Foster kids get this all the time. I definitely got it.

Really, anybody with self-esteem issues, which is probably everyone (at least to some extent), will do this when thinking about themselves.

Not too long ago I took (and failed) a high school teacher training course. During the year, all teacher trainees are placed on practicum - actual experience at a high school - and when we returned from our first one, we had a class where we were all supposed to talk in groups about our positive and negative experiences at our respective high schools (and what made them positive or negative). The "positive" talk lasted for a few sentences from each person, mostly consisting of generalities, while many of my fellow trainees started going on INTO DETAIL about all the unkind teachers, bratty kids, etcetera...I was not exempt from that syndrome myself.

This is 90% of my style. Rather than focus on the long list of things that make me love a show or comic or community (which I still do, just not as often), I will instead ''obliterate'' anything I do not like. Or as I put it: Removing problems is my job, so I'm going to do it. After all, if you sift out the dirt, all that's left is gold.

Wait, is that you, Yahtzee?

I have a (former) friend who is like that. She broke up with her loser boyfriend? Well now she doesn't have a date for prom (which is in three months). She got a good grade on a test? It's not like it matters, she's definitely going to fail the next one. An extension on her paper? She ''procrastinates'' anyway, pulls an all-nighter, and then complains. People, don't be like this. Please.

My father is the most unhappy, miserable person she knows. The only thing that seems to make him even remotely happy is making everyone around him as unhappy and miserable as he is. If I voice a desire to apply for a certain job, start a feasible small business, go back to school to finish my degree, or better myself ''in any way'', he shoots it down and outlines for me at least ten reasons why I will fail. Seriously, being in the same room with this guy for ''five minutes'' would make you seriously consider killing yourself with only the objects in said room. I know I do.

Did I reproduce without knowing it?

This tropette is this towards cinema, soap operas, and teen dramas.

I uses this as a method of expressing joy and triumph. She'd give an example to clear that terribly vague sentence up, but most examples are composed of at least 80% new and exciting swearwords.

I use this method all the time when reviewing or discussing a work. In his opinion, if you criticize a work, be it good or not, you give the work areas to improve, which is often far more productive and causes a great deal more constructive conversation than just gushing about this. This has the side-effect of the friends of I assuming that he just hates everything. It doesn't help that he oftentimes is a bit harsh in his critiques, even when he likes the work in question. (See: Doctor Who.)

This troper does the same thing for reviewing games and posting said reviews on GameFAQs. Because he criticized popular games like SuperSmashBrosBrawl, MarioParty 8, TombRaider Anniversary and AlienSwarm, FanDumb swarmed in and nitpicked all points in my review, acting like as if I knew nothing of the games I had played.

The troper who started the TroperTales page in the first place is sadly not surprised that the HumansAreBastards section is far longer than RousseauWasRight - in both TroperTales and Main Page sections. She chalks this, and this entire trope, to the fact that we tend to ''notice'' the bad more than the good, and take the latter for granted.

I became a pessimistic NietzscheWannabe due to too much accentuating the negative. Forget your friends comforting you, your father buying you a new laptop and taking you to the park; But always remembering those assholes who bullied you in school for being a nerd, and remember that KidsAreCruel, TeensAreMonsters, and HumansAreBastards! I often do not appreciate the little things in life, such as family and friends, since I have a mindset that optimism is for kids and the retarded, but when it comes to the negative, he criticizes life, the universe and everything, most of all life, and often very angry, for example don't even get him started on how there are many poor people rotting in Africa. This accentuating of the negative also got into religion: for many Christians God created the universe, but for this {{Nay Theist}}ic troper, GodIsEvil who likes to torture humans for all eternity and he simply gives humans hope so they would be more MoeMoe from God's perspective, and therefore be more fun to torture. He sees Christianity as a menace which prevents homosexuality and euthanasia, but does not appreciate its charity works. This might have something to do with psychology: traumatic experiences are easier to remember in the unconscious.

This troper's guidance counsellor recently remarked that she'd like to slap him for constantly doing this to himself.

This is the kind of treatment this troper has come to experience at work. Doesn't seem to matter how much good I've done -- all I ever hear about is what I do wrong, to the point where I am currently on my LastSecondChance before being fired over mundane clerical errors.

This troper finds it incredibly odd how one of his friends keeps calling him out on being a "Cynic" because I thought that ''Film/Avatar'' was an utter ClicheStorm and not in the charming way; and how I ''surprisingly'' thought ''HowToTrainYourDragon'', a movie I had ''zero interest in'', was "Average;" and "it's hard to talk to a cynic" - whereas this is the same person who seems to be actively ''looking'' for stuff to get mad at and his mood is comparable to Madagascar - I once ruined his entire mood for the night because I ''sneezed on skype''.

