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Dear Negative Reader	comment	For various reasons, the creator of a work has fallen into disfavor with a part of their fandom. Maybe They Changed It, Now It Sucks! or a Creator's Pet has elbowed the Ensemble Dark Horse in the face one too many times, or the next book/film/series/whatever is taking too damn long, or Executive Meddling decreed something and the author is the most obvious target, and the fanbase haven't been shy about expressing their displeasure. But this creator is no one's punching bag, oh no. So up The Rant goes, telling the audience why they're wrong, and why they're being unfair, and how they just don't recognize a good work when they see one. Usually, it's distributed via the creator's blog, but the worst cases might involve a foreword or afterword for a different book, or lengthy social media tirades. It also very frequently overlaps with a Creator Breakdown. A very common characteristic of creators who don't have anyone to restrain their ego or temper. Common sentiments include: Don't Like? Don't Read! You're Just Jealous Let's See YOU Do Better! "Most of my readers are nice, understanding people, but..." "The problem is my readers, not my writing." "I love my haters, bring on the downvotes and angry messages." As Penny Arcade memorably put it (tongue in cheek), "You can't criticize it. It's not for you." The Ray Bradbury Defense (strongly not recommended). Unfortunately in most circumstances, this is often what ultimately results in Creator Killer going and taking effect anyway. After all, a creator willing to attack their fans for criticizing their work comes off to those fans as an egotist who Can't Take Criticism, and many fans will refuse to support such creators on principle. From time to time a Dear Negative Reader moment comes across as more sympathetic or even justified. Fans can be entitled and overzealous, haters can be too personal or extreme in their attacks or criticism, and sometimes the issue in question isn't the fault of the person being blamed. Some Moral Guardians and Heteronormative Crusaders are angry about the presence of minorities in fiction, or are upset if a minority author finds success. Sometimes even the most mildly worded "I'm sorry you didn't like it, but here are the reasons I made it this way" is sorted into this trope as well. Trolling Creators can also engage in this trope in their own weird ways. See also Take That, Critics! or Take That, Audience! for when this happens in-show. If irritation with the fans moves the creator to outright walk away from the job, it's Artist Disillusionment.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_106cad0	comment	Marville creator Bill Jemas blamed fans for the series' unpopularity, claiming it was their fault for not buying it and not understanding it. The fact he was badly losing a bet with Peter David didn't help his mood.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_10d145d4	comment	Valhalla author Ari Bach is not afraid to respond to hate mail. In fact, he readily uses haters' comments to promote the books.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_117bdb6b	comment	Primordial Vortex, writer of The Emerald Phoenix, has two notable moments in said fic addressing negative reviews that particularly pissed him off. After a reviewer insisted Momo couldn't use the hero name "Izanami" due to Izanami being a goddess of death and destruction and trying to insist that gods only have a single aspect, chapter 10 had Melissa bring up that same fact. Momo points out that Izanami was originally a creation goddess, that many deities similarly have conflicting aspects, and that given her immense physical strength, Momo qualifies for both aspects anyway. Chapter 13 begins with a message calling out readers who claim the girls in Izuku's polycule doing things with each other instead of only with Izuku is essentially cucking him when that is in no way how healthy polycules work.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_13d88835	comment	Cowboy Bebop (2021) got this before, and after, its inevitable cancellation: In response to fan complaints about the redesign of Faye Valentine, her actress Daniella Pineda uploaded what was essentially a "The Reason You Suck" Speech aimed at critics on Youtube. It was so poorly done that it devastated the show's prospects by pretty much killing any interest in seeing it — fans in general became so hostile toward the show and felt so vindicated in their pre-emptive criticisms that very few people even bothered to watch it. It ended up cancelled after only one season, despite actually being seen as decent by casual viewers. In the wake of its abrupt end, it became clear that the deluge of negative comments and videos that came ahead of the series' launch and the crowing celebrations over its cancellation wore down many of those involved in the production. Naomi Markman, the series' script coordinator, took to Twitter to criticise such people, saying that their actions led to the sudden unemployment of hundreds of people who were prepared to produce a second season. Steve Blum, meanwhile voiced his support for the adaptation and said that "haters" should just "make their own" if they think they know better.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_14f9297e	comment	Gary Larson parodied this phenomenon in The Pre-History of the Far Side:
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Dear Negative Reader / int_187d570b	comment	Cody Matthew Johnson had this reaction during the lead-up to the release of Devil May Cry 5, in which Capcom released the individual themes for the individual characters. Neroâ€™s theme, "Devil Trigger", was received very well, becoming the #1 rock song in the UK iTunes store upon release. Danteâ€™s theme "Subhuman", which Johnson composed, was instead received with hostile vitriol — it was considered poorly mixed and unfitting for Dante's character, and its lead singer Eddie Hermida was criticised as impossible to understand (and was later discovered to have been sexually grooming minors). Johnson nevertheless took to Twitter, mocked everyone who criticised the song, and even took pride in the response he got◊. That just made the situation significantly worse. In the end, Hermida was replaced for the final release, and the original music video and Johnson's tweets were all deleted.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_1aacbbc9	comment	David Gaider, the lead writer for the Dragon Age series, is known for his snarky counterattacks to complaints about his games. His two best-known examples are his response to someone complaining about "straight male gamers" being ignored based on the inclusion of homosexual romances and a list of "definitions" for words that are frequently misused by "fans" on the BioWare Social Network.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_1b71921c	comment	Chris Hazelton of Misfile wrote one after receiving hundreds of emails caused by the backlash of Emily's confession to Ash being unceremoniously swept under the rug.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_1cc09117	comment	Bleach creator Tite Kubo released a couple of these on his Twitter account sometime during early 2010 in response to fan complaints over Seasonal Rot. He even went as far as comparing said fans to children (which, given that this is a Shōnen manga, may or may not have been intended as an insult). Upon being told by a fan that they could draw something better than Bleach:
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Dear Negative Reader / int_1cf9029e	comment	In DEATH BATTLE!, it's pretty clear that Wiz and Boomstick were tired of the backlash that "Goku vs. Superman" generated. On the Sidescrollers episode "Reactionary Reaction", the two spend at least ten minutes commenting on comments and emails sent to them from angry fans. They spend it justifying the research used to come to the result, reminding fans of the rules of Death Battle, explaining that the fight scene at the end of the episode is simply a dramatization to show how they think the fight would go down based on the research, and saying that, no, they are not biased fanboys and that in the past they have killed off their personal favorite characters because the research indicates they would lose. Chad then tells them to just chill out and stop taking the show so seriously.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_227431b6	comment	After fans responded negatively to her run on Runaways and later writers decided to undo the more dramatic changes that she made, Kathryn Immonen responded by having almost the entire team killed during Age of Ultron. Naturally, this all took place in an Alternate Timeline, and thus after the Age of Ultron was undone, the Runaways were okay, but still, it's not a good look.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_245313a1	comment	In Something About Kirby and the Amazing Mirror, Dark Mind attempts to weaponize a comment expressing disdain for the Christian Kirbo jokes that had littered the other Kirby videos. Kirbo's response was to recite Psalm 59 (in perfect English, no less, despite otherwise being The Unintelligible) then join forces with the other Kirbies to invoke God and exorcise Dark Mind, essentially quadrupling down on the Christian Kirbo joke.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_261c8d3f	comment	In The Simpsons episode, "Itchy, Scratchy and Marge", after Marge believes The Itchy and Scratchy Show is being a bad influence on the kids, she makes a Strongly Worded Letter to the studios. Unimpressed, the chairman, Roger Meyers Jr, makes a sarcastically cordial letter thanking the "valued viewer" for their concerns about the show and noting that "our research shows that one person cannot make a difference, no matter how big a screwball she is, so let me close by saying..."
