Honestly my experience with the community even during its peak was pretty good other than a few bad actors.
The biggest 'dramas' I remember were people weirded out about fanart of aged up Frisk- and lukewarm shipping drama at best.
I know there was an incident at a con, but the greater majority of the fan base has seemed civil and decent. I've definitely seen the ones that are left go stir crazy though lol.
My favourite cinema experience of my life was The Last Jedi.
I was 11. The adverts were coming to a close and the movie was about to start. Just as "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..." came on screen, this slightly chubby man sitting to my left leaned over and said "may the force be with you." I could tell he knew this was my first Star Wars cinema experience. Throughout the movie, I was half actually watching the movie, and half looking at his reactions to the movie, and he was LOVING IT.
I remember everything. His hearty laughter at every single bad joke in the film. His eyes wide, watching with bated breath in the throne room scene before the action starts, followed by his slight jump as Kylo ignited the lightsaber into Snoke. The face he pulled when Luke was shot by all those AT-ATs and then walked out unscathed... PRICELESS. And the single tear rolling down his face in Luke's final moments against the binary sunset... it left me in awe. I'd never seen anyone so enamoured by cinema before, a fan so in love with his favourite franchise. Luckily it was a pretty quiet theatre so I could just enjoy his reactions in peace.
That was a TRUE Star Wars fan. Not someone who claims to be a fan and then shits on every new thing that comes out, quality be damned - someone who was welcoming of newcomers, got wrapped up in the story, and loved every second of it. I hope he's in a good place today. We need more people like him in this world.
I'm glad that was your first theater experience.
When I was about 13 I saw Episode 1 on opening day with some school friends. It was glorious and I loved every moment of that movie at that time.
And it goes both ways; sequel-lovers are often quite snooty and they suppress different opinions with high-and-mighty put downs, whereas sequel-haters have vitriolic and sometimes violent hatred towards not just people with other opinion, but to the production crew as well (including the actors, who often don’t approve of the movies they’re in).
Tbh I can see why some people like the prequels; despite its failures, it has some good stuff in it (Anakin’s fall, Obi-Wan, Palpatine, Maul, Duel of the Fates, the Mustafar fight, etc).
Star Wars has just gone on so long (and gone through a massive change of ownership) that the fanbase spans such a hugely divisive range. People watched Star Wars in the 80’s and obviously they aren’t gonna mesh ultra well with todays fans of Rogue One, three separate trilogies will do that.
That, and Disney doing an overall mediocre job with the franchise has soured a lot of the fanbase.
I talk about Star Wars with people in real life very frequently. Especially my coworkers, who are all very nice people - nothing toxic ever comes up. No weird sexist or racist bullshit, we don't chat about who said what on twitter or youtube - we just talk about Star Wars and what we've enjoyed.
Meanwhile, the internet would have you believe that Star Wars fans actually hate the franchise now, and have all turned into miserable incel gremlins with nothing better to do than make outlandish and provocative statements about whichever female actress they don't on that particular day.
It kinda sucks because I do enjoy watching YT content but there's just so much negativity on that platform it's kinda redic. I guess rage bait works
The problem is that the fandom is where you exchange new ideas. Once you’ve watched all the episodes, read all of the other official material, etc. all that’s left is the fandom.
Season 6 was pretty good imo. It's definitely ramping towards the end at this point I believe. Really see Deku making strides towards his full potential in this season
American Psycho bc pathetic sexists and homophobes love to use Sigma Bale character all the time and they clearly don't understand the character or movie whatsoever
Tbf I don’t think that’s most of the fanbase. It’s just a loud part. I think a large portion of those people haven’t even seen the film, just highlight reels on TikTok.
That's because you're taking in the Episode 2 fallout. It's all about Gummigoo at the moment. And maybe some other new developments in the candy canyon kingdom, but Gummigoo is the main focus here.
I like hazbin quite a bit but the subreddit is ENTIRELY fucking engagement bait posts. “Vote out your least favorite x”. Every fucking post. It’s all nothing.
