User blog comment:Dorkpool/Are Some Stories Above Crtiticism?/@comment-25941663-20150406140816

This is a very interesting topic you are bringing up. Mostly I agree with you. Nothing should be above criticism. But I do believe 'being the first of your kind' (eg. what Herobrine is to Minecraft pastas) should be taken into account when critiquing art/anything.

A quick example: Should Turing's work be considered rubbish, simply because every single computer nowadays is vastly faster/better? No, because his work was the major breakthrough in the field of Computer Science.

That should be applied to everything. When you are the one pushing the frontier of a genre/medium/field, the fact that you are "exploring uncharted territory" means a lot.