There was some study that showed a correlation between watching those shows and being less likely to become a teen mom for girls. So some good came out of them lol.
I find it funny how the same age group complaining about the inaccuracy of teen shows/movies (e.g. college kids/young adults) are also the same age group most likely watching inaccurate teen shows/movies.
The first time I caught "Honey Boo Boo" while channel-surfing, I thought it was a show about people pursuing bariatric surgery, until they showed the piglet defecating on the kitchen table. At that moment, I figured out exactly what it was.
It was smut for people who never read smut before, and it was marketed as an adult novel specifically at the time that people who read stuff like twilight would want to read something like that. And bdsm itself was becoming really mainstream among the millenial generation. It's pretty genius in a marketing sort of way, even if you could probably read better fiction on
Man… one of my favorite NYC stories involved FIfty Shades. We used to buy the bootleg DVDs in my old neighborhood. My GF came home with Fifty Shades. She was pumped, I was like “ehhhhh” but I owed her since I made her sit through some of my movie choices. Every sex scene on the bootleg was cut out. I guess the Chinese bootleggers cut out sex scenes(?) in movies. Anyway, she was livid. Once she realized it she screamed out “where’s my god damn sex”! . I still tease her with that line
It started, if I understand correctly, as videos to put on while eating alone. People would film themselves eating dinner and talking as if they were hanging out with a friend so lonely people could watch them while they ate dinner and feel less lonely. It then spiraled and became the thing it is now.
Favourite recent Philly fan moment: caller on a morning radio show arguing for a ban on Australians entering the country until we figure out what the hell is going on with Ben Simmons.
Philadelphia sports team have had some exceptionally bad owners and GMs. Way more than you'd expect for one of the biggest cities in the country. From the 76ers championship in 1983 to the Phillies in 2008, the town was just worn down by choke after choke, bonehead decision after bonehead decision, and crappy team after crappy team. It would be miraculous for a town with 4 major franchises to not get worn down and embittered in that time frame. That doesn't just go away with a little success in one World Series and Super Bowl since then.
I watch it to make myself cringe. The story is total bonkers and makes no sense. The characters always act out of place. It really hurts to see how bad it is.
It’s a show to have on as just background noise while you’re doing something else. There’s also a shirtless Archie in almost every episode, so if you’re into that, then that’s…a reason to watch.
Here in Germany we also have the bachelor as a TV format which is really really awkward. Especially since many of the women use it to get insta famous. Also, the relationships never last a long time. What a surprise.
I seriously don't understand why Jake Paul ever got as much attention as he did. Wasn't he just the hot meatheaded dude from Bizaardvark? I'll admit he had some funny lines but come on really?
He was only hired for that show bc he was already a famous douche on YouTube. Then he got fired for being too much for the Disney Channel. And who is he? Is he the fighter or the one who tried to create a fake get rich quick business aimed at kids? (Don't tell that he's both.)
Pop figures….don’t get me wrong, I get that there are many unique and interesting variations of them, but they’re basically unposeable statues that eat up space.
There's a small shop not too far from my house that specializes in them. They have a few more collectibles but it's like 99% Pop Figures on floor to ceiling shelves in two rooms.
I've always thought they were ugly. Time made me ignore that more. The only reason I bought some eventually was the realization that this is probably the closest I was getting to an actual action figure of some properties that I like. But always with the rule: if I can't tell who it is without the name on the box, it's not worth having.
It’s like Beanie Babies or anything else that just becomes popular. Lots of people have them because they saw someone else have it and they felt left out.
I have one and it was a gift. Baby Groot, remember how popular he was after the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie? It lived in my closet until a year ago when I got a new position with an office. Opened it for the first time and genuinely surprised that they're bobbleheads.
90 Day used to be a guilty pleasure of mine (probably the same for most other viewers) but man they made too many spinoffs. They all also became wayyy too obviously fake
These are in the so bad they're good category. The one thing I miss most about cable tv is the scifi channel at 2AM, so many fantastically terrible B movies.
Anything that has to do with putting mentally ill people on the spot. Hoarders, intervention, morbid obesity, etc. They’re already ashamed and feel stuck otherwise they wouldn’t be in that situation. Can we not stick a camera in their face for views and just help them?
I know at least one of those shows about severely obese people offers them weight loss surgery if they can drop a certain amount on their own so that they can safely be operated on.