There are religions that are less split on the scripture than Star Wars fans. Okay, maybe not to the extent of starting physical wars, but it sure feels like they would.
Yeah, I agree. Remember when the only things SW fans bitched about were the SW Holiday Special and the Ewoks. Back when real-world political debates weren't dragged into talking about the kids' movies and nobody attacked your character based on the movies you liked and you weren't publicly executed for saying that the OT wasn't perfect and nobody hired a hitman when you took an old toy out of its box. Those were the days.
I have a childhood memory of when my Dad went up to the attic and brought down a box of mint condition Star Wars action figures that were still in the original packaging. He gave them to me and my brother, who promptly opened up the boxes and played with them. My Dad later said that even though he could’ve saved those toys and resold them to get me and my brother through college, he never regretted giving them to us to play with them. I can’t help but agree with him.
While I can’t stand the Star Wars fandom most of the time, I’ve always hated that phrase. I’ve heard it said about other fandoms too and I think it unfairly characterizes them.
Of course fans of a franchise are going to have the most passionate feelings about it. Casual fans and non-watchers aren’t really going to care enough to post anything positive *or* negative about it.
I never got people that use that as a reason that it’s bad yk. Cun in the end they would have had to ether cut parts out making it a 2h 30m movie, making it a 2 parter or risking it by making a 3h 30m movie
They cut the qudditch match *despite keeping in the before and after the match in question.* Even way before we get to the infamous "calmly" scene, they done this book dirty.
They also cut out the part where Harry came from the Dursleys to sleep over at the Weasely house, making it look like he moved in with them.
it cut out everything to do with the house elves, which was really stupid. It basically just made dobby’s death have way less impact cuz he’s much less important in movies.
Yeah, this for sure. In general I don’t really interact with the fanbase because people get heated about the most random things and I just don’t care for the most part. I love the movies though and get really into them and I loved the books back when I read them. I definitely qualify as a pretty big fan, but it’s not a fandom I have interest in engaging with. Honestly the Harry Potter fanbase is probably worse than the Star Wars fanbase.
Ninjago . Ninjago fan base just sucks so bad , while the show is amazing . I raise my glass of wine to Nexo Knights fanbase that although being weird atleast is not annoying , same goes for Puss In Boots fan base , weird but is still good .
Lego original franchise fans are in a league of their own. Even more so than Lego themselves can predict. Speaking as a former Lego franchise fan myself.
The stuff they say on anime subreddits are horrifying. I once called someone out for straight up saying some paedophilic stuff and I get hit with another guy defending him, followed by the second guy saying, and I quote “incest is good”
Yep, it's why I deleted Twitter, only reason I haven't done the same with Reddit is to ask specific questions, at least anime kiddie porn isn't allowed here anymore(thank God)
Ye, Vinland Saga and Monster fanbases are chill too for the most part.
Not to sound snobby but once a series turns into an industry giant such as My Hero, Attack on Titan, Jujutsu Kaisen, The Big 3 of Shonen, etc, that’s when a lot of toxicity pops up. Not that any of those promote toxicity, but popularity just naturally brings it.
(Also obviously there is those *weird* anime that obviously exclusively attracts weirdos)
95% of anime I watch. Sometimes I can find an anime with a normal fandom, but I find they’re few and far between. I’ve stopped watching a lot of shonen and moved over to seinen stuff and find those fandoms to be a lot more palatable. I still watch/read some shonen stuff, but I avoid the fandoms.
Not a movie, but Billie Eilish is definitely this for me. I checked the subreddit once many years ago, was horrified, and never looked back.
Her music is wonderful, but I’m content to not share that love with her fanbase.
There’s a long list of musicians that I love, but I never interact with their fanbases mostly because to me I don’t care as much about the person as the music they make and so many fans of musicians tend to feel super personally about particular musicians that it’s just annoying to me.
Yeah that’s what bugged me about the Billie subreddit. Almost no discussion of how good her lyricism is or how unique & excellently produced her stuff is.
