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There’s always something people have demonized. First it was fat, then it was food additives, and lately it has become sugar. But things people see as evil don't end with our diet.

Other commonly disregarded stuff may have to do with music, like the controversial band known as Nickelback or going to psychological therapy, or not liking animals like rats, tarantulas, and snakes.

We rarely reflect on why specific things cause us such adverse emotions, so this viral thread may give us some perspective. The simple yet thought-provoking question “What doesn't need the hate it gets?” was asked by Redditor u/Alexdoesthedo, and it has clearly produced some very illuminating responses.

#1

35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved The rain. Rain is f**king awesome. It feeds all the plantlife, makes puddles, and my personal favourite, at night time the rain reflects light and makes even traffic lights look f**king amazing. Jesus I love rain.

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    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved Atheists. Most of us are nice, sensible good people just like you, we just happen to have different views on religion. Just like any religion, of course there are extremists that give the group a bad name, and the rest of us look down on them and don't support how they act.

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    #3

    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved Not wanting kids.

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    #4

    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved Pineapple on pizza. It’s delicious, and if you hate it don’t s**t on people who like it.

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    #5

    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved Reading.

    Even those who read scoff at what others read and it's not necessary.

    Reading overall is good for the brain and memory. Comic books, magazines about cars or fishing, romance novels, old classics, it's all reading.

    There's no need to feel shame or shame someone for what they read.

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    #6

    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved Enjoying cartoons as an adult.

    Good content is good content and looking back at the cartoons I loved now and then. I do have superior tastes.

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    #7

    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved Therapy. It's never a bad thing but I definitely still know people who are firmly against or see it as a sign of weakness.

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    #8

    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved People who want to live a basic, "normal" or "boring" life. From all generations, I am constantly hearing locals/normies being made fun of for not wanting a ~fancier~ lifestyle but like... Why does that matter? Besides, just having a roof overhead is luxurious to to some people. Let others live the lives they want to.

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    #9

    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved Rats. They're some of the funniest, most affectionate and intelligent small pets, with a ton of personality, who actually enjoy engaging with people.

    They get a terrible reputation for carrying disease or being aggressive- which is just not true for domestic rats. Growing up I had almost every common pet rodent you can think of, and hands down I'd pick a rat over a hamster any day.

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    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved Cats. Many people I know absolutely despise them because they think they cant love you the way some dogs can, or they remind you of the stereotype "crazy cat person" or the whole "they're all aggressive/bitey/scratchy" thing. Once I had both dogs and cats (and reptiles!) in my house - and though I love both, cats tended to speak a little louder to me. I'm part of a TNR company and ended up raising one of the cats I caught while searching for my missing cat last month and realized how sweet they can be if you take the time to earn their trust and give them space when it's asked for.

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    #11

    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved Bra straps showing. Like what? Why does it make you mad? It's fabric. And if I'm not mistaken, you're covered in it on the daily.

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    #12

    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved Sleeping with stuffed animals. You’re never too old for that.

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    #13

    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved The North American Opossum. They're docile unless threatened, and I think they are endearingly cute. They perform a great service by eating tons of pesky insects, like ticks. Added bonus, they are almost entirely immune to rabies.

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    #14

    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved Teenage girls who are obsessed with something (a pop star, a movie, a book etc). Let people enjoy things.

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    #15

    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved Broccoli. Steam it and melt a little Smart Balance on it. Yummy. Your parents didn't know how to make it. It's arguably the healthiest food you can eat, at least in the top ten.

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    #16

    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved Muslims, they are really misunderstood everywhere.

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    #17

    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved Homeless people. Austin, TX just reinstated a ban on public camping/sitting/laying down, with zero allocation for actually helping the homeless population.

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    #18

    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved Sharks. They're just a well designed killing machine and the chances of them killing you are super low. Orcas and dolphins are actually "meaner" if you want to look at them in a human way, they'll purposely mess with you or hurt you. Sharks might just bite you on accident.

