Top Ten Reasons to Hate Dork Diaries

Seriously, this book series is bad! Thank god it's getting cancelled! But the bad news is they're making a movie... TTnTT
The Top Ten
1 It's too stereotypical

The series is my favorite book series.But I agree I mean like what are the chances of the most popular guy in school who everyone is in love with falls in love with the main character.Also why does the bully have to be blonde with blue eyes and be rich!I mean really? Why can't it be for once that the bully is not rich or isn't loved by everyone for no reason! And it's so annoying that every girl says OMG like why? Not every girl in middle school says omg or talks slang all the time! Also why a love triangle! Wait no it's like a love square! Yes I said is a love square there is Andre who loves Nicki Brandon who also loves Nicki Mackenzie who loves Brandon and Nicki who aslo loves Brandon! It's all just so stereotypical everyone fits in one category. Like one of the other comments said we have the unpopular nerdy girl (Nicki) the quirky bffs ( chole and zoey) the cute guy (Brandon) the mean girl (Mackenzie) the annoying little sibling ( Brianna) the cringey parents who try so hard to ...more

An unpopular nerdy girl, the quirky BFF's, the cute guy, the mean girl, the "annoying" little sister, the "cringey" parents who try so hard to relate to kids, yep! What a GREAT book series, so ORIGINAL! *sarcasm*

1. They're's absolutely NO black people in this book, except for Tyrone and Zoey
2. Everyone assumes that only black guys say 'dawg', 'man', or 'yo'
3. Apparently all the girls say. Like honestly, you can't even last 5 minutes without hearing that word

2 Too many stereotypes and labels

This book is full of stereotypes. The "dorky" girl, the clingy friends, the cute boy, the mean girl, the annoying little sister, the overprotective parents. There is nothing original about this book.

The books are bad and not funny. Why do they keep making books like 12 or 11 is it really neccesary to make all OF thOSE books. So many stereotypes and everything is like FAKE and unrealisitc.

I agree,i mean the stereotypes are very annoying and there isn't no need for it.She needs to write something more interesting and more realistic,but the author prefers cliches which are old school.

The usual stereotypes, dorky nerds, popular girl, cute guy, ugh ugh ugh!

3 It makes fun of people with braces

So Chloe is accepted and loved despite her braces, yet when they see a 6th-grade MacKenzie wearing them, she is laughed at an shunned. I feel bad for MK to be honest.

Nikki laughed at MacKenzie's 6th grade picture.

4 Everything is so cliche
5 It encourages kids to believe that school doesn't matter.

She doesn't even do her home work!

6 Nikki is mean

All she does is complain, and she acts SO annoying like can you just stop talking about how crappy or fabulous your life is and worry about SCHOOL not your cruah or how mean your bully is if she so mean
THAN STAND UP TO HER.

SHES ANNOYING AND MEAN TO HER LITTLE SIS she expects everything to go her way JUST UGH

I'm writing this because Dork Diaries 15 is coming out and I'm already not looking forward to it.

"A middle-grade book series about Nikki Maxwell's humorous & dramatic life written in diary format by Rachel Renée Russell". Yep, I am totally enjoying this right now. Endless drama, cliché stereotypes and annoying characters is just what I want to read about. (I'm being sarcastic) But this book mad sucks! No offence to those who actually like this series because they're entitled to like whatever they want. But here are the reasons why Dork Diaries is hated:

All Nikki Ever Does Is Complain

Nikki is nothing more than a spoiled brat who complains about literally everything and anything. Whenever a new problem emerges, she complains about it in her diary, and still hasn't learned till today that complaining in her diary won't solve her problems. Honestly, instead of talking to her parents about what goes on at school, she'd rather write trash about how ...more

