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Often derided for their poor quality, obsession with dancing cats and crassness -- an AI "Shrimp Jesus" became notorious after flooding Facebook -- they also raised fears about the death of creativity.

When Universal Pictures split its musical adaptation of "Wicked" into two films, the move was derided by some critics as a cynical -- if spectacularly successful -- money grab.

For their big solos the principals tend to plant themselves front and center to sing—a style derided in opera as “park-and-bark.”

Before Tesla voters ratified Elon Musk’s trillion dollar pay package, the Tesla CEO derided proxy advisors as “corporate terrorists.”

This shift came amid political pressure, particularly from far-right and conservative politicians such as Sarkozy, who have often derided the justice system as too soft and sluggish.