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At some point in time, there was a thing—an individual work, the body of work of a particular creator / performer / artist, an entire genre, a trend in an art medium, etc. Whatever it was, this thing got very, very popular. But at some point, it just got too popular. It was talked about everywhere, with no water-cooler conversation avoiding the subject. It was overexposed until people got bored. It got so much publicity and so many bad imitators that there was plenty of time to notice each and every flaw and dissect them under a microscope. Soon, small insignificant flaws become regarded as unavoidable and unforgivable sins. Sometimes, it just takes a change in sociocultural attitudes for the thing to fall out of favor. The final tell-tale sign is indifference, ridicule, or even downright hatred — not just for the thing itself, as the people who like it often become the subject of nasty, highly-specific stereotypes. Simply mentioning that someone likes it online, even if meant completely sincerely, is considered trolling, at worst. At best, they're extremely out of touch.
Five or ten years later, almost nobody will admit that they ever liked this thing, and the only mention in the media will be cheap jokes about the fad, or comments that it "aged like milk". Retrospectives of the time in which it was popular will either point to it as a symbol of everything wrong with that time period's taste in its medium, or quietly skip over it and just pretend it never happened. It may get revived decades later as So Bad, It's Good or by Bile Fascination, but it's unlikely to be popular on its own merits ever again. In fiction (and Real Life), a Disco Dan is a rare admirer who refuses to accept the judgment of history and passionately holds on to the belief that the dead thing is still as big as it always was — usually with comical results.
When all of this has happened, that thing which was once so popular has become Condemned by History. Of course, twenty or thirty years later, the situation may change again. But if not, it will remain either scorned or simply ignored.
Sometimes caused by people saying that It's Popular, Now It Sucks! too much, but not always. At its height, these people usually exist, but are typically not very vocal. It's particularly common with things that never had a cult following to begin with — they went from nowhere to everything, and then back to nowhere, very suddenly. This is essentially Hype Backlash after something faded from popularity, while its haters remained active.
For a more detailed examination of the ways a work can become Condemned by History, see the Analysis page.
Compare Jumping the Shark, Once Original, Now Common, Dead Horse Genre, Fallen Creator, Hatedom, Fair for Its Day, Periphery Hatedom, and Discredited Meme. Contrast Vindicated by History and Nostalgia Filter. Also compare and contrast Overshadowed by Controversy, where uproar sparked by or around a work is better-known — and, sometimes, actually more interesting — than the work itself, sometimes leading to the work and/or creator becoming condemned if the uproar is severe enough. If a single work is perceived as rendering something Condemned by History, it's a Creator Killer, Franchise Killer, Genre-Killer, Trend Killer, or Star-Derailing Role. Compare and contrast Unintentional Period Piece, when a work can be precisely dated to a specific era, but it may (or may not) have remained popular up to the present day. The Popularity Polynomial is a constantly-evolving case where something seems to bounce back and forth between Condemned and Vindicated over time. See also Character Perception Evolution for when a character's reception changes over time. This is also related to Discredited Trope, which is when a trope that used to be played straight in the past has become less so over time, as such tropes and / or prior works using them can be Condemned by History.
Important note: Real life examples require a 5-year wait before they can be added to the page. A show or other work which is currently in production cannot be an example, even if popular opinion has turned against it for whatever reason. A work that is merely forgotten is not an example. There needs to be noticeable backlash towards the work, show, or trend for it to count as an example. This is also not a place to be Complaining About Shows You Don't Like.
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Read It and Weep is about a girl named Jamie, who accidentally submits her journal in a writing contest. This journal contains a Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue" Self-Insert Fic about Jamie's alter ego, Isabella, acting as a Bully Hunter towards the Alpha Bitch Myrna, who is based on a rival of Jamie. The book manages to win the writing contest and get Jamie adoration from the school. However, the true nature of the book is revealed when Jamie accidentally refers to the character of Myrna by the name of her real-life inspiration during an interview. This causes people to realize Isabella is a stand-in for Jamie and that every person in the book is characterized based on how Jamie perceives their real-life analog. This results in the book's reputation getting tarnished and turns Jamie into a pariah among her peers.