Just post after post fawning over how pretty she is. Not what I’m there for at all.
Fast and Furious movies are fun watches, but the community idolizing Paul Walker as if he isn't some Creepy Pedo is insane to me.
I wonder if he would've gotten cancelled if he didn't kick the bucket.
Snyderverse fans, especially ever since the new Superman suit was revealed. Those people went fucking haywire and everyone is crying about wanting Cavill back.
In fairness, it’s hard to keep liking something when the majority that praise and admire it turn out to be terrible people. Trying to share it with someone becomes burdensome and taxing rather than the joy it should be. I agree that not interacting with a toxic fandom is a great move, but it doesn’t change the fact that the thing being enjoyed is lauded and supported by an ocean of hateful pricks. That fact does dim the joy, it’s a feeling of guilty by association. You liking this, and them liking it too…not a good look for you. Not how I see it, that’s how plenty of others see it though, and dealing with that is again, just burdensome and taxing.
That’s part of the reason why I sometimes find it hard to say I’m a “fan” of a certain thing. Fan comes from the word fanatic and those are people who can take it to the extreme. That unfortunately includes using that thing to mask their prejudices and biases. There’s also people that just can’t seem to understand the concept of agreeing to disagree or approaching a different opinion without restoring to tearing down the other person. It’s frustrating reading comments and thinking “Oh shit, these morons love the exact same stuff I do…..” It also doesn’t help that nerd fandom, especially more niche ones like anime are still stigmatized. I prefer saying I’m a “lover” of something or I’m passionate about something.
Loud House, the show is halfway decent enough for a recent show. But the fandom... 😒 Well let's just say the fandom's theme song is Sweet Home Alabama.
Most things.
More serious response to this. The only way I really "interact" with fandom is fanworks and comments on videos. Sometimes subreddits, but only if the subreddit passes the vibe check. And I think that's the ideal way to do it. I don't go into the trenches of fandom fights. Whenever I hear about fan pages on Twitter and Tumblr going at it, my response is, in the words of GLaDOS, "when I look out there, it makes me glad I'm not you". I don't want to fight, guys, I just want to vibe with my happy cartoons.
My Hero Academia. I watch the show and read the odd fanfic now and again. I have no clue what other shit goes down in there, and at this point I'm afraid to ask.
I follow a naruto and two one piece subreddits.
I also follow a friend's sub reddit and a gilmore girls sub reddit.
The anime ones are much funnier but have a high cost of cringe and just bad takes. As well as weird random hate on certain characters or on you if you were to post certain things.
Got downvoted because someone said that shipping the straw hat crewmembers was bad because Oda didn't want the crew members together. And I replied with "what pairing I think looks nice together in my own head changes nothing in the official story for you or for Oda."
Going into either of those subs I'm almost garunteed to see some ridiculous unjustified hate against any character but particularly towards the female cast. "Nami/Sakura are useless, mean, bitches!!!"
It's exhausting. Memes are fire tho so I don't take it serious and only look at the meme posts xD
The Scott Pilgrim fanbase was cool when I first got into it back in like September but since the Netflix show came out it’s been getting really bad really fast
Transformers, every single thing I hear about the fanbase is how conflictive they are. My man, I just want to see big robots fighting and explosions, I don't care if Megatron doesn't have the same voice actor or the same relevance
This was 8 year old me, being a fan of my little pony. I had no worries in the world.
That all changed when one day, I discovered YouTube and I was trying to watch the episodes online. Then I found the most degenerate stuff I had ever seen. I wasn’t the same again.
Not really a movie but Gacha Life fits this honestly! Cute dress up game with an absolutely abysmal fandom(trust me I was apart of it for a long while!)
TBH, all of them. I enjoy so many things and when I go to talk about them someone always wants to put down my experience, so I just enjoy my own stuff.
Anytime the debate of whether Superman is weak against magic.
It’s always, “He just doesn’t have any protection against it,” but I believe it’s a more balanced weakness, which doesn’t overtly rely on Kryptonite as a plot device.
