Other What ruined a fandom for you?

[Best Hooker]

The fandom itself usually ruins it for me.

Agreed.

 

[Sugarnaut]

I was threatened to be doxxed once in the name of "cleansing the Animal Crossing community".
AKA: They didn't get voted into being a mod and was mad about it.

 

[Steve Jobs]

The moment that Pro and Anti shipping discourse enters the space, I'm jumping ship.

The Genshin Impact community, as much as I enjoy the game, is also a cesspool. Seeing VAs get harassment for just doing their job is awful.

 

[bunniboo]

Ship wars. Omfg it always just ruins my want to be part of a fandom. People just can't go “cool for you, that ship isn't my thing” and move on. Unless it's actually one that's toxic or unhealthy of course.

That and the Genshin Impact fandom literally harassing VAs. It's disheartening and honestly it gives Voltron fandom vibes.

 

[Mors Canis]

Unfortunately, it's usually the out of pocket behavior displayed by the fandom itself. I don't usually engage with the fandom of a franchise or series I otherwise enjoy/love as a result.

Hard lesson learned.

 

[snicker_sage]

I tend to avoid fandoms as a whole, and i enjoy my own stuffs.

No drama, toxicity and wars.

Easy.

 

[Mysha]

Horrible retcons fundamentally changed my favorite character forever

 

[Sinurak]

Star Wars was ruined for me by the Fandom itself. More specifically, the Fandom Menace. I used to be all for them but I came to realize that they were a lot of reactionists who held double standards towards anything Disney, openly advocating for them to be eschewed from Canon and seeing anyone semblance of progress as woke.

I don't like the Sequel Trilogy. I could go all day about how much I dislike it. However, there are fans out there who enjoyed that era of Star Wars. If those movies reached even one person and made them happy, they have a valid reason to exist and I have no right to step on their enjoyment.

This was how the Prequel Trilogy was treated back when it was released. I know how it feels and it sucks. The Fandom Menace are not your friends. They're not fighting to preserve Star Wars. They're fighting to preserve their vision of Star Wars. They're responsible for the divide in the fandom, not Disney or Lucasfilm, or anyone else. Their identities and content are based on ragebaiting. If Star Wars were "fixed," they'd have nothing to complain about and their content doesn't get clicks.

I don't engage with the larger fandom because of them. They're an extremely nasty, gatekeeping lot who are no better than the idiotic things Disney has said in the past.

Do not listen to them.

They are not on your side.

 

[AaronMk]

While I am somehow still in it or associate myself with it is a mystery to even me, my relationship to Bronies can be readily summed up by a friend of mine who I quote:

nothing has eroded my belief in freedom of expression more than the decade+ that i've been exposed to bronies

 

[caramelisedbrownsugar]

For many fandoms, its definitely the fanbase and ship wars, as well as constant discourse surrounding every single piece of media made.

Its tiring and unnecessary for everyone involved, and if people could just live and let live, I think it’d be way better for everyone’s sanity.

 

[IenjoyBirds]

honestly the content that orignally got me into the fandom started to become trashy and dumb and really contridicted earlier content and itself and on top of the really agressive shippers i just decided to stop

 

[snicker_sage]

I stopped being in any popular fandoms and i am only restricting myself to unpopular verses.

Unpopular verses are much better, no wars, idiocies.. Pure enjoyment.

Being in the One Piece, Naruto fandoms, so much darn toxicity, not to mention that i think Oda was harrassed on Twitter, as they wanted some headcanons to become canon..

Nowadays with James Bond, Johnny English and some others, i'm in peace.

The One Piece fandom ruined the franchise for me, the Naruto one was insane, as hell..

Some games with those "horror mascots" are filled with toxicity, drama, and i dare to say it, unstable users..

 

[Katerina]

Echoing all the Harry Potter/JK Rowing responses. It's both heartbreaking and infuriating.

 

[cuzn]

The over-abundance of people under 18 in the fandom of a show that is strictly 18+. Loved Hazbin since 2019, now the fandom makes me want to rip my eyes out.

