I need to not read those kinds of comments, they make me upset. People say One Piece is dumb and that's simply not true. It's been around this long for a reason, and I know there are other things that have gone on for as long as One Piece and they've spiraled into being not so good, but One Piece stands the test of time.
I remember turning on Fox one Saturday morning to watch Kirby, and there was this pirate show on. This stretchy little man was fighting this clown fella. I've loved One Piece ever since. Sure, I never was able to see all the episodes of the original U.S. run, and I fell out of it after Toonami went off the air, but in 2010 I decided to get back into it, for real this time.
People who say they don't like One Piece seriously just haven't seen enough of it. A good amount of my friends said it looked dumb or some sort of backlash from 4Kids kept them away, but now quite a few of them are hooked thanks to me.