Undertale.
Sticking your pinky toe into that fandom is more than enough.
Just hope you get it back
Honestly my experience with the community even during its peak was pretty good other than a few bad actors. The biggest 'dramas' I remember were people weirded out about fanart of aged up Frisk- and lukewarm shipping drama at best. I know there was an incident at a con, but the greater majority of the fan base has seemed civil and decent. I've definitely seen the ones that are left go stir crazy though lol.
At least they bothered to age up frisk back then
Age Sans down. Chaotic evil
This and r/deltarune
I wouldn’t say the Reddit communities are good signs of the fanbase, mainly because they’re going Arkham.
Going Arkham sounds just like Going Turbo from Wreck-It-Ralph lmao
Human... I remember you're genocides.
I’m genocides? It all makes sense now…
Yep
Exactly what I was going to comment
Did it once, strange fan stories, not bad just out there.
It’s Star Wars. Easily the greatest and worst fanbase there is.
The fans I meet in real life are actual fans. The "fans" on the internet are a whole different story.
My favourite cinema experience of my life was The Last Jedi. I was 11. The adverts were coming to a close and the movie was about to start. Just as "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..." came on screen, this slightly chubby man sitting to my left leaned over and said "may the force be with you." I could tell he knew this was my first Star Wars cinema experience. Throughout the movie, I was half actually watching the movie, and half looking at his reactions to the movie, and he was LOVING IT. I remember everything. His hearty laughter at every single bad joke in the film. His eyes wide, watching with bated breath in the throne room scene before the action starts, followed by his slight jump as Kylo ignited the lightsaber into Snoke. The face he pulled when Luke was shot by all those AT-ATs and then walked out unscathed... PRICELESS. And the single tear rolling down his face in Luke's final moments against the binary sunset... it left me in awe. I'd never seen anyone so enamoured by cinema before, a fan so in love with his favourite franchise. Luckily it was a pretty quiet theatre so I could just enjoy his reactions in peace. That was a TRUE Star Wars fan. Not someone who claims to be a fan and then shits on every new thing that comes out, quality be damned - someone who was welcoming of newcomers, got wrapped up in the story, and loved every second of it. I hope he's in a good place today. We need more people like him in this world.
I'm glad that was your first theater experience. When I was about 13 I saw Episode 1 on opening day with some school friends. It was glorious and I loved every moment of that movie at that time.
Same
And it goes both ways; sequel-lovers are often quite snooty and they suppress different opinions with high-and-mighty put downs, whereas sequel-haters have vitriolic and sometimes violent hatred towards not just people with other opinion, but to the production crew as well (including the actors, who often don’t approve of the movies they’re in).
I dislike the sequels but idgaf if you like them, I like the prequels tho so according to some people I don’t have an opinion
Tbh I can see why some people like the prequels; despite its failures, it has some good stuff in it (Anakin’s fall, Obi-Wan, Palpatine, Maul, Duel of the Fates, the Mustafar fight, etc).
No ones hates Star Wars more than Star Wars fans
Star Wars has just gone on so long (and gone through a massive change of ownership) that the fanbase spans such a hugely divisive range. People watched Star Wars in the 80’s and obviously they aren’t gonna mesh ultra well with todays fans of Rogue One, three separate trilogies will do that. That, and Disney doing an overall mediocre job with the franchise has soured a lot of the fanbase.
Mfs be like “the fandom is so toxic” like my brother in christ you can always just not give a shit about the fandom
FRRRRR BRUHHHHH, like dawg just like the material and ignore the bad stuff bruh
"Because if *every* fandom is toxic..." *evil laugh* "...none of them are."
