There’s so many bands I love and I don’t even have a clue what they look like much less know anything about their fan base
you’re not missing much.
whenever i go to a live show these days i’m like one of 5 people over the age of 30, and everyone else looks like a teenager who is still growing.
That’s fine, I’ve met some really interesting people both much younger and older than myself in this life.
Most of the time, I’ve found more enjoyment in stuff when I interact with other fans. It can be fun to talk about things together. I’ve not run into much of the toxicity that I think often must people just assume there is.
Rick and Morty
Definitely this! I lost my love of the show after the 4th season due to the fans.
Yeah, I kinda fell off around then as well. I started watching sometime around the end of season 2 airing, and I remember how fun and exciting it was. I’m not sure the show was meant to go on as long as it did. I think that’s a big problem with things getting popular too, is this desire to keep things going past their expiration date.
Credit where it’s due, Netflix does the limited series thing and I like that. Let’s state from the beginning: this is it. Now, Netflix also just cancels shows it shouldn’t, and that’s massively disappointing, so debit where it’s due too (that’s an opposite of credit but obviously not the right one but I can’t think of the word and I gotta wrap this thing up).
I think in this case the word is deficit not debit
Thanks that’s definitely the word. Just had bankcards in my head for some reason, and time was of the essence.
What happened? I only lightly watched the show.
A lot of folks have watched the show and come to the conclusion that it’s an endorsement of their lifestyles which they view as similar to Rick at the start of the series, plus the extremely toxic behavior that comes along with the impression that you’re better than everyone and your intelligence justifies any behavior you are criticized for
Yeah. Used to be like that. What a shitty way to live. Denying any need to change by claiming superior intelligence over the people suggesting change, even though you’re desperately unhappy.
Are you kidding? I’m totally Jerry.
Thanks. Sort of like MAGA light.
They turned into a pickle, funniest shit I ever seen.
That’s when I stopped watching. It was so stupid that it just turned me off.
The joke was that there was no joke, Rick is just being an asshole and disappointing everyone around him. But between that and the shezuan sauce incident, I realized the fandom has literally zero media literacy, they’re just clapping at shapes and colors.
Everyone’s media literacy, reading comprehension, ability to appreciate nuance or capacity to consider multiple non-mutually-exclusive ideas in their head at once is vanishing.
It’s actually so fucking depressing to see how many people who I agree with politically and ethically are also kind of stupid and seem to have peaked intellectually.
Or liking things that doesn’t have a big fan base works too. For instance, a lot of novels.
Meanwhile, when novels do have a relatively large fanbase, boy, better stay away from them
And yet the Brandon Sanderson fandom is pretty non-toxic.
That is such a ravenclaw thing to say.
Brb, writing GRRM a letter asking him to finish writing my slop before he dies.
First two books of ASoI&F were pretty good, I thought. Then the rest were just him writing himself in circles, ever more slowly. Then the TV adaptation came out, to initially great acclaim, and then ended with a damp fart.
Yes, there were more problems with the end of the show than just his plot, or lack of it, but I can’t see that the ending will be redeemed without substantial changes, and his skills as a writer don’t really extend to “writing towards the desired ending”.
I think if we do ever get a conclusion to the book series, it will be written by someone else; I believe he’s left instructions to destroy all his notes and work-in-progress when he dies?
I believe he’s left instructions to destroy all his notes and work-in-progress when he dies?
Do you trust it to be more profitable to follow those instructions or to disobey them?
Even if you interact with the fandom, you are certainly not doing it in public, be it on forum, Reddit, Lemmy or Discord, you will encour the risk of gettin flashed with either some strange images or see other things you don’t wanna see and this get worse the bigger the fandom get
Ive found Dungeon Crawler Karl fans are really nice people.
Let me in!
not interacting with people in general:
Rick and Morty.
Fallout.
Star Wars.
Magic (except my friends).
Absolutely every single anime I ever watched.
Terraria has a unusually thirsty fanbase that never fails to disgust me.
Did I mention Fallout?
Care to elaborate on the Terraria fanbase? I never got into the game, always liked starbound more, but I could not get from them anything besides condescension regarding any other 2d-survival-whatchamacall-this-genre games. It’s terraria or nothing else.