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Ashley Massaro was very popular when she was first introduced, winning the third WWE Diva Search easily by fan votes and was liked for her unique look. However, after a disastrous match at WrestleMania 23 with Melina, constant injuries, and fellow Divas such as Michelle McCool, Layla, Candice Michelle, and Kelly Kelly putting work in to become better wrestlers, audience opinion of Massaro turned sour. The final nail came when Massaro was exposed as possibly working for a high-class escort agency, and requested to be released in order to care for her daughter. While Massaro attempted to make a comeback on the indies, she eventually got a reputation for no-showing events she was advertised for. While some opinion on her has softened since her untimely passing, she's nonetheless remembered as a representation of everything that was wrong with the Divas division after Lita and Trish Stratus retired.
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Upon its release, Jew Süss (1940) was a major critical and commercial success, grossing more than three times its budget and earning the top award at the 1940 Venice Film Festival. Opinions of it quickly soured in the aftermath of World War II and The Holocaust, however, for a simple reason: its rampant anti-Semitic content. Commissioned by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels for the explicit purpose of stoking hatred of Jews, the film's Villain Protagonist Josef Süss Oppenheimer is a purely malevolent Greedy Jew stereotype with no redeeming qualities to speak of, and every other Jewish character is also depicted in a resoundingly negative light. The film was screened for concentration camp guards and reportedly triggered multiple instances of anti-Semitic violence, which only further soured its postwar reputation. Today, the movie is seen not as a legitimate work of art or entertainment, but as a hateful screed that subjects an entire ethno-religious group to horrific demonization, and one would be hard-pressed to find anybody talking about it except in the context of bigotry and propaganda.
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BoJack Horseman: Horsin' Around was an extremely popular show in its day, lasting 9 seasons, skyrocketing Sarah Lynn's career, and making enough money for our titular character to have been living on the reruns' money alone for the last two decades. In the present day, the show is considered corny and outdated, and pretty much any character who isn't BoJack or creator Herb Kazzaz sees it as a mediocre sitcom from the 90's that just happened to be the start of the career of two very popular celebrities. By the end of its final season, once general audiences become aware of all the terrible things BoJack has done, Horsin' Around has become Overshadowed by Controversy to the point the planned Blu-Ray releases had to be cancelled in favor of editing BoJack out of the series and releasing them as a new series called Around.
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Garden State, much like American Beauty, was widely acclaimed and beloved when it came out in 2004 (even reaching 393 on Empire's 500 Greatest Movies of All Time), but opinions of it have quickly soured over time, with many viewers actually embarrassed to admit they loved the movie in the first place. New criticisms of the movie include viewing the protagonist as whiny, unsympathetic, and dull, the handling of its themes as flawed and pretentious (especially with increasingly nuanced and sensitive portrayals of mental health in The New '10s), and Sam being a one-dimensional (and to some, annoying) Manic Pixie Dream Girl character. The only thing most people can agree stood the test of time was the soundtrack.
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Upon its release in 1984, Revenge of the Nerds was a huge hit. For years after, it was fondly remembered as one of the great sex comedies of The '80s, and also one of the few canonical depictions of nerds as heroes in Hollywood movies. However, due to changing societal attitudes, the film has aged very badly. Not only does its definition of a "nerd" come off as antiquated, but the nerds' Wacky Fratboy Hijinx range from revenge porn to rape by deception. These are presented as heroic, which is seen these days as outright horrifying. It also doesn't help that the clearly-underage Harold was exposed to these various adult situations, which would be child endangerment. These days, nerds are more clearly defined in most works (e.g. The Big Bang Theory), and colleges will crack down on anything involving sexual harassment and assault. An attempted reboot set for release in 2007 (when raunchy comedies were making a comeback) was cancelled after the school where filming was meant to happen realized what the film would be, and quickly backed out. Opinions on Revenge of the Nerds have gone from celebrating it as a great sex comedy to reviling it as an encouragement of sex crimes, and call it everything wrong with '80s college sex comedies.note For example, Dropout made fun of this film and other '80s comedies in a sketch where three guys tried to emulate the pranks from those movies on their co-workers, before discovering most of them fit the definition of sexual assault. Another example being an unflattering Robot Chicken parody where the nerds are sent to prison for their actions and get killed in a prison riot.
