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Their story deliberately challenged the belief that traditional superheroes like Superman were outdated.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/Illustrious-Set-7907]

Yeah that one seemed like "the haters have a point. I should switch genres" 

[u/Kritical-Watermelon → u/Illustrious-Set-7907]

I mean you can do both. "The haters are right, this is more scary" and "Let's see if they play this then!"

[u/Romboteryx → u/Kritical-Watermelon]

I still don‘t get how that proves the haters wrong.

“Your character designs look like haunted animatronics.”

“Oh yeah? Then watch this”: makes game about haunted animatronics