In my experience a lot of people bought those CDs expecting them to be like the NOW That’s What I Call Music compilations not realizing the songs were sung by annoying kids.
I have a theory that their marketing was directly aimed at parents, like the kids were an afterthought. It makes so much sense that the product would be meant for parents and not kids, no child has ever wanted kidz bop. They wanted parents to see it as a direct solution on censoring popular music. It didn’t just bleep the cursing, it completely changed ANY suggestive lyrics. Great way to get family friendly music that was less annoying than “childrens music” (think Cocomelon).
They are entertaining if you like gorey low budget horror movies. The good ones have some good puppet effects, the characters are unique and they often fight Nazis
You really need to watch the movie Willy's Wonderland on Hulu. It is Nic Cage at his Nic Cagiest...and he doesn't even speak a single word the entire film.
The show Biggest Loser ruined the life and health of many of it's participants. The model of weight loss they use is bad for you, and the weight loss results are unsustainable for most people. And the psychological damage is serious.
I got into the biggest fight with an ex about this stupid series! She was in love with it and dragged me to see the first movie...it was hot dog shit and the fact that they made another after is ridiculous.
YES. The premise is just so, so stupid. What if people had more than one personality trait???? I can imagine eight year olds liking it, but I side-eye any adult who likes this kind of garbage.
Read the first one because the wife and all her friends were, wanted to see what all the fuss was about. It was the worst piece of trash I've ever read.
I only read it because my older sister wouldn’t stop talking about it. That’s when I realized she’s a bored housewife with no sex life if she actually thought that trash was good.
I'm the type of person that once I buy the first in a book series, no matter how much I disliked it I have to buy and finish them all otherwise I just have a half-finished series on my shelf and that ain't right.
The first one was basically just Point Break with street racing. The second and third felt like they were capitalizing on the street racing boom that the first one helped usher in.
Ah man, you really had to be there. I was a wee lad, all of 15 years old in South Florida. It came out the day after my birthday. My friend and I watched it twice that weekend.
It always felt kinda like a minstrel show. Like, “oh hey guys look at the funny black woman isn’t she so funny because she’s so loud” kinda thing. Then again it is literally made by a black guy, and as a white guy I am absolutely not the target audience for it.
Lmfaooo me. I used to live in Jersey and grew up going to seaside. I don’t watch any of the new ones but when it came out I remember watching the first 2 seasons. We hated them but couldn’t stop watching. It ruined seaside for a lot of people. My friends and I were there the night Ron got into a fight on the boardwalk we were so confused. Lol
The sad part is Rabbids came first by an order of years. Same general premise, but way funnier. Though sadly far less accessable since they were locked behind "the Vidya games".
They were a fresh breath of originality at a time when everything was being rehashed to death. Despicable Me was an actual new idea and the minions were a huge part of that.
Fifty Shades of Grey. I've never tortured myself by watching the movies, but I did try to read the first book when it came out to see what the big deal was. I didn't even make it halfway through.
Honestly, I think that little squirrely thing featured in the short was the reason for the success. It made everyone laugh and got them in a good mood for the actual movie.
I literally lost a friend because I showed them the clean shaven picture of them. They were so vested in that trashy bigot family that they couldn't handle the fact it was all built on a lie.
I think its like the Billie mays situation where you see the same commercial over and over and you get used to it and get confused when its gone. And tv ads are absurdly repetitive.
Literally exactly what happened. Dev said fnaf would be his last video game. Made it very simple with hidden 'secrets' that could have been expanded on, but didn't necessarily need to. Dude was planning on moving on, but then it somehow got the attention of the big gaming youtubers and it skyrocketed. So then dude just made up the lore as he went, riding that youtube money wave.
Teen Titans Go, I despise it still. I can understand why the original series was the next big thing, but I never understood why the cheap, less serious sequel became even more popular. They even made a theatrical movie and are planning to make a sequel to it. Even though everyone hated it when it first aired in 2013, it got popular.
Ridiculous premise bolstered by some cool kills. That’s all it is. Kind of like the Final Destination movies. Don’t pay attention to the why. Just watch people get fucked up.
I guess it counts as a “franchise” since it had a spin-off, but The Big Bang Theory. Im a long time comic book and sci-fi fan and I didn’t find it funny at all. Their comic book references were also kind of cringe.
The Big bang theory was never a show for millennial nerds, it was a show for boomer parents to laugh at millennial culture, which at the time was very much about comic book movies, "science" (seriously the science fad of the late 00s early 10s doesn't get called out enough for the oddity that it was), and just throwing pot shots at a culture that had moved on from their interest.
