Around 2017-2018, there used to be a huge circlejerk online about how Fortnite was the dumbest thing ever, to the point where “Fortnite bad, Minecraft good” was part of the infamous Keanu Chungus 100 meme. Why did it get so much hate, and why did it stop?
Stuff that’s popular with any demographic - but especially mid teens and younger - gets hated on disproportionately when adults that are disinterested see it ‘invading’ their spaces.
At least that’s my take.
What I find really interesting is after the hate train ended it never had a resurgence in popularity like Minecraft did.
That might be because Fortnite had managed to become weirdly messy and bloated by the time that could happen, and was already somewhat degenerate/impure at launch. And unlike Minecraft, all the messy variation/complexity was right there on the surface, not part of a deep modding scene.
When I opened Minecraft, it didn’t make any effort to sell me a Borderlands skin.
You telling me people don’t hate fortnite now?
It was probably the extreme surge in popularity. Sustaining hate for something so innocuous is difficult long-term, so people lost interest. My son and I started in season 2, and he still plays with his friends. It’s a phenomenal social game.
That’s my guess anyway.
I played Fortnite when it was a tower defense coop game. It was okay, nothing special. Then PUBG came out and it gained some popularity. Fortnite quickly copied this and went free to play. In a short amount of time, a game I kind of liked became overrun by children that were screaming into the microphone the entire game.
That was when I stopped paying attention to Fortnite at all. AFAIK, the hate never stopped.
Because it was the new thing the kids were doing. Go back 10 years and you’d fine people shitting on Minecraft for similar reasons. Couple that with the fact that Fortnite effectively cartoonified PUBG and became bigger than it and you have a perfect storm. Similar to Counter Strike players who hate on Valorant for being cartoony. I present to you this now legendary copypasta that summarizes things:
valarante child game… look to cartoon grapfix to make kid player happy like children show… valarante cartoon world with rainbow unlike counter strike chad with dark corridorr and raelistic gun… valarante like playhouse. valarant playor run from csgo fear of dark world and realism
Tbh I never liked realistic graphics because they look ugly when bad, and highly distracting when “good.” Not judging people who prefer them though.
Minecraft had tons and tons of issues until Microsoft finally got Notch to stop writing code for it.