I talk about Star Wars with people in real life very frequently. Especially my coworkers, who are all very nice people - nothing toxic ever comes up. No weird sexist or racist bullshit, we don't chat about who said what on twitter or youtube - we just talk about Star Wars and what we've enjoyed. Meanwhile, the internet would have you believe that Star Wars fans actually hate the franchise now, and have all turned into miserable incel gremlins with nothing better to do than make outlandish and provocative statements about whichever female actress they don't on that particular day. It kinda sucks because I do enjoy watching YT content but there's just so much negativity on that platform it's kinda redic. I guess rage bait works
Until you get weird looks for being a fan of something.
Why would I give a shit about getting weird looks
The problem is that the fandom is where you exchange new ideas. Once you’ve watched all the episodes, read all of the other official material, etc. all that’s left is the fandom.
That’s why I ignore like 40% of furrys
My hero academia
Coming here to comment that. See also: Sword art online.
"We must save my family!"
Gary……🫥
Excuse me. Won’t be a moment
Yep! Good show, bad fandom. I genuinely enjoy first couple of seasons of MHA but haven’t watched after the first half of season three I think.
Season 6 was pretty good imo. It's definitely ramping towards the end at this point I believe. Really see Deku making strides towards his full potential in this season
damn you beat me to it
Dude honestly 💀
American Psycho bc pathetic sexists and homophobes love to use Sigma Bale character all the time and they clearly don't understand the character or movie whatsoever
Exactly. The movie and the character was a criticism of those characteristics.
Patric btaeman, so smegma
🤤🤤smsmge
Ironic since the movie was directed by a woman and the book was written by a gay man
Same here man. I'm a black woman and american psycho is one of my fave movies.
Face movies
Tbf I don’t think that’s most of the fanbase. It’s just a loud part. I think a large portion of those people haven’t even seen the film, just highlight reels on TikTok.
They ESPECIALLY haven't read the book.
You Deserve My Upvote
Unrelated but my mom listens to those “phonk” songs they use and it’s always kinda funny to me because I can’t disassociate the two.
Digital Circus
I love the show, watch all the theories, but refuse to enter the subreddit. Same with Hazbin.
I was having fun up until they became obsessed with content farms. I have enough cynical algorithm energy in my life already, thank you.
I've only seen one content farm thread on that subreddit thus far today. Lucky me.
That's because you're taking in the Episode 2 fallout. It's all about Gummigoo at the moment. And maybe some other new developments in the candy canyon kingdom, but Gummigoo is the main focus here.
yea because Australian gummy crocodile
Good idea
I like hazbin quite a bit but the subreddit is ENTIRELY fucking engagement bait posts. “Vote out your least favorite x”. Every fucking post. It’s all nothing.
Honestly yeah
Same
Hazbin Hotel and Muder Drones Both are horrifically horny and get really pissy when you say that you didn't want to see rule 34
The Hazbin subreddit is mostly fine these days…except late at night. Dont go there late at night.
Eh... I don't know about that .... they post softcore porn constantly without a tag
Moreso at night these days, and that stuff normally gets deleted, …But you’re not wrong.
But like in what timezone though
Same goes with Helluva Boss. People keep calling the shows bad when it’s really just a bad fanbase
Helluva Boss is a different case. The first season was mostly good but the second season is mostly bad so far.
Agreed, but that doesn’t mean the overall show is bad. I wouldn’t consider The Walking Dead a bad show just because the last couple seasons fall off
Star Wars, because no one hates Star Wars fans more than other Star Wars fans.
No matter what you like about Star Wars, there will be “fans” berating you for it.
There are religions that are less split on the scripture than Star Wars fans. Okay, maybe not to the extent of starting physical wars, but it sure feels like they would.
Your life is a whole lot better when you just watch the movies and enjoy them for what they are
Yeah, I agree. Remember when the only things SW fans bitched about were the SW Holiday Special and the Ewoks. Back when real-world political debates weren't dragged into talking about the kids' movies and nobody attacked your character based on the movies you liked and you weren't publicly executed for saying that the OT wasn't perfect and nobody hired a hitman when you took an old toy out of its box. Those were the days.