Twilight. I know, cliche answer, but the story is literally of fanfiction quality. No effort put on the world building, the vampires aren't interesting at all, and the werewolves are just bigger wolves. And it's creepy when you realize the HUGE age gap between Edward and Bella. Such a shame that Taylor Lautner was dragged into it.
Taylot Lautner isn’t a particularly good actor, which is why he isn’t seeing much success since. He’s not even close to as good as Stewart and Pattinson has proven to be, which is why they are doing better post-twilight.
In fairness to Edward, he's permanently 17, so a relationship with anybody for him is creepy no matter how old they are. Jacob, on the other hand, looked at Bella's newborn baby and thought to himself "oh yeah, when she turns 18, I am going to cuh-laim dat ass!"
I know the answer to this - even though the story isn’t that great, it is an easy read and gives you some escapism into that odd world. I don’t like some things that happened in the story (Edward being creepy, Jacob imprinting on a baby, Bella being parentified by Renee) but it’s an ok story. Better than some, worse than some.
Honestly, transformers. I love the franchise but the original cartoon is very flaky in places and it makes me wonder how it did well enough to warrant all the current stuff.
COD. Not so much how it got, due to the quality of Modern Warfare and Black Ops 2, but how it stayed when they just recycled the same shit over and over after that with a 60 dollar price tag and 1 year lifespan. If course there is the occasional good one, like the recent Modern Warfare, but like I said, 1 year lifespan.
I think with COD, it possibly stays popular because it has die-hard fans who will absolutely lap up anything COD related and will never listen to anyone complain about it.
The shows where they send misbehaving teens to a strict family’s house for a week. And the cameraman is just like following the teens as they sneak behind the strict families back and I’m like bruh
Twilight! I watched them all last year for the first time and watched them with open mind. Oh my fucking god i do not understand why people love this movies and the cgi baby so much. Everything about it is truly awful
All those shows about pregnant teenagers.
There was some study that showed a correlation between watching those shows and being less likely to become a teen mom for girls. So some good came out of them lol.
I looked down on shows like that for so long, cuz I am an InTeLleCtuAl, dont you know...
I find it funny how the same age group complaining about the inaccuracy of teen shows/movies (e.g. college kids/young adults) are also the same age group most likely watching inaccurate teen shows/movies.
I just heard on the radio last week how one of the moms died in January from an overdose, preceded by their child's father.
Honey Booboo, and all kinds of child pageants.
Plus, Honey Booboo's mom unsurprisingly turned out to be the worst person ever.
The first time I caught "Honey Boo Boo" while channel-surfing, I thought it was a show about people pursuing bariatric surgery, until they showed the piglet defecating on the kitchen table. At that moment, I figured out exactly what it was.
Pretty sure pageants as we see them on TV are banned in my state. I've never seen one and I don't know of such thing as a pageant circuit.
How did that shit not get the same outrage that Cuties (that creepy pedo movie on Netflix) did?
We should write a song about how we don't diddle kids!
50 shades of grey. Some of the lines are literally hilarious
I made it all this time without reading a single line of those books, and then you go and make me read my new least favorite sentence…
Then you might find these excerpts from the book entertaining.
E. L. James is more excited in describing the tampon than the actual sex
OK that's enough reddit for today
I just learned that 50 Shades was written as Twilight fan fiction. This made it even funnier to me and explained EVERYTHING.
I wasn't surprised when I learned that it started as Twilight fanfic.
It was smut for people who never read smut before, and it was marketed as an adult novel specifically at the time that people who read stuff like twilight would want to read something like that. And bdsm itself was becoming really mainstream among the millenial generation. It's pretty genius in a marketing sort of way, even if you could probably read better fiction on
This started out as Twilight fanfiction...which started as Harry Potter fanfiction.
Man… one of my favorite NYC stories involved FIfty Shades. We used to buy the bootleg DVDs in my old neighborhood. My GF came home with Fifty Shades. She was pumped, I was like “ehhhhh” but I owed her since I made her sit through some of my movie choices. Every sex scene on the bootleg was cut out. I guess the Chinese bootleggers cut out sex scenes(?) in movies. Anyway, she was livid. Once she realized it she screamed out “where’s my god damn sex”! . I still tease her with that line
There’s a line where he keeps pulling thumbs out of places and I am very concerned about how many thumbs he supposedly has?
