Nickelback, one Finnish researcher has figured you out.
Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger plays his heart out.
Most simply accept the universal truth that people hate the purveyors of "How You Remind Me" and other elevator rock hits, but Salli Anttonen, a doctoral student at the University of Eastern Finland, proved it scientifically.
She recently scoured 14 years' worth of reviews of the Canadian rock pariahs to pinpoint the true explanation of the widespread ire: the band lacks "a sincere identity."
"Nickelback is too much of everything to be enough of something," Anttonen wrote, according to the BBC. "They follow genre expectations too well which is seen as empty imitation."
She also discovered that early reviews didn't skew so negative — but as the eardrum-grating rockers exploded, so did their volume of vocal critics.
Anttonen's paper, appropriately enough, is titled, "'Hypocritical Bulls--t Performed Through Gritted Teeth': Authenticity Discourses in Nickelback's Album Reviews in Finnish Media."
"Nickelback is too much of everything to be enough of something," wrote a Finnish doctoral student.
There are other observable data.
Australia's Queensland Police Service last year tweeted a "Wanted" posteraccusing the group of "crimes against music."
"Urgent police warning: Men matching this description expected to be committing musical crimes in Boondall tonight," the police agency wrote.
Another hater in 2014 launched an online fundraiserto bar the band from performing in London.
"Just imagine, thousands — perhaps tens of thousands of music lovers — all not witnessing an exclusive concert by Nickelback in London," wrote Craig Mandell. "It will be glorious. Legendary. Dare we say, game changing?"