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In your experience and opinion, what is the worst fandom you ever seen?
I nominate the Rick and Morty fandom!
I nominate the Rick and Morty fandom!
I think this is an incrediblely loaded question, and this thread will most likely end in madness, tears, and infractions.
The worst fandom I've found is one of the few I can feel fine about being entirely dismissive of due to its small size and similar qualities that mean its entirely possible to describe it as a coherent whole; the "Purity before Existance" fandom, which tends to unilaterally agree with its author Lance Lightengel on his antisemetism, doxxing, homophobia, hitler apolegia, and fascist creed.
I'd rather not give any links to his website, both because he doesn't deserve the add revenue and because his adds are supposedly actively malicious, but Lance Lichtengel is the author of said book, Purity before Existance. He and his, it's honestly best described as a cult really, are centered around his political opinions (not even neo nazis, just the flat out thing sans an official membership in the defunct organization), his beleif in himself as God(this may have started as roleplaying but he does this everywhere and hasn't broken persona in years) and his book, which they defend with posts like
incessantly and constantly advertise. It's "quality" is where he derives his authority from.I like how everyone is insulting Lance's book when they haven't accomplished anything themselves. Like, I don't see you writing any books either and if u did it wouldn't be half as good as Lance's. You all think you're so great for some reason, but I don't see what's so special about all you condescending corrupt pieces of garbage.
I don't like this thread, because I already know where it leads. It leads to people with the fundamental lack of understanding that most fanbases are large and diverse. @QTesseract has given one of the few definitive examples of what we could agree upon as a "bad" fandom. All other suggestions that aren't vague descriptions are likely going to be misrepresenting the vast majority of people within a fandom. "What fandom has annoyed/disgusted me the most" is the question people are really going to answer. The usual suspects will line in. MLP. Sherlock. Twilight.
Yes, the actions of individuals, small groups, or even large groups can be toxic. I also guarantee you that the majority of people in a fandom, regardless of what squicks you out, are people who just enjoy something. For example, I like MLP. I like the fandom, because it was very open and LGBTQ friendly. It gave me a light in a very depressing part of my life to engage with friendly and open minded people about simple, happy things. However, people are guaranteed to mention it as one of the worst and most toxic fandoms. They're going to say that everyone in it are degenerate paedophile trash, or horsefuckers. They're going to call it gross, wrong, and cancer. I've heard it all, seen it all before, on SV no less. Then they'll go and defend some other fandom they're a part of themselves by saying "it's only a small part of the fandom." They'll say whatever fetish is more popular or common in that fandom is justified for the same reason I'll defend the MLP community with, completely missing the irony.
That's why I don't like this thread.
In your experience and opinion, what is the worst fandom you ever seen?
I nominate the Rick and Morty fandom!
No problem, man. I just feel that this kind of behavior can, unintentionally, lead to a lot more toxicity than solutions, become less venting and more targeted. It's a valid topic of discussion, but our community can't handle it. No community can.