Have you ever had a friend that just won't shut up about a particular show or game? They always find some way to loop a conversation back to it or they always quote something peculiar from the show and when you don't get it they say something like, "Oh my god, you don't watch this show? YOU SHOULD TOTALLY LIKE WATCH IT OR WHATEVER!" The internet has a bad habit of doing this.
Ever heard of Breaking Bad? Sure you have. I just recently started watching it, but for the longest time I refused to because of how many people sucked it's cock. The constant talk and appraisal of this show made me hate it. Every website I went to there were people chanting and having a circle jerk. I couldn't escape it. The show isn't bad or anything, but it isn't anywhere near as good as people make it out to be. People do this with any semi-decent show now. Walking Dead, My Little Pony, Game of Thrones, Arrested Development; you never hear the end of it from the fans of these shows.
When I was a kid in middle school Naruto was the big shit. Everyone watched the show and read the manga, some kids even had headbands and ninja weapons and shit. One day sitting in class I saw kids practicing the hand signs. During recess they would run with their hands behind the backs. Every time I see people drool over shows, my brain immediately thinks of those kids in middle school. They are the kids with the headbands. I think of it in the kind of way that people view Call of Duty. People don't necessarily hate the game, they just hate the people who play the game.
I think the biggest case where you can see this is with League of Legends. It's fucking massive and nobody shuts up about it. Is it good? It's okay, yeah, but if you bring up another MOBA people will instantly say that League is better. I'm not saying that any game is better than another, it would be nice to have a conversation, but because League is such a big power house people will just bring up numbers as an excuse as to why it's better. I don't even want to tell people that I play League because the people associated with it are terrible.
People ruin everything.
People ruin everything.