Media Made to Prove the Haters Wrong

[u/Ultrimus-Prime]

Tunak Tunak Tun (Daler Mehndi) Critics claimed his music videos were only popular because they featured attractive women dancing. Mehndi responded by making a music video featuring nobody except multiple green-screen versions of himself. It became a massive hit and his most famous song.

Five Nights at Freddy’s - Scott Cawthon previously made a family-friendly game called Chipper & Sons Lumber Co. Critics complained that the characters looked like creepy animatronics. Rather than abandon that visual style, Cawthon decided to turn them into an actual horror game using scary animatronics.

Superman Kingdom Come - Mark Waid and Alex Ross were reacting to the 1990s trend of increasingly violent, cynical superheroes.

Their story deliberately challenged the belief that traditional superheroes like Superman were outdated. It portrayed the consequences of abandoning heroic ideals and argued that compassion, restraint, and morality were still essential to superheroes.

[u/themoosic]

Garth Ennis wrote the Boys out of spite. Garth Ennis writes everything out of spite, because he hates superheroes and it’s the only thing people will hire him to write in the comic medium. I think the only thing he wrote with passion was Crossed, which is unfortunate because Crossed is edgy garbage

[u/R0b0uteGuilliman → u/themoosic]

Fans of the show love to glorify the comic… but the comic version of The Boys is actual trash. there is not a single aspect of the story that has some deep message outside of shock value, and the author fucking hating superheroes. That’s all the comic is a hate letter to superheroes.

[u/demonsdencollective → u/R0b0uteGuilliman]

Sometimes I mentally slip into toxicity and start hating on everyone and everything. Then I remember how fucking dogshit The Boys is and correct myself to be more open minded and positive again before I start ruining the things I'm passionate about too.

[u/Motivated-Chair → u/demonsdencollective]

Series so dogshit made you a better person.

[u/demonsdencollective → u/Motivated-Chair]

It's incredible. I hope it leads to some golden age throwback hero movies. Maybe we could call those types of movies Incredibles. Wait...

https://giphy.com/gifs/g0Ub5PgMoLqaNKBpDH

[u/counters14 → u/Motivated-Chair]

Wait I'm confused here. Don't people widely love the series? I thought that the criticism was mainly about how the fans were media illiterate and didn't understand the narrative so they ended up idolizing the bad guys? I never watched the show or kept up with the hype but I thought people genuinely liked it?

[u/Motivated-Chair → u/counters14]

It got worse in later seasons even for people that got It. With the finale being disliked. Honestly not surprised considering the production pipeline these shows are force into.