What is the dumbest case of fandom infighting you have ever seen?
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I'd like to thank you and Mangod for proving my point about Beatles' infighting that still occurs 44 years after their breakup!King Whurdler said:
I also want to thank you two for making this a polite discussion rather than true infighting. If anyone wants to see real infighting, go to dedicated Beatles forums. Be warned, however, that some of them are as vitriolic as any poorly moderated video game site.Since I don't wish to hijack this thread, I'm going to exit stage left now. Thanks again for the fun time, you two!
And BTW, King, I totally agree with you about Lennon's solo career in comparison to the others. In my humble opinion, The Plastic Ono Band album alone puts him at the top.
uttering the phrase "who is best pony?" can often start a heated debate (that can devolve to a shouting match) among bronies if said bronies are drunk enough ... (I have witnessed this several times at cons)
In relation to music theres the whole bon scott/brian johnson thing (which isnt really that heated) and also the david lee roth vs sammy hagar thing with van halen fans which is very heatedTen Foot Bunny said:
P.s. i have to agree that harrison is very overlooked when compared with lennon and mcCartney
The reactionary wave of analysis and defense of the MLP tv show after the fanbase came under attack. A certain group of people came together to "critically examine" the show and explain why they liked it so much. That by itself is harmless, and even beneficial in some ways. However, it lead them to compare the show to it's previous iterations and other cartoons. They've put the show on such a high pedestal, to them, it's no longer a kids show. It's cringe worthy. It makes sense though. Bronies have always tried to say that the show is "manly," [it isn't] it's not about selling little girls toys [it is]. It's like a mental disorder. The stigma about watching the show was so bad for some, the only way they could cope was to build it up to the point where it's no longer something to be mocked.
Essentially all arguments about aesthetic choices in sequels to popular games. Like when Ninja Theory had the SHEER AUDACITY to come up with their own art direction and aesthetic and do new, exciting things with an old IP. Judging by the fan reaction, you'd guess they were breaking into houses at night, stealing people's copies of old Devil May Cry games and burning them.
Remember when Infamous and Prototype were both out?
Yeah that was a laugh whenever you dropped that in a discussion.
Yeah that was a laugh whenever you dropped that in a discussion.
In the same regard: Beatles vs Rolling Stones. Putting that one up is like waiting for a bomb to go off.Ten Foot Bunny said:
I especially like those little flareup where one side loves the new episode while the other sides hates said new episode... and then they both text-fight to see who's more in the right...Veylon said:
OT: Besides the Brony fandom (especially in EQD's comment section), seeing Nostalgia Critic fans argue over the "old style" and "new style" of Nostalgia Critic's "reviews"... (Reminds me when Demo Reel got a lot of beef for just existing...)
Oooh, I've seen it from the inside. I remember my shipping days from Avatar. I stayed out of the biggest debate (Kataang vs. Zutara) but even just witnessing that was enough to really turn me off the shipping community. Not to mention all the angry ship-fic authors who have come for my head because I dared to give their fic a bad review.balladbird said:
Oh lord... and that's not even getting into reviewer rivalry such as AVGN vs NC or the more broad 'best reviewer on TGWTG'.FPLOON said:
But I'd say that the BIG split is 'The Spoony Incident' ... everything changed for the fans during this incident. We got to see everyone's true colors and the idealized internet celebrities became flawed internet people. Nothing splits a fanbase more than these kinds of incidents.
You know, as bad as those incidents got, those are small potatoes in my book compared to the flareup that happens every time someone draws fan-art of any of the mane six being non-white.Veylon said:
Now, I love the MLP fandom. Frankly, they're the only reason I keep as up-to-date with the show as I do. But good lord, the amount of bile and hatred that gets thrown around when you start throwing race into MLP is startling at times.
All the incidents you guys mentioned blew over to a degree. Even Alicorn Twilight hatred seems to have died down. But you post a pic of Fluttershy being Muslim, and suddenly everyone loses their minds.
Oh, come now. Muslim isn't a race. Any race can be Muslim. Could you draw an atheist Fluttershy or a Unitarian Fluttershy as distinct from a white Fluttershy?Leemaster777 said:
I'll grant the fandom has trouble imagining the pony as being non-whites. Most of the fandom is white; they imagine characters to be white by default. All the voices sound stereotypically American white and of course the owners of the voices are white. If there was a wider range of accents there might not be such an imagination gap.