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Although never a wrestler herself, Tammy Lynn Sytch became famous as one of pro wrestling's first big sex symbols, and is sometimes called 'The Original Diva'. While she didn't appear for a major company after WCW folded in 2001, she maintained a respectable career on the independent circuit and was even inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2011. Unfortunately, the following decade saw everything derailing for her. She was arrested no less than five times in the space of four weeks in 2012, and a sixth the next year. After doing jail time, it would be a succession of DUIs and failed stints in rehab (with a total of seventeen arrests in the 2010s). With her drug and alcohol problems, as well as simple aging, taking a toll on her good looks — she turned to adult entertainment and infamous Skype dates with fans to pay the bills. Not helping matters was her famously rude and outspoken personality — claiming she deserved all the credit for the women in WWE today, a well-documented feud with Sable (another famous primadonna) that made Sunny look like the unreasonable one. She also came under fire for body-shaming the likes of The Bella Twins, making her come across as the worst kind of Small Name, Big Ego who didn't have anything beyond now-faded good looks to back it up. With legal issues still continuing into the 2020s (culminating with a manslaughter charge in 2022 and a 17 year sentence for it in 2023), she's become little more than a punchline, better known for her numerous legal issues and infamously poor attitude than her wrestling career.
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When Super Size Me originally released in 2004, it was a massive hit and was widely praised for illustrating issues with the fast food industry and its connection to the obesity epidemic by showing the ill effects of Morgan Spurlock eating nothing but McDonald's for a month. Its publicity allegedly led to McDonald's removing the "Super Size" option from its menu (though McDonald's officially claimed it was coincidental) and made it a staple of health classes in American schools. However, by the end of the decade, it began attracting increasingly vocal criticism for the veracity of its experiment, with people highlighting confounding details like Spurlock both having a history of alcoholism and having been a vegan prior to filming, and Spurlock's lack of documentation of what he ate to back-up his points. The response documentary Fat Head particularly brought the film's issues to the forefront by repeating Spurlock's experiment but failing to replicate its resultsnote  However, Fat Head itself has also faced accusations of Manipulative Editing and hypocrisy.. By the second half of The New '10s, Super Size Me became better known for its methodological flaws, and the withdrawal of its sequel, Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!, from the Sundance Film Festival and YouTube Red in the wake of Spurlock's admissions to sexual misconduct only drove more nails into the coffin. While the film still has defenders who stand by its criticisms of the fast food industry even if they disagree with how said criticisms are presented, nowadays Super Size Me is typically mocked for both its Captain Obvious Aesop and its veracity issues when it isn't overshadowed by Spurlock's scandal, with the sequel regarded as the superior film.
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Upon the 1948 release of The Babe Ruth Story, the film received critical acclaim, and one would be hard-pressed to find a negative review, one of which was from soccer-loving England. William Bendix's star turn was praised at the time, with one critic even calling his performance in the title role "flawless". However, time has not been kind to it. Viewers and critics in later years took a lot of issue with the film's rampant inaccuracies and maudlin tone, as well as its failure to show much baseball playing. Bendix's portrayal of Ruth has been singled out for particularly harsh criticism. Not only are the film's attempts to pass a man in his forties off as a teenage boy 1Bendix plays Ruth for most of the movie aside from a few scenes of him in his childhood extremely unconvincing, but the way Ruth gets characterized has been panned as both hagiographic 2The movie doesn't just gloss over Ruth's penchant for drinking and womanizing, it turns him into a literal miracle worker who does things like cure a paralyzed boy by saying "hi" to him and demeaning 3Ruth's intelligence is greatly downplayed, with him coming off as a Kindhearted Simpleton with the mind of a child at best; more modern viewers generally take issue with such a legendary baseball player being depicted as a bumbling fool, viewing it as a grievous insult to the actual Ruth. Subsequent reviews have been overwhelmingly unfavorable, and while it was nominated for a place on AFI's "100 Years...100 Cheers" list, The Babe Ruth Story is more frequently seen on lists of the worst-ever sports films, biopics, and movies in general.