I’ve read that like before. I can’t think of anything less sexy than someone else pulling out a tampon for me
What tampon brand was this? I was a tampon user for more than 40 years, and never saw strings in any color other than white.
Don't know if this counts.. but Mukbang.
It started, if I understand correctly, as videos to put on while eating alone. People would film themselves eating dinner and talking as if they were hanging out with a friend so lonely people could watch them while they ate dinner and feel less lonely. It then spiraled and became the thing it is now.
same with those toys unwrapping shows... yes, maybe it's vicarious pleasure, but still... BORING.
I feel bad for that Avocado guy... Dude's gonna eat himself to death for YouTube views...
It’s not even stuff like reviewing food right? I don’t get it either.
Nobody hates professional sports teams from Philadelphia as much as the fans of professional sports teams from Philadelphia.
Favourite recent Philly fan moment: caller on a morning radio show arguing for a ban on Australians entering the country until we figure out what the hell is going on with Ben Simmons.
Philadelphia sports team have had some exceptionally bad owners and GMs. Way more than you'd expect for one of the biggest cities in the country. From the 76ers championship in 1983 to the Phillies in 2008, the town was just worn down by choke after choke, bonehead decision after bonehead decision, and crappy team after crappy team. It would be miraculous for a town with 4 major franchises to not get worn down and embittered in that time frame. That doesn't just go away with a little success in one World Series and Super Bowl since then.
Except we rever nick Foles as literal God
Fuck you Go Birds!
How in the fuck can you hate on Gritty? They and the Flyers gotta have at least some love, right?
Eagles games are fun to watch when the eagles are getting wrecked. It sounds like one game long boo.
The Kardashians
Sex tape got intentionally leaked and then idk Edit: I do not deserve these upvotes I just this of a game theory video
They're famous for being famous.
Riverdale
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I watch it to make myself cringe. The story is total bonkers and makes no sense. The characters always act out of place. It really hurts to see how bad it is.
Why would they turn a light hearted comic into something so dark it's like if they rebooted brooklyn 99 as an svu unit
I abandoned it after the plotline with the killer writers. I just couldn't anymore.
It’s a show to have on as just background noise while you’re doing something else. There’s also a shirtless Archie in almost every episode, so if you’re into that, then that’s…a reason to watch.
The real housewives of (insert American city here). There’s gotta be like 8 separate series of those at this point.
It's like Law and Order. They need many spin off series.
I hate that I know this but there’s 11 American instalments and like 20 international versions.
My ex used to say “ imagine having that few problems in your life that you have to create your own”
The bachelor
Here in Germany we also have the bachelor as a TV format which is really really awkward. Especially since many of the women use it to get insta famous. Also, the relationships never last a long time. What a surprise.
I seriously don't understand why Jake Paul ever got as much attention as he did. Wasn't he just the hot meatheaded dude from Bizaardvark? I'll admit he had some funny lines but come on really?
He was only hired for that show bc he was already a famous douche on YouTube. Then he got fired for being too much for the Disney Channel. And who is he? Is he the fighter or the one who tried to create a fake get rich quick business aimed at kids? (Don't tell that he's both.)
Pop figures….don’t get me wrong, I get that there are many unique and interesting variations of them, but they’re basically unposeable statues that eat up space.
There's a small shop not too far from my house that specializes in them. They have a few more collectibles but it's like 99% Pop Figures on floor to ceiling shelves in two rooms.
I've always thought they were ugly. Time made me ignore that more. The only reason I bought some eventually was the realization that this is probably the closest I was getting to an actual action figure of some properties that I like. But always with the rule: if I can't tell who it is without the name on the box, it's not worth having.
It’s like Beanie Babies or anything else that just becomes popular. Lots of people have them because they saw someone else have it and they felt left out.
I have one and it was a gift. Baby Groot, remember how popular he was after the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie? It lived in my closet until a year ago when I got a new position with an office. Opened it for the first time and genuinely surprised that they're bobbleheads.
If I’m displaying any figurine, it’s not the pop figures.
They're filling the void in the market that the higher quality Nendoroids can't (or more likely, doesn't) fill. Basically, it's because of pricing.
The Duggar’s, that other Quiverfill, white haired cult show, all the 90 Day Fiancé spin-offs.
90 Day used to be a guilty pleasure of mine (probably the same for most other viewers) but man they made too many spinoffs. They all also became wayyy too obviously fake
There were 6 Resident Evil movies with Milla Jovovich, all running from 2002 to 2017.
These are in the so bad they're good category. The one thing I miss most about cable tv is the scifi channel at 2AM, so many fantastically terrible B movies.
Some of them are vaguely watchable. The first, 3rd, and 4th are entertaining enough.
This is because the director is married to her and is obsessed with putting her in bad video game movies.
I have a soft spot for those fun, bad movies.
Anything that has to do with putting mentally ill people on the spot. Hoarders, intervention, morbid obesity, etc. They’re already ashamed and feel stuck otherwise they wouldn’t be in that situation. Can we not stick a camera in their face for views and just help them?
I know at least one of those shows about severely obese people offers them weight loss surgery if they can drop a certain amount on their own so that they can safely be operated on.
Money money money money….. MONEY
ok but I have recently been obsessed watching Hoarders oops
TLC is the 21st century equivalent of the carnival freak show.
Kidz Bop
I want to hear Gangster Rap Kidz Bop
In my experience a lot of people bought those CDs expecting them to be like the NOW That’s What I Call Music compilations not realizing the songs were sung by annoying kids.
The weirdest thing was when they did very explicit songs like Thrift Shop.
I have a theory that their marketing was directly aimed at parents, like the kids were an afterthought. It makes so much sense that the product would be meant for parents and not kids, no child has ever wanted kidz bop. They wanted parents to see it as a direct solution on censoring popular music. It didn’t just bleep the cursing, it completely changed ANY suggestive lyrics. Great way to get family friendly music that was less annoying than “childrens music” (think Cocomelon).
The Puppet master low budget horror movie franchise, they made 14 movies, it’s the James Bond of crap movies
They are entertaining if you like gorey low budget horror movies. The good ones have some good puppet effects, the characters are unique and they often fight Nazis
FNAF. I’m so sorry to say this I’m a HUGE fnaf fan and always have been when it came out.
I've never played it, but I've seen summary videos on the underlying story and how people figured it out. I thought that was really cool.
The biggest game in this whole world is a game about BLOCKS
You really need to watch the movie Willy's Wonderland on Hulu. It is Nic Cage at his Nic Cagiest...and he doesn't even speak a single word the entire film.
Land Before Time. Granted, I love the original— but do we really need 17 of the damn things? Let the meteor strike, already. Goddamn.
17, and a TV series that lasted for 2 seasons.
It's kind of impressive that they haven't shifted to shitty CGI yet. I'll give them that much.
Applebee's
I get Applebee's. Simple fast casual.
Watching morbidly obese people struggle (like my 600 pound life for example)
The show Biggest Loser ruined the life and health of many of it's participants. The model of weight loss they use is bad for you, and the weight loss results are unsustainable for most people. And the psychological damage is serious.
Divergent
I find it hilarious that they cancelled the final movie and no one even freaking noticed
It cashed in on the teenage dystopia trend that Hunger Games started, to its detriment later on.
I got into the biggest fight with an ex about this stupid series! She was in love with it and dragged me to see the first movie...it was hot dog shit and the fact that they made another after is ridiculous.
YES. The premise is just so, so stupid. What if people had more than one personality trait???? I can imagine eight year olds liking it, but I side-eye any adult who likes this kind of garbage.
Spoilers even though no one cares!
50 shades I never read it but it looks awful
Read the first one because the wife and all her friends were, wanted to see what all the fuss was about. It was the worst piece of trash I've ever read.
I only read it because my older sister wouldn’t stop talking about it. That’s when I realized she’s a bored housewife with no sex life if she actually thought that trash was good.
I'm the type of person that once I buy the first in a book series, no matter how much I disliked it I have to buy and finish them all otherwise I just have a half-finished series on my shelf and that ain't right.
The show about all the little pangent girls.
Keeping up with the Kardashians... why are we giving these people a platform?
Applebees. I can microwave my own food for a fraction of the price.
Their entire menu is either microwave or boil-in-bag
I went to a Long John Silver's once
Their hushpuppies are pretty good
Sister wives I don't understand how people like that show I guess I don't like the things people do on that show
Fast and the Furious.
The first one was basically just Point Break with street racing. The second and third felt like they were capitalizing on the street racing boom that the first one helped usher in.
Evolved with whatever the hell was considered ‘trendy’ by 13-14YO middle school boys who sprayed on too much Axe.
