Why Popular Video Games Are So HATED 

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The "too popular" thing has become a genuine problem You'd see something Something good You like something Something popular Something's community is now terrible and full of kids something no longer fun It's gotten to the point where I dont want good stuff to become popular

this video has a really good balance between humor and actual commentary

I think the main issue with super popular things is how everything else tries to copy them. For instance Fortnites popularity led to a crap ton of BRs and some of these meant we would never get other games that we want such as Titanfall 3. When something gets popular, companies want in on it and they drop other things to get in.

i played amongus a little before these memes and it is really fun, it was funny and actually tense to play fnaf (mainly the first one) It's a case where people didn't play the game but still want to talk about it even to this day i cannot play fnaf1 because it's really unnerving, i feel claustrostophic and unsafe in the office and the random events that happens in the night give me chills

Minecraft was a "cringe, kids game", all of a sudden its an industry legend.

It's a shame the internet works like this, whenever something gets too popular it might start getting unpopular over time and when something is unpopular it just randomly gets popular because people decide to give it a chance

This guys content is awesome, its like a mix of pyrocynical and joeseppi.

Btw the idea of Fortnite Battle Royale actually came from Donald Mustard(the creator of Fortnite)'s brother, Chad Mustard, who at the time was playing Pubg and he gave his brother the idea of a battle royale mode for Fortnite.

I'm pretty sure a good chunk of the hate is because it gets popular and suddenly you're constantly bombarded by your friends and by the internet and you just want to be left alone. Especially if this is a type of game that never interested you in the first place. It gets really annoying.

The only reason somebody starts hating a game that they've played and liked before, which has become a game liked by children, is because they do not want to associate themselves with "games for kids"

the problem is that people seem to never learn that this will ALWAYS happen with popular things, the smaller annoying/bad part of a fandom will ALWAYS be louder than the plenty chill fans just minding their business and making good content. its happened for so many years, and it always repeats, it really is not that hard to just ignore the bad and stick with the good, ive been doing it since 2015, thats just how it is on the internet,like, youd think people would have learned it by now, its no reason to abandon the actual good original franchise, and good part of the fandom, or even worse, bully people in said fandom for no reason

Ironic how mewze has better content than most million-subscriber youtubers and still is pretty unpopular

In my opinion the case of among us is very interesting. The game wasn’t necceserally hated, but after a month nobody played it. That is because it was just plain and boring. Among us lacked any sort of reward system, took a year(way after it popularicy ended) to make an update, and there were always people that know that you are the impostor because their friend told them on discord, and atleast 2 people would leave because they arent the impostor. The game itself was just a more plain version of mafia game(atleast there were more roles than 2)

All of these games have something in common, they started to gain hate because of over saturation. But I do think Amongus deserved lots of its hate, because of the poor updates and drumming down the devs did.

I really hate it when someone hates something popular. Each of these games is good (although they are different) and you have to give each of them a chance I, for example, played minecraft: I got bored I played fortnite: cool only at the beginning and end of the season when something happens I played among us: I could spend a lot of fun and interesting hours there And funny fun fact: toxic kids are in every single multiplayer game with chat function.

My laughing muscles hurt because of how fricking (swer1!1!) funny this vid was, I think a lot of people are lost and cant find this channel cuz its crazy of how underrated you are

The mobile mmorpg and mewze sponsorship will be the greatest crossover of all time

You can bring up this point with a lot of other topics as well! Take the Backrooms for instance. The Backrooms was a pretty cool concept, but it sucks to see it get memed around so much, just because it got so popular.

6:54 Me when I get spooked by scary jumpscare

I think that the too popular problem come from games invading the life’s of people that don’t want to see this one. Those people get angry and loud on the internet. This also applies to content derived form said game. And one last thing,some people have the idea that there personality is to be counter mainstream, liking the unloved and hating the popular.

I’m glad someone finally made this video. I still play Fortnite just as much as I did in 2018 and it’s so annoying to hear people hate on it for no reason other than because “the community is bad.” I think someone needs to tell them that there’s a solo mode

4:44 this aged well.

When I think of a popular game, I really can't think about how it was so much better when it was unpopular and underrated.

Popular games: exist Cringe animation maker: it's morbin time

Apart from minecraft becoming cringe back in 2014/15, other reasons was because of the well hated combat update and the lack of content in updates, and as of recent, mojang cancel promised additions to the game they announced 2 or so years ago (and chat reporting)

This must be the biggest fear of any new indie game developers.

