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Why Are Certain Female Marketed Franchises So Disliked?

sapphirenebula said:
While discussing brands people buy just for the name, I think this is relevant.

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Taylor Swift accidentally releases 8 seconds of white noise, tops Canadian iTunes chart


http://www.cbc.ca/newsblogs/yourcom...f-white-noise-tops-canadian-itunes-chart.html


Case in point: When a track containing nothing but eight seconds of white noise was accidentally released under the album's name on Tuesday morning, it shot to the top of Canada's iTunes chart almost immediately.

The release of the audio file, entitled "Track 3," was reportedly the result of an iTunes glitch — but that didn't stop eager fans from shelling out $1.29 to download the song.
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Forget Hollywood Hype, media hyping things up in general and brand association are powerful and drive fandoms to associate various things with them when they come together.
Harmless fun, but some fans enjoyed the pieces and tried to find meaning behind it.
"It sounds like an ocean. Maybe"
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I think that really illustrates my point. The way music labels operate, it's the performer who is the product being sold--not their music. This is what happens when the performer has already been sold to an audience so successfully that they'll snatch up any new merchandise sight-unseen. :rolleyes:
 
I have read a lot of shoujo manga, and I felt that some of the archetypes within some of them were especially revolting to me because I was a guy.

Without going super into depth, shit like the "sexy abuser", that just treats the girl like shit but it's okay because twu wuv or RAW ANIMAL MAGNETISM or whatever is just... there is no possible appeal that could have to me, as a straight male. It's just really gross.

Coming away from series like that, I always wondered if women felt the same way about harem series or other super male-targeted stuff.
 
@Schwer-Muta Most likely. To be fair, I think a lot of women are offended by those Shojo tropes, which is part of why "certain female marketed franchises" are so disliked. There's an inherent sexism displayed in a lot of the "this is what women like, amirite guyz?" crap that shows up in many of these things. The fact that they push these themes from early childhood and condition a lot of women into thinking that is somehow romantic and desirable just elevates this kind of material from disgustingly misogynist trash to an actual hate-crime.
 
13th Fleet said:
The thing that gets me is the creepy obsessions that they tend to create. When fans fully deserve the word's origins it isn't good.
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Susano said:
"Fanatic".
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helnae said:
Most fans, yeah. But every group has its crazies.
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Though what are the actions of these crazies that make them so disliked for their representative group? Criminal acts? Sexual deviancy or kink? The idea that a demographic a franchise attracts is a 'certain type' of person? What exactly?
 
sapphirenebula said:
Though what are the actions of these crazies that make them so disliked for their representative group? Criminal acts? Sexual deviancy or kink? The idea that a demographic a franchise attracts is a 'certain type' of person? What exactly?
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In my (almost entirely unresearched) opinion, it mostly has to do with how relatively visible the crazies are compared to the normal people.

In almost every fandom, the vast majority of the fans are pretty normal (and are thus mostly ignored due to being "boring" or something like that), while a tiny fraction exhibit behaviors that are considered "out there", as it were. For example, I'm fairly certain that the majority of male fans of MLP are just normal people who happen to enjoy watching the show. However, as with every single fandom there is there are a few people who make pornographic MLP material, and people who dislike the MLP fandom can point to this handful of people and say, "See! Bronies are all just a bunch of creepazoids who want to have sex with horses!"
 
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