What is your biggest pet peeve(s) in stories/story lines?

[Zeromus]

Also, the things detailed in this video.

Oh my god, that video generalized and slammed almost every awful thing about FF.net. I am no stranger to anime having grown up with all the mainstream stuff as a kid, and even making it through most of the Naruto series, but that part about the shitty weaboo fanfic was so accurate it made me cringe as I began to recall stories that did just that. The random usage of Japanese words, the awkward use of Asian emoticons (^;^), and of course the random author notes in the middle of the story.

It's stuff like that that makes me doubt the idea of even writing a story, but then I remember even amongst all the garbage that "younger" writers publish, there are some awesome stories that I've come across, and it's those half a dozen really good stories that make up for the 100+ it took to find them.

I think it's also really good that no matter how bad you are, it's good to have people help iron your way through this if you want to pursue writing (something I will never do) as a serious career one day. And I know there's times when you should stick to your ideals, and do what you want to do, but I think writing is such a broad and impossible to master subject, it's keep everything you hear from people in mind. Hell, it's a good state of mind to keep yourself in if you ever want to create something different from others.