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Dear Negative Reader / int_27b84429	comment	He remained just as unapologetic after his review of The Last of Us, casually reminding viewers that the game was not a beached whale that would die if it wasn't constantly moistened by everybody's tongues. This time around, however, he decided a bonding exercise/hunting expedition was in order, and chose a universally hated game they could make fun of together:
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Dear Negative Reader / int_288ab9e4	comment	It's been argued that the habits of Norman Boutin, author of the widely-panned novel Empress Theresa, is precisely the reason the book has been so harshly slammed; he unintentionally became famous for his willingness to track down and slam every single piece of negative critical review ever written about his professed "masterpiece". Almost a perfect poster child of what NOT to do as an author, good ol' Norman thinks winning an argument (often in his own mind only) is far more important than letting Empress Theresa, for all its worth, have the chance to speak for itself.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_2a8943c0	comment	Thomas Astruc, the creator and one of the main writers of Miraculous Ladybug, has become infamous for blocking and insulting anyone who criticizes the show on Twitter. While the fandom does have some notoriously toxic members, he doesn't seem to be able to separate them from people offering genuine criticism in his mind, blocking both groups in equal numbers. It got to the point where, after a scene from the show received flack for using the controversial Rising Sun flag, he outright blocked a now-former close friend of his (one whom a character was physically based on, no less) after they tried to talk to him about the ensuing controversy.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_2b727723	comment	During a Reddit AMA held a few weeks after the finale of Star vs. the Forces of Evil, numerous creative team members answered questions fans had about the show's conclusion. When asked about the fanbase's feelings that the ending was rushed, creator Daron Nefcy said she wrote an ending she was happy with, and that the fans feeling it was "rushed" was just them unhappy it was ending and wanting more.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_30a5ebfd	comment	XBrokenxDollsX had only posted two chapters (technically a prologue and Chapter 1) of their Naruto fanfic Tasting Flesh when the critiques started rolling in for virtually every aspect of the story. A subset of readers had decried the plot as a rip-off of similar works, suggested the author improve their prose before publication, and expressed bemusement (and in some cases annoyance) over the inexplicably inconsistent characterization. The author promptly responded with a massive diatribe at the start of Chapter 2 stating, among other points, that they weren't being given a chance and didn't need to mind their grammar because they were only writing for fun. (Naturally, they also invoked Don't Like? Don't Read! word for word.) To make matters worse, XBrokenxDollsx removed the critical reviews shortly afterward, claiming to protect the reviewers from trolls, and made it a point to address their detractors before almost every chapter, mainly to insist they still loved the readers who nitpicked or abandoned the fic.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_36f0e706	comment	One came in response to a frenzy on LiveJournal about how his Schedule Slip was causing real fears of his death (as had happened to The Wheel of Time author Robert Jordan) and telling him to work on the book rather than blog about things other than his book. His response was an embed of the song "Garden Party", with the line "You see, ya can't please everyone, so ya gotta please yourself..."
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Dear Negative Reader / int_37b7d067	comment	The authors of Teahouse released a statement after they received a few complaints about how long they were taking to release pages. They also respond to a fair few of the comments with questionable amounts of maturity, both of which can be seen here. When "Faps" did a parody/riff of the comic, they complained to Live Journal and Photobucket (where the pages were hosted) to have the parodies removed due to "copyright" (while the sites did comply, the parodies continue elsewhere because they're Fair Use). The whole story is up here.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_39fe2fd3	comment	After Baywatch (2017) was released to negative critic reviews, Dwayne Johnson mocked the film's negative reviews in a few tweets.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_3c1f955d	comment	YandereDev, the developer of Yandere Simulator, has written an extensive 11,000 word debunk page in response to fan backlash, and has called those who spread allegations of virtual misconduct "gremlins". In response, the game's hatedom reappropriated the term for themselves.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_3c4ddc1e	comment	Lynn Johnston of For Better or for Worse became known for this in The Comics Curmudgeon fandom, after they started voicing their opinions about Anthony.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_3d513f8	comment	Jimquisition: Jim Sterling, released the video "Weapon Durability, Fanbase Fragility" in response to the vitriol they received in response to their lukewarm (though still positive) review of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. The video starts with their explaining why they dislike Breakable Weapons mechanics in games (their main complaint about BotW) before tearing into those who posted hateful comments in response to the review, as well as those who launched a DDOS attack on their website and attempted to hijack their social media accounts. In a somewhat sarcastic tone, Jim also made this video Nintendo Fans Love to Troll Themselves where they frequently point out their negative run-ins with hardcore Nintendo fans and frequently points out how ridiculous these kinds of people are to them. Jim also did this during their video on how the Digital Homicide lawsuit ended titled When Jim Sterling Was Sued For $10 Million By Digital Homicide. At one point they point out that they have read the occasional think piece or article written by games journalists or commenters questioning if Jim is a hero for attacking Digital Homicide (and other such studios with Steam Greenlight), or a bully for doing so, and countered with how the situation has affected them including being doxxed amongst other things in an effort to point out that this wasn't just some stroll in the park for them. Jim admitted that the entire point of their Jimquisition on No Man's Sky titled Sky Hype was done as a result of the horrific behavior of the fans of said game. They do make sure to repeatedly point out that they are only speaking about the people who actually performed the actions they are mentioning, not the fandom of NMS at large. They told about having their site being DDoS'ed and proceeded to explode on the fanboys (whom they called "No Man's Boys"), and also provided screenshots to people losing it over their score of the game (5/10). The video wasn't entirely focused on their situation either, showing developers and journalists being attacked and threatened with violence over minor questions or slight delays in ways that just stunned Jim, and also used it to call out the hype culture that creates these kinds of zealots who essentially worship the games they want or own as if they can never be talked about in any way other than positive. Jim also heavily insults the people who behaved this way and said this quote:
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Dear Negative Reader / int_3f4a104b	comment	Infamously, Dilbert creator Scott Adams used a Sock Puppet to post on online forums and engage with critics of his work, arguing that if you didn't understand Scott Adams, it's because you're an idiot and he's a genius. Once he got busted, he claimed a "Just Joking" Justification.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_431f7ab9	comment	The Kingkiller Chronicle: In The Name of the Wind, author Patrick Rothfuss subverted this trope nicely in this blog entry.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_456a342a	comment	In Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Jay does this upon seeing Internet commenters on Movie Poop Shoot (a thinly-veiled parody of Ain't It Cool News) giving negative feedback on the upcoming Bluntman and Chronic movie. Of course, Jay's Internet Jerk act is unknowingly feeding the trolls — at least until he and Silent Bob actually make good on their threats, heading to Hollywood to sabotage production of the movie. And then, in The Stinger, they personally go to the homes and workplaces of every one of the trolls on Movie Poop Shoot and give each of them a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_46c16e67	comment	The Crippled God, the last book in Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen series, contains a poem ostensibly written In-Universe by the poet Fisher kel Tath, which is actually in response to readers' complaints before the book came out questioning whether Erikson was capable of delivering a good ending to the series. He clearly didn't appreciate being doubted like that, or being expected to deliver exactly what the fans were asking for:
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Dear Negative Reader / int_49ee2e0a	comment	Mercilessly parodied in Supper Smash Bros: Mishonh From God. The "author", Sara, frequently rants about the negative reception of her story, at one point threatening that her friend Lauren and brother Josh will physically assault the detractors. However, the fic is in fact a Troll Fic, and Sara is little more than a Straw Character who exists to be loathed and mocked. Unsurprisingly, this means that her rants on her negative readers make her appear even more immature and moronic.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_4a059a74	comment	Pablo Hidalgo has attracted flack for his often volatile reactions to critical fans on Twitter, to the point that he called them "shitty assholes and shitheads" before locking his account. Things got particularly heated when he commented "Emotions are not for sharing" on a fan's tearful reaction video to an episode of The Mandalorian and made his tweet his account banner, which people interpreted as a sneering Men Don't Cry chastisement and criticized him for before he claimed he was joking.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_4dd54482	comment	The late Dwayne McDuffie was known for rather hostile reactions toward any fans who criticized him on his work on Ben 10: Alien Force and Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, the controversial sequels to Ben 10, on his forum. Though to his credit, he never made any personal attacks on these fans and frowned upon any of his supporters who did. The late Derrick Wyatt, the art designer and co-showrunner on Ben 10: Omniverse, was much the same, although with a more sardonic quality than outright hostile.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Homestuck creator Andrew Hussie does this in a heavy-handed way with his character Caliborn, a personification of his Hatedom who is not only the Big Bad but also responsible for killing his Author Avatar.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_522c3267	comment	Jonathan Ian Mathers does this frequently with his Foamy Fan Mail segments.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_5307b01d	comment	The writers of Penny Arcade engaged in an extended bout of this during the "dickwolves" saga, where this strip (referencing being "raped by dickwolves" as shock-value comedy) led to accusations of Gabe and Tycho being rape apologists. Gabe made an angry post in which he claimed not to understand why that crossed the line, and he and Tycho released a strip mocking the controversy. This only served to enrage the offended parties further, which further provoked Gabe, all feeding into a vicious cycle of both parties talking past each other and not listening to what the other side was saying. Relevant links here.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_58a0656b	comment	PAYDAY 2 had a mechanic where flashbangs would spawn out of nowhere and blind and deafen the player if they were caught by the blast. Players criticized the flashbangs, citing that the randomness on when and where they appear does nothing but annoy and hinder the player with no way for the player to counter it. The then CEO of Starbreeze (which was merged with Overkill, the studio that made the game), Bo Andersson stated that the flashbangs only appear if players were camping in one spot, but players proved that it wasn't true since said flashbangs could spawn randomly even if the group was separated. Bo then proceeded to mock the player base by saying that maybe he should include a "baby mode" difficulty in the game since people couldn't handle the flashbangs while also saying "your opinion, my choice" as a final fuck you to the players. Naturally, the fans didn't take this well.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_5ae0b268	comment	Dixie Carter responded negatively on Twitter to a negative review of TNA Impact after a fan of the "Spoony One" sent a link to an episode of Wrestle Wrestle, getting him some traffic he otherwise likely never would have had.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_5c75bb1c	comment	In the early days of Diva Dirt, Melanie was frequently called on her blatant dislike of Candice Michelle - which reached petty levels such as mocking her short haircut when she'd donated it to Locks of Love, and calling her "out of shape" and "tubby" when she was recovering from two back-to-back injuries. She also viewed the Ashley Massaro escort scandal as a Point-and-Laugh Show, and would resist no opportunity to criticise Ashley's appearance and wrestling. Whenever fans complained that she was going too far, she would respond with variants of "it's my opinion and I'm entitled to it". She did however appear to realise her mistakes once the website's popularity grew, and the writing became significantly more professional.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_5c897f4a	comment	Howard Tayler of Schlock Mercenary produced a fairly mild version — in response to complaints about how long the story was "dragging on", he wrote, "If you're bored, leave. PLEASE. I'm telling the story I want to tell, and I'm telling it the way I want to tell it."