There is absolutely no problem with Terraria itself. It’s an amazing game and my critique wasn’t directed at the fandom as a whole but at the subreddit. It was a dwelling place for furry porn artists who can’t fathom the concept of a NSFW tag. Also the mods rolled with it. So when I opened the app there was a great chance of the top of my feed being shitty porn drawings. Which I do not enjoy.
I also just checked and yeah. It seems like it got worse.
Hot Take: Fallout the show is mid. Every season the actors try to save the script, but it dies anyway.
Oh right, I had totally forgotten! I was wondering when 4 or 76 got so popular but the show fellout recently! That explains it pretty well lol.
I think I forgot to mention Fallout.
Silo better
Honestly, linux for me (yes I know where I am). Love the software and options, but holy shit is the fanbase incredibly opinionated and full of condescension about it. Also they don’t know how to shut the fuck up about it, and constantly bring it up where it doesn’t belong. Like its a personality trait to them or something.
For many, it is. Autism, hyperfixation, and passion are needed to do something like create an OS from scratch, pick and choose any of the 3 to then use it in an incomplete state.
Id argue we’re finally at the point where you actually dont need any of those, just a willingness to learn and adapt
it’s a tool for a job for me.
to them, it’s a religion.
RuPaul’s Drag Race for me… For a show about dudes with fake boobies in dresses, people sure love to send death threats over the tiniest most imagined slights. P.s. I am talking about the fans, not homophobes on the outside.
I’m not a fan of the show at all, I don’t care if dudes want boobs and dresses but I’m not entertained or interested. Even expressing something like that bhas gotten me shouted down before, the violence definitely is coming from inside the fan base.
Buddy I think you’re in the wrong chat lol
Star Wars. It’s not perfect, and sometimes bad, but avoiding the fanbase gives me peace.
I actually liked the most recent star wars movie. there I said it.
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mandalorian.
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The fucks a grogu
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That’s not a baby yoga that’s a glug shitto
I desperately hope you don’t mean episode 9.
Everyone’s entitled to their own opinion, but damn, do you even like the rest of it? Or other sci-fi and fantasy in general?
The absolute disrespect of not bothering to try to create a coherent world in episodes 7-9 was staggering.
If a piece of media’s plot or storytelling is a bit meh, that’s forgivable, but when you’re just straight up not bothering to think of the logistics or established rules within a fantasy/sci-fi world? Please no. Please stop.
Or at least be writing something supernatural where there are barely any rules and you can hand waive whatever you like.
I’m not the biggest fan of 9, I liked the mandalorian movie
Ah, I haven’t been keeping up to date! Shall check it out :)
Not in love with all of Disney star wars, but Andor is hands down the greatest Star Wars I’ve seen, so I’ll forgive them for the rest of the stuff I don’t like as much (not including Star Wars episodes 7-9, straight to jail)
I just couldnt get into andor, and I say that thinking the best star wars movie is rogue one lmao. it was just a little bit too much talking for me.
I gave up on it midway through season two, maybe I’ll give it another shot now that xmen 97 ended its second season
I suppose we just enjoy different things about Star Wars then, for me it’s all about the world building, and seeing how characters act within it, the battles and action are just a climax to everything else (I feel this way about all sci-fi and fantasy).
Not saying you only watch it for the battles, but I do mostly watch it for the talking haha
It’s why I still very much enjoy the prequels, despite them being pretty shoddy on the plot (Anakin’s fall could have been written soooo much better written it hurts. Probably would have needed an extra movie to really sell it though. The Clone Wars TV show episode where Tarkin and Anakin meet for the first time was great if I recall correctly. It made kinda make sense why Anakin bought into fascism in the end.)
To me there’s no such thing as a food sci-fi and fantasy without politics (in the sense that there’s some disagreement which motivates people). More trade disputes and blockades please, less holdo maneuvers that break existing rules of the world. The holdo maneuver would have been great to destroy the Death Star with some Kamikaze X-Wings jumping to hyperspace through it…
The battles, to me, are only interesting if one fleshes out the world and the political disagreements.
I once started watching a Chinese fantasy show (was learning Chinese, and like sci-fi/fantasy) and it opened with a 10 minute battle, no context. Immediately turned it off, like why do I care, show?
