The TSM Metal crew does not use the fact that LP is a pop band as the basis for its hatred. It uses the following criteria and many other:
• Their singer's voice is annoying, has limited range, and sounds like a whiny child.
• Their rapper...see above. He also has poor delivery.
• Their guitar parts are really weak.
• All their songs sound the same, musicly and lyricly. Everything is about how his mommy doesn't love him, everyone's mean to him, and no one understands them.
Linkin Park is just another generic nü-metal band. They have the bad vocalist who just whines, a poor rapper, lousy guitars, and songs that aren't well written.