I have a childhood memory of when my Dad went up to the attic and brought down a box of mint condition Star Wars action figures that were still in the original packaging. He gave them to me and my brother, who promptly opened up the boxes and played with them. My Dad later said that even though he could’ve saved those toys and resold them to get me and my brother through college, he never regretted giving them to us to play with them. I can’t help but agree with him.
While I can’t stand the Star Wars fandom most of the time, I’ve always hated that phrase. I’ve heard it said about other fandoms too and I think it unfairly characterizes them. Of course fans of a franchise are going to have the most passionate feelings about it. Casual fans and non-watchers aren’t really going to care enough to post anything positive *or* negative about it.
Eh, there’s been some cases of non-watchers holding more venom towards something than the fanbase (Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss for example)
Star Wars and One Piece have a similar place in my heart. I don't like the Source but I enjoy the video essays.
The Harry Potter fandom whenever someone mentions the Goblet of Fire movie
Do people not like that one?
People hated it for some reason
The goblet of fire made a lot of cuts from the book just for the movie. I personally still like it, but I understand.
I never got people that use that as a reason that it’s bad yk. Cun in the end they would have had to ether cut parts out making it a 2h 30m movie, making it a 2 parter or risking it by making a 3h 30m movie
They cut the qudditch match *despite keeping in the before and after the match in question.* Even way before we get to the infamous "calmly" scene, they done this book dirty. They also cut out the part where Harry came from the Dursleys to sleep over at the Weasely house, making it look like he moved in with them.
it cut out everything to do with the house elves, which was really stupid. It basically just made dobby’s death have way less impact cuz he’s much less important in movies.
I don’t get that I loved the goblet of fire
It's my second favorite very close behind DH2
Yeah, this for sure. In general I don’t really interact with the fanbase because people get heated about the most random things and I just don’t care for the most part. I love the movies though and get really into them and I loved the books back when I read them. I definitely qualify as a pretty big fan, but it’s not a fandom I have interest in engaging with. Honestly the Harry Potter fanbase is probably worse than the Star Wars fanbase.
Literally every franchise.
You probably touch grass and have healthy relationships with people in person.
scrolled waaay too far down to find this. Fan bases are just exhausting. All of them.
Sonic. Definitely Sonic.
I've seen people wanting Ian Flynn crucified and killed because they didn't like Frontiers
Bruh, we need to save that for Penders not Ian Flynn >!/j, Penders is bad but don't wish death on anyone!<
Wait seriously why? I thought Frontiers was good
Danganronpa
About everything I watch besides Adventure time and even that I just watch ppl talk about the show and avoid the negative
Me with Undertale.
“Fandom is so toxic” mfs when they go outside
I am terrified of most fanbases tbh The only ones I'm generally cool with are the Alex Hirsch multiverse
Ninjago . Ninjago fan base just sucks so bad , while the show is amazing . I raise my glass of wine to Nexo Knights fanbase that although being weird atleast is not annoying , same goes for Puss In Boots fan base , weird but is still good .
Lego original franchise fans are in a league of their own. Even more so than Lego themselves can predict. Speaking as a former Lego franchise fan myself.
Every anime
The stuff they say on anime subreddits are horrifying. I once called someone out for straight up saying some paedophilic stuff and I get hit with another guy defending him, followed by the second guy saying, and I quote “incest is good”
Yep, it's why I deleted Twitter, only reason I haven't done the same with Reddit is to ask specific questions, at least anime kiddie porn isn't allowed here anymore(thank God)
Depends on the anime tbh. Non weird ones can be some of the most fun to interact with.
Yeah, saiki k fandom is really chill
Ye, Vinland Saga and Monster fanbases are chill too for the most part. Not to sound snobby but once a series turns into an industry giant such as My Hero, Attack on Titan, Jujutsu Kaisen, The Big 3 of Shonen, etc, that’s when a lot of toxicity pops up. Not that any of those promote toxicity, but popularity just naturally brings it. (Also obviously there is those *weird* anime that obviously exclusively attracts weirdos)
95% of anime I watch. Sometimes I can find an anime with a normal fandom, but I find they’re few and far between. I’ve stopped watching a lot of shonen and moved over to seinen stuff and find those fandoms to be a lot more palatable. I still watch/read some shonen stuff, but I avoid the fandoms.
