User blog comment:Flagator24/Why does Mike get so much hate?/@comment-30448086-20190101221418

Because he's a boring, bland protagonist who got an insane amount of screentime dedicated to his clichéd romance with another bland character in spite of there being far more interesting characters that could have received that much focus? Plus, he had that AWFUL plotline regarding the journey into his brain (which broke one of the most important rules in the series - seriously, how did they record inside there, since everything is recorded), and he and his boring girlfriend ultimately turned out to the some of the few characters in AS (and the series in general, since its retroactive hiatus) to get a happy ending. Even though most of the other contestants were just launched away in fart balloons and might as well have just died.