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Superfriends was the superhero cartoon during The '70s and The '80s. For many years, it was what the majority of people imagined superheroes were like, was fairly well regarded among general audiences, and was one of Hanna-Barbera's most popular cartoons. However, as time went on, and especially as the superhero genre evolved over the years, the flaws of the show have become more apparent; The show relied quite a bit on camp with repetitive and razor-thin plots, had nonexistent characterization, poor animation (even by Hanna-Barbera standards), relied on Captain Ethnic heroes that exhibited some negative stereotypes, had a pair of Kid Sidekicks in Wendy and Marvin, who viewers hated for their stupidity and lack of any real reason to hang out with the Superfriends, had Wonder Woman frequently sidelined and often only depicted flying her invisible plane rather than doing any real action, and Aquaman was consistently depicted as an Adaptational Wimp to the point it took decades for his reputation to improve.note As an example, when the Superfriends version of Aquaman appeared on DEATH BATTLE!, Wiz entered SpongeBob's and Aquaman's analyses expecting SpongeBob to be a legitimate joke and Aquaman an impressively broken character... only for those to flip incredibly quickly since Aquaman was that pathetically weak. This series, together with Batman (1966), was largely responsible for the impression of mainstream audiences that the whole genre of superheroes was unworthy of being enjoyed non-ironically, with even the occasional well-respected adaptation like Superman: The Movie being seen only as exceptions to the rule. The ironclad view of Superfriends and Adam Westnote though the 1966 Batman series is still fondly remembered, since it can be enjoyed as camp entertainment and has a good sense of humor and noticeably higher production values than Superfriends as the ultimate symbols of superheroes only began to be chipped away when the DC Animated Universe's Batman: The Animated Series began, which took a Darker and Edgier look at superheroes compared to most previous cartoons in a way that caused that show to become a huge hit. With superhero adaptations going mainstream in the 21st century thanks to various adaptations and reimaginings from DC and competitor Marvel Comics, Superfriends came to be seen as a relic of the past, which caused opinions to sour on the show across the board. Today, the cartoon is regarded as So Bad, It's Good at best, and is otherwise seen (especially by DC fans) as a stain on the reputation of the superhero and comic book adaptation genres. note  Though DC does still reference it on occasion, such as gradually implementing all the Canon Foreigner characters into the main continuity.
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Sinfest was originally considered one of the greatest webcomics on the internet, with its Black Comedy and likable cast of characters providing what many considered a fresh experience compared to other webcomics at the Turn of the Millennium. However, most of its audience started feeling alienated at the start of The New '10s when it took a Filibuster Freefall and dedicated most of its time to a serialized narrative that mostly covered radical feminist topics, seemingly losing sight of what made the comic work to many. The last straw would be when, in 2019, it was transformed into an Author Tract for far-right conservative topics, with most of the characters fans liked from the early days being heavily Out of Focus, and any and all fans from the comic's start having given up due to the undesired shift in tone. This alienating of the audience ended up having the caveat of the early comics being put under scrutiny, with many coming to the conclusion that they were nowhere near as good as remembered, as most of what made Sinfest stand out became standard practice in the webcomic scene throughout the rest of the 2000s, and knowing how the fan-favorite characters would become sidelined down the line, it makes seeing their early ventures come across as All for Nothing. As a result, Sinfest is seen nowadays as a work that wasn't anywhere near as influential as was originally believed, and only got worse as time went on.
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The WWE Diva Search was a gimmick thought up in 2003, but not fully executed until 2004; it was centered around various models, actresses, or other Ms Fanservices competing in a reality TV-style segment for a $250,000 contract. It didn't take long for the Diva Search to be torn apart by critics for its emphasis on Fanservice, and the eventual death of WWE's women's division as a result (and the castings emphasizing that contestants didn't need wrestling experience). While Seasons 1 & 2 were Critic-Proof, live audiences eventually turned on it too. WWE's switch to PG in 2008 and the abysmal ratings of the fourth season had it cancelled. A revival did happen in 2013 but that was more like a tryout camp, and the winners were sent to developmental immediately (plus it wasn't televised). There was a proper revival announced in 2015 as part of the WWE Network, but it never surfaced (due to WWE retiring the 'Diva' term). If the Diva Search is mentioned, it'll be to make fun of how moronic the concept was in hindsight.
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Ask Princess Molestia: To make a long story short, as time went on and the blog as with the show's popularity increased, more and more fans came to see the premise as incredibly disturbing. After all, Molestia is the comedic story of Princess Celestia, well, sexually molesting her subjects. Nowadays no one really remembers the blog very fondly save for the impressive artwork. Let's just say it was written in a different era of internet culture.
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The 1998 comedy The Pentagon Wars, based on Colonel James G. Burton's 1993 non-fiction book of the same name about the Troubled Production of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle program, was widely touted upon its release as a scathing indictment of the corruption within the United States' military-industrial complex. However, as time passed and people did actual research into the Bradley program, it was very quickly discovered that most of the events in the film and Burton's book were at best exaggerated and at worst completely fictional. While the film is still serviceable as an exaggerated farce satirizing government bureaucracy, as an actual historical work it's seen as heavily colored by Burton's biases and internal politicking within the military apparatus.