Honestly this is half true. Nikki is very caring to her bffs as she always worries about hurting their feelings. BUT her behaviour towards Brandon is VERY aggravating as she constantly is snarky and sarcastic towards him. She jumps to conclusions whenever he hangs out with Mackenzie, but it feels very controlling as if Brandon hangs out with Mackenzie it doesn’t mean that he likes her and Nikki gets very annoyed when they are together. Girls and guys can be friends too!
Also, she constantly upsets and hurts Brandon to the point where I find it hard to belive brandon actually still likes her because she constantly treats him like dirt by hurling insults at him because he was talking to Mackenzie and he is obviously very hurt as NIKKI describes it. She is obviously not purposely mean to him as she constantly misinterpretes his behaviour and gets mad at him. She is a kind girl but she can be very sarcastic, probably too much Tyra Banks 😂 ( if your a fan u will get that joke)

She's always saying stuff in her head so no one else can here it but her. One day, she'll eventually open her nasty potty mouth and accidently say what she said in her head.

7 It encourages kids to believe they are better than others

Nikki is mean and cruel, but everything unbelievable happens. Her life is filled with adventurous drama where there's this mean girl (Mackenzie) who is like the devil herself, there's a cute boy who somehow likes her back, and finally, she wins everything! On top of all that, she is said to be smart and popular and is voted to be the best in everything. This high school she goes to needs to teach the kids what proper behavior and kind people actually do.

8 Lack of character development

Brandon doesn't have a personality, Mackenzie has no depth, Nikki never learns to improve her very flawed personality, Nikki's friends don't have personalities.

Mackenzie is forever a mean girl without anything likeable. Everyone else is the exact same at the end of the books.

There's no character development because again, everybody is just a stereotype.

9 Too many acronyms

True. Nikki says "" all the time, it gets annoying.

I like Nikki because she is friendly

10 How ungrateful Nicki is

@UwUz_For_Life, I agree 100%. Whenever Nikki has a problem, she writes trash about everyone in her diary and complains non-stop about how everyone is making her life hell and how she never gets to do what she wants. That's literally ALL she does on a day-to-day basis. This just also sums up how she should be in no position to call ANYONE whether it's Mackenzie or her little sister a BRAT.

First of all, she's always trash talking her parents because they don't get her what they want. She actually called her Mom BRAIN DEAD! For real?! Is this the true meaning of "always let your inner dork shine through?" No wonder the blog section on that trash website is full of spoiled little fan girls complaining about not getting what they want or bratty little sister. And it never ends because they're getting advice from a literal SPOILED BRAT.

Secondly, whenever she does get new clothes, she insults them and trash talks her mother by saying, "You've provided me with ...more

I totally agree!
Nikki has her own T.V show but to this day she is still complaining about how cruddy her life is. I mean seriously?!

The Contenders
11 Nikki is a lot like Mackenzie and doesn't know it

Don't worry, we're smarter than Nikki, she's just a stupid kid.

12 Nikki gets everything she wants but she acts like she does not know it
13 Disrespects her family

She gets mad at them went they want to have a little fun. Oh, is fun not allowed here? Is it too embarrassing to Miss Perfect Maxwell? Well, neither a dorks, so get a life or rot in hell where you belong, brat.

I totally agree! In book 12, she's all, "It was pouring raining outside so I was stuck INSIDE with my CRUDDY family! "
And then she has audacity-WHAT AUDACITY to start complaining about boardgame madness. Even a game that Brianna made, she always has to turn everything into something about her.

She treats them like trash, right?

14 It's too sexist

Agreed and they don't even have a spectrum of characters like introduce a character of a different ethnicity or a character of different race or at least a character who has a different sexuality

15 Rip-off of Diary of a Wimpy Kid

"Actually, Dork Diaries came before Dear Dumb Diary & Diary of a Wimpy kid"...
No it did not. Diary Of A Wimpy Kid and Dear Dumb Diary came out in 2004 and Dork Diaries came out in 2009. Get your facts straight. It was the Dear Dumb Diary MOVIE that came out in 2013.

