u/Icy-Action5575

When a piece of media gets so popular that other people decide to attempt to replicate it without understanding what made the original so good, making the replications awful and causing the original or “Patient Zero” to be lumped in with the awful replications.

1. Scary Movie - A pretty funny raunchy 2000s parody film which many thought was going to revive the spoof genre, only to sink it deeper due to “2 of the 5 writers” of Scary Movie (though that’s only TECHNICALLY correct) making a spew of godawful “movie movies”, attempting to cash in on the Scary Movie formula, such as Epic Movie, Disaster Movie, Meet the Spartans and Date Movie. But that excludes Not Another Teen Movie and Superhero Movie, those ones are actually good.

2. Kindergarten Cop - A fun family comedy with the concept of “What if a hardcore action star had to babysit?”, with its hardcore action star being Arnold Schwarzenegger. Other studios then took this concept and put out lazy, soulless cash grabs with other action stars; Hulk Hogan, Vin Diesel, John Cena, Dwayne Johnson, Dave Bautista, you name it.

3. Kurtis Connor, Danny Gonzales and Drew Gooden - Basically all three of these guys make the same content with some minor differences, like Drew is more serious, Danny talks about movies more and Kurtis is…..not funny. And they’re all pretty good. But a lot of creators (mainly millennials) have basically copied their content style and thumbnail setup to make very lazy, engagement/rage baity videos, mainly with the topics of “this generation bad!”.