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When Frigid Winds and Burning Hearts started, the central idea of the story was rather new and interesting. However, over time, the fandom started seeing Celestia as more sympathetic. Now it is just another "Celestia is evil" story among many. Furthermore, this version of Luna was once praised for being so different from other fandom versions, but now she's a borderline Scrappy. The story used to be rather well-liked, but nowadays it has few if any fans.
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One of those spin-off stories, The Conversion Bureau: The Other Side of the Spectrum, was originally praised for its deeper look into the machinations of the Solar Empire, the effects the conversion/xenocide campaign would have on the Empire, and for the addition of a third faction that is not the HLF or the PER. Over time, fans and even the authors turned against the story for the Designated Hero nature of the protagonist and the poor characterizations of Princess Celestia and Discord. The story still has its good moments and there are fans of it, but even they acknowledge that the story is very flawed.
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The Jazz Singer was a massive phenomenon when it came out, thanks to what was at the time a revolutionary breakthrough in the use of recorded sound. But now that synchronized dialogue in movies has become something to be taken for granted, you'd be hard-pressed to find any modern viewer who has a good word to say about it. What doesn't help it is that, while being the first film with synchronized sound, it arguably isn't the first "talking film" due to the lack of spoken dialogue (with two exceptions) outside of the film's musical numbers. The first "all-talking" film was the obscure gangster film Lights of New York released a year later. As Tim Brayton puts it:
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Denial: Before he sues Deborah Lipstadt for calling him a Holocaust denier, David Irving is a successful and semi-respected historian. Over the course of the trial, it becomes clear that he's not only as much of a denier as Lipstadt reported, but also a fraud and a raving bigot, leaving his professional and personal reputation completely destroyed.
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The Black Tapes was once as widely beloved as other audio drama darlings such as Welcome to Night Vale and The Penumbra Podcast. It was one of the first fictional audio dramas of The New '10s to present itself as a real-life documentary and imitate True Crime podcasts, presenting itself as nonfiction through the use of heavy Kayfabe. At the time, this was a captivating mixture, helped along by the chemistry between the leads. However, opinion gradually turned against it, along with its siblings, RABBITS and TANIS, as they began to see it as an example of The Chris Carter Effect, growing tired of the podcast raising questions, and introducing mysteries and cliffhangers only to never follow up on them again. Opinion plummeted with the release of the final episode, which saw the main characters eloping to England with little foreshadowing, and few if any plot points being resolved. Nowadays, people rarely discuss it with the fervor it once elicited.
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The Greatest Show on Earth was a major success when it came out, being the highest-grossing film of 1952 and winning the Academy Award for Best Picture. Nowadays, however, the film is known for just two things: being the first film ever seen by a young Steven Spielberg (something dramatized in The Fabelmans), and being the centerpiece of possibly the most notorious Award Snub in the history of the Academy. To this day, critics debate just what audiences saw in the film that allowed it to beat now acclaimed classics such as High Noon and Singin' in the Rain (the latter of which wasn't even nominated), with many arguing it was done either as a Consolation Award for director Cecil B. DeMille towards the end of a long and storied career that had nevertheless won him no Oscars (barring an honorary one in 1950) until then, or to allow the Academy to distance itself from the then-ongoing wave of anti-communist paranoia by promoting a director with unimpeachable anti-communist bona fides who was unlikely to be blacklisted. Either way, you'll find very few film scholars who will hold the film in high regard for its excessive length and cliché-ridden plot.
