[ SECRET POST #3510 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3510 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Stephen King]


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[John Green]


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04.
[American Gods]


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05.
[Charlie Hunnam in King Arthur: Legend of the Sword]


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06.
[Penn & Teller: Fool Us]


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[Steven Universe]


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08.
[Questionable Content]


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[Ghostbusters 2016]











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Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[fscom]

03. http://i.imgur.com/RVhvUkk.png
[John Green]

[iceyred]

I don't hate him. His stuff is just very basic and forgettable. He, himself? No hate.

[(Anonymous)]

With literally anything that gets popular and hyped on the Internet, there's going to be a backlash. 100%, no exceptions. And John Green was very popular on the Internet, and not just was he popular but with a very argumentative demographic. So the backlash was more vitriolic than it might have been otherwise.

But at the end of the day, something on the Internet facing a backlash doesn't necessarily have any relation to its quality. It's literally inevitable. As something gets more and more popular on the Internet, it gets exposed to more and more people, some of whom don't like it, just because everything is subjective. And when those people see it, it's being talked about in a very popular way, which frustrates them because they don't get why people like it. And at a certain point of critical mass, there's enough of those people to get together and start giving out about the reasons they don't like it, and boom, you got yourself a backlash.

Always happens. Nothing you can do to stop it. 100% of the time. No reflection on quality. Just try not to get too involved in any part of the cycle - the hype or the backlash or the subsequent arguments - because it's pointless and stupid and unproductive. That's literally the most you can do.

[ypsilon42]

I feel like the hate is mostly backlash, ir at least that's the only explanation i have. That and tumblrs mentality, really...

[bio_obscura]

His writing just feels like the literature equivalent of a hipster tumblr with shitty filtered photographs of skinny white girls with their windblown blond hair in their face and terrible poetry excerpts like "And she kissed like stardust."

[scrubber]

Yeah, that's how I feel also about his writing style. He has a very puffy way of writing, like every line is supposed to be lingering and impressive. It comes off as overcooked and pretentious. I can't read his shit.

Which sucks cause I really like him as a guy. Him and his brother are funny.

[(Anonymous)]

As someone who follows John Green for nerdfighter reasons (and is plenty critical of him) but doesn't read his novels I get confused by secrets like this.

Anyway, you sound like you've got a balanced and thoughtful perspective OP. Carry on.

[sabotabby]

I've only read one of his books, but as someone who went through a life-threatening illness and watched loved ones die of cancer, it rang very true. His characters don't speak like actual teenagers, but his grasp of the horrors and indignity of suffering is dead accurate, and I really eyeroll at criticism that comes from healthy, able-bodied people. (Cancer survivors are welcome to critique away, of course.)

[(Anonymous)]

Cancer survivor here! I hated that book - not because of the suffering parts, which were indeed spot-on - but because of the way that the book discarded everyone else as unimportant.

[sabotabby]

Fair enough.

[(Anonymous)]

I know a lot of people - including me - are annoyed by the Grand Pronouncements he makes about himself and his "accomplishments" (that whole "this is the first teen movie where a girl initiated the kiss" statement about TFIOS, which was not true) and that makes it easy to dismiss him.

That said, his sports-only twitter is good and he makes some good points about the EPL.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't read his books but I think his educational youtube channels are great.

[(Anonymous)]

I think tumblr tearing him apart further perpetuates the idea that the progressive left constantly eats itself and is incredibly counterproductive.

[(Anonymous)]

0/10 *yawn*

[(Anonymous)]

I've met him while working at a bookstore. Perfectly nice guy.

Amazing how the whole Nerdfighter thing has literally disappeared, though. Wow.