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Dear Negative Reader / int_5f30dc32	comment	JesuOtaku at one point released a full-length screed over his Twitter in response to complaints about his Attention Deficit Creator Disorder.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_60e46d26	comment	Whenever Mad Magazine poked fun at the pop idol or teen sensation of the moment, the fanbase will flood the letters page with angry letters in defense of their heroes. The magazine's response is usually very snarky in return, such as the letters regarding the magazine poking fun at Justin Bieber:
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Dear Negative Reader / int_644a51e7	comment	When the United Arab Emirates declared that they would ban Lightyear (with numerous conservative Americans expressing similar sentiments) on the grounds of a scene that depicts a same-sex couple in a non-negative light, the voice actor for the titular lead Chris Evans voiced his disapproval over the decision:
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Dear Negative Reader / int_64ff8c3	comment	CinemaSins has garnered much ire from many, many, many filmmakers: Kong: Skull Island director Jordan Vogt-Roberts has nothing but utter contempt for the series, a sentiment best shown when he highlighted their review of his own film and nit-picked all the things they got wrong. However, he was perfectly willing to accept what he saw as constructive criticism of the film, even co-writing Kong's Honest Trailers review. His big problem is with the concept of Cinema Sins, deriding their ignorance of Artistic License, labeling them trolls who "contribute to the dumbing-down of cinema", and calling them the "YouTube equivalent of the Seltzer and Friedberg movies". James Gunn hasn't seen the video on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, but when someone showed him a sin and called the channel a satire, Gunn responded with a polite retort and, based on the sin he was shown, observed that it "should still be accurate about what it's satirizing. Otherwise it's just shitty satire." Rian Johnson and Damon Lindelof have both posted angry tweets about the show, something Cinema Sins acknowledged in their sin video against themselves. They also pointed out that Kevin Smith and Dane Cook are on their side, and they called that a sin as well.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_69392c59	comment	In a case happening to the reviewer, once The Cinema Snob did a review of the incomplete Grizzly II, the film's producer sent him an e-mail to take the video off his website. His fans still made sure it survived by uploading it to YouTube. He even implied in a con-exclusive DVD that he was the one who initially uploaded it to YouTube.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_69a00c38	comment	After Lisa died in Tom Batiuk's Funky Winkerbean, numerous fans issued their displeasure with the long, drawn-out death of one of the main characters, with whom they sympathized despite the fact that she seemed to be the Butt-Monkey of the universe (but then again, that seems to be common in this comic). Following said criticisms, the author has made numerous Take Thats to his disapproving fanbase in his comics, including most making a strawman group out of their ideals and basically telling them where they can stick their opinions. It culminated in a Crankshaft strip where the title character finishes his rant by saying that "the comics page is supposed to be funny," which seems either to liken the audience to unpleasable old men or to imply that anything printed in the comics is automatically funny.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_69ef92d4	comment	In response to the controversy surrounding the names for Black and White people in Save the Pearls ("Coals" for Blacks and "Pearls" for Whites), the author Victoria Foyt tried to justify the terminology by stating that in a dystopian society, coal would be far more highly prized than precious stones. This not only comes across as a weak justification but is debunked by the book itself, which calls the term "Coal" an "incendiary racial slur" early on. She also claimed that the intention of her novels was to talk about the danger of global warming, more so than racial issues. Given the duology's emphasis on racism as a plot point, most readers didn't buy this explanation.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_6c234f75	comment	While he'd announced Dr. Crafty's cancellation in late 2022, Alex Tansley did so exclusively on his soon-to-be-deleted first Discord server—nowhere else. During the subsequent months, he did not adequately communicate the show's fate in a way that reached his audiences on each of his platforms. This led to a lot of people—especially his YouTube subscribers—asking why all content related to the show randomly stopped in favor of his VTubing career. Eventually, he was provoked into making a new announcement, the most accessible mention of the show's fate of any kind, and the first time in years he opted to use YouTube's community posts feature. He is bitter, accusatory, and condescending towards those still curious, and he ends things off with an ultimatum: if people continue asking, they'll be blocked from seeing any of his content.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_6d62b35d	comment	Res Arcana: Board game YouTuber Rahdo gave a glowing review of the game, but didn't like the attack mechanic. This led to designer Tom Lehmann writing a long response arguing that Rahdo was unfair on the mechanic, and he turned hostile during the argument that ensued after Rahdo showed up to defend his review. Tom later apologized for how the conversation went.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_6d7c7f1c	comment	Particularly inane or stupid letters to SomethingPositive will sometimes get highlighted in a Fourth-Wall Mail Slot strip, so other fans can laugh at the stupidity.*
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Dear Negative Reader / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender: Creators Bryan Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino were always befuddled by the show's Ship-to-Ship Combat, one of the most infamous in the Western animation fandom, and they aren't shy about how much they dislike the Fan-Preferred Couple Zuko/Katara, viewing it as particularly nonsensical. It reached its height after the series ended, by which time Aang/Katara were very clearly the Official Couple, and they showed a video at SDCC 2008 called Book 4: Air, which was a collection of Zutara fanart — dubbed over with a story of what would have happened had Zuko and Katara been a couple (a very short relationship, as it turns out). It ended with Sokka's voice actor declaring to the audience that "all women who ship Zutara will have doomed relationships". Sequel series The Legend of Korra had similar shipping wars, and Konietzko and DiMartino were even less understanding this time around. They blamed all criticism of the first-season finale on "rabid shippers" (whether or not their criticism even addressed shipping), and Konietzko went on to claim that shippers were simply too stupid to understand their writing.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_73d7930f	comment	The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion recounts an anecdote where a production assistant took a call complaining about the lesbian kiss between Jadzia Dax and Lenara Kahn in "Rejoined", saying that "you're ruining my kids by making them watch two women kiss like that." The PA asked if he'd be fine with seeing them shoot each other, and the caller said they would. To that, the PA snidely remarked that the caller "should reconsider who's messing up your kids."