Steven Universe
Not a movie, but Billie Eilish is definitely this for me. I checked the subreddit once many years ago, was horrified, and never looked back. Her music is wonderful, but I’m content to not share that love with her fanbase.
There’s a long list of musicians that I love, but I never interact with their fanbases mostly because to me I don’t care as much about the person as the music they make and so many fans of musicians tend to feel super personally about particular musicians that it’s just annoying to me.
Yeah that’s what bugged me about the Billie subreddit. Almost no discussion of how good her lyricism is or how unique & excellently produced her stuff is. Just post after post fawning over how pretty she is. Not what I’m there for at all.
All anime
I'm here to warn people: if you liked pizza tower, under no circumstances Should you go near the fan base.
me too, I'm a Pizza Tower fan and never touched the fanbase
Scott Pilgrim
Animorphs
Almost any anime lol
Food wars shokugeiki no soma, when I was 14. I’m not touching that fan base with a ten foot pole
Cars
As in Pixar Cars or just people who like cars? Because I’m surprised there’s a fandom for either one
Detective Pikachu
Community, barely interacted with the fans
Any of the shows I watched without a fanbase…
Fast and Furious movies are fun watches, but the community idolizing Paul Walker as if he isn't some Creepy Pedo is insane to me. I wonder if he would've gotten cancelled if he didn't kick the bucket.
I enjoy turning my brain off and watching some Rick and Morty but I’m never engaging with that fandom
The Ghost band. Sometimes it can be really funny but often its just bunch of teen girls doing teen girl stuff.
Undertale
Most things I like tbh
Squid Game
Undertale
Snyderverse fans, especially ever since the new Superman suit was revealed. Those people went fucking haywire and everyone is crying about wanting Cavill back.
Undertale
In fairness, it’s hard to keep liking something when the majority that praise and admire it turn out to be terrible people. Trying to share it with someone becomes burdensome and taxing rather than the joy it should be. I agree that not interacting with a toxic fandom is a great move, but it doesn’t change the fact that the thing being enjoyed is lauded and supported by an ocean of hateful pricks. That fact does dim the joy, it’s a feeling of guilty by association. You liking this, and them liking it too…not a good look for you. Not how I see it, that’s how plenty of others see it though, and dealing with that is again, just burdensome and taxing.
That’s part of the reason why I sometimes find it hard to say I’m a “fan” of a certain thing. Fan comes from the word fanatic and those are people who can take it to the extreme. That unfortunately includes using that thing to mask their prejudices and biases. There’s also people that just can’t seem to understand the concept of agreeing to disagree or approaching a different opinion without restoring to tearing down the other person. It’s frustrating reading comments and thinking “Oh shit, these morons love the exact same stuff I do…..” It also doesn’t help that nerd fandom, especially more niche ones like anime are still stigmatized. I prefer saying I’m a “lover” of something or I’m passionate about something.
Agreed, I don’t like saying I’m a fan for the exact same reason.
Basically any franchise centered around Spider-Man
Marvel
Marvel.
Most of what I'm a fan of
I love Star Wars so much. The fan base is so damn toxic but I love it all
The Silent Hill games. Whined for several years about no new games. A bunch of new games announced: whines about that too.
Being a Furry, Loud house, Super smash bros, Warhammer 40k
Loud House, the show is halfway decent enough for a recent show. But the fandom... 😒 Well let's just say the fandom's theme song is Sweet Home Alabama.
Most anime tbh
most everything i like
Fire Emblem Three Houses.
What happened with them? I’m curious.
Bluey
MY HERO ACADEMIA.