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    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved Hyenas. Most unfairly villainized and maligned animal in the world all because of some stupid Disney movie. They are not scavengers at all they hunt 90% of their prey and lions steal food off of them far more than they steal off lions. They are highly intelligent predators with an equally important role to play in the ecosystem.

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    #20

    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved Teachers.

    I can personally confirm that I was a piece of work in grade school - then high school. And it wasn't because of teachers - it was because of me.

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    #21

    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved Snakes. They are awesome pets and the super dangerous ones don't want anything to do with you. I can't stand people killing snakes they find. To me its like killing a stray dog you find. Just call animal control.

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    #22

    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved Trans people. Just like many other minorities, most people get little exposure to them other then what they hear and see online. Aka the trans freakouts and anti trans pages aren’t too realistic, along with the tumblr 30,000 genders people, “real” (not because of a coping mechanism or fetish, etc but fr like born that way, ) trans people irl are quite normal.

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    #23

    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved GMOs. Humans have been slowly doing that since we started cultivating crops, now we can just do it quicker. And there are millions of people who rely on GMO crops to not starve to death.

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    #24

    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved Chemist here. The word “chemicals”.

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    #25

    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved Brussels Sprouts. You can do so much with them! Just stop boiling the hell out of them.

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    #26

    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved People with the Karen haircut who are actually normal and chill.

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    #27

    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved TV shows made specifically for toddlers. They are toddlers. It's all colors and shapes and being excited over simple things. That's what toddlers are about. YOU don't need to watch the show. It's not for you.

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    #28

    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved Nickleback - I'm not a fan, but it's just kind of generic rock music that you are in no way forced to listen to.

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    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved Billie Eilish. I don't know what it was that made people go "eeeew, BiLlIe EiLiSh" but come on. She's an interesting person and her music is genuinely good. I'm not one for forcing artists on people, I just don't get when a relatively innocuous musician gets that level of hate.

    And while I'm at it: Taylor Swift writing about relationships. Just about every artist in existence has either written about their relationships at least once, or usually write about love/relationships, either through experience or generalization. Why is it okay for people like Ed Sheeran, John Mayer, or Ariana Grande to write about their relationships without much uproar, but when Taylor Swift does it? Sheesh.

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    #30

    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved Body pillows.

    There's no law saying you have to put something sexy on it there's plain colored pillowcases for them literally everywhere.

    They. Help. You. Sleep. Gud.

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    #31

    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved Veganism. We just don't want innocent animals to get hurt yet we get mocked for it all the time.

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    #32

    Anyone showcasing genuine passion and hobbies on social media.

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    #33

    Men/Boys watching/reading rom-coms and romance novels.

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    #34

    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved Boy bands/ any music where the target audience is teens/young women. people need to stop assuming that anything that is liked by that demographic is stupid.

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    #35

    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved Kristen Stewart--she's just socially awkward during interviews! She's a decent actress. People freak out that she's not super emotionally expressive... Some people just aren't!

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    Brandy Grote
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Except an actress should be able to ACT AS IF they have emotions. Especially in movies....

    Lara Verne
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Keanu Reeves is not super expressive and people still like him, Kristen is not super expressive and somehow it's a bad thing.

    Lauren Caswell
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Keanu Reeves used to be treated as a running joke for a long time before the John wick movies

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    Tara Ray
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Certain celebrities are just public scapegoats. People just like to hate.

    H Edwards
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I haven't seen her in much, but she was pretty flat in everything I have seen. Actors can improve a lot though - Kiera Knightley and Keanu Reeves come to mind.

    RoseTheMad
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Honestly, the whole thing about her not being emotionally expressive stemmed from her first "big" performance in Twilight... but it's not her fault she was playing a character who had all the personality of a brick, there's only so much you can do with a script. Same goes for how people treat "Movie Ginny" vs "Book Ginny" in the Harry Potter franchise - it isn't Bonnie Wright's fault how the script ended up.