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Dear Negative Reader / int_76ceddae	comment	The Brazilian dub of Battlefield Hardline had rock singer Roger Moreira as Det. Mendonza. Reviewers and gamers alike didn't like it, and Roger, known for not taking too kindly to any sort of criticism, took on Twitter to give short and rough responses to those who complained while tagging him. This included saying something that downright demeaned his own work - "This is why I prefer in English. Too bad you're stupid" - and an argument with famed dubber Guilherme Briggs once he declared that Roger should've been more polite and learn something from being criticized.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_78fa0f35	comment	The "Author's Note" for My Inner Life by "Linkâ€™s Queen" consists mostly of this. It goes on for three pages.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_7bfb07b6	comment	Aaron Neathery, creator of Endtown, releases monthly messages to those of his fans who support him on Patreon. His December 2016 Patreon letter reeks of this trope, being largely a loud and strenuous defense of his recent storytelling decisions after apparently getting some amount of negative feedback.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_7e10ef24	comment	He lashed out at critics for giving poor reviews to Cop Out, particularly at the ones whom he had allowed to see the film for free, implying that he expected a good review in return.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_803f56b2	comment	9 Chickweed Lane and Pibgorn creator Brooke McEldowny did this via an FAQ section where he insulted both the hypothetical negative reader for daring to interpret his feminist character as a Straw Feminist and the fan who suggested making an FAQ section ("sometimes they have good ideas").
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Dear Negative Reader / int_8c85e195	comment	The Chosen: The fleshed out characterization and expanded story arcs are a point of contention for Christians who criticize the show for "changing scripture". Producer Dallas Jenkins responded to the criticism by arguing that if The Chosen were written without taking any creative liberty to fill out details in the lives of the characters, it would be a montage of events in Jesus's life instead of a cohesive narrative. Jenkins also pointed out that The Chosen is a TV show, not scripture.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_8d817ccb	comment	Lost season 6 was criticized for filler, especially in the episode "What Kate Does", prompting Damon Lindelof to tell his Twitter followers that anybody who didn't like it should go watch NCIS. He later apologized for it, claiming he went too far with that one — or perhaps also realizing that the ratings for Lost were declining while those for NCIS were increasing, so apparently his fans took his advice. They did mostly return for the highly anticipated finale.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_8e0265d8	comment	He allegedly debated fans on the View Askew board who reacted negatively to the news of Clerks II, particularly the ones who pointed out his own prior statement that there would be no sequel.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_8e8a801	comment	The top fanfic writer for The Lion King, ThatPersonYouMightKnow, hates trolls. If they make him snap, they can expect an angry message.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_9068877a	comment	Red vs. Blue: When Zero was released among mixed genuine criticism and wild harassment, that season's lead Fiona Nova became very defensive, most notably shooting down people who claimed it was just a spinoff, or saying "it's not for you" regarding those who didn't like the new direction. Showrunner Torrian Crawford had a moment too: he had left Rooster Teeth, and when one of his fellow animators who was still there said Twitter was making her sad he lashed out on the fanbase, culminating in "Just stop watching the fuckin show." Some fans felt it was a blithe attempt to dismiss all criticism, though everyone agreed that those who didn't like the season had no business in delivering personal attacks and harassment to the crew.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_935a39be	comment	After panning Super Smash Bros. Brawl and receiving an unusually large amount of hate mail, he devoted a whole video to snarkily responding to some of the negative comments. This earned him a roundly negative reaction, as many took it as a sign the Brawl video was only made as a bait so that he could trash Nintendo fans in the follow-up.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_98c961e2	comment	During the show's second season, Helluva Boss creator Vivienne Medrano wrote a Twitter thread addressing the rising criticism of the show's writing, specifically those targeting the character of Millie, as some fans had begun accusing her and the writers of failing to give someone who is stated to be a main character any significant depth outside being Moxxie's wife. Medrano argued that fans were overlooking what characterization had already been given, and that the complaints stem from people wishing that Millie had a Dark and Troubled Past like the rest of the cast. However, she did concede that the character hadn't gotten too much focus up to that point, and assured fans that she would in future episodes. Occurred again with the sister show from which Helluva Boss span off from, Hazbin Hotel. When a short, out-of-context clip of Angel being raped during the Poison music number leaked a week before the premiere and its storyboard artist, Raphielle II, was accused of having a rape fetish, along with allegations of elements from his fan works being put into the show, there was backlash with alleged claims that the show was fetishizing a serious subject matter, especially among SA survivors. Vivienne made a series of tweets defending the artist, pointing out that the show was made by a team, and that the episode in question wasn't officially released yet. It got bad enough that the backlash extended to Threads, where she continued to defend herself and the artist. She said she would become less active on Twitter as a result.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_98e2fba4	comment	A straighter example came from his review of the Deadliest Warrior Fighting Game. After a five-minute review where Noah railed against every part of the game, the producers themselves issued this kind of response, including saying things like "It's a $10 DLC game by a small publisher, it's not our fault you bought instant ramen and expected it to taste like filet mignon", and straight-up instructing their fans to troll Noah. Noah laid into Spike for this, as well as some of the dumber responses on his comments section, like one person claiming that "You don't auto-turn in a real-life fight".
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Dear Negative Reader / int_99c24198	comment	The Pro contains a sarcastic dedication to Jim Steranko, who had ranted at length about how The Pro and similar comic books constituted "cultural terrorism."
