One thing I’ve noticed about fandoms is that the more messed up the source material is, the nicer the fandom tends to be. Like, I’ve never seen a South Park fan tell anyone to kill themselves. But draw Rose Quartz’s arm skinnier than certain people in the Steven Universe fandom think it should be? Prepare your anus, because soon there’ll be people stuffing 40 receipt blogs up there.
Not saying everyone in the fandom is like that, but it’s a serious problem
This is definitely a thing I noticed as well, and it’s very interesting indeed
It also gets worse the bigger the fandom is.
How do you never hear about fandoms that come from the worse material? LIke you never hear many people from fandoms that have sick and twisted source material. Yet fandoms where the source material is rainbows and sunshine you always hear about how they are doing something stupid or vile.
Though, I’m sure part of which comes from rainbow and sunshine shows / materal tend to attract younger viewers who don’t think before they do stupid shit.
I actually saw a post about something similar to this where it was called an “Umbridge Effect,” I think.
Basically, vile people like cutesy things because it makes them seem not as vile… or something like that?
Pah, I can’t remember.
very interesting! i’ve seen something similar (but not fandom-related) involving some people who bike or use eco-friendly cars or eat vegan/vegetarian, etc etc i’m sure you get the point. Whether they feel that because of these small “good deeds” they are now morally superior to all us mere mortals, or that it means they get a free pass to be an asshole, or even some combination of both of them i’m not entirely squared on, but this fandom nonsense seems like it could be a good insight into that same phenomenon?
I’ve noticed too
there are some right ass hats in the mlp fandoms
but in the horror / elm st. fandom ive generally only met nice , decent people.
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Kind of reminds me of the Our Flag Means Death fandom. There isn’t really any moralizing in the source material, and it...
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