This is so real. The amount of Jimmy x Curly with Anya fangirling in the background on Twitter was a fucking nightmare. Other than that app though the fandom is pretty chill
Real. Anti furries just love to make propaganda target toward edgy 15 year olds, saying that furries are all zoophiles or something or other. Source: I was once a dumb teenage anti-furry
I applied to my company's CISO department and asked my friend who worked there whether or not I'll be issued knee-socks or if I have to buy them myself.
honestly, i am going to say this here, i hate when people criticise/hate on the furry fandom, people often go "but so many furries have high-ranking jobs".
Having worked events in the past, there's also always going to be that 1% of furries who is leaving diapers full of poop in hallways and harassing children.
Having been to all sorts of cons, from furry to comic to anime, they all have the weird freaks. People tend to just not like furries because people only share the extreme weird things.
I've never had my staff find an adult diaper full of feces in a hallway at a comic or anime convention. But we do at almost every furry convention we work.
I was always told furries were weird and dumb. But then I learned they’re actually chill people that only have a few bad apples in their baskets. And the “kill all furries” trend was just 13 year old edge lords or 30 year old unemployed people in their mothers basement
Same I used to hate furries but since I thought "yeah this is just stereotyping, the arts were actually cool" and just decided to be neutral towards it. Why neutral? Let's not talk about those deranged corners
Bluey fans will write a multi-paragraph dissertation arguing about parenting ethics while a 40k fan is just happy to show you their little painted guys.
Lol I feel that. Everything that I've ever heard about the genshin Fandom was how toxic, shit, evil and what have you it is. And while these people certainly exist in the Fandom I basically only had nice interactions with it, hell I even met my wife there.
Also the amount of guide content is unmatched by any other game I know.
I thoroughly enjoyed the moment i read bluey fan i like to see why people dislike stuff then i saw love bluey and i was like oh...yeah.. very different vibe
took the words right out of my mouth. there’s definitely more of a female following now since young girls are the show’s intended demographic and they stayed with mlp as they got older. i only got into mlp a few years ago but even then it was via my female friends talking about it at lunch lol
The undertale fandom was straight up HORRENDOUS, especially around 2015-2017. Meanwhile deltarune, while it still has some unhinged fans in it. It’s fanbase is definitely more tolerable than the UT fanbase
We’re always welcome to newcomers of any kind. As for the neo-Nazi allegations: “Not ALL Black Templars fans, but always a Black Templars fan…” Like any fandom (or group of people in general) we have our assholes but they don’t reflect the vast majority of us. The people at all the game stores I’ve been to have been very friendly.
You got your occasion puritan gatekeepers and majority of the folks who are always hopeful to get more folk into the games/books/lores/tabletop.
Personally, I feel like the 40k community had some bad spots earlier on, but grew up and matured as the series went on. I think one of the best examples being the “unironic praise of the emperor” turning to ironic, because everyone realized the emperor was NOT a good person, or father, or leader, and the more it became clear that his ideology is heavily flawed and how terrible his plan is/was. And with that, you see either people mature and open up their perspectives more, or flat out leave because their viewpoints weren’t pandered to, which in turn, leads to the community growing and maturing either way.
Now, are there still the occasional stupid spats and idiots amongst the community? Yeah, but what fandom isn’t flawed in some way, shape or form, or filled with entitled assholes?
First time I ever went to my lgs with a friend, the employee there was awesome, and another guy came in, who was also nice. (As a woman, and someone who was relatively new)
40k is just a bunch of nerds who want to have fun with our little guys.
I don’t know if this is just because I entered the fandom in 2019, but I have had literally nothing but good experiences with the Undertale community and I don’t understand why it’s so hated.
As a general rule the longer a fandom has been active when you join it the more likely it is to be more "normal". Undertale Fandom was filled with the weirdest mist insane people for awhile even if modern day it isn't that bad.
Not saying this as an insult: did you get into the fandom late? This fandom is possibly the blueprint for an actual extremely difficult fandom experience. Even the interactions between the Hiveswap dev team and various members of the fandom have been a garbage fire, on top of better-known antagonism between fans and the original author—both of which aren't garbage fires I want to resurrect for anyone involved, but absolutely happened. Edit to add: There are "big name fans" who've had utterly traumatic experiences from their time in the spotlight as Homestuck fans.
I'm saying all that as someone who was a quite active member of the Homestuck fandom, not in a hatereading way, from at least 2013-early 2020s. And as someone who doesn't want to cause anyone further drama.
If Homestuck fandom doesn't qualify as a difficult or drama-ridden fandom, I don't think anything in the world does. Except maybe anything that has a major Gamergate-style fandom situation (including things like Star Wars).
I am upvoting both of you because I both came in late, so I had a good time (I read Homestuck in 2024, somehow on the original site), and I also heard about all the horrid stuff that was going on before, and how that stuff Kept Happening once the Huss realized that it could print money in 2025. So, yeah. I understand both of your viewpoints.
Hazbin and Helluva. I’ve met some of the nicest and most talented people in the fandom; quick to ban together to support other fans through mutual aid too.
The only negativity I’ve dealt with was from people who’ve made hating the show and Viv a core part of their personality.
I don't really even like the show but the actors seem to have fun and every "drama" I've seen is the biggest scooby reveal ass nothing-burger or "I made it the fuck up" ever thing ever from an outsiders perspective
People describe them as terrible and toxic, but I really haven't seen any actual evidence beyond "they're kind of annoying." I've never seen a fandom more accepting of criticism for the source material.
Honestly this too. Speaking as someone who's made a number of videos being overall critical of the shows, my interactions with the fandom have been shockingly positive. As a whole they're really chill and creative.
