What fandom? (Sorry for not making it obvious, but I kinda want to know what fandom it was as well as why it was ruined, and possibly how specifically.)
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RabbitsWarren
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Mr.Dimentio
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"Most of BBC Sherlock was ruined for me by sheer my mere existence on tumblr."
Stopped reading right there, when I see the words BBC and tumblr in the same sentence I stop reading the post. It's a good rule of thumb...
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ScorpioReaper
New Member
Pretty self-explanatory title. For me, I have two ruined fandoms, one I recently joined again. Undertale and Harry Potter. For Undertale, it was all the incest and selfcest, which I was reminded of when I tried to look up swap sans and was met with 'swap sans x fell sans'.And for Harry Potter, it was all the GODDAMN POTTER PUPPET PALS JOKES BECAUSE OF MY PFP!!!!!
Yeah, the fandom gets ruined when I see people like are this who assume that's what it all is.
AnimeGenork
The Duck Overlord
As a disclaimer, for most of my life, I've generally avoided things that are overly popular. (Harry Potter is an exception because it was my father who got me into that and I didn't even know other people knew about it until I was 8.)
And then Frozen happened.
I wanted to like it. Really, I did. But. I couldn't. To this day, I STILL hold a huge grudge against it. Because nobody would shut their mouth about it. My first time watching the movie was ruined because everybody OF COURSE knew all the songs already and S C R E A M E D them along, as if I should've known this already and expected it? I just wanted to watch a darn movie with some friends ;-;
So, yeah. Frozen is just... ruined for me now.
Beemoov's games are something I enjoy playing, but the fandom is just... they're awful. Not only will they not leave some of my favorite characters alone, some of them will even defend a character murdering a side character, and then turn around and say another character--who cannot be blamed for BV's shitty writing--deserves a straitjacket? I just---I really can't stand them.
I've been pretty lucky, considering. Sometimes you just need to enjoy something all by your lonesome, if you know what I mean.
And then Frozen happened.
I wanted to like it. Really, I did. But. I couldn't. To this day, I STILL hold a huge grudge against it. Because nobody would shut their mouth about it. My first time watching the movie was ruined because everybody OF COURSE knew all the songs already and S C R E A M E D them along, as if I should've known this already and expected it? I just wanted to watch a darn movie with some friends ;-;
So, yeah. Frozen is just... ruined for me now.
Beemoov's games are something I enjoy playing, but the fandom is just... they're awful. Not only will they not leave some of my favorite characters alone, some of them will even defend a character murdering a side character, and then turn around and say another character--who cannot be blamed for BV's shitty writing--deserves a straitjacket? I just---I really can't stand them.
I've been pretty lucky, considering. Sometimes you just need to enjoy something all by your lonesome, if you know what I mean.
Owlbear
Junior Member
Ruined is a bit of a strong word, but the amount of people in the Warhammer 40k fandom that genuinely believes that the imperium are the good guys certainly soured my experience with it.
MysticWitch
Weaver of Worlds
I used to be a big Danny Phantom fan. it wasn't so much the fandom.. (Although there were pretty toxic fans out there...but honestly which fandom doesn't have the crazed fans that send you threatening messages and try to impersonate you?) (Shrugs) But...really it was the creator who ruined that fandom for me. Butch Hartman has done some pretty questionable things....also the series didn't end very well in my opinion. I honestly don't think I'll ever go back to that fandom.
Reid
certified Lysander au Lune hater
Man, this is one hurts me the most because I was very big into DP as a kid. Hell, I even had a crush on Danny too (oh boy, that episode where he lowkey turns evil under the ghost circus leader's influence was a strange awakening for me lmao) but yeah.... The things I've been hearing about Butch are questionable. :/
Okay, to answer the OP's question, for me it has to be wizard101. I've been playing on and off since 2010 so I grew attached to it. I recently logged on to see everything was changed. The graphics look absolutely terrifying and they significantly dumbed down the starting area. When I expressed my disgust over all of this on the community subreddit, I got downvoted into oblivion. No... Doing this to your game is not going to "revive" it. The graphics were already pretty good for a game opened in 2008. What you have now is nightmare-ish. I shudder thinking about how scary they made the character models now lmao
nerdy tangents
One Thousand Club
Character Bashing in the Marvel and Arrowverse fandom. It used to be a thing in Harry Potter but I think it was when I was young enough that I just kinda of stayed out of it.
But when people have to assassinate a canon character because they stand in the way of THEIR personal ship.
I still like the movies/tv shows but I mostly stay away from the fandom discourse.
But when people have to assassinate a canon character because they stand in the way of THEIR personal ship.
I still like the movies/tv shows but I mostly stay away from the fandom discourse.
The Dreamer of the Lore
Greetings from the chatty scissors.