    Ozacoter
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think that a big part of the hate is because she isn’t gender conforming and not very smiley. Society punishes women that don’t conform to those ideas of what a “woman” is.

    J. F.
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My experience is that people don't really care about such things (at least here in Europe). Most people just don't like her for her acting

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    Bowtechie
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Anyone who hates her clearly hasn't watched her host SNL. She's so damn funny and just got a bad break because of Twilight. She's really good in comedy and psychological thriller.

    Celtic Pirate Queen
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She may be socially awkward, but she's also NOT a decent actress. A decent actress can show emotions. Every character she has ever played is just flat. Except the chick from Twilight - then it was just teenage angst for an hour and a half.

    Roger Haywood
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think she's OK. Nothing special, but not deserving of the hate she gets.

    Something
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She acted in Twilight and people hold her responsible for the bad writing. (Her level of emotional expression may have seemed flat, but given the story it might have been excessive.)

    Monday
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's not just Twilight. She's really flat in The Messengers and Snow White and the Huntsman too. It might just be that she got typecast like a lot of actors and actresses, but unfortunately she's gotten typecast as "has no personality but is somehow still relevant to the story".

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    Mark Berry
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I generally don't care for her, but that's such a great picture of her!

    Cheyenne
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    2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She has all the acting ability of a potato and a personality to match.

    Doireanne
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Uh, I think the whole point of acting is to be super emotionally expressive and convincing us that you are someone else. Kristen Stewart is one of those actors who plays themselves in everything they're in.

    backatya
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She looks great in this pic. People leave people alone and quit picking on them

    Deborah Blair-Krosnicki
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She's been incredibly lucky in her career in my opinion. There are plenty of other actresses that could have been in those movies and certainly played the characters better. Is she related to someone?

    Chris Oakley
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hate her with the fury of a million exploding suns. Her fanbase got me kicked off Twitter and helped engineer my banning from the DC Comics subreddit.

    Theodore Triant
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This thread has taught me I don't hate nearly enough things, for sure. Time to rectify. Thank you good people

    Crouching hippo hidden panda
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes it’s so enthralling to watch a robot trying to mimic human interaction. If she wasn’t so pretty there’s no way she’d be a Hollywood a lister.

    Susan Bosse
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But an actress SHOULD be emotionally expressive. That's kinda the entire point of their job.

    Leigh C.
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I thought that was Katy Perry. Maybe she's told not to smile so people don't get confused.

    Susan Widomski
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I agree - she can be lovely and interesting, but she hardly ever smiles in her films. Acting requires more range.

    Natalia Maciel
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think she is quite good. Have you seen her in the movies she has been in after Twilight? She is good

    Michigan Guy
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i don't hate her, i've seen her do good work. but...you're off point here, her chosen profession kind of needs emoting...

    Cheyenne
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don’t dislike because she’s gay or socially awkward. I dislike her because she’s a bad actress with a bad attitude.

    Pamela Blue
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Isn't that what an actress is supposed to portray? Emotions? I certain don't hate her. I don't know her. But as an actress, I feel she is definitely "lacking."

    WorldNeedsReboot
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    She's great at non-feeling, non-expressive parts, other than that...she's always sad looking...

    Beth W
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It was the sleeping with someone else's husband when she had a partner that kinda put me off a bit

    Andrew Thompson
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If she is unable to express emotions when she is acting, she needs to find a new career. She never have impressed me.

    BananaAnna
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Where does one apply for "Critic Of The Year" for all lifeforms and inanimate objects". Surely, there are great benefits as so many folks are practicing for the job.

    Lunar Bicycle
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don’t think she’s a good actor, but it’s no reason to hate her.

    Sarcastic Cow
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    Agree! She was great in The Cake Eaters, Yellow Handkerchief or Welcome to the Rileys. Unlike Emma Watson, who is sweetheart for sure, but she is just bad actress, sorry.

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    #36

    People who lack basic human compassion. It's a sentiment that we have lost, at least in the US, and it makes for some seriously cold f**king people. Worse, it's more socially acceptable to be a cold-a-- prick than a compassionate human being. We need to fix that s**t if we want to have a functioning society...

