you fans sure are a contentious bunch
You just made an enemy for life!
The only time I enjoyed a toxic fan base was for the show Under the Dome. Everyone seemed to hate watch the show and it made the whole thing more fun. The toxicity had the benefit of not being about social issues and just about how the show wasn’t high quality writing.
Off the top of my head, one thing people hated is that the main character hurt her leg and wore the bandage over her jeans.
Man, I should rewatch that show.
Maybe the jean was hurt too
I dont play Rust anymore but I still watch rust youtubers out of a morbid fascination of how they start out fun and wholesome, then they get tired and burned out, then they become the same angry, toxic sweaties they disliked in the first place.
Im pretty sure Rust has become a sentient tulpa demon that feeds on toxic rage.
“So bad, it’s dome.” —Was the catch phrase I remember online.
Under the Dome has always been super interesting to me because Brian K. Vaughn is one of the best comic book writers of all time and a consistent criticism of UTD is how bad the writing is. I know he didn’t write many of the episodes, though, but I also wonder how his episodes rank in comparison with the others.
I kinda had a similar experience with the walking dead. While my enjoyment of the show plummeted to a point where I didn’t even bother to watch the last like 3 or 4 seasons, I still regularly checked community spaces to see everyone dunk on it.
Oh yeah, I was there for that! Good times! 😂
Yeah I ran I to this with Critical Roll. Super toxic, super vocal minority of fans that made nuanced critical discussions of the show almost impossible. I don’t think it’s the show’s fault. Rabid fans make for rabid community moderators.
It’s probably a symptom of how fucked our society is. Or it’s just the internet.
Srsly Wrong’s latest podcast talked a lot about how oil companies funded grassroots pro oil campaigns and then linked it to our larger culture and how we can’t trust anyone anymore.
I never thought I’d be able to say not trusting each other is big oils fault, but here we are
Interesting, I’ve put it on my list
Anything related to a DND live play I’m going to assume will be immediately toxic by virtue of what I understand about DND’s fanbase. I love Dimension20 and I like Critical Role but I’m going to assume every other fan of the show is an insufferable idiot.
I like watching Rick and Morty.
I have exactly 0 accessories, paraphernalia, or otherwise branded items in my possession that indicate that.
I feel fairly confident that most people here are aware of how childish, arrogant, and honestly just downright insufferable Rick and morty “fans” can be.
- nuggy sauce reeeeeeeeeeeeee screeches in the background*
It seems like every time it comes up in conversation, and the other person is a fan, they immediately seem to launch into a tirade about how modern shows are all crap because they’re stupid, not like THIS show. It’s like the “you have to have a high IQ” meme just became the unironic norm for a lot of people.
It’s usually fart jokes and lowest common denominator humor dressed up in Sci fi tropes. You aren’t special for understanding highschool introductory phycisal science.
Futurama is arguably the same kind of show, but they know exactly what they are, and the writers actually have well educated backgrounds to make the science stuff a bit less… “VX nozzle on the turboencabulator”-esque
Idk about that, I miss my niche podcast subreddits, it’s just one big quote-fest.
May I introduce you to !hellointernet@feddit.uk
Hey Tim!
TIL that the Beaver is a Tim!
My favorite was the Chapo Traphouse subreddit because the image in this post describes the hosts and their relationship with their fans. Whenever the subreddit got banned and the hosts heard about it their response was “good, that was the right choice. We fully support the admins here and their banning of that subreddit.” The reddit fans were so salty.
Yeah, definitely not what I would call a niche podcast. I mean, I guess it is niche, but I also guess that when I said “niche” before, I really meant “small listenership”. Then people are pretty much just always cool!
Berserk is my favorite thing of all time. I own every volume up to 21, and 31 to 41. I make all of my first time playthroughs of souls games as a Guts-like character. I own a berserk sweatshirt, and a berserk t-shirt. Im as big of a fan as you can probably get. But man, there are some whackjob right wing psychos in that community. Most fans are fine, and you can have a normal conversation with most, but Berserk has a bad habit to draw weirdos to itself.
I want to have sex with Grifith
He just needs to apologize and offer that bussy up.
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I have a friend who is like, “I can fix him, i want that Griffussy.”
I really miss my podcast subreddits. It is the only part of Reddit miss.
Me with Sherlock
Me with Supernatural.
Both are awful
Way to prove the point
I meant both the shows and the fanbases.
Generally you add your meme.
Youre an active member tho.
I get it, but dont endorse it.
Really? Brb.
Let us know how it goes! 👋
Also almost every video game community that has official eyes on it
Removed by mod
Back when I watched The Flash I got much more entertainment out of the fanbase than I did from the show itself.
I binged all of Game of Thrones to be able to laugh the memes making fun of the last season.
They don’t have that stigma anymore I think, but this is me with Kingdom Hearts, played everything but 3 and never interacted with the fanbase.
Sound advice. I’ll be sure not to cause self-harm by learning anything about the other people who listen to my cherished podcasts.
