Top 10 Things that Started Out Being Good but Then Became Extremely Lame and Pretentious
The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening that originally started on April 19, 1987 as shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show. It got its own series on December 17, 1989 and is still running as of 2023, making it the longest running animated sitcom. It is about a man named Homer... read more It went from being better than South Park to mostly just being more popular than South Park due to having almost none of its audacity.
It started to go downhill very fast.
The first 10 seasons were gold, but oh my...
DC Comics, Inc. is an American comic book publisher. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. DC Comics is one of the largest and oldest American comic book companies. It started out knowing how not to take everything it made as seriously as possible. Then The Dark Knight was released, inspiring numerous mediocre imitators (we're looking at you, Man of Steel and Dawn of Justice). This caused DC to think everything needed to be edgy and "badass" (Aquaman and Doom Patrol? Really?).
TLOU 1: In my opinion, it's largely just okay. Despite having very mediocre and frustrating gameplay and arguably being the main reason Naughty Dog jumped the shark after (and arguably during) its release, it at least features a genuinely well-written and deep storyline (by video game standards). It also has incredibly top-notch graphics.
TLOU 2: This is largely an utterly pretentious pile of garbage. The fact that its release year (2020) was also the release year of Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time shows how deeply Naughty Dog has sunk. For the most part, it smashes together all of the worst aspects of TLOU 1 and relies on Naughty Dog's name to get automatic rave reviews, despite blatantly sucking.
Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke (lead vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards), Jonny Greenwood (lead guitar, keyboards, other instruments), Colin Greenwoood (bass guitar), Phil Selway (drums), and Ed O'Brien (guitar). Their use of electronics is just odd. They're so good with their instruments already - why would they switch to computers, autotune, and all that crap?
OK Computer was a good album, but I haven't really enjoyed listening to anything after that. It wasn't an easy listen.
I personally think The Bends was mediocre, and everything after OK Computer was amazing. I respect your opinion though. Radiohead isn't for everyone.
Due to Nintendo turning it into a bad clone of Halo, the series went from being one of the most iconic and innovative ones on Earth (in Metroid 1-4 and the Metroid Prime trilogy) to becoming a total joke. It now relies on shockingly good fan games as its version of life support.
I only remember it for having that one ending.
Thankfully, it's getting a good comeback.
Naughty Dog is an American video game development company based in Santa Monica, California. Acquired by Sony Interactive Entertainment in 2001, the company is known for producing critically acclaimed video games such as the "Uncharted" series and "The Last of Us." Naughty Dog has a reputation for storytelling... read more They went from making some of the best platformers in video game history (Crash Bandicoot, Jak & Daxter, and Uncharted) to creating one of the most pretentious, generic, and boring "edgy and realistic action game" franchises ever (The Last of Us).
Wreck-it Ralph 1: It's not exactly great, but still a pretty good version of Ready Player One.
Wreck-it Ralph 2: It has extremely flashy graphics, a social justice agenda, a painfully huge amount of Internet product placement, and practically nothing else worth mentioning.
Metallica is an American Heavy/Thrash Metal band formed in 1981. The original lineup was James Hetfield (Vocalist and Rhythm guitarist), Dave Mustaine (Lead Guitar), Lars Ulrich (Drums), Ron McGovney (Bassist). The group came into mainstream from their Self-Titled album and the hit single "Enter Sandman"... read more Trying to turn itself into an "alt rock" band immediately comes to mind.
Nickelodeon is an American basic cable and satellite television network launched on December 1, 1977, and is owned by Viacom through Viacom Media Networks and based in New York City. I never grew up in the 90s and early 2000s because I was born in 2004. I started watching Nickelodeon when I was around 7. At that time, shows like Fanboy and Chum Chum, Tuff Puppy, Breadwinners, and Sanjay and Craig were on, but thankfully, I never watched them.
Instead, I watched SpongeBob, iCarly, Victorious, and Fairly OddParents (FOP). I really wish I grew up watching Rocko's Modern Life, old SpongeBob only, Rugrats, Hey Arnold!, Jimmy Neutron, Invader Zim, Danny Phantom, My Life as a Teenage Robot, CatDog, Angry Beavers, Ren and Stimpy, Doug, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, Wild Thornberrys, Drake and Josh, and even old Fairly OddParents.
