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As long as it is still the same basic story and keeps all the best bits and characters intact, then it doesn't matter too much that Bob's bald, Alice dies in a train wreck instead of a car crash, the football game ended with a different score, and they cut the watermelon scene, right? It's a bit of a shame they screwed that bit up, but really, it's not like the entire work is Ruined FOREVER, right? WRONG! ...or so you would be told by many fans. For some people, the very act of adaptation is decay. A film version of something should be a direct word-for-word transcription, with utmost care that the sets, costumes and people be reproduced in every detail. If a character who wore a homburg in the original now wears a fedora, that will be enough to ruin the character, and therefore ruin the film. It will be all you will hear about from these fans on message boards, with them going on at length to explain how their homburg visually defined their entire personality in a way that a fedora never could. And don't you dare suggest that in changing it they made it better. If certain fans take the Chicken Little approach and announce that the sky is falling, it's mainly an expression of their fears that the writing staff don't care much about the source material, particularly if it's not mainstream-friendly. This also happens a lot with translations. People can become religiously attached (sometimes quite literally, in the case of texts like The Bible) to one translation of a work, and when a new translation comes out they condemn it as a travesty, accusing it of distorting and cheapening the meaning of the original, whether or not the new translation is a more literally accurate rendering. Sometimes, the complaints are about a sequel or remake to an adaptation, and the original adaptation actually made changes from its source material, and the new adaptation tries to be more faithful, but people don't know that and complain about changes anyway. This is sometimes a result of Ability over Appearance. All this being said, there are many cases wherein the fans complaining are coming from a more solid foundation: When producers (or executives above them) make drastic changes, especially if this clashes with the vision of the authors/scriptwriters/directors, creating some sort of unresolvable tonal disconnect. Can result in Running the Asylum and/or an Audience-Alienating Era. If old fans liked the franchise for what it was, and then it is totally changed, and the new version is still successful enough... it's valid to mourn that what people previously liked is probably never coming back. If such a complete overhaul of a franchise is old enough, fans who want the franchise to go back to its roots are not exactly rejecting change, they are demanding change back to a version they preferred. An adaptation/reboot that has so many changes it becomes In Name Only. Fans may feel betrayed if they think a disliked work was merely made part of an already popular series to profit on the existing audience. (Of course, good luck distinguishing between "taking a series into bold new territory" and "betraying the core promise and appeal of the setting"...) Online updates to video games can make the criticisms more valid: unlike a new sequel that can simply be ignored, updates can effectively make the game they enjoyed non-existent. To a lesser extent, the same can apply to other media that goes through changes in rereleases and the original version becomes unavailable. Most important, they can argue that they aren't complaining because it was changed, they are complaining because it was changed for the worse. The problem is not that the new version is different, the problem is that it is bad. Compare with Translation Style Choices, Darker and Edgier, Lighter and Softer, New Sound Album, Replacement Scrappy, Ruined FOREVER, Seasonal Rot, Network Decay, Magazine Decay, Jumping the Shark, Fanon Discontinuity, They Don't Make Them Like They Used To, So Bad, It Was Better, or even Damn You, Muscle Memory!. See also Unpleasable Fanbase and Broken Base. Contrast Woolseyism, It's the Same, Now It Sucks!, Franchise Original Sin. Remember that Examples Are Not Recent, even if you're writing up an example while fan controversy is erupting. |
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Google Their 2015 logo got this reaction from people due to the font changing from something more unique to a custom sans-serif font known as "Product Sans". Another thing Google did that received backlash was when Google changed their icons in 2020, homogenizing most of Google's service by implementing the Google colors in them, making them look less unique from one another. |
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The Old Mill at at the historic Kennywood amusement park had been rethemed multiple times over it's 100+ year history, but it's biggest re-skin was in 2004 when Kennywood, wanting to modernize the ride, changed it to Garfield's Nightmare. This change did not go well over with most parkgoers, as it was not only seen as vastly different from the original Old Mill, but it was also criticized for its cheap cardboard cutout effects, a questionable use of chromadepth 3D, and tons of Product Placement at the beginning of the ride. Despite this and the noticeable lack of upkeep, the ride lasted sixteen years before it was changed back to The Old Mill and it's classic "haunted Wild West'' theme, to critical acclaim. | |
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Planters' decision to replace Mr. Peanut with Baby Nut to cash in on the whole Baby Yoda craze drew massive ire from fans. And then Baby Nut evolved into Peanut Jr., leading to even more hostility towards the campaign, which eventually led to Planters retconning Baby Nut/Peanut Jr. and bringing back Mr. Peanut. This also became an unfortunate case of Harsher in Hindsight, as the original ad in the campaign featured Mr. Peanut sacrificing himself in a helicopter crash, which led some to criticize it for airing following the death of NBA legend Kobe Bryant in a helicopter crash in late-January 2020. | |
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This is Jim Cornette's philosophy in a nutshell and is considered the reason why he doesn't appear as much as he used to do. Cornette knows more about wrestling than probably anyone here will ever know, so he has a great mind for the business, but he's just stuck in a different era. One he'll be quick to tell you, was watched by a lot more people, easier on the wrestlers' bodies, had more emotional connection with the fans, and most importantly, made a LOT more money for a lot more wrestlers. | |
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People tend not to like it when Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf changes its art style for a particular season, due to it being considered visually displeasing to some viewers. War of Invention is a notable example in that fan outcry over its unique art style was enough that Creative Power Entertaining changed it back to the original art style for Mighty Little Defenders, the direct sequel to that season. | |
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