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Dear Negative Reader / int_a23b15c8	comment	Rain has a lot of LGBTQ characters. Whenever one is revealed to be such, readers complain that it is unrealistic to have so many queer/trans characters. The writer, Jocelyn Samara, now writes a statement with every reveal asking readers to keep it to themselves, because it is not true and she does not appreciate it.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_a3129642	comment	Krazy Krow wrote one for Spinnerette which can be seen here, in response to negative feedback on chapter seven. However, he seemed to think it was about him using a recurring villain when most of the complaints were about how predictable and cliched the story ended up being.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_ab67d84	comment	Tim Buckley, the author of Ctrl+Alt+Del, does this routinely. Several such stunts have become so infamous that he would subsequently ban anyone who mentions them on his forum. One such stunt was an attack on a fan who was defending him — the fan happened to include a piece of fanart, and Buckley (ignoring the I Do Not Own disclaimer) attacked the fan for plagiarism and implicitly threatened legal action. Ironically, the webcomic's most criticized storyline (involving a Convenient Miscarriage) actually led to one of Buckley's more restrained responses.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_b174f131	comment	NoPixel server owner Koil, who also plays Kael Soze and Francis J. Francer on the server, frequently spends time on his Twitch stream reading and mocking negative viewer comments about NoPixel from the r/RPClipsGTA subreddit.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: The final season was so critically panned that viewers launched a petition that the season be remade without writers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. Several cast and crew members lashed back at the fans, mostly feeling insulted that the fans were dismissing their hard work just because they didn't like the ending. Sophie Turner told the New York Times that the petition was "disrespectful", Isaac Hempstead-Wright called the fans' demands "ridiculous", and Jacob Anderson called it "rude" and said that it "trivialise[s] [the crew's] work". But Kit Harington outdid them all by airing his criticisms as soon as the seasons started: Cinematographer Fabian Wagner responded to criticism of the dim lighting in "The Long Night" by claiming that the episode was just fine, and that the viewers who thought it was too dark must have set their televisions up incorrectly. In an amusing twist actor John Bradley who plays Sam Tarly contradicted him and suggested that the episode was supposed to be that dark to reflect the difficult conditions and intensity of the battle.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_b396dab6	comment	Bruce Tinsley of Mallard Fillmore engages in this from time to time, though it's not clear if he's actually addressing any actual letters or simply people he has invented out of thin air to address criticisms of his strip.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_b5134390	comment	The poorly written author's notes at the beginning of each chapter in My Immortal are quite a treat. Tara will yell at the reader to stop "flaming" in response to the vast number of negative reviews it gets, going so far as to call the reviewers "gay fags" and threatening to slit her wrists if people don't give her "tin god revows"
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Dear Negative Reader / int_b541a2a5	comment	In response to criticisms over the frequent usage of derogatory or offensive language in the earlier The House of Night books (including from characters intended to be heroic / sympathetic), P.C. Cast tweeted that when she began writing the books in 2005, she used language that reflected then-contemporary teenage vernacular and that if you were bothered by it you should stop reading. She later backtracked a bit, with both P.C. and Kristin Cast (the books' editor) assuring readers that the new e-book editions of House of Night would be revised to remove this language and that the more recent Other World series didn't include this. The printed editions of the books are apparently unchanged, though.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_b6886bfd	comment	Roberto Orci's general attitude to articles critical of Star Trek Into Darkness was to dismiss them on perceived stylistic grounds and make snide remarks about how there's a reason he gets paid to make movies and the critics don't. Part 2 of SF Debris' review of the film is indicative.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_b6c15d0	comment	The well-known Conversion Bureau author, Chatoyance, tended to insult critics and those who don't agree with her fanon.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_b8c8f953	comment	Scott Kurtz of PvP is infamous for posting these on his blog. Indeed, a book he co-authored about how to publish your own web-comic basically said that you should ignore all criticism of your work. When one book critic noted this in her review of the book and said that she couldn't believe any professional artist would deny the value of even constructive criticism, Kurtz wrote a blistering response where he expressed the belief that critics should be like The Federation in Star Trek and not interfere.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_b9f6ecc7	comment	When Gotti was brutalized by critics, earning a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes, MoviePass (which partly funded the film) ran an ad campaign that tried to invoke Critical Dissonance, claiming that audiences "loved" the film while critics "put out the hit", and asked viewers who they trusted more: themselves, or "a troll behind a keyboard"? The fact that MoviePass was accused of running an AstroTurf campaign by artificially inflating the audience scores on Rotten Tomatoes did them no favors.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_bb621e62	comment	This was largely the concept behind the Right to Censor group, a humongous Take That! against the Parents Television Council that had been hounding the then-WWF about their use of language, sexuality, and over-the-top violence. Ironically, it actually afforded an in-road for the WWF to tone down some of its more outrageous characters by "forcing" them to join through complicated schemes, and it was one of the early starts towards the current "PG Era".
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Dear Negative Reader / int_c1a76652	comment	A hilarious in-universe example happened in a skit that you can find in the special features of the Black Books DVD. When Bernard receives a rejection letter for his novel, he sends back a rejection letter for the rejection letter:
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Dear Negative Reader / int_c4282b71	comment	After being hassled on social media for about three days by an aggressive fan of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic who believed Fluttershy's Poison Joke afflicted deep voice in "Filli Vanilli" was an attack against transgender people, and after trying and failing to be civil about it, writer Amy Keating Rogers (with a bit of help from M.A. Larson) fired a couple◊ of shots◊ back.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_c43df4d8	comment	Ian Levine, Doctor Who Fandom VIP and organizer/songwriter of the notorious "Doctor in Distress" charity single, found himself and the song mentioned on the "TARDIS Eruditorum" blog, and was intrigued by what it said — so much so that he personally told the author, Elizabeth Sadifer, to go fuck herself. This became a sort of publicity blurb for the blog.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_c57319b9	comment	Nathanoraptor, co-author of Prehistoric Earth, is generally a reasonable person, but after a reader complained one time too many about their choice of Gorgonopsid in Passport to Hell, which they viewed as inaccurate (the authors chose Gorgonops, but the reader thought they should go with Inostrancevia, which was native to Siberia, where the story takes place, while Gorgonops is from Africa), he did a very calm example of this trope by deleting all of said reader's reviews (at the request of another reader) and leaving a warning to not do this again.