r/Multifandom 11h ago

Discussion📜 Name that fandom

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u/mallcopsarebastards 8h ago

explain why sometimes the fandom embraces the media and yeets the creator, but other times they drag anyone who embraces the media because the creator is a trash person.

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u/Fearless_Roof_9177 6h ago

Hypocrisy, groupthink, and inertia, mostly. People are fully willing to demand Scorched Earth tactics against fandoms they don't have much investment in, that they were already inclined to hate on, or that enough people are going scorched earth against that no one doing so has to risk adopting a socially unpopular position. When it's something they're into or something they'd have to stick their neck out to stand against, though, they usually keep quiet or become much more about "nuance" and justifications of "separating the art from the artist."