Why does everyone hate Naruto?

Pikamemnon, I don't know you in real life, but for some reason you strike me as a Narutard someone who'll be a well-versed anime fan with deeper tastes and more interesting things to talk about with a lot of us here... in like 3 or 4 years. Yeah. Glad that's out of my system.

I watched Naruto back in 10th grade because I wondered what all the hubbub was about. It was one of my earliest shows, and I enjoyed it. For a while. I think there were ~110-130 episodes out then and the first 50 or 60 were perfectly enjoyable. Hell, I liked it. Then stuff hit the emo-fan and then the fillers started. Since this was right at the start of my anime viewing, I really didn't know what filler was. Never occured to me I could skip it and not miss a thing. So I sat through another 30 or so episodes of it and finally gave up. That was miserable. Would only wish it on my worst enemies. Since I was already at the upper end of the target audience back then, I have zero interest in going back now. I did learn my lesson though, so when I wanted to know what the fuss was about for Bleach, I skipped every filler episode and had a much better experience with that show. Now and then I like to watch some really brainless shounen, so I catch up a little Bleach. I think I'm 3 seasons behind right now, but eh. Whatever. It's getting a little too much like DBZ pacing.