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_c9a98ba0	comment	Season 1 of True Detective, while praised in general, was also the subject of criticism regarding the relative lack of female characters in the first season. Creator Nic Pizzolatto responded in a profile by saying, "When Callie [Khouri], who wrote Thelma & Louise, thinks that that's stupid criticism, I'm inclined to take her opinion over someone with a Wi-Fi connection." Season 2 was then accused of Seasonal Rot, and Pizzolatto suggested that critics wait to the end of the series before passing judgment — but when they did, they noticed the show only seemed to get worse from that point on.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_ca285807	comment	Vincent Gallo — writer, producer, director, and actor of indie arthouse drama The Brown Bunny — ended up in a legendary flame war with Roger Ebert after the latter gave a scathing review of its debut at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, declaring it "the worst film in the history of Cannes." Gallo fired back by calling him "a fat pig with the physique of a slave trader," to which Ebert responded by paraphrasing Winston Churchill: "It is true that I am fat, but one day I will be thin, and Gallo will still be the director of The Brown Bunny," etc. etc. Ironically, once the film reached proper mass distribution, it had been significantly Re-Cut, and Ebert ended up giving the new version a favorable 3 out of 4 stars.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_ccae327f	comment	The Spoony Experiment had a brief online rivalry with TNA President Dixie Carter after one of his fans jokingly posted a link to the first Wrestle! Wrestle! vlog on Dixie's Facebook wall. Dixie, who has demonstrated that she cares a lot more about her personal social media than TNA itself, tried to pick a fight with Spoony on Twitter. Noah Antwiler briefly ran with it, although he did note how petty and stupid it was for a grown woman who is supposed to be running a company to decide that arguing with a single Internet reviewer was the best use of her time.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_d24b61b8	comment	In A Darker Path, the chapter after Taylor/Atropos states she's going to end the entire hard drug trade in Brockton Bay, a reader began to complain about the story apparently equating drug use with drug abuse, triggering a discussion with other readers. ack1308 used that as part of an In-Universe discussion on the PHO forums, which ended with Atropos herself stating that she's stopping the drug trade because it is horrible for both the city and the people.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	Haven Paschall, the English voice actress of Serena in PokÃ©mon: The Series, has stated that while she respects that some fans prefer the Japanese voices and they can't please everyone, it can be irritating when they review the English cast's work with cruel comments while using anonymous screen names and asked that fans consider what they were saying before commenting.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_d775eaa8	comment	There was some controversy in 2012 over Kiera Cass and her agent reacting badly to a one-star review of The Selection on Goodreads; in a Twitter conversation they insulted the reviewer and discussed ways to get the negative review buried. Cass later apologized to the reviewer after receiving backlash over this.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_db30cf92	comment	In another Warrior Cats Troll Fic called Hidden Prophices, the author insults negative reviewers directly, and a character named after a frequent negative reviewer is randomly murdered in one chapter.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_db72a3e6	comment	During the Television Critics Association screening of his new show Stalker (2014), creator Kevin Williamson got into a Twitter war with critic Emily St. James over what the latter saw as an Unfortunate Implications-filled pilot. Some highlights can be seen here.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_db96ded4	comment	Sequel series The Legend of Korra had similar shipping wars, and Konietzko and DiMartino were even less understanding this time around. They blamed all criticism of the first-season finale on "rabid shippers" (whether or not their criticism even addressed shipping), and Konietzko went on to claim that shippers were simply too stupid to understand their writing.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_dba780f5	comment	Gibbs_yeah, writer of To Trope or Not to Trope; thanks to many comments by critical readers, so much as breathing funny in the comments will result in the author coming down on the commenter like a ton of bricks, or just purging their comment entirely. While it is completely understandable for the trolls and overeager MCU fans (especially the Tony stans that the fic makes fun of) who love picking fights with the author, some of those attempting to give genuine constructive criticism meet the same fate.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_df4d64cb	comment	The author of In This World and the Next, Knowledge is Power, and many others, has a Dear Negative Reader as one of his rotating pool of predefined author's notes at the beginning of chapters.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_e04b75ca	comment	In The Unpopular Mangaka and the Helpful Onryo-san, Senai gets a negative review of his work online. Onryo-san rushes to the computer, and he's worried she'll send a cursed email, but it turns out to be a normal, calm response. He still doesn't let her send it from his IP address.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_e21e270	comment	Sia faced overwhelmingly negative backlash when the trailer for her film Music (2021) was released, for an apparent stereotyping of non-verbal autism — with said character played by neurotypical actress Maddie Ziegler. She attempted to fend off the backlash by announcing that people should see the film before judging it, and claiming Ziegler had replaced an autistic actress who backed out because it was "too much for her".
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Dear Negative Reader / int_e6267766	comment	Star Wars Legends author Karen Traviss is a little bit infamous for this in the Star Wars fandom, going so far as to call her critics sexists, Basement Dwellers, and "Talifans". She later backed up and claimed that she was only using those terms to refer to a particularly belligerent subgroup of critics who harassed and threatened her, doing or going on to do things like refer to her with denigrating nicknames such as "The Travissty", accuse her of only getting her job via nepotism/sexual bribery, and make self-insert machinima animations in which the critic depicted himself shooting up a book signing containing obvious stand-ins of her and her fans. Bizarrely, the whole thing seems to have come from a single instance of Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale, when she claimed that there were only 3 million clone troopers in a Republic made up of a million star systems, a number by and large already established in the Attack of the Clones movie and junior novelizationsnote Apparently neither side had read those books, hence the confusion, and Traviss was presumably using numbers/definitions her bosses gave her — it's just that the fans are so obsessive about this sort of thing that they argued about it for months, and there are places even after almost two decades where you can find people complaining about "her" numbers. One of the mods on the old StarWars.com forums gave his account of the events here.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_e72fd9ac	comment	Charlotte Temple's author Susanna Rowson appears to have anticipated this in her own book. One chapter is actually entitled, "Which Those Devoid of Feeling Need Not Read," which is more accurately "And By This, We Mean Those Who Would Criticize It For the Sentimental and Predictable Melodrama That It Is."
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Dear Negative Reader / int_e75c6d45	comment	Ellipsis Stephens (formerly known as Tarol Hunt), author of Goblins: Life Through Their Eyes, occasionally goes on The Rant to discuss some of the house-ruled Dungeons & Dragons mechanics used in the webcomic. This one concludes with the classic line, "Hello, my name is Tarol Hunt and I have 24 years of near-constant practice arguing the physics of magic with hundreds of D&D players."
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Dear Negative Reader / int_ecff1d09	comment	Parodied in a chapter of the original Lupin III manga. A sex scene is interrupted by a fan's letter (complaining about the "bleeps" censoring the dialogue), followed by the author telling them to "Bleep off".
