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"Don't like, don't read" is a standard response to criticism of a work of fiction, particularly on the Internet. It raises the basic question of why the critic bothered to read or finish the work if it turned out they didn't like it. The trope is most commonly used by Fan Fic authors who Can't Take Criticism and try to silence critics with this line (as part of a trifecta with Let's See YOU Do Better! and You're Just Jealous). When "don't like, don't read" is used this way, the problem is immediately obvious: how is the audience supposed to know they don't like it if they haven't read it? The alternative would presumably be for the critic to not read the work and complain about it anyway. It's also often seen in comment sections on places like YouTube, where the work may be so short that by the time the viewer decides they didn't like it, it's already over. A reader doesn't necessarily have to enjoy everything they read. They might be able to provide Constructive Criticism in an effort to allow the author to improve their work in the future. They might be a professional critic who doesn't have a choice in what they read or watch; no good critic is going to limit their reviews to things they think they will enjoy. They might have seen the summary, thought it had potential, and then read through it and ended up disappointed because it didn’t match up to expectation. They might have been recommended by others about it and felt Hype Backlash. They might even be seeking out things that they don't like, because that allows them to build a persona as a Caustic Critic. Or they might actually like it, but only because it's So Bad, It's Good. "Don't like, don't read" is thus not a particularly useful criticism here. That said, Tropes Are Tools, and there are legitimate reasons to use this line. No work can be all things to all people, and the line allows the author to be up-front about what's in the work. This allows readers to know, even before they start reading, that they might encounter something they won't like. When used most productively, it can serve as more of a Content Warning than an admonition. It's helpful for certain readers, given that it's impossible to "unread" something (as much as people would really like to). It's particularly useful for things like Dark Fic, which provides an unexpected and often disturbing twist to something people will be familiar with, which is definitely not to everyone's taste. It's also useful to warn people of spoilers if they haven't finished the parent work yet. More often, though, Fan Fiction writers will drop this line to fend off their fandom's interminable Ship-to-Ship Combat. Which brings us to another legitimate reason to use the line: to deal with Fan Dumb. Some fans like to see very specific things happen — e.g. a specific Ship, a happy ending, a focus on a particular character — and when they don't see it, they fly off the handle. Still others, and even many critics, simply don't like the common tropes of certain genres, like high fantasy or sci-fi, and complain about the presence of things like soft magic systems, benevolent monarchs, faster-than-light travel, etc that are simply staples of that genre rather than actual cliches. In such situations, the only thing to tell a reader really is "don't like, don't read", because criticism of the work along these lines doesn't have anything to do with the quality of the writing. Some fanfic writers have taken to stating in advance which pairings will appear in the work, so nobody who objects to them has any excuse to keep reading. In This Very Wiki, it is outright mandatory to include such a notice when adding an entry to a Fanfic Recommendations page, for the same reasons. Sometimes the line is said in response to readers who seem to be forcing themselves to read or watch something they don't enjoy just so that they can keep criticizing it, such as fanfic readers who leave entirely negative feedback on multiple subsequent chapters. When the work is put up in installments, especially if it's free, it costs nothing to quit while you're ahead. It can seem remarkably petty to keep reading a Long Runner you hate just to criticize it. But this doesn't make constructive criticism invalid on its own, so it cuts both ways. At the same time, many Fan Fiction writers point out that their writing is a hobby, and view unsolicited constructive criticism as incredibly rude due to the fact that this is something they're doing for fun and for free rather than a product for which they are accountable to their audience. However, this line is also prone to Insult Backfire, as if an author tells their potential audience not to interact with their work, they may just do exactly that, and a significant enough loss of audience may cause the author's work to suffer financial failure. Authors working on adaptations of popular works or inheriting long running franchises are the most vulnerable to this type of outcome if they push away the main demographic that traditionally supports those works. A subtrope of Dear Negative Reader, where this is one of many tools a writer might use to counter criticism of their work. Note: Examples should be limited to responses to criticism of works of fiction, rather than any rebuff of criticism. As always, play nice, and try to avoid Take Thats and Complaining About Shows You Don't Like. |
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In an interview promoting Preacher, Joseph Gilgun was asked to address the show's possibly offensive nature towards Christians. Gilgun's response was to say "fuck them" and that they shouldn't watch the show if they think it won't be nice to their religion. | |
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Kubo Tite, author of Bleach, tweeted in early 2010, in response to criticism, that: | |
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Battlefield V had EA chief design officer Patrick Soderlund response to criticism of the Politically Correct History (mostly around female playable characters) of the game with "we stand up for the cause, because I think those people who don't understand it, well, you have two choices: either accept it or don't buy the game". The backlash didn't help the game, which undersold expectations by about 15% and had ongoing support killed earlier than expected due to a declining player base caused by multiple issues including this one. | |