I played Among Us before it got popular, and probably one of the first considering I've played it back in late 2018, it was different and it was fun. The internet heard of it and pulled all these 6 year olds into the game. Back then it was just a social deduction game, now there's a lot of cheaters; some people intentionally ruin the game; and people who just spam sus. It's not the popularity that makes it bad, it's the audience that it gathered for being popular

Kinds reminds me of what happened with persona 5, it came out in 2017, loads of ppl liked it, then joker was announced for smash and a lot more people got into it, and now suddenly a lot more people randomly hate the whole persona series Ah well Where have ur videos been all my life btw

I feel like this should have a part 2 with FNF, Rainbow friends, Doors, The dark side of Roblox, and fall guys

7:11 You bastard! Pong was the best hing we had in the cave. except the tetris of course

The “too popular” syndrome really affects me when it comes to music. If a hear a song too much, I start to dislike it. Why would I ever listen to the song in my free time if it is already everywhere I go? Also, some of the popular songs over shadow really fricking good songs that are perfection. Same with popular games. I probably would like hollow knight if it’s fan base wasn’t unbelievably toxic and stupid. They act like it’s the greatest Metroidvania of all time without actually playing anything else. And it’s become so influential that it’s mechanics have slipped into perfectly good games and ruin them (i.e. corpse run mechanics in Metroidvanias) Also, they are just a hive mind that whenever they detect the slightest criticism for the game, they all collectively respond with “SkIlL iSsUe”

To me, it's the community of the said game. A lot of it is the toxicity from these communities, I did my first dungeon (which was story required) in FF14 and all of the members in the party were spitting out acronyms at me as if I knew what I was doing. It got so bad I was getting cursed out for not playing my role even though I did not have a grasp of who I was playing. All of the terminologies that were being thrown at me were equivalent to someone with a Glaswegian accent speaking to you through a Dollar General microphone while they are explaining the dancing plague of 1518 (No one really knows the true cause of the plague).

Undertale is another good example of this, when it was big, literally almost everyone on RU-vid played it just like Five Nights at Freddy's, some people tend to look down on it because of the community but to be honest almost every game that exists is going to have a toxic fandom, FNAF has it, Pokemon has it, Smash Bros has it, etc. And while Undertale is still pretty popular today with Deltarune, i wish i could go back to the days of the fandom where it was more lighthearted and innocent and didn't paint Sans as their virtual undead boyfriend.

you've basically explained what ive wanted to say. just because its popular and therefore more than likely full of kids doesen't mean its bad, because damn well thats the oppisate thing

Friday night funkin is also a prime example

I think mlp went through this like 12 years ago but it was seen as a joke before that so then people just got confused

But thats just the internet am i right? 17 BURIED, 0 FOUND

The reason why I hated among us (and still do exponentially) is because it doesn’t end. Everywhere you look there is an among us and it just torments your mind when you think you are safe but there is a sussy bastard right around the corner making you want to break whatever device you are using to scroll through whatever feed you are using at the time

Like bruh, in Middle school, I hear kids talking and flexing their Fortnite, then in the next school year the SAME kids are absolutely SHITTING on the game like bruh, wha-

I enjoyed this so much. Your humor is really good and it keeps the video entertaining.

also goes the same for Roblox. Man, I've been on this platform for like 8 years already, now I'm watching it burn down with the amount of controversies it was involved in. Ever since Roblox started getting popular on 2018, the platform itself started going down. For a platform that has more than 40% of 17-25+ years old players, it's been hella chaotic.

5:09 Among us: we took over the world

This happens a lot and if i had to take a guess a lot of people hate on popular games to feel special like "no i dont play fortnite that is for normies i play this indie game that no one plays and im special for doing that"

Keep up the good work bro

This guy should have much more followers

I used to play Minecraft at every stage post-Beta development... Except in 2017 when it was un-popular. It was something a "RU-vidr thing" as you said with FNAF, and sometimes, it was because even Modded becomes un-fun after a long while of playing. (As I run out of options in a modded Minecraft) ...

Among us really is game that people call stupid and you are right bro. I’m glad you made this video bro!!

Theres nothing we can do about popular games like this, they’ll keep growing and become successful. If i am a fan of these games like roblox or among us, i could just play normally, or drawing fanarts, thats all i have. You can like these games whatever you enjoy it, if you don’t like it, it’s ok. Of course, some popular games and youtube animated series or movies could lead to something like trendy stuff, scam (those free robux or vbucks ads), and those kinds of videos on youtube. (Yuck….) Some popular games, animated series or movies have a terrible community, this is why we want to distance ourselves from them and move on. But hey, not all people are bad in the community.

I saw the allusion to Friday Night Funkin'. It really does suck that it was just way too out of hand. So many kids are in the community when the game was DESIGNED to be for adults with its humor and the fact that it was made on Newgrounds. I really love the type of music that has come from all of the mods and even the base game. But because people try and catch in on the popularity, you get the most egregious ads and horrible music/mods with it. Tainting it for everyone. Some of my friends almost like disown the fact that I like it. Simply because of all the weird stuff.

Actually amazing content. Keep up the great work.

Only 30 sec into the vid, but I think this phenomenon of "too popular" can be chalked up to people who don't play the game, actively judging it.

this is genuinely one of the funniest videos ive seen on this platform holy shit. Subscribbled.

What tends to bother me personally is how quite often I don't exactly like the new 'popular thing' or have absolutely no interest in it. This leads to me feeling completely alienated from everything on the internet for anywhere between a few weeks and several months or even years. One example would be Fortnite which I have never played even once. When it became popular and everyone was playing and loving it, I just kind of thought "Okay, cool" and tried to go about my business but soon literally everyone and their grandmother couldn't shut up about the game. Every RU-vidr I was subscribed to at the time - most of which weren't even gaming RU-vidrs - decided to take breaks from RU-vid and instead stream Fortnite. It got to the point where I legit stopped going online for anything other than opening steam and playing something myself because I could not relate to any content that people put on the internet. Eventually, everyone started hating Fortnite and I thought things would be normal again but then the internet was 50% Fortnite hate and 49% Fortnite enjoyment and 1% everything else. The game somehow managed to get even more relevant when people started hating on it and this entire time I was unable to relate to anything and just didn't care about the damn game. As soon as things calmed down with Fortnite, Amogus came along and everything started again with me having no interest in the game and everyone else being like: "Omg, I never want to play anything else ever again, this is the greatest thing in human history." Fortunately, there has not been anything as huge since then but I am afraid the next big thing is just about to come along and make me feel like an outcast for not being particularly interested in it again. Okay, thanks for letting me put my rant here.

yes i agree big man

Because people don't like basic things. Becoming too popular makes something be considered "basic" whether in gameplay or fans

Security breach ruined fnaf, steelwool really appealed to 5 year old timmy

3:34 genuinely made me subscribe thank you

u deserve way more subs when i looked i genually thought it would be like 1.7M

I think what scares me the most about Fortnite is how other companies I like are spending Billions just to get pice of the Fortnite pie. Disney is literally spending billions just to have their own "service" in the game.

Glad I stumbled upon your channel, this was entertaining as hell to watch

The problem with this is that people mix up the game and the fanbase. Game good + fanbase good = Good game Game good + fanbase bad = Bad game. But even if the fanbase sucks, it doesn't mean the game is bad, but for some reason, a lot of people don't realize that, and they hate the game for no reason, even if it's fun.

bruh i got kicked from a discord server for liking FNF, people are just toxic asf in this world and hate on people who like popular "cringe" games

"squid game is the best show i ever seen" bro didn't watch regular show

I never really liked among us but now I despise it because you can't go one microsecond without an among us joke getting crammed down your throat

This channel is really underrated

7:17 I going to see the kid who doesn’t get the joke

There’s always that one person who tries too hard to be different 🤦‍♀️ not liking it is fine but making your whole personality be based off of hating it is dumb

True. I avoided Squid Game because I saw that doll f*cking everywhere. Fortnite to me was too complicated. I either can shoot people, or build. Not both. But with the no building update I used Fortnite as a warm up for Apex Legends.

Squid Games has a negative image due to many individuals who like it. Random memes popping up everywhere. The off topic mentioning of Squid Games in random places. The way the fans talk about it makes it unappealing. The problems with Fortnite can be literally be copied and pasted to far too many games in the genre. Insults, try-hards, teammates who are not patient with players who are not great, lack of proper moderation. That last point can literally be used for every online game I have played recently. My criticism of Squid Games could be used for games like Minecraft and Roblox. Except, there are more significant reasons for me to dislike the fan base who play Minecraft and Roblox since I have met several of the defective children who give the games a bad name.

The only reason I hate among us (but not badly) is because you can't put "among us" and other words in a sentence without somebody going "sus".

4:45 little did he know

Ooh, a really interesting video topic that caught my attention. Also a nice blend-in of humor. Earned a sub 👍

The words said in this video cannot be more true.

