User blog comment:Gogogadget831/Character Appreciation - Week 2: Amy/@comment-24152851-20170111071236/@comment-31556666-20170111172149

From my understanding the reason a majority of people much prefer Taylor to Amy is that Taylor's meanness to her mother is written in a much more light-hearted way. Her rudeness is much more casual and does sound exactly like what a spoiled teenage girl would be like to her over-caring and embarassing mother. Both characters have humour incorporated into them, but the thing is that Amy's humour is a lot more scathing and cut-throat and therefore reduces a lot of people's enjoyment in her. Taylor is just a generally mean person who probably is hard to tolerate if you knew her in real life but her character is never written over the line. She never tries to kill her mother. She never tries ostracizing her mother from a bunch of people. She never doubts everything her mother is capable of and recognizes what her mother is good at. Amy does all those things.

And a big thing worth mentioning is that Taylor's meanness is considered more complex and realistic than Amy. Here's a comparison. Amy absolutely hates her sister because Amy was born first and thinks her sister is inferior. She then bullies and makes her sister feel awful about herself for a straight sixteen years and never showing any kindness or light-heartedness as a person ''once. Taylor is annoyed ''by her mother trying to fit in so much with her. This is because ever since Taylor was at a young age she was spoiled by her mother because she has always wanted the best for her daughter. As a result Taylor expects too much from her mother and when Kelly doesn't do what she wants she gets frustrated with her. Now ask yourself, which is the more realistic character?