Sonic the Hedgehog fanboy over here. However I don't follow the fandom. Those guys are animals.

Jesus fandom, Catholic branch. In my defense they enrolled me before I was old enough to say no.

Roblox. Easiet pick of my life, Gods save us all

supernatural, on Tumblr.

When I was smaller, I was in a group that larped as nations, generally ww2 to copy hoi4 in Roblox

The issue was that it was extremely toxic and competitive when it was literally played as if it was multiplayer DND roleplaying

Because it was Roblox, it had a fuck load of underage people, racists, pedophiles, man children, doxxers, script kiddies and an extremely toxic community

I never interacted too close to it and instead stuck around the more educational parts where people discussed history itself, and I eventually got into discord nation roleplaying by creating my own server with people I knew

If you are curious, look up World Conquest in Roblox and browse the discord

Gaming. I've seen it get progressively worse and worse over time. Gamers are some of the most entitled and whiney people I've met.

Game puts out 58fps instead of 60? Trash. Throw it out. Start a media campaign about how shit the devs are at their jobs

Game is only just "fun" and isn't an absolute masterpiece like RDR2? It doesn't matter, since it isn't better than the literal best game ever made it's trash. There is zero middle ground. Burn an effigy!

Game sequel changes anything from the previous? Burn down their offices! Games shouldn't take risks! What do you mean all we have now are boring games from companies afraid to take risks?!

And we haven't even started with the freaking gatekeeping

Now I'm not defending game companies, god knows there's blame over there, but ffs I'm tired of gamers. I've been flamed over having opinions like enjoying a game.

For example. I liked Veilguard. I honestly did. It wasn't a perfect game, it wasn't a RDR2, but I enjoyed it and I found it a good value for the money, and I don't care that it wasn't like Origins. Watch the hate roll in folks.

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.

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.

Probably Anarchy. Like, the political philosophy.

Andrewism on YouTube is doing so much to make a compelling case for it. But it's a real bummer when you get a group of anarchists together and go, 'Damn, hanging out with these people makes me want to implement some rules and structure so we can get things done. This group is totally leaderless and directionless. I'm gonna go see what the socialists are up to.'

It's sad. In my experience, no one ruins anarchism more than anarchists.

Star Wars. No one hates Star Wars more than a Star Wars fan. I actively avoid other Star Wars fans.

Doctor Who. It's a television show, you dorks. Stop making television shows part of your personality.

An invitation for a free lunch that turned out to be a multi level marketing presentation for timeshares.

League of Legends. A little proud to say that it took a lot of time to remember I used to dump hours into that hellscape of a game.

Don't get me wrong, League can be fun and some champ designs are just chef's kiss. But at some point I just felt like I wasn't improving any more and got far less.endorphins And ofc, the community is salty and unable to understand that flaming=lower win chances. And I have to admit, I was easily irritated, too, writing messages to support faster than Karen can call the cops.

After quitting I realized it was either a way to distract myself from my problems or actually a form of punishing myself. I wouldn't be surprised if many other players were stuck with it for that reason, perpatuating the toxicity further.

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.

Minecraft community. Love the game. Community turned into a bunch of toxic self-righteous a-holes. I had the displeasure of hosting a pvp server. Most people were alright but it only took a charismatic unemployed 20+ year old to rally half the server against the owner because we wouldn't ban their enemies from the server.

And the wider community that just whine that not every update is the Nether Update or Caves and Cliffs. Mojang messed up with 1.19, but it's not that big of a deal and they seemed to have learned their lesson. (except for chat reports... Eugh) The Minecraft movie actually looks fun, just had a bad first trailer. So what if it fails. It won't impact my enjoyment of the game. You can't really add too much onto Minecraft because you can easily screw up the game. For example, using fireworks to boost elytra was a small feature in a pretty minor update, but I think it was one of the worse decisions, as it ruined any incentive for transport infrastructure.

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'd say anime would get pretty toxic, just the sheer brainrot of moeshit seasonal trash watchers always seemed to burrow it's way into every legitimately normal and civil discussion for a piece of media, everything was simping and shipping and very porn-brained in an extremely off-putting way.

It was all nauseating, I just liked cool weird foreign basket-weaving cartoons man it wasn't this like, lifestyle or something that some people seem to live or a whole personality.

I'll forever remember Juzoboys back in the day on /a/ but I'm so out and never coming back. At least I was there to say NEVER EVER for the last time when the first Kizu movie got announced.

Lemmy. There's some good stuff here and also people who think you should die in a fire for being straight and white.

Probably the Roosterteeth community. Their content pretty much defined almost a decade of my life but the community was composed of some of the most toxic people I've ever encountered online.

Also, it's not a fandom but I used to browse an unhealthy amount of 4chan up to ~2017. Very strange crowd there

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.

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.

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