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The Boondocks: Otis Jenkins, better known as Thugnificent, was a rapper who rose to fame with his big hit, club anthem "Booty Cheeks". Almost overnight, he became one of the most popular rappers in the country, and his entourage, the Lethal Interjection Crew, were very visible. While his narcissism, a very public feud with one of his neighbors, and a music video accused of promoting violence against the elderly made him a controversial figure, his career was still thriving. But then cracks began to show. When his popularity began to stagnate due to his complacency, he tried to give it a boost through a collaboration with two other members of the Lethal Interjection Crew and Gangstalicious on a remix of the latter's song "Homies Over Hoes". Once Gangstalicious was outed as a closeted gay man, however, the Lethal Interjection Crew cancelled the collaboration due to Thugnificent's obsession with wanting to protect his image. During Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, he decided to present himself as a politically astute intellectual and activist who proudly supported Obama, making "Dick Ridin' Obama" with will.i.am. This backfired when he was humiliated by Bill Maher on national television, with it being revealed that he knew far less about politics than he claimed (when asked to name the three branches of the federal government, he thought one of them was the "main branch"). Still, the worst was yet to come. Thugnificent's long drought of musical output and hedonistic lifestyle began causing him financial difficulties that were only exacerbated by rising star Sgt. Gutter eating into his fanbase. To right the ship, he released his first album in four years, Mo Bitches Mo Problems... which flopped due to overuse of autotune, being humiliated in a beef with Gutter, and the perception that he'd become out of touch. After an attempted comeback failed to pan out because of his previous involvement in drug dealing, he retired from the music industry and became a UPS driver, while the former members of the Lethal Interjection Crew either got similarly ordinary jobs or turned to crime.
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Parodied in The Amazing World of Gumball with the Void, a pocket dimension where all of Elmore's mistakes are thrown away and erased from history. While more general things like failed products and extinct animals are present, cultural staples that were once popular like mullets, hippie vans, socks with sandals, disco, and Crazy Frog are shown to exist there as well.
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There once was a time where The Fabulous Moolah was the name synonymous with women's wrestling in America, where her 27-year long reign as women's champion broke records and paved the way for how women's wrestling is seen today as being more than just eye-candy. However, her legacy has since been shrouded in controversy, as allegations about her backstage antics — which included abusing trainees, embezzling money, using her influence to threaten promoters into not making them look strong, and sexual harassment, among other things — have made it more difficult to see her as the icon she once was, with many wrestling historians claiming her record-breaking run was mostly a sham thanks to her making legitimate competition rare. Many also feel like Moolah regressed women's wrestling as much as she innovated it, as her death-grip on the title made it difficult for other women to get over, and made the likes of Triple H, Hulk Hogan, and Roman Reigns look generous.note Compare this to Bruno Sammartino, who — despite also having a record-setting reign as champion — had consistent title defences, was fit enough throughout his reign to be seen as a credible champion, and was well-respected enough backstage to not have as much heat surrounding him as Moolah did. Even WWE, who have been known to put rose-tinted spins on controversial figures or events, have been forced to stay mum about her after sponsors threatened to pull out of WrestleMania if they continued using her name for their women's battle royale. While nobody will deny Moolah's historical significance in the industry, you will hardly find anyone sing their praises of her as a person; and unlike people like Chris Benoit or Dynamite Kid, who at least can be praised in terms of in-ring ability with some degree of caution despite their sordid actions and personality flaws, you'd be hard-pressed to find any praise for her in that department, either.
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The Conversion Bureau was one of the most popular subgenres of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfiction back in the early 2010s, spawning numerous spin-offs based on the premise. By the mid-2010s, the genre rapidly fell out of favor as additional seasons showed the ponies and Equestria in a less saccharine light. Not helping things was how the episode "The Cutie Map" was commonly interpreted as a Take That! to the core concept of the genre. The numerous Flame Wars involving both the pro and anti factions as well as many authors in the genre going through Creator Backlash also further dissuaded authors. Now, thanks to the stigma of Wish-Fulfillment, Canon Defilement, general misanthropy, and unfortunate messages, there are few, if any fans and authors of the "straight" TCB stories and they’re usually disdained. Anti-TCB authors and fans are somewhat more common, but it’s still minuscule compared to the heyday of the subgenre.
One of those spin-off stories, The Conversion Bureau: The Other Side of the Spectrum, was originally praised for its deeper look into the machinations of the Solar Empire, the effects the conversion/xenocide campaign would have on the Empire, and for the addition of a third faction that is not the HLF or the PER. Over time, fans and even the authors turned against the story for the Designated Hero nature of the protagonist and the poor characterizations of Princess Celestia and Discord. The story still has its good moments and there are fans of it, but even they acknowledge that the story is very flawed.