I've never actually seen a Pony race flare-up, but I'm not surprised that it's a lurking issue.
two points, i love Kiff, he's adorable no matter what, AND WHO THE HELL COULD SAY 'NO' TO ASARI!! BLASPHAMY!! *glomps closets blue-psudo-female*Vault101 said:
i rather love the whole concept of the Asari, just trying to figure them out, but no i'm not silly enough to 'justify' them as anything more then this generations' 'Orion slave girls' from OG Star Trek... as that one guy from Megus XLR stated 'GREEN SKINNED GIRLS!! I GOT DIGITS FROM GREEN SKINNED GIRLS!!' now if they had waited a few years, we would have been hearing 'BLUE SKINNED GIRLS!!' amiright?
but one thing about them i love to snort at, and may have started an argument on more then one thread is that technically they aren't 'female', as being 'female' would require another 'male' gender in their species, as there is no other gender, they are simply that, monogendered and therefore neither male or female, even if they obviously have the more womanly bits...suppose that's a bit on-topic if a tangent, debating gender of alien species in a fiction *Snorts*
though my experience of 'so ridiculous why are we even talking about it'... has anyone else here ever ventured into an anime forum? the horrors...
but yes... shipping mostly... and the justifying of it... always good for a giggle but run for the hills if you make a comment *snickers*
I've heard tell, but never seen for myself, of terrible bouts between fans of the same fiction who vehemently believe in a particular pairing between characters.
I've heard they will go as far as considering their ideal partnership as canon, and denounce any notions saying otherwise, and will go into a fit if the fiction does not realize their wish.
For all my time spent in Kingdom Hearts fan communities and discussions, I have thankfully--miraculously--never seen anything more than "we disagree but I don't want this to get out of hand."
Why people attach themselves so wholly to imaginary pairings between imaginary characters astounds me.
Because she's only Aeris in the localized version of FFVII. And I hope both you and I can agree that the translating work in FFVII was not exactly top-notch, her name notwithstanding. In the Japanese FFVII manual, Crisis Core, Kingdom Hearts and wherever else since FFVII, she has been named Aerith.
Something to note is that the guest characters from Final Fantasy don't quite line up from their source materials. They're altered versions of those characters set within the KH universe. They don't even come from their source material worlds, let alone have the same backstories or relationships.
I've heard they will go as far as considering their ideal partnership as canon, and denounce any notions saying otherwise, and will go into a fit if the fiction does not realize their wish.
For all my time spent in Kingdom Hearts fan communities and discussions, I have thankfully--miraculously--never seen anything more than "we disagree but I don't want this to get out of hand."
Why people attach themselves so wholly to imaginary pairings between imaginary characters astounds me.
Well, see... that is why people fight over it. Because people who played FFVII back then keep holding onto it.Queen Michael said:
Because she's only Aeris in the localized version of FFVII. And I hope both you and I can agree that the translating work in FFVII was not exactly top-notch, her name notwithstanding. In the Japanese FFVII manual, Crisis Core, Kingdom Hearts and wherever else since FFVII, she has been named Aerith.
His name is still Squall. Leon is a nickname.Johnny Novgorod said:
Something to note is that the guest characters from Final Fantasy don't quite line up from their source materials. They're altered versions of those characters set within the KH universe. They don't even come from their source material worlds, let alone have the same backstories or relationships.
well it is MegaTen... so... yea... i expect that *snickers*Strain42 said:
i'm going to sit over here in my Digital Devil Saga corner, with mouth-boobies and switch-foot and nibble on popcorn while the 'kids' and grandpa keep fighting... because /CLEARLY/ we're the superior ones... i mean /COME ON/ we've got the most legit of the systems, and the hardest optional boss in any game ever made
*snicker snicker lol lol*
word bro... though i think the only thing that gets worse or as bad as those trenchs is over in Naruto where its either Naruto x Sakura, Sakura x Sasuke, Naruto x Sasuke, Naruto x Hinata, Hinata x Sasuke, Hinata x Sakura... etc. etc. etc. and it gets downright bloody... and that's only FOUR people out of the cast... where the ships are effectively EVERYONE X EVERYONE... RUN FOR THE HILLS!!balladbird said:
i'll just stick to my little boat and scurry on under the radar... as i'm sure my ships are either 'obvious' along with canon or just crack in my head... and i'm okay with that ._.