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Anti-Shur'tugal, a now-defunct anti-fansite for Inheritance Cycle, was founded reportedly because certain individuals received this (and the other two Stock Phrases in the Holy Trinity along with forum bans and death threats) every time they'd post something critical on an Inheritance fansite. Its Spiritual Successor, Impishidea, received a number of ugly comments along the lines of this trope when it was critical of Inheritance Cycle or The Twilight Saga. It also accidentally attracted the author of Bitterwood. | |
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Jim Sterling of Jimquisition points out the illogic of complaining about how the Water Temple from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, which was made easier in Master Quest, was restored to its original tough layout for the 3DS version — nothing was stopping you from just hanging on to Master Quest and continuing to play that. They were similarly befuddled by complaints about Zelda games before they even came out. | |
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Video game franchises that specialize in a certain genre tend to receive complaints about games that dabble in a different genre; for example, fans of Sonic Chronicles complained that it was an RPG and not a platformer like other Sonic games (or the opposite when Super Paper Mario turned out to be a platformer and not an RPG). But since the games were upfront about the genre, this seems to imply that such fans are completionists who have to buy every game in the franchise, and thus have to be reminded, "don't like, don't play". | |
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Final Fantasy XIVnote A subscription based game to start with has a weird case regarding the cash shop, where every item is a Cosmetic Award with no effect on gameplay. It's completely optional to use the cash shop anyway, so players who complain about this are told "don't like, don't buy". Some complainers will shoot back that Square Enix is milking players for money and priming them for Bribing Your Way to Victory — i.e., suggesting the developers are secretly planning to sell real power, so no one should have access to cosmetic items. | |
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When the Star Trek reboot movie was released, producer J. J. Abrams flat-out told Star Trek fans that it would make things more accessible to non-fans, and the die-hards probably weren't going to like it and probably shouldn't watch it. | |
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The fictional fanfic authors included in Bleach: Fan Works do this quite often. Jolene Meyers possibly has the most succinct example: | |
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Greg Farshtey, writer of LEGO's now canceled BIONICLE line, has offered this suggestion on the BZPower forums regarding his online serials that have gotten mixed reviews. | |
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Co-creator of Seinfeld Larry David would often state in response to criticism of the show, "If you don't like it, please don't watch." | |
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My Inner Life, a The Legend of Zelda fanfic that's supposedly an account of the author's lucid dreams, begins with an "Author's Note" which is really a multi-page Author Tract, consisting mostly of repeatedly throwing this excuse at any readers who may be questioning whether writing all that down was such a good idea. | |
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Thundercats Roar: Monkian has some choice words on Cheetara's livestream. | |
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Jeffrey Darlington, creator of General Protection Fault, has been known to advise complainers to take a vacation from the comic for a number of months — i.e., until the current arc is over. | |
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Parodied in Harry Potter and the Something Something: | |
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Given the amount of vitriol the Red vs. Blue season he directed got, along with how the follow-ups based on that were not being welcomed based on a trailer alone, Torrian Crawford lashed out the fanbase with "Stop watching the fucking show." The fandom didn't take it kindly. However, this is arguably not an example of the trope; in context, Torrian's comment was explicitly targeting toxic harassment levelled at creators and saying that open vitriol on cast and crew members' personal accounts, not general fan criticism in appropriate venues, should be cut from the community. | |
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In Concerned, Gordon Frohman is in the world of Counter-Strike, and the players complain about all sorts of stuff promised to them: | |
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Miranda Sings tells this repeatedly to her "haters". | |
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Later Pokémon games have side contests that only really give out Cosmetic Awards and have no impact on the game itself. When fans complain that this isn't like the early games, they're reminded that almost all of these side contests are completely avoidable; don't like, don't play. | |
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On The Angry Video Game Nerd website, people frequently come into unrelated videos (such as "Board James") and bash them because they aren't AVGN. This usually attracts at least one or two comments saying that they don't have to watch the non-AVGN videos. | |
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My Immortal's writer Tara has a tendency to do this when snapping at the "prepz" who criticise the story. It gets to the point that every time she makes a Shout-Out, she interrupts the story with a series of "author's notes" to yell at anyone who doesn't get the reference and yet is still reading, ostensibly because they're only there to bitch about the story's quality. | |