Ah man, you really had to be there. I was a wee lad, all of 15 years old in South Florida. It came out the day after my birthday. My friend and I watched it twice that weekend.
Family…in space!
Tyler Perry's Madea empire.
I think he likes to dress as a woman. No shame in it, just admit it, Tyler.
I dont get it either. I chalk it up to not being the target audience.
It always felt kinda like a minstrel show. Like, “oh hey guys look at the funny black woman isn’t she so funny because she’s so loud” kinda thing. Then again it is literally made by a black guy, and as a white guy I am absolutely not the target audience for it.
Jersey Shore. I mean…who watched that crap?
The first season or two was fun in a delightfully trashy, turn your brain off and watch some crap tv to relax after a long day at work kind of way.
I dunno man, I started watching it for the cringe but nowadays am still saying to myself "yeee buddy"
Lmfaooo me. I used to live in Jersey and grew up going to seaside. I don’t watch any of the new ones but when it came out I remember watching the first 2 seasons. We hated them but couldn’t stop watching. It ruined seaside for a lot of people. My friends and I were there the night Ron got into a fight on the boardwalk we were so confused. Lol
Minions
The sad part is Rabbids came first by an order of years. Same general premise, but way funnier. Though sadly far less accessable since they were locked behind "the Vidya games".
Those yellow banana-loving squeaky fucks make me SO unreasonably angry.
They were a fresh breath of originality at a time when everything was being rehashed to death. Despicable Me was an actual new idea and the minions were a huge part of that.
I worked with a middle aged woman who was OBSESSED with them (I mean tee shirts, Facebook memes, coffee cups) and it used to irritate me SO MUCH
Hotel transylvania they now have a 4th installment..whyy
Children. Parents will pay for anything as long as their kids are entertained
Honestly I enjoy the movies and my kids love them but 4 is trash. They couldn't even get the main actors and it was basically straight to streaming.
eh the first one wasn't bad I can see it as a decent movie for kids. second one was just like there but holy the third and fourth one sucked so bad.
Kids seem to like them. And I would listen to Selena Gomez read the phonebook. Love her voice.
Fifty Shades of Grey. I've never tortured myself by watching the movies, but I did try to read the first book when it came out to see what the big deal was. I didn't even make it halfway through.
Ice Age, I mean how the heck did it get 6 films.
Honestly, I think that little squirrely thing featured in the short was the reason for the success. It made everyone laugh and got them in a good mood for the actual movie.
The first one is good
2000s-2010s were clusterfuckfest of weird animated movies
THERE ARE 6?!?!
Just ask Despicable Me, Frozen, Wreck it Ralph, Life of Pets, and all the other animated movies that struck gold once and then had terrible sequels.
I like Ice Age 1-3, but I was a small kid when those movies came out
5 sequels and not one of them follows up on the damn baby from the first one. Is he still alive? Is he an adult? I need answers!
Didn't the second movie end with the ice all over the world melting?
Taken
Liam Neeson really needs to get a leash for his family.
Duck Dynasty.
I literally lost a friend because I showed them the clean shaven picture of them. They were so vested in that trashy bigot family that they couldn't handle the fact it was all built on a lie.
Flo from Progressive
Flo is whack but the follow up dude after her is even more confusing
I think its like the Billie mays situation where you see the same commercial over and over and you get used to it and get confused when its gone. And tv ads are absurdly repetitive.
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I'm gonna guess it's her consistency, kind of like the Geico gecko, and also the fact that her character is supposed to be annoying.
Keeping up with the Kardashians.
FNAF, I bet all the lore just came to be by over Analyzing it and the dev just rode the wave, smart on his part.
Literally exactly what happened. Dev said fnaf would be his last video game. Made it very simple with hidden 'secrets' that could have been expanded on, but didn't necessarily need to. Dude was planning on moving on, but then it somehow got the attention of the big gaming youtubers and it skyrocketed. So then dude just made up the lore as he went, riding that youtube money wave.
Four words: Markiplier and Game Theory
The lore itself is fine the fun part however is piecing it together and solving it. The fanbase is pretty cringe tho
It took about 6 years but my step son has finally moved off of FNAF. I never understood it.
This comment paired with the Monokuma pfp is 10/10. There’s only room for one animatronic animal who delights in death.
Bravo's The Real Housewives franchise. All it is about is rich, hateful, self-absorbed, alcoholic women with too much time on their hands.
