Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27457113-20171024233859/@comment-33398491-20171025020740

TurboPowered wrote: This fanbase is definitely falling down a cliff, people now hate on videos because of these stupid reasons:

1. Because someone was being mean.

Fucking god, really? you hate on the video because a character was being mean? I see countless people hating on a character like Jeffy or Rosalina for being a douche. I get that when it affects there whole character, but in video reception, thats absolutely idiotic. Do you see people hate a movie because an antagonist was being "mean" to the main character? No. The only exception is if the person being mean had a really bad effect on plot building or the whole video itself (ex: Jeffy's Bad Word!).

2. Not using one character

A classic, common problem here. It has been bad but now has gotten worse. People LITERALLY dislike or not even watch a video just because a certain character is not involved. I don't care if you like Jeffy or another character if you are 8 or 10 or have a long history of Autism, but please watch other content the creator makes.

3. Plots / "Ripoffs"

Seeing this other half of #2 right here, people need to also chill out about this too. Just because an episode has a few similar aspects to another does not mean the video is generally bad. The Test! is an example of this. I thought the video was OK and decent because some of the plot was recycled, but most of the fanbase panned it because it had a scene very similar to Jeffy's Homework!​, just one scene. An episode being bad for recycling a plot is ONLY bad if the main focus of the video is recycled.

Tell me your opinions about this problem if you want to. I agree with you on #2, and partially on #1. In #1, I personally will knock very few points off if a characters is being mean to another character that doesn't deserve it, as long as it isn't harsh and/or it doesn't take too much time. In Chef Pee Pee's Bucket List, I personally didn't like when Bowser Junior was beating Cody up (because Cody's one of my favorite characters, and he didn't deserve it), but since it wasn't too harsh and it didn't happen for that long, I let it slide. In Jeffy's Brain, however, I hated it when Rosalina was acting like a jerk to Mario, and didn't let it slide since it happened for several minutes, taking up more than a quarter of the video.

I can agree to a certain extent on #3. I still hated The Test, although the plot-recycling was a small factor on why I hated it. An example of a video that copies the whole plot of another video is Jeffy's Cellphone. The plot of that video is literally the same as Bowser Junior's Cellphone: the kid gets a cellphone, the kid makes prank calls on it (bad ones, for that matter), and the parent suffers the comeuppance. Thus, I didn't like Jeffy's Cellphone, especially since I didn't like Bowser Junior's Cellphone in the first place.

Also, here's another problem with the fanbase: the Jeffy fanbase and hatebase attacking each other.