My year in college used to suffer from this, big time. Considering we're a drama course who use a lot of abstract work for training purposes, it was very, very unhelpful. Things have improved of late, though.

I tend to complain about grades 1-8 a lot, and i mean A LOT! but I got my rights, thoses years SUCKED!

This troper hears a shitton of this being delivered at {{Nintendo}} and SquareEnix, especially since "They're milking all of their franchises", sometimes naming stuff like ''LegendOfZelda'', ''ValkyrieProfile'' or ''{{Pokemon}}'' as examples. For starters; how is ''SquareEnix'' milking ''ValkyrieProfile''? There are only three games. Not to mention; the developer is ''TriAce'' - Square-Enix is only the publisher. And the same with pokemon. (Apparently most people don't know that Nintendo is only the publisher of Pokemon.) Even mentioning that they have actually published and/or developed a lot of new IPs and franchises. Nintendo in particular has developed or published (The latter is what they actually do more. Most people don't know this, it seems.) a good ''twenty'' to ''twenty five'' new IPs in the past six years - Especially if you include stuff like ''GloryOfHeracles'' (picked up title) or spinoffs like ''PokemonMysteryDungeon''. Nobody buys them; or even acknowledges they exist. And SquareEnix you know has actually published or developed a lot of new IPs, including publishing some games like ''CallOfDutyModernWarfare 2'' in Japan.

Story of this high-school troper's life when it comes to chemistry grades. At a 71, it's the only bad subject on the most recent report card. Naturally, it's the only one that this troper's mother ever focuses on.

We have to have a workplace meeting every time we have a complaint...no matter how stupid they are. That's all they focus on. Strangely we never get any notice about ''compliments'' we receive.

A college newspaper article was talking about how you can sue for the most frivolous things, and mentioning the case of Stella Liebeck (You know, the "Coffee lady") was a deliberate AccentuateTheNegative, bordering on DidNotDoTheResearch - Did you know that she was still found partially liable (only 20%) because she ''didn't read the warnings'', or that she ''wanted to settle outside of court'' but none other than McDonalds refused?

Troper is a (leftist) political activist and FanFic writer working in a notoriously unstable job field that involves anticipating and repairing the results of Murphy's Law. This trope works great in those areas, as politics always means looking out for future implications, and anticipating a future issue is 50% of preventing critical failure down the line. In fanfic, being able to point out FridgeHorror and WhatTheHellHero can make for some great stories. The bad part is that I'm unable to turn it off...

Nearly everyone this troper grew up around did this-even the teachers:

If I got a 99 on a test, I'd hear from someone, "Well, it's not a one hundred." Or, if I could read at a second grade level in first grade, "You should be on fourth grade level books." Even worse, when I did get that one hundred or finish that level four book, I'd then get from my fellow students, "You're acting white"/"You're making us look bad"/"You're a mindless sheep for doing homework."

Also, they didn't like to give people props when they did a good job because they didn't want us to "get too confident and think you're better than everyone."

My parents and other family were the exception to this, thank god, but they had their moments. I remember them getting on my brother for a B-minus, to the point where I thought that a B-minus was a terrible grade and anything below a ninety might as well be failing. Fortunately, I grew out of this mindset by highschool's end.

Sus has an unfortunate tendency to notice the shortcomings in just about anything, especially his own life and achievements (or rather, the glaringly obvious lack thereof). It can be quite wearisome for his family and friends.

A number of years back, I decided to stop using ICQ as an online messaging program due to getting a new computer, the high amount of spam messages to the point that it overflowed my ignore list, and receiving a virus as the last straw. The problem is that I've never gotten a replacement program. Why? Every time someone online talks about a program like AIM, it's to point out how AOL is the scum of the earth, how annoying people are on AIM, how it is still prone to spam (this even comes up on TheOtherWiki's article), etc. It wasn't until recently that I realized that all of those people still have the program and keep in touch with each other using it. But in those intervening years, my lack of online messaging basically made me fall out of touch with my guild in an MMORPG I used to play, almost everyone I knew at college, various family members, etc., and I have continued to suffer from low self esteem issues as a result of having so few people to talk to. No matter whose fault it is in the end, I can't help but get the feeling that it could have all been avoided if ''someone'', during all those years of making fun of the various flaws of the program they used, could have simply told me that it's still a useful program for keeping in touch with people and that I should probably get it.

Then again, that seems to be all you'll find ''here'', too.