> I don't get the hate the Minecraft gets now
What "hate"? The author describes his son showing signs of addiction, and ends up laughing it off.
What "hate"? The author describes his son showing signs of addiction, and ends up laughing it off.
Are you sure people despise things for being popular, that they don't just react to popular things more often and more strongly because popularity means you encounter them more often?
On the other hand, popularity does sadly imply a certain amount of identifying with and irrationally defending of something, which ironically adds to the hateworthyness of it. Not because it's to blame for the people who like it, but because it comes with the people who like it and their dividing of everything into fans or haters.
If you hate a game and dismiss everyone who plays it just because some of its fans are annoying, you are being just as irrational and identity-obsessed as the fans that piss you off.
And, yes, I've seen that happen a lot.