Quote Originally Posted by theundeadhero View Post
What I used to hate was when something I liked started to become popular.
I still hate that. Which makes me a hipster, and that's turning popular, so I hate that too.

There's a reason I hate that. When something gets popular, the lowest common denominator starts to get into it and start working it into their insipid tripe, tainting the source material by association. Slines made me stop liking a lot of things. I used to like the Wheel of Time -- I could forgive the later books on the virtue of the early ones, until I met my 38,000th knuckle-dragging bonehead with a screen name like Demandred79687 blathering on about stupid that made my brain want to explode.

This is why I love reading things like Stephen R. Donaldson. The stupid are too stupid to understand it, so they stop reading and don't Foul up everything by posting drivel above a signature file with an Ak-Haru Kenaustin Ardenol quote in it. The same goes for anything by John Scalzi and Conn Iggulden. Slines are too stupid to get it, and as a general rule don't read, so they can't ruin my enjoyment of it forever.