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Minecraft has issues with players who don't like a certain play style or technique and demand that Notch overhaul the entire game's mechanics to fit their tastes. The response "don't like, don't play" is very apt here, because they don't have to worry about this at all in single-player, and you're free to set up a multiplayer server with rules disallowing that particular technique or play style (especially because it's considered bad form to destroy other people's creations). Sometimes it stops there, but if the complainer is feeling particularly ornery, they'll demand that everyone else form their own server. | |
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This has been heard like a mantra on Doctor Who fan sites since the new series began airing (and in all kinds of fan venues even before then), to the point where there are certain areas where expressing any criticism of the new series will invoke this response. | |
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The episode of Sealab 2021 that introduces Shanks had him note that if the crew (and by extension the audience) didn't like that he was replacing the much beloved Captain Murphy,note Which was necessary to keep the show going due to the death of Murphy's voice actor. they can go watch anime instead. | |
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In chapter 36 of Ghosts of the Past, Nimbus Llewelyn told a group of annoyingly persistent anonymous reviewers that if they didn't like the more grounded direction the fic was taking, they should go and find - or write - one more to their taste. Given that this was five years, 116 chapters (118 counting the Chaos Reigns two-shot), and 1.4 million words into the series, with the approach of explicitly avoiding most Super!Harry tropes being made crystal clear from the beginning, it was an entirely justified reaction after several less emphatic responses were ignored. | |
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Twilight fans tend to use this excuse when dealing with the series' Hatedom. It never works, as the hatedom is particularly focused on studying the series because they believe it promotes dangerous ideals such as Stalking is Love; they're working very hard to try and turn fans against the series. That, and they also keep hearing that they can't criticize it unless they've read it. | |
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In a press conference before the Battlestar Galactica (2003) series premiere, Edward Olmos was asked about the reaction of Battlestar Galactica (1978) fans to the reimagining. He said, flatly, "If you're a fan of the original, don't watch the new one. You won't like it, turn it off." This made some minor entertainment headlines ("Eddie Olmos doesn't want you to watch his new show!") and was probably the result of Olmos seeing one too many complaints from the original show's fans about the new show's mere existence. Ron Moore would later admit that it turned into better publicity than they could have paid for with people tuning in just to see why Olmos thought they would hate it. | |
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Cori Falls has these disclaimers in the form of long-winded rants on both her Pokémon: The Series and Yu-Gi-Oh! pages. | |
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Video game fans also tend to prefer specific genres over others, so reviewers might find themselves criticizing a game just because it's a genre they're not really into. "Don't like, don't play" can be a valid response when it's just some guy on GameFAQs who's probably trolling. It's less valid when the reviewer is being told to play it by his superiors and says right up front he doesn't like the genre because he has to let the readers know he probably can't provide an objective review of the game. And it warps right back to valid when those reviewers start to cater to the fans' entitlement complexes and demand only games in genres they like. | |
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In the first MegaTokyo compilation book, one of Piro's commentaries mentions that after an early strip that broke away from the gag-a-day norm for the sake of the story, a reader said that he would stop reading if Piro did something like that again. The author's response was basically, "Go ahead, I'm not forcing you to read it." | |
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Invoked by the developers of Spec Ops: The Line, which forces the player character to commit war crimes. The game is written in such a way as to encourage the player to quit in disgust at that point. Those who continued playing were reminded of how horrible they're being, which they didn't appreciate; when they complained, the game effectively told them, "don't like, don't play." It didn't resonate well with fans who just wanted to play the whole game they paid for, only to be told the best way to play was to give up halfway through. As for the plotline itself, lead writer Walt Williams was much more responsive to criticism. | |
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The episode "Boys Do Cry" of Family Guy ends with Peter Griffin giving a Take That! to Moral Guardians which takes this form. | |
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A web series based on the sequel for PAYDAY: The Heist is constantly harped on for being "bad", yet most of the people who complain about the quality of the series keep watching every new episode that is released just so that they can justify their constant complaining. | |
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Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen demonstrated the problem with responding like this to professional reviewers, as fans will point to the film's Critical Dissonance; clearly, only the critics don't like it, so their opinions are meaningless and they shouldn't watch it. The problem is that they get paid to watch it, whether they particularly want to or not. | |
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