I hate how everyone throws that "oh, dork diaries came out before diary of a-" NO! Dork Diaries did not come out before Diary Of A Wimpy Kid and Dear Dumb Diary did not come out in 2013. That was the MOVIE that came out.

Honestly, I can bare Diary of a Wimpy Kid, but I have no idea how I liked this. It's literally Diary of a Wimpy Kid, except with a female and only more stereotypical.

Diary Of A Wimpy Kid and Dear Dumb Diary are so much better than this stupid series!

16 It has annoying characters

The wannabe dork who cries when the mean girl bullies her only so she can do it to everyone else, the mean girl with her pathetic insults, the wannabe cute guy, the clingy friends, the clingy little sister...

I guess the first 2 books or so we're okay but after that it started to get REALLY unrealistic and annoying like she GETS HER OWN T.V. SHOW I ONE BOOK and also makenzie is REALLY EVIL NOBODY IS THAT EVIL IN REAL LIFE And also niki always is like I'M A HUGE DORK but actually shes a SPOLIED DIVA WHO ISINT A DORK And plus that last book is REALLY bad by the way I think it's the worst one

It's just a really stupid series. Like the kind of stupid that makes you feel like you got stupider after reading it.

Yeah. No middle schoolers in reality act or talk like in those books. They are even worse trash talkers than the stars of Jersey Shore.

17 Too much drama

I agree. She makes most of the Drama up and never seems to have any actual problems. Or if she does, they're self created. Funny though. If the author lampshades how much drama Nikki causes, it would be better. Right now Nikki is always blaming others for her problems.

School humor books always have drama in them.

18 Mackenzie Hollister is way too mean

Mackenzie is a spoiled brat who literally DESERVES to be digging in the dumpster

Book 1: She teased Nikki for breaking her art project.
Book 2: She laughed at Nikki when she got a plate of chocolate cake on her dress.
Book 3: She laughed at Nikki when Nikki ran to the bathroom.
Book 4: She called Nikki a "pathetic little phony".

19 Nikki watches perverted things on TV

Lol and the age range is 9-13

20 It contains bullying
21 Super Unrealistic

So, Nikki gets a reality T.V. show. Um tf? I liked book one and two but After that, it gets really unrelatable. Nikki also managed to date the "one boy in every teen drama that everyone likes" which really makes this book unrealistic.

22 All of the female characters say OMG!

It is so annoying when girls say! It is like I never want to hear it again! Girls in Dork Diaries say that they look cute and popular when they say! I am saying it to Nikki Chloe and Zoey! Not only to Mackenzie and Jessica.

23 Everyone is heterosexual

So? Like is it really a crime for everybody to be heterosexual? Honestly this point is stupid. NOT. EVERYTHING. HAS. TO. HAVE. GAY. CHARACTERS.

Is there something wrong with straight people? Why do you feel the need to point out that everyone is heterosexual if you don’t have a problem with heterosexuals? I’ve agreed with all of your points made up until now.

24 No diversity at all

Literally Zoe is the only black character, and all the girls like the same things such as dresses and all that. Is it so hard to just add a tomboy, or a book nerd?

Are there even any black characters?
And gay/ lesbian/ people who AREN'T WHITE?
And why do all the girls... girly? I know you can't have a total tomboy nation but really? 1 WHOLE HIGH SCHOOL with ALL THE GIRLS BEING GIRLY AND LIKING DRESSES AND CRAP?

Well, Chloe is Latina, and Zoey is African-American, and Andre is French. And Chloe happens to be a "book nerd".

I mean, the author is black. But yeah, you're right.

25 Nikki is obsessed over being a dork

Even worse, she isn't a dork. She probably doesn't even know what "dork" means. She's a spoiled Mary Sue and you can't read at least 5 paragraphs without hearing "! "

Seriously, in the 3rd book, the original name of her lame band was Dorkalicious. Seriously. DORKALICIOUS. Are you kidding me?

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