supernatural, on Tumblr.
Roblox. Easiet pick of my life, Gods save us all
I got way way too into fantasy football. I didn’t have a dangerous amount of money invested in it (this was before DraftKings and the rise of addictive gambling apps), but I had like 5 teams and spent endless amounts of time trying to predict who would score points every week, reading stats and articles, and would watch football all day Sunday, and Monday and Thursday nights, as well as highlight shows and analysis.
At some point I just said “What am I doing?” and reclaimed my time. It felt great. No regerts. I don’t even watch football anymore.
Jesus fandom, Catholic branch. In my defense they enrolled me before I was old enough to say no.
An invitation for a free lunch that turned out to be a multi level marketing presentation for timeshares.
Doctor Who. It’s a television show, you dorks. Stop making television shows part of your personality.
i used to be a republican so
I was way into Musk when he was the face of Tesla and SpaceX. Less so when he started getting weird. Jumped ship before he started getting real Bond villainy.
Yeah, I wish he’d go back to being the greenhouse on mars guy
Warhammer 40k. I’m still a part of it. There are some cool and smart people in it.
But there are also a large group of raceist, misogynist, jerks. Then there are the people who are incredibly annoying to play against because of poor social skills. There is always at least one guy who really needs a shower.
I love Rick and Morty. And to be fair the whole Justin Roland schism got rid of a lot of toxic fans. Just not all.
I’m not gonna hate on any season. They’ve all been half filler and half Harmon confessing his sins, and most of them have been roughly entertaining for the most part. Even the meta shit is roughly entertaining.
Lemmy. There’s some good stuff here and also people who think you should die in a fire for being straight and white.
Have you tried not being white, vanilla face?
Oh don’t worry I’m trans / bi in the *wrong* *way* too. They just wanna be mad and will find a reason.
Well, you’re obviously just a bigot since you call yourself bi. Real progressives don’t use hateful terms like that. /s
(Note that I’ve actually seen people say stuff like this unironically).
Its very unfortunate how judgmental and toxic the loud voices have become. I could see one responding to you “How dare you betray your people, you’re not one of us, die die die”
Making threats just because someone doesn’t check all the same boxes is insanity. I believe the whole point was to not have any box, yet here we are with new boxes to keep track of every week.
Its very unfortunate how judgmental and toxic the loud voices have become.
Especially because they make enemies out of allies.
I haven’t seen that here yet but I don’t dicuss those things much so maybe that’s why.
Reddit
Everyone here is talking about fandoms they left because the fans were toxic, but the worst fandom I’ve been in is that because I can’t even think about it anymore without cringing: Channel Awesome. Just knowing what was going on behind the scenes makes me I wish I could refund the hours I spent watching the Nostalgia Critic.
Do you have a tl;Dr?
Channel Awesome was run by a guy named Mike Michaud, who was a really shit boss. Pretty much anything you expect HR to do is something he neglects. Harassment was rampant, contributors were scripted into situations that they weren’t comfortable with, nobody was notified about massive changes to the site, the works. Some stayed quiet because they feared retribution from man child Mike, others were either fired or quit in protest. This all bubbled up for years until a 70 Google doc detailing every single instance of neglect and hostility that went on behind the scenes was published, at which point CA collapsed like cheap cardboard. The document is freely available online, but since you’re looking for a short version, I’ll just summarize thusly:
Mike Michaud is a parasite that feeds on content creators and gives nothing in return. Also, his stench attracts roaches.
Don’t worry. He remembers it, so you don’t have to.
Anything Anime. Used to watch a lot of it. Every now and then, when I get a recommendation, I still check some out. But holy hell, I will never again engage with any community. Never seen anything so toxic, standoffish and whiny at the same time.
The borderline pedophilia in so much anime is what turns me off. So many popular series are lolicon degeneracy but heavens forbid you try to call it out, or the anime fans come out in droves to tell you that you’re an unappreciative normie who just doesn’t get the themes and how profound they are.
I still watch some series, but I simply cannot engage with an anime community ever again.
All the over sexualized characters, regardless of age, makes it damn near impossible to recommended much to any one. Even the “clean” shows suffer due to the bad rep. I get Japan is more open about it (ironic considering the censor laws), but some shows definitely cross the wrong side of the “adult” line and need to be publicly rediculed for it.
Its also good to remember pretty much every western TV show has borderline porn scenes now too. Ever since they moved away from cable regulations, they’ve been getting bolder.
If we’re gonna normalize one (too late, both are), I’ll take the animated one that doesn’t involve real people (well the voices actors have to act that shit out, but at least their whole body isn’t on full display, ever watch GoT?).
The Haruhi fandom forums back when season 2 premiered were a shitshow, even before Endless Eight. I tend to avoid anime fans on the internet after that. However, when the new Spice & Wolf season was airing, I ventured into some fan spaces and was surprised at how pleasant it was. Probably helps that the books and show are both pretty wholesome. Didn’t even see much lusting after Holo. So it might just depend on the show.
It also depends on the community a lot. The anime community on lemmy (!anime@ani.social, shameless plug) has been super chill overall. I think it’s in large part due to the lemmy userbase skewing older than your average social media user.
Capitalism.
