I mean, I get the joke of his presence in Homestuck on an absurdity level but the disdain for him seems grander and more nebulous and they can't all be memers, can they?
1. He's ruining Food Network. Which strikes me as odd because I wasn't aware there were that many hip young people on the internet who cared about Food Network. And because Guy Fieri is really secondary here—even if you think the shows he hosts are demonstrably terrible, the people who are really ruining the station are the executives who keep giving Guy Fieri new shows, and the audience who keeps watching those shows and therefore convinces the executives that Guy Fieri should get more shows.
2. He's trying to kill his audience by focusing on wildly unhealthy foods in his shows. Because TV shows cause bad eating just like video games cause violence.
I think the real reason is that he looks like an obnoxious frat bro, so people have a knee-jerk dislike of him. And then they make up a different reason after the fact to pretend they aren't being shallow and judgmental.
Another data point is that Food Network has changed a lot since, well, let's say 1999 (when Good Eats premiered). Food Network used to be about pithy how-to shows and quiet, PM Magazine-ish travelogues (I wonder if anyone but me remembers The Best Of... and Food Finds) with the occasional showman's flair (Emeril Live comes to mind).
And then Iron Chef became a big hit, and the take-away at Food Network HQ was that people wanted more competitive, macho Cooking Duels (and shows themed like them; I'll get to that) and less how-to shows and fluffy documentaries. Diners, Drive-ins and Dives is a travelogue, but it definitely fits the ~exciting new direction~ Food Network embarked on after, oh, 2004 or so (and definitely after they shoved most of the older shows off to Cooking Channel), and a lot of people who liked the old, low-key Food Network hold it up as a poster child of How Bad Food Network Is Now even if it may not totally deserve it.
Also, DD&D is something of an indirect sequel to Alton Brown's travelogue series Feasting on Asphalt, and as such I have to wonder if there are AB/Good Eats fans bitter that he didn't get the role.
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
I mean, I get the joke of his presence in Homestuck on an absurdity level but the disdain for him seems grander and more nebulous and they can't all be memers, can they?
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead