What is the dumbest case of fandom infighting you have ever seen?
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Star Wars canon wars. Hoooly shit you have not seen a firestorm until you see what happens whenever something new is added to Star Wars. There are several camps. Those who like everything or at least accept everything as happening in the same universe are a minority. Then there are the film purists who absolutely despise everything that the EU ever added to the franchise. Or the guys who are convinced the new Disney movies aren't canon because Lucas didn't make them. Or the guys who only think the EU is good. Or the guys who think only parts of the EU are good and blow off anything they don't like. Or the guys who believe that The Clone Wars was the best thing since sliced bread because of their waifu Ahsoka. Or the guys who hate the Genndy Tartakovsky miniseries for making Force Users look too OP. Don't even get me started on the technical junkies who try to convince themselves about the superiority of a Star Destroyer's deflector shields compared to the USS Enterprise, as if the two franchises were ever compatible.
It's a fucking nightmare.
It's a fucking nightmare.
The infighting between fandom message boards and forums is my pick. It hasn't stopped, it just keeps going. Years ago I frequented a Resident Evil message board, and while things were mostly under control every now and then you'd get topics popping up about how a different Resi board was full of spammers and flammers, and it was the worst, or this other board was so strict they were banning people left and right, and this place is better, no that place is better. And since I haven't been around message boards much in quite a while I thought it stopped until I realized the crap being spewed about Youtube comments and 4Chan, Reddit, is all the same thing. It's not so much that it's heated, it's not so much that fighting is that intense, because it's not, it's that it doesn't go away, that so many people are involved in it, and that it seems to have come to be normal and accepted.
This. So much of my this. I absolutely hate how there's always that one subset of a fandom - sometimes the entire fandom - that feels the need to make everything in the work about romance. This is actually something that really pisses me off about the Dragon Age fandom. We've been getting a decent amount of information on Inquisition for a while now, seeing the settings it'll be in, the mechanics it might, all these things, and what's the DA community buzzing about?Auron225 said:
"Do you think Iron Bull will be an LI? Do you think we can romance that Warden dude? Do you think Varric will be available?"
Yeah. Nice to see your love for the game there, fans, but you seem to have gotten it mixed up with a fantasy-themed dating sim.
I just... really, really hate this. It happens to Dragon Age, it happens to the MCU, it happens to Sherlock - if Tumblr's got it's claws in a fandom, might as well abandon ship, because all they care about is sex and romance and screw what the story's actually about. The slash shippers are even worse. I just don't understand how they can claim to be fans when all they seem to care about are the characters' sex lives.
The only time I've ever stared at the computer screen in utter disbelief, shock, and disgust is--
I've seen some serious stuff from Star Wars too. People calling for George's head and death threats and whatnot. And I think to myself, "This is the man you gave you what you love. Star Wars would literally not exist without him, and you're saying all these things about him? What's wrong with you?"
Never mind. Someone beat me to it. Seriously, I love the show and am a brony myself, but I read these articles or the comment sections in some Equestria Daily stuff and my mind is simply blown away. I just don't understand how people who like the same thing I do can be so...like that.IceForce said:
I've seen some serious stuff from Star Wars too. People calling for George's head and death threats and whatnot. And I think to myself, "This is the man you gave you what you love. Star Wars would literally not exist without him, and you're saying all these things about him? What's wrong with you?"
Strain42 said:
The Escapist isn't so bad for this, but elsewhere on the internet, you can get a ton of abuse just for liking the whole franchise. Like you have to pick a damned side.
The whole Windblade kerfuffle comes to mind too. And any time someone says they love a particular toy of a character, someone is going to find reasons to start a flamewar about how another toy of the same character is so much better.Objectable said:
Or how the wrong colour eyes ore some silly decals make an awesome figure Ruined Forever.
Whether Aeris should be called Aeris or Aerith. Her name in the actual game is Aeris. Quod erat motherfucking demonstrandum.
For me it has to be the fans of Fallout 3 vs. Fans of all the other Fallout games, particularly New Vegas.
Jesus! The arguments I've seen spring up over those games can get pretty spiteful, to the point of some people declaring Fallout 3 non-canon just because of some continuity errors and a Brotherhood of Steel that isn't a set of complete pricks. Christ!
Jesus! The arguments I've seen spring up over those games can get pretty spiteful, to the point of some people declaring Fallout 3 non-canon just because of some continuity errors and a Brotherhood of Steel that isn't a set of complete pricks. Christ!
While on the subject of Lord of the Rings, there's the never-ceasing argument over wheter or not the Balrog has wings or not. Does it really matter that much? The point is that he kills Gandalf; anything else is tangential to that plot-twist.Eamar said:
Do Balrogs have wings or don't they have wings? Do they have them but cannot use them? Can they use them but won't they? Won't they use them because they don't get a chance? The source of conflict comes from the Khazad-dûm chapter where the Balrog's shadow "reached out like two vast wings" and, further down the text, "its wings were spread from wall to wall", leaving it unclear whether this is a continuation of the shadow metaphor or it is truly deploying wings. The fact that a lot of Balrogs seem to plummet to their deaths (Glorfindel vs. Balrog, Gandalf vs. Durin's Bane) doesn't help the wing scenario. To further confuse things, Tolkien described the Balrogs in The Silmarillion as moving "with winged speed" (is their speed "winged" because it's really fast, or because there are literal wings?).
If you think any of the stuff mentioned is bad, have a look at the in-fighting in the metal community. Holy shit, do people get pissed easily there. Go to a place like Metal Injection, Metal Hammer, Loudwire, really doesn't matter, and you'll see people bitching about how band X isn't metal, how you have to act as a metalhead, how some legends are and have always been shit, and finally, the one I don't understand at all, the use of "liberal/leftist" and "vegan" as insults.
If you step back and look at it, it's hilarious because of all the people getting legitimately worked up over someone calling a deathcore band like Whitechapel metal. Deathcore is literally a subgenre of metal!
If you step back and look at it, it's hilarious because of all the people getting legitimately worked up over someone calling a deathcore band like Whitechapel metal. Deathcore is literally a subgenre of metal!
Just about everything between Bioware fans... which may seem hypocritical, as I usually get involved in it. In my defense, though, I mostly try to get everyone to get along, and only really argue against the really dumb things they say (Such as "DURE, STARCHILD'S LOGIC IS BAD, MUST BE PROBLEM WIT DA ENDING... AND NOT, YOU KNOW, DA FACT DAT HE'S DA VILLAIN AND SUPPOSED TO HAVE LOGIC YOU DISAGREE WITH, HURE.")
From what I have seen, most peoples issue wasn't that it's logic was bad, but that Shepard made practically no effort to refute it. The problem was that the game originally never gave you an option to do anything but go along with it. Considering this wasn't the case with Sovereign or The Harbinger, it made little sense that Shepard would suddenly meekly follow it without a fight.bigfatcarp93 said: