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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
I don't like fan bases at all. They always manage to make things weird that doesn't need to be weird. Fan fiction is culprit number one. Make your own thing, instead of making someone else's thing, but worse.
I can enjoy the things i like without needing to flaunt it obnoxiously.
Guitar/Metal, spider-man and Donald Duck comics, Harry potter-books, sports(just sports in general, exceptional achievements are exiting to watch).
Undertale.
I've been enjoying staying away from fandoms. It's funny when I really get into a series/franchise then like several months later I'll watch a video from a YouTuber I like and they'll just casually throw out how the fanbase for that thing is ultra toxic/annoying and/or filled with the biggest creeps imaginable.
come join the circle jerk
eSports. Particularly cs2 formerly known as csgo. I haven't played it since July 2019 due to my gaming PC passing away and being unable to afford a new one.
I still watch all the majors.
That is a really creative use of the meme template!
"if you don't know about that..... Don't even considering talking. go watch 10000000hours of series and 500 books + comics so you can stand a conversation" and even then, most likely you won't be accepted as a fan because you don't have all the collectables from 400bc.
Most of the time, I've found more enjoyment in stuff when I interact with other fans. It can be fun to talk about things together. I've not run into much of the toxicity that I think often must people just assume there is.
Sims2 in the late 2000s. Absolute drama fest, the popcorn didn't stop flowing.
Please elaborate. I've never heard of this.
No, no! That way madness lies!
You like madness? Okay. If you really want to explore the rabbit hole, here are some names:
Pescado/PMBD, TSR (not the Gary Gygax one), Coconut, Atwa.
http://paysites.mustbedestroyed.org/hate/
http://paysites.mustbedestroyed.org/legal/
I think most of Coconut's blog is lost, but there wasn't enough popcorn for all the shenanigans on there.
Some of it is on wayback:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130117165948/http://tsr.mustbedestroyed.org/?p=1608
A few days ago some dude I follow did a live stream of a big ultra bike race. Every now and then I went to tune in. To figure out what's going on, of course I checked the live chat.
Man was this an awful place. Half the people are not even able to read the pinned messages, and the other half is backseating a dude that rides 2000k in 3 days and gives everyone shit for the smallest mistake.
RuPaul's Drag Race for me.... For a show about dudes with fake boobies in dresses, people sure love to send death threats over the tiniest most imagined slights. P.s. I am talking about the fans, not homophobes on the outside.
This was Homestuck for me. I liked the fanart and whatnot but I'd never actually interact with anyone
I feel that the 2 things that will always ruin something is the fans and cost of merch.
I didn't even know that people discussed Homestuck, therefore I loved it! 🤪
I've got a coworker who loves Formula 1. She's seen me nerd out about my special interests with our students (mainly astronomy) and has told me often how much she wished she had someone to nerd out about Formula 1 with. I feel for her, but if most fans are bad news then maybe she's dodging a bullet?
people who don't know me and never have to interact with me be like