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    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved Nuclear powerplants....

    People freak out because of the radiation but almost everyone is oblivious to the amount of cr*p a coal or oil powerplant dumps in the atmosphere.
    Nuclear waste is relatively easy to store and modern nuceal powerplants have good safety records.

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    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved Furries. Well most of them, they're actually pretty nice people.

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    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved Funko Pops. People absolutely hate them even though they're like $10 vs $100 for an actual figurine. What other people collect should be of no concern to you just because you "don't get it". People collected Beanie Babies back in the 90's for no reason and everyone was cool with it. Funko Pop's are the same thing.

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    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved Indians. Yes a proportion of men are horrible here, and there's crimes against women and all but not all of us are Simps or predators. We are 1.4 billion, so even if 5% are criminals it's still 70 million people.

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    #41

    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved Imagine Dragons.

    They were the Nickelback of the 2010’s.

    It’s time to pass on the torch of hatred for a new overly mediocre band with bland and generic music that all sounds the same.

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    People who work with fossil fuels, My grandad drives a fuel truck for work to deliver fuel and he stops at a gas station and occasionally some A-hole decides to go off and say your polluting the environment and your making it worse, people like my grandad do the job because it provides food for the family and it’s something they have a lot if experience in, that doesn’t make them the target to bully

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    #43

    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved The Last Jedi.

    And this isn't even that true. Objectively speaking it was a massive success that the vast majority of the audience and critics enjoyed. But the people that hate it seem to think they're the majority in the Star Wars fandom and act both like a smug majority and a defensive minority.

    It's a good blockbuster movie that has great actors, themes, cinematography, and effects. Sure it has some plot conveniences and physics bugs but for the love of the Force you'd think the people that point those out had never seen a movie with plot conveniences or physics bugs before or consider a completely tight plot or perfect adherence to space wizard logic to be the most important things in a movie."

    "It's become such a toxic thing because a lot of the people that hate it hate it with a radioactive passion that ruins Star Wars discussion for everyone else (8 hour video on how TLJ is a cinematic abomination, really?)

    That's not even getting in to the people that sent the actress that plays Rose death threats. Though I think every sane person that has an opinion on TLJ can agree that those people are insane children.

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    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved MSG. It’s like salt but on crack and exploding with flavor.

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    #45

    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved I can't believe I'm saying this but... Cyberpunk 2077.

    I'm not going to defend the state of the game at launch at all because it was absolutely horrible. But I've noticed the conversation has trended from "The game underneath is good but it's technically f**ked up" to "the game even when fixed is still just half a game".

    I know people were expecting a lot more RPG elements, but IMO the game when it works is a pretty good game and I feel like a lot of people just want to bag on that game that haven't even tried it.

    And I say that as someone who thinks The Witcher 3 is super overrated and wasn't expecting to even like CP2077.

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    #46

    Speaking as a comic nerd, Superman. Maybe a niche thing but he's either dismissed as a boring one note OP god with no substance who can just beat his way out of any situation, or a boring cornball with no edge to him. Both very incredibly wrong, for different reasons.

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    #47

    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved The Star Wars prequels.

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    #48

    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved Fortnite as a game, the community deserves the hate. Fortnite’s premise is interesting and creative mode can lead to amazing results. The community though...

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    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved TikTok. Sometime it does, but most of the time it doesn’t.

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    35 Things That Get A Lot Of Hate But It's Undeserved People who text one sentence at a time send Because I don't think of one big paragraph and then send it to you send I live in the moment and text how I think I'm carrying on the conv when new ideas appear in my head send And sending them straight away so I have your attention as if I'm talking to you send As I think you're likely to click off after reading one sentence so I try to keep you there send I don't plan my text it comes out random so I'm typing as I think- like I said. Who does walls of texts anymore? Most don't read or forget to reply. send I love receiving texts this way.

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