The popular=HATE is total bullshit in Haruhi's case.
Haruhi's hate is totally off scale even for /a's standards. It's more popular than dbz, naruto, evangelion or the likes? No and still it got saged to death. Why?
Because Harutards spammed the shit out of /a. There were 30-40 threads at the same time back in the days and almost all were fucking lame threads with 1-2 pictures of the same scene as to make sure nobody skip that "LOL there are 10 threads about this going but let's make another just in case...". Over and over again and then reposts. THOUSANDS of reposts. Pushing /a's limits.
And then november/december asosbrigade.com faggotry. Spam all over the place to hype and promote Haruhi being licensed. With the collateral effect of 100 DAILY threads about the fucking voice actors over and over again. And more faggotry.
Then Anonymous said "no more" and the "Viral Marketing" meme was born and haruhi will be forever hated and saged to death thanks to this and faggots like that are obvious troll claiming Haruhi was the best anime of the decade, it was a revolution and we must bow to God.
Well thank you, Haruhi fanbase. You turned an okay anime in a complete faggotry. Now cry moar "Oh noes! The show is popular so it does get saged! waaah waaah". Cry me a river fags.
And since i typed the whole thing now i will save this as future Copypasta.