 

[Dazedlion]

Not gonna state what fandom, but.. Ppl making fun of new fandom members for liking the newest character.

 

[Aarix]

For Disco Elysium? The shipping it's painful how many people are seemingly incapable of engaging with a complicated piece of art for what it is instead of compulsively dumbing it down into the same old slop they've been consuming for years. I don't mind shipping in fandoms where the source material is obviously lacking in substance (i.e. the vast majority of media franchises... even ones I enjoy, like star trek--c'mon, it's THE classic.) but in this case it just strikes me as willfully ignoring a lot of the complexity that DE was already giving you. In order for harrykim to be viable, you literally have to ignore Kim's entire character, and Harry's too (despite him being a halfway blank-slate protagonist), lol. Even if they were sizzlingly compatible, the game was never about them, not really... yet the vast majority of the fandom just revolves around woobified versions these two guys. Y'know there are other way to engage with media on an emotional level than to make everything about romance all the time...

I think it's disgusting how the "people" who took over that game studio lean into the queerbaiting and woobifying now, too... of course, the evisceration of ZA/UM soured a lot of things in general, but it did not have to ruin the impact of the game itself. And yeah, I'm not the arbitrator of how people may and may not enjoy the media they consume. But the DE fandom, in my eyes, so often refuses to even engage with what made the game so special in the first place that it's kind of offensive. Like, DE was a lifechangingly important miracle of a game to me, just this once can we not make it into yaoi lol

 

[acatt]

For me it's been finding myself stood in the tide of a changing fandom. World of Warcraft is one of my favourite fandoms to write in and just generally consume content in but all because two characters, one new and one very well established, held hands in the new expansion many people who I know previously shipped other stuff and engaged with me about it are denying years of subtext about other ships they engaged with for this new one. It's like you're on the beach with the tide going out from something you enjoyed so naturally the interest starts to die down until non-existent.

I had something similar to this with another fandom years ago and the only way I got around it was just pretending certain characters didn't exist anymore.

 

[snowglobe]

something that usually kills the fandom for me is when someone gets so possessive of a character that they can't fathom other people might also be fans of the same character. especially a popular one?!

 

[SheepKing]

For me it’s when an overwhelming section of a fandom seems like it’s so embarrassed of actually being one that the community basically goes out of its way to bully or make fun of all of the typical aspects of creative fandom culture to the point it ends up being inadvertently discouraged to cosplay, write fanfiction, or doing anything that could be even slightly considered ’cringey’. Thankfully this doesn’t happen too much but oof when it does it really hampers my incentive to join said fandom.

 

[Coca-Cola]

The brainrot (TADC)

 

[Garrett.Hawke]

All the Bakugo simps

 

[SodaKin]

Keep fucking themselves up fr I've been in the hazbin hotel fandom for quite a bit and I can't keep defending them it's becoming a thing were people are like "of course it's a hazbin hotel fan!!" And yeah I agree a lot of the peeps in the fandom are tweekin but there are good people in the fandom that I love. I'm just tired of being in a area where everything is black and white I'mma stick to watching the show and drawing silly characters ^^

 

[bd0693]

The lore and content output.

Glup shitto is a name/term for characters emerging out of the aether in star wars that were mentioned once 30 years ago in some background scene or barely-recognized media. How it's all callbacks and the modern setting is propped up by old names that refuse to retire.

The more I watch modern Star Wars the more I realize the amount of Glup Shittos there are and how it tries to cover up the increasingly poor plotlines. I'm tired, boss.

 

[Wildcard888]

My friend tried to get me into Genshin Impact, by letting me play it on their device. I honestly, didn’t know what was happening, and didn’t know how to progress in the game. (And I thought a certain character was annoying)

But now, I think that something had happened with the creators letting someone with AI art win a contest? But yeah, I guess the game itself just isn’t my cup of tea

 

[BlueFelix]

A fandom that was ruined rather quickly for me after doing a deep dive for an hour, I'd say Start wars