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When it was first released in 1958, White Wilderness was hailed as a masterpiece in documentary film-making, and went on to win both the Academy Award and Golden Bear for Best Documentary the following year. Nowadays, it's Overshadowed by Controversy, specifically for perpetuating the Suicidal Lemmings myth by shoving them off a cliff, drowning them on-camera and editing footage to make it look like natural suicide. Contemporary reviews and ratings for the film are harsher than at the time of release, in part because of the production crew's mistreatment of lemmings; one article in particular likens it to Nanook of the North, calling it an "ethically thorny landmark" in the history of documentary filmmaking. Disney has distanced itself from the film in light of this, removing it from Disney+ as of 2020.
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The Birth of a Nation (1915) was the first Epic Movie, the film that proved cinema to be a viable entertainment medium rather than a passing fad, and the pioneer of countless filmmaking techniques. Modern-day film scholars and critics are still more than willing to acknowledge this part of its legacy. However, the film's writing and story have aged so poorly that, today, it's only widely watched by film students (for the technical/historical aspects) and by people studying the history of racism. Specifically, it is a feature-length ode to the original incarnation of the Ku Klux Klan that is widely credited with sparking a revival of the organization in the early 20th century. note The novel it was based on, The Clansman by Thomas Dixon Jr., even invented both the hooded white robe as a Klan uniform and the cross burning as a Klan institution, both of which the film faithfully recreated on screen. The original Klan never burned crosses or had a specific uniform, but thanks to The Clansman and later The Birth of a Nation, they became indelibly linked with the organization and with white supremacy in general. It is now seen as typical of the highly negative "Dunning School" view of the Civil War and Reconstruction, which promoted open, virulent racism in the name of "reconciliation" between North and South after The American Civil War. While the film was condemned even back in the day for being racist (which led to director D. W. Griffith’s next film because he refused to accept the fact that the film was intolerant), it was still widely popular among racist audiences of the time until the Dunning School came in for broader critique in The '60s, thinning the number of interested viewers.
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The leisure suit became popular from the 1960s through the '70s when the abundance of synthetic materials, cheap prices, and a dislike for formality made it the fashion symbol for men. Its height of popularity was during the '70s when it was frequently associated with disco culture. But when disco's mainstream acceptance died, the leisure suit went with it — and by the '80s, it was commonly considered emblematic of '70s kitsch. While disco itself saw a massive reappraisal in The New '10s, leisure suits remain associated with clueless fashion sense and uncool would-be ladies' men, as shown in works such as the Leisure Suit Larry video game series.
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The 1999 film American Beauty was a huge hit with both critics and audiences. It won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, in what is still acknowledged as a monumental year for Hollywood, victories that were not at all as controversial even as it beat out now-classic films like The Green Mile, The Sixth Sense, and Being John Malkovich. Over the years, however, the film saw its reputation fall victim to being a product of its time. The 9/11 attacks and the Great Recession made the public considerably less interested in movies about middle-class white men bored with their lives. The #MeToo movement didn't do it any favors, either, making protagonist Lester Burnham's sexual interest in the teenage Angela look far more problematic than it did in 1999, especially after Kevin Spacey, who played Lester, was later himself the subject of career-ending allegations that he had molested young men and boys. By the 2010s, it was listed on more than a few "Most Overrated Films" lists, and it's now seen as one of the lesser films in director Sam Mendes' filmography rather than his defining achievement it once seemed it would be, to the point that Mendes himself stated that he thought it got too much praise at the time. On the film's 20th anniversary, Matthew Jacobs wrote in The Huffington Post:
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Pokémon Dark Rising was one of the most well-known and popular Pokémon fan games when it was first released in 2012. At a time when most rom-hacks were simple touch-ups to the base games, and many weren't even finished, Dark Rising set itself apart by having its own entirely original setting and Darker and Edgier story, having a much higher level of challenge compared to the mainline games, and even incorporating Pokémon from later generations at a time when this was practically never done. However, Once Original, Now Common hit the game hard — pretty much every one of Dark Rising's notable attributes became commonplace just a few years after it came out, and without its main selling point propping it up, the game was eviscerated for its myriad of now glaring flaws. The story was now viewed as a nonsensical Cliché Storm, the map design was scattershot, the game was almost entirely Fake Difficulty with a wildly erratic level curve and grossly overpowered bosses, and the lack of a Physical-Special split meant that many Pokémon were outright useless in battle. To top it off, the game was filled with numerous typographical errors and Game Breaking Bugs which, combined with everything else, gave it a distinctly amateur quality which reflected even more poorly on it in relation to the dozens of considerably more polished rom-hacks. While the sequels have been received somewhat more favourably, practically no one now looks at the original with fondness, and it is now held up as an example of what not to do when designing a fan game for the franchise.