I used to read Homestuck, but the fandom was just blowing out of proportion so I had to keep my thoughts to myself, cause I was in no way going to try to get into the mess down there.
maladaptivedreamer
Princess of Irrelevance
I don’t know if this is a problem for everyone but... the sexualisation of Wonderwoman?! Let me write Diana without being forced into a romance, please. What I really adored about Wonderwoman was the Mythology and Amazonian culture, the complexity of being new to this strange world and adapting to the customs. I think there’s a large innocence to the character of Diana. It loses its spark when people sexualise her and force romantic pairings.
Also... Disney Star Wars? For a different reason than I’ve seen people write. I think they handled Rey quite poorly. (I often wonder if Hollywood knows how to write female heroines??). The sequels could have had a lot of potential. Let’s not even start on that ending.
Also, protagonists do not need have to have big name lineage. Every name came from nothing at some point. It would have been perfectly fine for Rey to be a no one from nowhere.
Then, of course, as perfectly noted above... Three words: J K Rowling.
Also... Disney Star Wars? For a different reason than I’ve seen people write. I think they handled Rey quite poorly. (I often wonder if Hollywood knows how to write female heroines??). The sequels could have had a lot of potential. Let’s not even start on that ending.
Also, protagonists do not need have to have big name lineage. Every name came from nothing at some point. It would have been perfectly fine for Rey to be a no one from nowhere.
Then, of course, as perfectly noted above... Three words: J K Rowling.
The Dreamer of the Lore
Greetings from the chatty scissors.
Oh man, Silver Age Wonderwoman.
She has always been a character that they just struggle. A few numbers are solid, then we have horrible writers. And poor Diana has never gotten a chance to shine like in the glory days.
Cross
Word Assassin
Orson Scott Card's religious views about 'the gays'. I dropped all his series and just can't pick them back up because he's so bad at being human for a guy who writes epic optimistic novels about humanity.
Pumpkin Spice Cyanide
Dead-End Girl
Imo disagreeing with or even calling someone out for an opinion you don't like and negating everything else about them over it are two very different things.
Both are better than trying to play world ethics committee tho.
Which sorta brings me into what ruined nearly every fandom for me; PC and Cancel culture trying to censor and rewrite things. The decline of comic industry and the rise of indie studios is a perfect example.
Also, because people brought it up, the new trilogy is crap, Rey is a horrible character and if you think that people think that because she has a vagina you're part of the problem. At least Anakin took 3 movies to "develop".
Rey should be dumped and Ahsoka should be given the lead roles if the contents of peoples pants is so important to people.
Rey should be dumped and Ahsoka should be given the lead roles if the contents of peoples pants is so important to people.
And Wonderwoman was always a fetish character and has only gotten more ridiculous and powerful as time went on. Her first weakness was bondage. Almost all her powers were added onto her original form over the years.
She's honestly a terrible character, the Amazons are horrible people canonically (very genderbait-y too) and dozens of other heroines would fill her role in the trinity much better. But if you say anything like that you're vilified as some kind of -ist.
She's honestly a terrible character, the Amazons are horrible people canonically (very genderbait-y too) and dozens of other heroines would fill her role in the trinity much better. But if you say anything like that you're vilified as some kind of -ist.
Charles Cheese
Qualified Cheese Consumer
Lisa the Painful, a mostly good fanbase from what I've seen but definitely has bad apples. By all accounts, amazing game. But the amounts of people who are creepy about Buddy, a kid character that's in the game? Nottt so amazing. I'd still recommend the game to people who don't mind darker subjects, just please don't make the mistake of looking for fanfiction like I did. There's real disturbing stuff
Cross
Word Assassin
No idea what you're trying to say
Pumpkin Spice Cyanide
Dead-End Girl
Disagreeing with the author's view and negating his potentially good literature based on that one view is not super cool.
I disagree with like 90% of what many artists and bands think or say and can still like some songs they make.
That whole 'credit where credit is due' thing.
Cross
Word Assassin
Big nah. If a dude is against gay rights, he's not my cup of tea PERIOD. I don't care if they write the shiniest, best literature in the world. I'm out.
Pumpkin Spice Cyanide
Dead-End Girl
RIP all literature written before 1995 then I guess...
And a lot of Eastern literature...
And religious literature...
And source material...
Close-mindedness goes both ways, you guys realize that right?
Us vs Them is always the wrong mindset. Always.
Cross
Word Assassin
IDK why you keep replying to me. Bruh, read what you want. I'll read what I want.
Jannah
Barely holding on.
The fans themselves tbh. A lot of them are really obnoxious and stuff.
roguepouch
New Member
The moment my little grubby fingers got on that road runner internet...It was all down here from there. No fandom was safe! An absolute wasteland!
Emeraude
Em
Honestly, any fandom I get interested in, it's eventually 'ruined' by the lack of new or exciting content. I like to keep up with fanfictions, but if the fandom doesn't have many active writers, or they don't write works I enjoy, I don't tend to stay in that fandom long. If the original work is still on-going, this isn't an issue, but I have a bad habit of joining fandoms when the original work has been finished for years.
Jannah
Barely holding on.
Not to beat a dead horse or anything, but I hate cancel culture so much.
Owlbear
Junior Member
Choosing not to read an author's work due to his views isn't "cancel culture", though.
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