No one hates star wars / Trek like star wars / Trek fans.
It’s not easy, but you can like them both and still dislike the fans.
I find it extremely easy to like both and dislike the fans!
It’s the rule of 3! For both Star Wars / Trek, I only like 3 movies / series!
Which ones? [Hehe…]
I’m old school. For SW it’s the OG trilogy all the way. For Trek it’s TOS, TNG, and DS9!
“All ‘jedi’ had was a bunch of muppets.”
eSports. Particularly cs2 formerly known as csgo. I haven’t played it since July 2019 due to my gaming PC passing away and being unable to afford a new one.
I still watch all the majors.
Me2. I played a bit after playing a lot of tf2, and found out I wasn’t sweaty enough for it.
I love watching it, though, it’s one of the most watchable esports (dota2 or overwatch are way too busy for me)
I do tend to not mingle in hltv threads though, as per OP
I’m sure there a plenty of people who enjoy Harry Potter, who’ve never heard of the controversy.
And, I hope they never do. Let people enjoy things.
Go ahead and downvote me now.
You’re hoping for people to unknowingly support a transphobic activist? For the sake of enjoying a mediocre book series? Odd priorities.
They’re hoping that someone can enjoy one single thing in their life without being told they’re a garbage human being for supporting “X”, or who didn’t do “Y”, or who is related to/was roommates with/worked with over the Z years the author(s) were alive.
It’s like 7 degrees of Kevin Bacon except somebody somewhere thinks someone involved is a POS, and now you are too for liking it.
Rowling is alive and very active, though. This isn’t a tenous connection by way of vague association, the author in question is (1) alive, (2) profits from buying their shit and (3) uses that money to make the world worse.
Every few years I find a kpop act I like but holy shit, the fanbase is fucking horrible. I’d rather try getting into League again before I’d interact with those creatures.
My exception to this rule is Pokémon ROM hacks, relatively small fan base though which helps
I have found another.
Did you try Phoenix Red 2.0 yet? I’m also excited for the 2 remakes of Alola that are upcoming.
I haven’t! I’m going through Elysium for the first time on an Rg34xx, feels sooooo cool.
The Aloha ones are like my most anticipated games on the horizon, not just for rom hacks but full stop! Lazarus was easily my favorite game of the year, I’m really trying not to do a 4th play through lol
Lazarus was so good. I ended up throwing speed up on to shiny hunt all the static encounters towards the end of the game. Was a great time.
Plus I loved the Alolan Raichu buff. Surge Surfer creating an electric terrain + Choic Specs/Focus Sash meant that my Raichu was dominating. Just had to watch for the occasional sucker punch or pursuit haha.
I had fun with Odyssey, too. I’m not as excited for Odyssey 2, however. Not really sure why actually.
Pokémon fans make the best Pokémon games and it’s not even close
Probably a good idea, OP. The F1 fanbase has become a circus in the past decade. A lot of newcomers bringing their tribalism mentality of other sports along with them, not understanding how F1 works.
If you actually do want to get involved in a motorsport fanbase, GTs. But watching the NLS stream with chat while Max is in a team can be fatiguing. 100+ teams on track over many classes, so effectively 16 races going on, and every five mins his fanbase, that has no idea what they’re watching, start arguing about F1. Some genuinely say it’s their first GT race and ask a lot of questions, the fanbase is thrilled and explains everything with welcoming arms.
Definitely true. I’m a 43 year old guy who’s loved F1 since the 90’s and living in a small rural town I didn’t even have anyone to talk to about F1 in person. Fortunately, but in the end, unfortunately there is a coworker on a different crew. That is a big Formula 1 fan, but he is a Max fan and I by fan I mean one of “those” Max fans. He is very short tempered about any race that Max doesn’t win and he is still convinced that McLaren cheated last year to win. And also sadly he is very racist towards Lewis and Yuki so I don’t interact with him at all.
Oh they just don’t get F1 yet.
Talk about the mid-pack teams only with him. We all know the good shit is with Alpine, RB, Haas, and crossing fingers for Williams and Audi. Following one driver and one team, may as well just put the 4 min YT highlights on instead of watch the actual racing.
Maybe remind him the Max has no trophies. They all go back to the team after the race.