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Tom and Jerry: The Two Mouseketeers was initially very popular upon release, even managing to win an Oscar, and later leading to comics and further shorts with the characters in the same roles in the same setting; today, however, it is considered one of the worst cartoons in the series due to its violence and ending being particularly sadistic even by the series' standards.How?Tom is executed in the end for failing to protect the king's food, which the short treats as a Happy Ending. Although the titular Mouseketeers look towards the scene with sadness over Tom's death, they shrug it off with a "c'est la guerre" ("That's war" or "It can't be helped".) and continue on their merry way. Even if you can overlook that, Jerry and Nibbles playing the role of musketeers essentially means they're stealing from their own king.
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Latias' Journey was originally considered to be one of the best written Pokémon fanfictions back in the early 2000s to early 2010s. But as time passed, its fans turned against the story citing its Too Bleak, Stopped Caring nature; copious amounts of padding; abuse of Genre Roulette leading to a confusing and disjointed narrative; needlessly graphic descriptions of rape, torture and murder; and a retcon chapter posted years after the story was completed that completely negated the entire story. Nowadays, the story is almost forgotten with the influx of equally long, and more importantly, better written Pokémon fanfiction that started in the mid 2010s.
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Dumbledore's Army and the Year of Darkness by Thanfiction was once one of the best-regarded stories in the Harry Potter fandom. It provided an intriguing Perspective Flip to one of the premiere offscreen moments of awesome in the series, namely the resistance to the Death Eaters by the students of Hogwarts in the final book, and the author gained praise for researching actual Child Soldiers to better be able to describe the students' plight. The hype, however, was not to last, and criticisms mounted over time, including, but not limited to: the Character Shilling of Neville as the leader of the resistance at the expense of Luna and Ginny (in the book, Neville himself says they shared leadership duties equally); the treatment of women, particularly the arc involving Lavender Brown being raped and the boys, not Lavender herself, punishing the rapists; the seeming disdain for the canon main trio Harry, Ron, and Hermione, whom various characters insult for not weathering the storm with them; the fact that the story kills off several characters confirmed to survive in canon despite claiming to be canon-compliant; and the repeated, unironic use of ethnic stereotypes, particularly of the Irishnote Seamus Finnegan, who is an ordinary young man in canon, is rewritten as a walking example of Oireland, and Ireland is portrayed as though The Troubles had never ended, despite the first story taking place the year the Good Friday Agreement was signed.Any fandom the story had was largely finished off when it came out that "Thanfiction" was actually Andrew Blake, a notorious Con Man who had, under his previous screen name "Jordan Wood", swindled many The Lord of the Rings fans out of money with the infamous Tentmoot convention that didn't even come to be due to its Troubled Production, and who is also known for seducing and abandoning women in real life. There are some good moments in the story and the story still has its fans, but they are mostly looked at with disdain and seen as willfully blind to the story's flaws.
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SLIGE, which stands for Space Llama Interment Gazelle Expert, was a random level generator written as a script file for Doom back in The '90s; it attained a following because of how simple it was to use in comparison to many other level editors available for Doom at the time. There were even modifications that allowed modders to utilize more puzzle-oriented elements and add different playstyles to the final maps. The level editor was doing good for a while — and, as it turned out later, too good for its own sake. It soon became common for Doom mappers to try and pass the SLIGE generated stuff as their own, with one particularly notorious example winning the 2006 Worst Wad Cacoward, with the allegations of SLIGE involvement being one of many reasons for such due to its distinction mark (a level number) visible on every map from the start. The generated levels themselves featured a design style that is looked down upon by almost everyone in the modern Doom community, including long empty corridors and bland rooms with little creativity. The overall influx of randomly generated maps led to SLIGE related stuff not just making its way to the Top 10 Infamous WADs, but also getting forbidden to be uploaded on the online wad archive. As result, using SLIGE has become synonymous with showing lack of effort. Nowadays, when it comes to level generators, most people use OBLIGE and its successor OBSIDIAN which not only run on more modern computer systems, but also feature more options to play around and allow a wider use of tweak tools, whereas SLIGE has mostly faded into obscurity because of both bad publicity surrounding it and more advanced editors taking its place.
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