When I watched Fairly OddParents as a kid, they would only air seasons 5-9 and never anything from seasons 1-4. Nowadays, we have the abomination known as The Loud House, The Patrick Star Show, Kamp Koral, etc.
Death Note is a Japanese television drama anime series based on the manga series of the same name by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata.
The show is centered around Light Yagami - a promising highschooler and aspiring detective with a strong sense of "justice". The show absolutely does not work without L - enough said.
I don't really watch anime, but the 2017 movie wasn't good at all.
The Newcomers
The only thing somehow keeping this alive is the addicted 9-year-olds who watch Among Us YouTubers and have Among Us merch.
South Park is an American adult animated sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for the Comedy Central television network. The show is about four boys, who are Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormick, and their adventures in South Park, Colorado.
Each one was worse than the last. Let's hope The Matrix 4 ends that cycle.
Pacifist Undertale is genuinely one of the best games on Earth, but Genocide Undertale reveals just how deeply the game's head is up its own butt.
Cartoon Network is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner.
The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, is an American diversified multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California. They've been getting extremely lazy, and you can't watch anything without having to pay for their streaming service or just getting a DVD.
YouTube is a global video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States. The service was created by three former PayPal employees on February 14, 2005. In November 2006, it was acquired by Google for US$1.65 billion. YouTube is ranked as one of the most visited websites, securing... read more
Green Day are an American pop punk/punk rock band formed in East Bay, California in 1987. The members include Billie Joe Armstrong (vocals and guitar), Mike Dirnt (bass), Tré Cool (drums) and Jason White (guitar). Green Day are associated with punk rock, pop punk and alternative rock. Some of their... read more
The Fairly OddParents is an American animated television series created by Butch Hartman for Nickelodeon. Like a lot of shows on this list, it started good then quickly went downhill before being sent to the Nicktoon network, where it died a slow and painful death.
There only needed to be two films, tops.
Pixar, also referred to as Pixar Animation Studios, is an American computer animation film studio based in Emeryville, California that is a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. Pixar began in 1979 as the Graphics Group, part of the Lucasfilm computer division, before its spin-out as a corporation... read more For the longest time, Pixar dominated the animation industry, with every movie they made being a cultural phenomenon from Toy Story up until Toy Story 3. They kept hitting us with banger after banger, starting with Toy Story, then A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille, WALL-E, Up, and Toy Story 3.
But when Cars 2 was released, Pixar began to decline, putting out some bad/mediocre films like Brave, The Good Dinosaur, Onward, and Turning Red. However, we did get Inside Out and Coco, which were critically acclaimed masterpieces.
Now that Lightyear has been released to theaters, it bombed so hard. I've never seen the movie, but it doesn't look good. Because of the underwhelming performance of Lightyear, we don't know if Pixar will ever redeem themselves. Let's just hope Elemental will save the company.
Nintendo Co., Ltd. is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics and software company headquartered in Kyoto, Japan.Nintendo was founded in 1889 as Nintendo Karuta by craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi and originally produced handmade hanafuda playing cards. After venturing into various lines of... read more
Linkin Park is an American alternative rock band formed in Agoura Hills, California, in 1996. The current members include Mike Shinoda (vocals, keyboards, rhythm guitar), Brad Delson (guitar), Dave "Phoenix" Farrell (bass), Joe Hahn (DJ), Emily Armstrong (vocals), and Colin Brittain (drums). Linkin... read more Linkin Park started out as a great band, then it became slightly worse with every album until everything completely imploded with A Thousand Suns. That was when they became an outright bad band. Ever since Chester's death, they've been trying to continue the band, but they've been unable to get anything done since his death.
Maroon 5 is an American pop/pop rock band that originated in Los Angeles, California. Before the current group was established, the original four members, Adam Levine, Jesse Carmichael Mickey Madden and Ryan Dusick, formed a band known as Kara's Flowers in 1994, while they were still in high school.
The Ren & Stimpy Show, often simply referred to as Ren & Stimpy, is an American animated television series created by John Kricfalusi for Nickelodeon. Once John K was fired, the show really dipped in quality and got so much worse in season 4. Don't even get me started on Adult Party Cartoon.