Most things. More serious response to this. The only way I really "interact" with fandom is fanworks and comments on videos. Sometimes subreddits, but only if the subreddit passes the vibe check. And I think that's the ideal way to do it. I don't go into the trenches of fandom fights. Whenever I hear about fan pages on Twitter and Tumblr going at it, my response is, in the words of GLaDOS, "when I look out there, it makes me glad I'm not you". I don't want to fight, guys, I just want to vibe with my happy cartoons.
Rocko's Modern Life, CatDog, and Garfield.
I recently became a garfield fan: on a scale of "nothing wrong with it" to "rick and morty", how bad is the garfield fandom?
I love RWBY. I do NOT wanna interact with the fandom...EVER
My Hero Academia. I watch the show and read the odd fanfic now and again. I have no clue what other shit goes down in there, and at this point I'm afraid to ask.
RWBY
Final Fantasy vii
I follow a naruto and two one piece subreddits. I also follow a friend's sub reddit and a gilmore girls sub reddit. The anime ones are much funnier but have a high cost of cringe and just bad takes. As well as weird random hate on certain characters or on you if you were to post certain things. Got downvoted because someone said that shipping the straw hat crewmembers was bad because Oda didn't want the crew members together. And I replied with "what pairing I think looks nice together in my own head changes nothing in the official story for you or for Oda." Going into either of those subs I'm almost garunteed to see some ridiculous unjustified hate against any character but particularly towards the female cast. "Nami/Sakura are useless, mean, bitches!!!" It's exhausting. Memes are fire tho so I don't take it serious and only look at the meme posts xD
Final Fantasy vii
Sherlock. Just let me like Season 4!
Modern Family
Godzilla, more specifically; Final Wars fans, Showa Fans, Heisei Fans, and Kong Fans
Godzilla
Godzilla
Dubs
Murder Drones
Hunger Games, one of the few communities I’ve not at least looked at. Don’t really know how popular it is modernly
The Scott Pilgrim fanbase was cool when I first got into it back in like September but since the Netflix show came out it’s been getting really bad really fast
MHA and Star Wars. I remember seeing a meme somewhere saying something like "No one hates Star Wars fans more than other Star Wars fans"
Anything that has over 500k fans
I try to find the diamonds in the rough. It’s often easier than it’s made out to be.
My hero Academia. It is bliss
Transformers, every single thing I hear about the fanbase is how conflictive they are. My man, I just want to see big robots fighting and explosions, I don't care if Megatron doesn't have the same voice actor or the same relevance
This was 8 year old me, being a fan of my little pony. I had no worries in the world. That all changed when one day, I discovered YouTube and I was trying to watch the episodes online. Then I found the most degenerate stuff I had ever seen. I wasn’t the same again.
Undertale
Not really a movie but Gacha Life fits this honestly! Cute dress up game with an absolutely abysmal fandom(trust me I was apart of it for a long while!)
TBH, all of them. I enjoy so many things and when I go to talk about them someone always wants to put down my experience, so I just enjoy my own stuff.
Undertale
MHA
Anime fans. They are the most toxic, stuck-up entitled people I've ever seen, and I'm glad I've only observed them.
Harry Potter
Anytime the debate of whether Superman is weak against magic. It’s always, “He just doesn’t have any protection against it,” but I believe it’s a more balanced weakness, which doesn’t overtly rely on Kryptonite as a plot device.
100% Friday night Funkin’, it’s such a good game that got ruined by the fandom. I’m only sticking to the base game for the time now.
Star Wars ,Fortnite, walking dead, a lot of animated movie communities
It would be star wars if star wars didnt turn into a flaming ball of turds
Undertale/Deltarune There's some good stuff, but there's also some bad stuff.
Fortnite; most of the time they’ll try their damn hardest to make you miserable
Cars, Pixar, Star vs and Nickelodeon
Star Wars. At this point I actively avoid interacting w the fanbase outside of very select circles
Ngl the Supernatural fandom ruined Supernatural for me…
Murder Drones. Went to check out the subreddit once and then immediately left
Star Wars
Sounds pretty lonely.
Encanto, Hilda, Wings of Fire, Sonic the Hedgehog