I'm one of the best-loved psychologists in the United States, but I'm also probably the most hated one.
There's not even real *popularity* at my school." "That," Coli said emphatically, "is a sentence that has only ever been spoken by popular people.
I think the love-hate is fundamental. Everyone hates reality television, and everyone's watching it. Everyone hates Facebook, and everyone is on it.
There are shows that are monolithic successes on TV that nobody in the business ever watches one episode of.
Despite being able to demonstrate a very large audience, major advertisers at first wouldn't touch Limbaugh.
My friends and I have often discussed the plausibility of a connection between qualitatively bad music and quantifiably successful music, often citing the example of Candlebox and their paradoxical influence on culture.
However popular you are, you still feel like an outsider.