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Dear Negative Reader / int_eda74693	comment	Saints Row (2022) became rather infamous for this. The game was announced as a reboot of the Saints Row series that was Revisiting the Roots, and fans were initially hyped with the graffiti wall art that updated itself leading up to the announcement trailer's release. However, when said trailer dropped, fan reactions to it were quite negative. In response, series developer Volition started badmouthing people who were unhappy with the reboot's direction, including making tweets like "Haters gonna hate", deleting negative comments that criticized Volition from the reboot's videos, and allegedly referring to fans of the first two Saints Row games (which the reboot is trying to hark back to) as "terrorists". Although Volition apologized and removed the offending tweet, the damage was done. Many people were turned off by the game's direction and Volition's hostility towards their own fanbase and swore off playing the Saints Row reboot, while those who stuck around and played the game found it to be an Obvious Beta, despite being delayed from its intended February 2022 release date to August for quality assurance purposes. This caused the reboot to underperform critically and financially, which resulted in Embracer Group, the parent company of publisher Deep Silver, transferring Volition's staff to Gearbox Software and then subsequently shutting down the company in August of 2023, just a year after the reboot's launch.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_edb4e494	comment	Mick Foley did this on 411Mania's Wrestling section, which can be read here, about his then-upcoming fourth book. In general, Foley claims that the idea he didn't talk about wrestling enough means he thought about "adding a helpful 'wrestleometer' at the start of every chapter, just in case [people who complained] want to take a pass on one of [his] non-wrestling chapters" in the book, while defending that his favorite stories weren't about wrestling.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_ee07059e	comment	Youtuber Dark Lord Jadow 1 did a review of No Man's Sky which he was not a fan of, seeing the game as boring, unintuitive, and lacking in features. He also did another video of his top ten worst games played part 2, and in it he brings up No Man's Sky as number ten and summarizes his points, then proceeds to explode on the NMS fans who tried to hack his Twitter and swarmed his comments section, attacking everything he said and enraging him (although he did show a screenshot of someone who disagreed with his opinion but wasn't toxic about it and says that he doesn't have a problem with those people in particular, pointing out his anger is just with the ones who attacked him personally or delusionally defended the game by refuting arguments he never made).
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Dear Negative Reader / int_eedfc516	comment	His commentary for the Mazes and Monsters review starts with one about the negative reaction the fans had to that review's title sequence, which replaced his normal theme song by The Irresponsibles with a cover by the band Living Illusion. It's actually quite mature and even somewhat apologetic — he explains why he made the change and defends Living Illusion's cover, and speculates as to why people were so bothered. It helps that you're hearing his thoughts, rather than reading them, so the tone is much easier to interpret. (And, for the record, he went back to a more traditional version of the theme song not too long after.)
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Dear Negative Reader / int_f2e1b686	comment	Half in the Bag: On a few occasions, Mike and Jay have referenced or read aloud negative comments on their previous videos. One such occasion was Mike reading demands that he focus on new Mr. Plinkett Reviews instead of Half in the Bag.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_f3368832	comment	Yvonne Navarro responded to the negative reviews of her of Wicked Willow trilogy of Buffyverse novels that were on Amazon with an article titled "Rant!!!"
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Dear Negative Reader / int_f655ed11	comment	The Frasier episode "I Hate Frasier Crane" has a listener of Frasier's show, Derek Mann, criticize him in his newspaper column. Frasier, of course, can't let it go, and it escalates back and forth with ad hominem attacks to the point that they arrange a fistfight in public. Hilarity Ensues.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_f67012a7	comment	In the now-defunct IMDb boards, Leigh Scott would appear to lash out on those who labeled him as simply a mockbuster creator or putting all the blame on the ones he directed for The Asylum, saying the studio, which he had departed at some point, had more to do with it, and he was simply making a living. Scott had to, in particular, say that Transmorphers was both an old script of his that was retitled as a cash-in to Transformers (2007), while owning up to the awful technical aspects, as it was a No Budget endeavor after all.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_f6e776bb	comment	Kong: Skull Island director Jordan Vogt-Roberts has nothing but utter contempt for the series, a sentiment best shown when he highlighted their review of his own film and nit-picked all the things they got wrong. However, he was perfectly willing to accept what he saw as constructive criticism of the film, even co-writing Kong's Honest Trailers review. His big problem is with the concept of Cinema Sins, deriding their ignorance of Artistic License, labeling them trolls who "contribute to the dumbing-down of cinema", and calling them the "YouTube equivalent of the Seltzer and Friedberg movies".
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Dear Negative Reader / int_f74b5f80	comment	While Babylon 5 was on the air, J. Michael Straczynski would regularly post on the show's Usenet group. 98% of these interactions were positive, with JMS responding to feedback, answering questions, and generally engaging with fans in a way that wasn't possible before the advent of the Internet. Even negative posts were riposted with snarky wit rather than vitriol. Sometimes, however, someone would say something that would make him get downright nasty. One big example was when a fan unintentionally pushed one of his Berserk Buttons, by claiming that a line in an episode was a reference to another work. JMS's response started "Y'know, if I were to read this group as an outsider, I'd think that this jms person was incapable of coming up with a single line on his own." And it went downhill from there. The full text can be found here, in the "jms speaks" section.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_f845d612	comment	When the task is to bring in one's most "boastful" item, i.e. something they would be the most proud to brag about. Joe Lycett brings in a selfie of himself with The Chuckle Brothers, which actually is fairly impressive at least compared to the other thingsnote Noel has a magazine that named him sexiest man alive in 2008, Mel has some awards she received for her guinea pigs when she was 45, Lolly has a certificate she received when she was 9 for doing math above her age level, and Hugh brought in a "loser's medal" for losing a tournament. Greg Davies gives it only 2 measly points, however, and is booed and jeered by the entire audience for it:
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Dear Negative Reader / int_fae48d18	comment	The Prayer Warriors has the author bashing his critics, often saying that they will go to Hell for "mocking" him.
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Dear Negative Reader / int_fbcc15d6	comment	2013's DmC: Devil May Cry is infamous for this. Upon its reveal, fans of Devil May Cry criticised the direction Ninja Theory was taking the series, fundamentally changing aspects of the series and rebooting it in such a way that it was unrecognisable as a Devil May Cry game. In response, Ninja Theory lashed out at fans by dismissing their criticism as fans simply being upset that Dante's hair wasn't white, despite that being little more than a footnote compared to the other points, and ignoring the fact that their new interpretation was a vulgar smoker, despite Dante being initially designed as a character that was "too cool" to smoke, drink or swear. Ninja Theory went as far as to create a PowerPoint outlining what "Dante is", drawing connections with their new interpretation to the likes of Fight Club, while classic Dante was compared to Batman & Robin and photoshopped into a scene from Brokeback Mountain, the connotations being clear, while also stating that the old Dante "would be laughed out of any bar outside of Tokyo." This even extended to journalists that supported Ninja Theory, calling the old Devil May Cry games outdated and shilling the new game as much as possible while downplaying any criticisms. Needless to say, this didn't go over well, as while it reviewed well when it came out, fans of the series wanted nothing to do with the game and the people that did play it found the story and characters unlikeable and the gameplay a major step down from Devil May Cry 4, causing the game to massively underperform, taking 5 years to meet its original goal. In contrast, 2019's Devil May Cry 5 managed to match its numbers in a couple of weeks.
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