Teen Titans Go, I despise it still. I can understand why the original series was the next big thing, but I never understood why the cheap, less serious sequel became even more popular. They even made a theatrical movie and are planning to make a sequel to it. Even though everyone hated it when it first aired in 2013, it got popular.
It's in a similar vein to the various Abridged series on YouTube.
They literally made an episode about how the show staff was overworked and wanted it to end.
Illumination Entertainment.
The purge
Ridiculous premise bolstered by some cool kills. That’s all it is. Kind of like the Final Destination movies. Don’t pay attention to the why. Just watch people get fucked up.
Name any reality show. There's your answer.
No. You can fuck me up with Kitchen Nightmares for all eternity.
Anything Kardashians. Blight on popular culture.
I guess it counts as a “franchise” since it had a spin-off, but The Big Bang Theory. Im a long time comic book and sci-fi fan and I didn’t find it funny at all. Their comic book references were also kind of cringe.
The Big bang theory was never a show for millennial nerds, it was a show for boomer parents to laugh at millennial culture, which at the time was very much about comic book movies, "science" (seriously the science fad of the late 00s early 10s doesn't get called out enough for the oddity that it was), and just throwing pot shots at a culture that had moved on from their interest.
Twilight. I know, cliche answer, but the story is literally of fanfiction quality. No effort put on the world building, the vampires aren't interesting at all, and the werewolves are just bigger wolves. And it's creepy when you realize the HUGE age gap between Edward and Bella. Such a shame that Taylor Lautner was dragged into it.
Taylot Lautner isn’t a particularly good actor, which is why he isn’t seeing much success since. He’s not even close to as good as Stewart and Pattinson has proven to be, which is why they are doing better post-twilight.
In fairness to Edward, he's permanently 17, so a relationship with anybody for him is creepy no matter how old they are. Jacob, on the other hand, looked at Bella's newborn baby and thought to himself "oh yeah, when she turns 18, I am going to cuh-laim dat ass!"
I know the answer to this - even though the story isn’t that great, it is an easy read and gives you some escapism into that odd world. I don’t like some things that happened in the story (Edward being creepy, Jacob imprinting on a baby, Bella being parentified by Renee) but it’s an ok story. Better than some, worse than some.
all these trash tv series
Edgy live-action DC shows I just don't get. Coming from a big love of DC animated honestly.
Dallas Cowboys
Once upon a time, in a far away land, the Dallas Cowboys won playoff games.
DJ Khaled
Honestly, transformers. I love the franchise but the original cartoon is very flaky in places and it makes me wonder how it did well enough to warrant all the current stuff.
It's about the toys. Gotta keep in mind all the 80's cartoons were designed to generate toy sales. GI Joe, Masters of the Universe, Transformers, etc.
The comics were far superior to the cartoons. Still are, TBH.
Transformers prime and the bumblebee movie were good imo
COD. Not so much how it got, due to the quality of Modern Warfare and Black Ops 2, but how it stayed when they just recycled the same shit over and over after that with a 60 dollar price tag and 1 year lifespan. If course there is the occasional good one, like the recent Modern Warfare, but like I said, 1 year lifespan.
I think with COD, it possibly stays popular because it has die-hard fans who will absolutely lap up anything COD related and will never listen to anyone complain about it.
The Kardashians, twilight, honey boo boo, anything endorsed by Oprah, or E channel
The shows where they send misbehaving teens to a strict family’s house for a week. And the cameraman is just like following the teens as they sneak behind the strict families back and I’m like bruh
The CARS movies. I like most Pixar/Disney movies but these don’t grab me on any level.
But they sell merchandise like a mofo. And that's why the sequels got made. Because slapping a cars logo on ANYTHING was like making free money
Fast and the Furious cause I'm very sure that they are just milking off the franchise right now. The first movie is not even that great.
I have to admit I did like the first 3 because of the races (even if unrealistic), but yea it’s gone way to far and they are trying to do a spin offs.
Call of Duty.
I'm of the view that no good can come of releasing an installment every year.
I got Modern Warfare (the original one) back when I was in the fifth grade. It was simple and elegant like no big FPS after it.
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Arbies.
Harry Potter.
Twilight! I watched them all last year for the first time and watched them with open mind. Oh my fucking god i do not understand why people love this movies and the cgi baby so much. Everything about it is truly awful
Maze runner
Movies suck, Books rock