Annoying Things People Say/Do

[Garamonde]

The users that watch Steven Universe almost drove one artist to commit suicide all because she drew Rose Quartz skinny.
She's not even fat, more like an amazon build mixed with hourglass if you ask me. It's the dress that makes her look fat.
Not to mention the official art, mainly the first one on Google image search, is her pregnant with Steven.
As much as I have to catch up on that show, I'm not sure if I'll watch it anymore if the fanbase acts that fucking cruel.

I'm not sure if you have seen my post about this issue regarding fanbases, but... I honestly was trying to refrain from jumping in here because I don't want to be looked at funny since I'm such a diehard over this show and could argue about the matter for a while, as I have already in the Undertale thread.

However it's not even specific to that, and something I hate with every inch of me is when people adopt the shallow mentality to stop supporting something/form disgust against it just because some fans are being mental shitwads over it. Nowhere (or at least none that I've seen) do the fans' negative actions actually have merit on the content itself or the quality of it (unless obviously the content in itself is actually questionable but I've yet to see an example of that).

If I may use a popular example... I think we know what kind of rep. My Little Pony has. I've seen a few clips of the show and I can't lie, it doesn't look terrible. It certainly doesn't seem to deserve the weird plaguey status it's obtained thanks to its... colorful fandom. I don't know much about FNAF, much less its fanbase so I won't comment on that, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's in a similar boat as MLP.

With all that said, it's just so appalling to me when people let the fans' actions influence their view on a piece of media. Is it not common logic to either look into the thing before defaulting to passing it off as a heinous toxin that garners all the detest one can muster, or not outright jump ship with it and join the evasion bandwagon just because some fans were being braindead apes over something pertaining to it? Well maybe it just is for me, but... I don't think it's unreasonable to ask for, right? Then again, welcome to Earth, right? When do people ever possess common sense about everything? (This isn't a jab at anyone specifically keep reading)

So, to get back on-point: please, please don't take the fanbase into account if you enjoy something/are considering looking into something. Especially if it's something like SU, which is a cute, cool, well-developed and highly positively influential cartoon that has so much love put into it -- the creators don't deserve to lose support over any of the bullshit that has happened within the fanbase, and it's just so fucking unfair that it's gotten all this negative reception lately over the recent incident. Don't forget, this applies to anything else that has an unjustly soiled reputation because some fucking selfish idiots over the internet don't give a shit about being insensitive pricks and spoiling others' fun.

...Anyway, I realize it might look like it, but this wasn't meant to be an angry rant against you; it was more against this issue as a whole because as some of you can probably tell, it has very recently started hitting me pretty hard and I simply can't ignore it when it comes up. I'm not trying to jam anything down anyone's throats, but I am just reaching out to help rectify this toxic, ever-spreading trend of one-track biased hatred (being the people that take one look at the fanbase for something and go like "fuck this thing it's obviously terrible and everyone who likes it is too") and flawed views toward medias based solely on the behavior of its fans.

I'm not sure if I've gone a bit far with some of my words or not, but I do know one thing: creators of honest, genuine content shouldn't suffer from repercussions caused by people (who label themselves as fans)'s sickening actions, and people who enjoy said content should not be driven away from it because of negative outside influence. Please just enjoy it as you do for what it is, the way it's meant to be enjoyed. Other people have no detrimental impact on the integrity of the content unless you allow it.

Sooo yea that's something I find (very) annoying that people do. I hope everyone sees where I'm coming from, as I'm really passionate about this issue.