I mean, it's pretty obvious why _modern_ popular videogames are hated. Modern popular videogames are meant to be accessible. They are. In fact, they're so accessible, they become popular, who knew? The problem is _how_ they make themselves accessible. They do this by infusing the skill ceiling into the floor so new players can play with the best of the best and still occasionally win on luck. This is terrible for anyone who wants to play a competitive game. How does this affect ratings? Because the people who want a competitive game are the only people who care about the game enough to actually rate it, while everyone else (who are having fun) will drop it and move on after a week. Those new players might play it with their friends, but in no way do they care about the game. As soon as they begin caring enough to rate it, they immediately see the huge, gaping holes in the competitive integrity of the game, and give it a horrible rating. Thanks for coming to my TED talk. Candy is by the door on the way out, no pushing and no taking more than 3--I SAW THAT, KYLE.

Definitely agree. Man, keep up the great work.

You know that mario is a good franchise when its popular and loved.

At the end I thought he was sponsored by genshit impact 💀

6:27 1.9 Combat Update

I have infinite hatred for people who were hating on early fortnite and minecraft and say they "miss" the good old days just STFU I can't stand this amount of fakeness

the family guy cutaway music xdd brilliant

I really thought there was gonna be fnf in this video

YEAH TRUE

I mean the reason for a popular thing being seen as bad is simply what I call "The Please Shut Up" phenomenon. Because it gets brought up so much, there are many people who just get annoyed with hearing it which then makes it seem bad which then creates a social stigma of said popular thing until it stops getting talked about it. Also the only reason I get mad at Fortnight is because it took Unreal Tournament from me. Not even stopping to work on UT4, which was mostly just approving community made content before it was officially part of the game anyway, but now trying to erase the whole series. Its multiplayer game they didn't even support severs for anyway yet was still highly playable with some surprisingly good multiplayer bots if community severs weren't your thing, why try and prevent people from buying your game? I think the answer is obvious and no, cute crossover skins can't satisfy me when I could do that for free in the other games.

it’s always the unsupervised children that ruined it. bonus points if the game suffers from fazbear syndrome.

Nobody talks about Team Fortress 2

This is the most I've ever agreed on a video. I'm someone who thinks Fortnite is genuinely fun, it's just the community that ruins it. I can say the same for Among Us. Everyone just destroys each other's opinions on these games, and completely makes them hated.

You just resume 2018-2022 popular internet stuff in one video, amazing

If I remember correctly Minecraft became hated because Keemstar falsely accused a popular creator of being a nonce

i think fortnite is actually a good game not great but good and its sad how everyone in the community is ruining from inside out

90% of the hate comes from average discord/reddit users

This is what any popular game has turned into - Released - Get's popular - Noticed more by the public - Good content - Kids watch good content - Bad content - Community rots - Cringe community - Becomes a joke - Becomes hated - If you like it your a kid - Ruined by the kids community - Downfall - Hated. Literally what it is

I don't have a problem with something becoming popular. It just sucks when I find something good that I like, and it becomes more popular, and the community gets flooded with a bunch of tiktokers that I don't want to be associated with.

Among Us is good, but the memes man, the f*cking unfunny amogus memes.

(2:06) I take insult to this.

nah, games get bad when they become popular because the company's stop caring about the ganes actual quality, and become money hungry

1. it's a problem of people desire to be unique, "not as everyone". 2. popularity brings more bad people in community which causing part of the hate too. and 3. herd instinct, something hyping, we seeing this everywhere, it's annoying us, we seeing everyone hating it everywhere over the internet and real life so this negative affecting our mind and we starting to hate something as trend and this chain goes on, this is the reasons of why. We have this problem in everything, people hate pop music while dragging their underground artists, claiming that they making a masterpieces while this pop music is a complete shit, same with books, cartoons, movies, anything, people want to feel more smart, more unique /name your option/ etc. We can't do much about it, because people first need to realize that what they doing is some absurdity and there's no objectiveness in this world (unless we're talking about some obvious things such as "ice is cold") + they need to realize that we all the same and there's no such thing as uniqueness, because this uniqueness being claimed by you yourself or by society, and since everyone is different and have their own opinions about themselves and other people, there is no such thing as uniqueness, and that's totaly fine! We don't need to be unique to be worth to ourselves or to be a good person or be happy, people nowadays has too many complexes and being anxious about their uniqueness, unhealthy mindset i'd say. P.S. i like your humor and editing man, laughed my ass off, good job, subsribed

Silly goose, there is skins in pong, you just have to go eBay

Luigi plush being replaced b'y the lime plush is the most elegal thing ever

This Is true, the hate on popular games effect exists. But the rule doesn't apply on non children-appealing games. Like Terraria, or tetris, or chess, etc.