Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare, a video game about zombies.
Sam: (in response to the Player raising the pot) Hey! I thought we were friends.
Max: It's playing computer poker by itself, Sam. It doesn't HAVE friends!
Max: It's playing computer poker by itself, Sam. It doesn't HAVE friends!
"You actually bothered to finish this crappy game? Sucker! Don't take it so seriously."
"That was easier than I thought it would be."
"Now go to the forums and cry like the little bitch you are!"
— Cloaker after kicking a player, PAYDAY 2
I suggest you get a life, because you obviously don't have one, you morbidly obese twit!
— Revenge of the Sunfish responds to you picking a crude joke as a dialogue option
The Poptropica creators are so slow! I need to play the next island! I can't breathe without it!
Visual Novels—Audience Surrogate boy, Poptropica
What do you think this is, some sort of tacky ero visual novel? Do you really think relationships are as easy as just clicking the right dialogue choices on a menu...? Are you trying to tell me that, after all the time we've spent together, I don't deserve just a little bit of effort? Well, here's a message to you... not as a cool space investigator, but as a player sitting at a computer screen talking to a sad girl. Stand up, get the ingredients, actually go into your kitchen, and bake a cake! A real, actual, IRL cake! Please, do this for me! You promised me you would! Let me enjoy it through you, please!
— Hyun-ae, Hate Plus
Web Animation
Loona: Hey, is there a way I can come with you guys this time?
Blitzo: Absolutely not, I forbid it, not gonna happen! Sorry, sweetie, but Spring Break is no place for young, vulnerable goth girls! You know the FREAKS up there who drool all over you!
(The background music cuts out as the I.M.P. crew pause and glare at the audience for a brief moment.)
Caine: Your little crying face left quite the little crying mark on the Internet! (Something I don't canonically have any knowledge of!) Take a look!
(Caine pulls up a pixellated screen showing what is heavily implied to be Pomni-related Rule 34 fan art.)
Pomni: What the %$!# am I looking at?!
Caine: The consequences of our actions! [stage whisper] And it's only going to get worse from here.
Web Video
Sentence mixing with Robotnik is so fucking easy! Why are you people so impressed by it?
— Robotnik, Thechairman45's "The Discreet Charm of Robotnik"
Alright, now that I have your ears as well as your spines, allow me to indulge myself for a moment and tell you all what every content creator has always wanted to say to their audience.
[clears throat]
FUCK! ALL Y'ALL!
[clears throat]
FUCK! ALL Y'ALL!
— Kayaba Akihito, Sword Art Online Abridged
So you're here either because you want to start a town, or, more likely, you have 30 minutes to eat your lunch and the idea of being alone with your thoughts for longer than it takes to remove your phone from your pocket is too much of a nightmare for your psyche to bear.
—Half As Interesting, "How to start your own town".
".SMG4: Hey man, getting dumped by your girlfriend is rough. Any ways we can help?
Mario: What?! Help!? OHHH-
SMG4: Mario, if we don't fix this he'll just cry into the water supply again!
Depresso: She's... She said she's only attracted to the biggest clown in town.
SMG4: Biggest clown in town? Who's that?
[Depresso points at the camera]
[Mario and SMG4 turn to look at the camera too]
SMG4: Yeah I see what you mean...
Mario: That is one big clown.
Mario: What?! Help!? OHHH-
SMG4: Mario, if we don't fix this he'll just cry into the water supply again!
Depresso: She's... She said she's only attracted to the biggest clown in town.
SMG4: Biggest clown in town? Who's that?
[Depresso points at the camera]
[Mario and SMG4 turn to look at the camera too]
SMG4: Yeah I see what you mean...
Mario: That is one big clown.
— SMG4, "Clown Fever"
There are 10 teams, 40 people
And we're gonna have some fun
Oh my God, all Twitter's fighting
Because they've never seen the sun before
And we're gonna have some fun
Oh my God, all Twitter's fighting
Because they've never seen the sun before
— Quackity, Minecraft Championship
Screenwriter Guy: We'll also make fun of adults that watch animation, so that'll be funny.
Producer Guy: Isn't that our target audience?
Screenwriter Guy: Oh, yeeeaaaah... (beat) Well, screw 'em!
Producer Guy: Oh, making fun of your target audience in a meta way is tight! Get off'a YouTube you losers! I'm sorry, I take that back immediately, I don't like how that felt and I love you guys, I appreciate that you watch these videos.
Screenwriter: Woah hey sir you can't be meta and wholesome, you gotta be meta and cynical, what are you doing?
Producer Guy: Oh, my bad!
Producer Guy: Isn't that our target audience?
Screenwriter Guy: Oh, yeeeaaaah... (beat) Well, screw 'em!
Producer Guy: Oh, making fun of your target audience in a meta way is tight! Get off'a YouTube you losers! I'm sorry, I take that back immediately, I don't like how that felt and I love you guys, I appreciate that you watch these videos.
Screenwriter: Woah hey sir you can't be meta and wholesome, you gotta be meta and cynical, what are you doing?
Producer Guy: Oh, my bad!
Western Animation
"Trace amounts of mental activity detected. Possibly a dead weasel or cartoon viewer."
— Brainspawn, the Futurama episode "The Why of Fry"
Sonic: Knuckles, you just missed the most epic Eggman battle!
Tails: It was the perfect blend of new minions and classic favorites from years past!
Sticks: Easily the most action-packed battle we've ever had! (Aside Glance) And you missed it. That's what you get for followin' Knuckles around.
Tails: It was the perfect blend of new minions and classic favorites from years past!
Sticks: Easily the most action-packed battle we've ever had! (Aside Glance) And you missed it. That's what you get for followin' Knuckles around.