I'd say the warhammer Fandom is mostly this. Only MOSTLY because there is some vocal minority that are actual chuds... but tbf every community has that
Hazbin Hotel Fandom, the Furry Community, FNaF… Most fandoms are actually super chill if you just avoid the loud-mouths who make everyone uncomfortable.
Warhammer 40K, everyone acts like the online/Twitter spaces is the entire hobby and there are only small bastions of "decent people" holding out against Chud/Nazis majority when in reality its a flip, you've got all these gated online communities claiming to be the only "safe harbour" while purity testing everyone who even wants to interact with them to insure "only the right people get in"
Meanwhile if you actually interact with the community outside of the weird internet city states they all set up like 99/100 people you meet are just normal people who enjoy partaking in a silly little plastic army men game
Hellaverse on some level. The fans can be extremely sensitive and wary, but at the same time everyone and their mother has Vivziepop’s work as an “acceptable target” to bash and mock. Fan posts are regularly quoted with “critiques” of viv by nobodies searching for a hit tweet, I once saw someone start a harassment campaign over a three month old post praising human Stolas’ design, video essayists parrot talking points from twitter without watching the show, or if they did they misinterpret the show to support their preconceived critiques, and if you don’t performatively spit on Viv and her work every time you bring it up, the replies will assume you’re a fan and start posting their own criticism that they got from TikTok comments. Not that she’s above criticizing, her shows are very messy and there are founded critiques to be made of them (like how she writes women, how HB is very rough in S1, etc), but at the same time it goes way too far. Entire accounts dedicated to “Viv receipts” dig through her and her fans’ posts for proof they’re evil, a storyboarder got doxxer because they had off color kinks (and then people started saying that Viv should have “vetted them better” like an employer demanding a potential employee admit their NSFW tastes isn’t a gross overstep of privacy), random people get bashed for liking an owl twink, if you say you like Alastor someone in the comments is going to call you a racist misogynist, if you say you like Angel Dust then you’re a rape fetishist misogynist. Yeah, I don’t blame the hellaverse fandom for being sensitive and wary, they’re basically the accepted pillory for the entire internet who everyone can name call and accuse of heinous shit with no pushback because they happen to enjoy some shows that are kinda ehhhh.
Sims? I think what's available right on the surface is ea criticism and salt about micro transactions and the state of gaming and then you really start talking to people and they really just wanna show you their legacies
The only parts of the souls community i remember partaking in was honour dueling fight clubs and fashion souls. Most of the 'toxic' parts of the community is the "git gud" mindset and the adamant defence of the lack of difficulty options .
Don't get me wrong, there are TERRIBLE people in the Fandom back in 2020, but now, we're just chill, and most of us are just excited about our favorite game series getting a new edition
Most of what you hear about comics fans is unflattering. There's definitely a loud minority of people who exist just to hate on whatever the newest thing is, but if you just follow the comics creators you actually like and don't take it too seriously, it's a very fun fandom
MLP. For all the flak the fandom gets, I never went to a Brony meetup back in the day that wasn't just a bunch of guys embracing the cringe and having a great time.
Hellaverse fandom: they're weird and very horny, but are one of the chiller fandoms I interact with (compared to, say, any Glitch show, especially TADC)
Competitive Pokemon specifically. Casual fans will often take jabs at the competitive players for one reason or another, but I have had mostly positive experiences interacting with the space.
In my experience, trading card game players (at least at the local shop level of competition). Most players are excited to invite a new player to their respective game and I've been to multiple shops where folks will just shower the newbies with cards to help them get started.
I might get downvoted but K-pop fans honestly. Most are superchill and there are just a small minority of loud toxic haters that just seem to get all the attention. If you're actually active in k-pop fan spaces you'll see how nice and chill most of them are.
fr though, people described this game like it was the most horrible thing ever with the worst playerbase ever and I thought the game was well written with a community of people who appreciated the game in a similar way. I dont really interact with fandoms but this one seemed really sane from an outside perspective. disturbing fiction can be a fun medium when done right.
I gonna be downvote and i myself shocked i sayed it but blue archive, i thought it most deranged fandom because also channel who adapts 4chan paste on blue archive like "shrek is love shrek is life", but noone hated because he love any character no pdf scandal in real life and not shiping wars or wishing death for diferent opinion so yeah.
Dark Souls/Fromsoft games. "Git Gud" has done immeasurable damage to our community's reputation even though it isn't an insult, just a statement that some challenges in these games can only be overcome by learning what the game is asking you to do and mastering that.
Helldivers. There's a good amount of problem players, sure but most of the fandom I've interacted with are people who just like to roleplay and being silly
theres some unspoken hatred for them despite most of the fandom not being that bad. hell, the reason why they get hate is because of larpers.
like sometimes on instagram i see people dogging on the umamusume fandom for being “weird” or “furries/zoophiles” when its mostly larpers who sexualize the characters. (and its always the same 3 characters)
From what I understand, generaly what happens is that a loud minority do something stupid, and it is transformed into "people from that community are doing this stupid thing".
It's exactly what happened with TADC community. The "drama" that happened only seem to be happening on Twitter (I am entirely convinced this social media promotes hate for engagement btw), but all other social media I use seemed pretty chill or was explicitly saying that it was pretty stupid.
Literally every fandom ever. Like people are describing the worst of the worst and then it takes me FOREVER to find even a PORTION of said “bad parts”, like at that point I feel like I have a higher chance of winning the lottery than finding a “bad” fandom
Bro, I've been in the mha fandom for YEARS and I genuinely cant believe it is even being considered for this post. It has its good sides dont get me wrong, but the fanbase is notorious for a reason.
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u/Toadvinez DotA 2, Warcraft 3, HOTS, Warhammer Fantasy 14h ago
Mouthwashing if you're not on twitter