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One of the things to point out also was that Opie was frequently regarded as the "fun gatekeeper".It's kind of like an irritating noise - you don't really notice until it's pointed out to you, but once you hear it, you can't unhear it. Opie was without a doubt the least funny of the three and if you listen long enough you can tell how much he would stomp out bits and derail funny conversations.
This clip is a great example -
I remember this clip from the mid 2000s and never really noticing how blatantly Opie puts an end to the fun. Maybe he actually needed to go to break and it was unfortunately timed, but after more familiarity it sounds more like another one of the weird passive aggressive slights he would pull when he was feeling insecure that other people were being funny. This may seem like a weird conclusion to jump to, but when you hear stories about how he would make comedians wait outside unnecessarily as a power move it makes more sense. Avid listeners of a show start to pick up on this sort of shit.![]()
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The Opie hate really took off after Ant was fired. Emotions were already high that a funny show ended and Opie and Jim was clearly not pulling the same weight. Unfortunately, Opie started attempting atrocious solo comedy online like "Loves the Internet Guy" and "Harry Hater" that was so bad it wasn't just unfunny, but showed he seemed to have some sort of neurological failure to understand comedy. It only got worse when he showed how thin skinned he was to trolling and criticism when people would trash him for it. After the O&A show developed a fanbase dedicated to viciously mean humor, trolling, and trashing unfunny comedy, it was only natural that the fanbase would become completely dedicated to trashing Opie. All the stupid shit he said in the past was dredged up and it became open season to point out just how awful he had always been.
In the oldest O&A communities still around, at this point Opie hate is so passe and Anthony has become such a faggot that the sentiment has flipped and the bit is now ironically praising Opie. "Wigger Rich" for example first came out writing diss tracks on Opie and eventually turned around to Anthony and Jim. And anyway Opie has been trolled so badly that he's a legitimately broken husk of a human being and only the latest adopters (ie faggots on YouTube and desperate fans still following Anthony) are coming to kick the corpse.
When the show was hitting on all cylinders (Opie, Ant, Jim) people would clamor for a show that was just Anthony and Jim and occasionally it would happen if Opie was sick or something and usually it would be directionless chaos, which is really fun in moderation. People really hated Opie back in the day because they felt like he was standing in the way of the best show ever - the "Anthony and Jim show". Now in 2021, after the breakup, people can watch a show where Anthony is in charge (TACS) and a show where Jim is in charge (Jim and Sam) and they're both, frankly, fucking horrible.
People now soften on Opie because they realize without Opie, the show would just be Anthony and/or Jim using the show for their own ends. Jimmy would just book guests based on who he wanted to take a picture with that day and Anthony would just have the show be "Race Relations, direct from Stormfront.com" all day, every day. Opie shutting down a bunch of that shit was essential for the show working the way that it did.