TakerFoxx said:
CrazyGirl17 said:
I've said it before, I'll say it again, internet needs a taser option. I am so sick and tire of writing that (especially since I'd probably be abused by morons), I wish there was a way to track down people like that.
I mean, I love Steven Universe, but the behavior of some fans makes my blood boil.
And it's not just some Steven Universe fans. There are certain people in certain fandoms, like Sonic the Hedgehog, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, and others who I feel should be muzzled. Harsh, yes, but frankly, I think it's about time we start putting our foot down, before things get worse.
...Sorry for ranting, I just wanted to get that off my chest.
You ever notice that it's usually the optimistic franchises with the colorful, cartoony mascots that tend to attract these sorts of fans? I mean, the more pessimistic franchises like Game of Thrones or Buffy or whatever have fnadoms that are just as large, but don't have nearly the same reputation for drama that the more innocent ones do.
Dunno about you, but I hear plenty about the drama in adult fandoms, seriously, Supernatural, Twilight, and Pro Wrestling fans have some seriously messed up drama in their fandoms, and that's just scratching the surface. X-Files fandom practically popularized the concept of Shipping drama in the 90's, and Star Trek fans may have faded from the spotlight, but Trek conventions have had all out fist fights in the past over petty fandom drama. Supernatural fan drama has gotten so loud that the actual show writers have poked fun of their fans in episodes. The differences tend to stem from the nature of the property rather than the fandoms themselves.
On one end, no one gives a shit if you draw Danerys porn because the show and books are adult and thus already full of sexual themes. On the flipside, you draw pictures of Sonic porn and you have instant drama in the form of people trying calling about "think of the children" or equating it to pedophilia if the characters are underage (Steven Universe) or of ambiguous age (MLP), the more "innocent" the show, the more you attract people that view defiling that innocence as something worth fighting over, no one wants to protect the innocence of Breaking bad, because none of the characters really had any innocence to begin with. The "innocence" also tends to draw in people that talk about the innocence and family-friendly nature of the property and try to enforce it within the fandom in other ways beyond just porn.
You also have an increased insularity and defensiveness because wider society tends to look down on more niche fandoms, especially something like children's shows, as it once again draws accusations of immaturity, autism, and pedophilia, regardless of the size or drama the fandom has caused. You can see similar defensiveness in other fandoms like Twilight, the increased negative perception from outside causes, usually already somewhat socially isolated fans, to withdraw further and defend themselves in increasingly pleading and irrational ways. I remember trek and D&D fans reacting similarly in the 80's when popular media had a tendency to pick on them.
Finally, you've got size, Nobody has more drama than sports fans, no sonic fans have ever rioted, to the tune of millions of dollars in damages, over their fandom, or actually killed people over it, but because sports is part of the mainstream culture, the insane fans are drowned out of popular perception by the ocean that is mainstream appeal. I've seen hysterical drama take place in forums discussing the Walking Dead and Game of Thrones, but the sheer number of people usually quickly drowns that drama in a sea of voices. MLP is considered a fairly large fandom on some corners of the internet, but they might as well be non-existent compared to most mainstream shows and adult properties, even moderately popular adult properties will become much larger than kids properties by orders of magnitude.
There's also the issue of "innocent" properties also tend to draw in their actual target audience, which means you are mixing adults with pre-teens and teenagers. Look at the ages of the Steven Universe fans on Tumblr propagating most of the drama, a few young adults, but also a crap ton of 13-18 year olds, same for Sonic fandom, some of the most notorious fans may be older, but there are still a lot of young kids drawing their shitty self insert OCs, or Harry Potter with its legion of teenage girls fighting over which male characters should be shipped together, meanwhile Breaking Bad is mostly going to be composed of people 20 and older. When you get a lot of 30+ year olds together, the level of patience for petty ass pre-teen drama tends to drop drastically, although it can easily be replaced by other types of drama, older people tend not to have the free time to embark on online harassment campaigns the same way 14-25 year olds do.
Although individual circumstances can also be contributing factors, like age of the property, or its attachment to related fandoms, like MLP and Sonic to furries, or Steven Universe to Tumblr's gender debates, which carries its own history and set of baggage. There really is no one single reason, I doubt I've even scratched the surface, and I've been in a ton of fandoms for over 20 years at this point, and was raised by relatives who went to trek conventions in the 70's and LOTR roleplaying groups in college in the 60's.