what are some franchises you like but the fandom ruined it for you?

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Harry Potter. It first came out when I was a little kid, and my mom would read the books to me. My generation grew up along side the characters in the series and it was a huge cultural phenomenon of that time. I remember dressing up as Harry for Halloween once.

The movies were really cool at first. Getting to see a beloved story come to life on the big screen as a kid was magical, pun intended. Plus the fact that the first movie premiered just over 2 months after 9/11 let it serve as a comforting distraction from the harsh realities of the world for a young audience.

A new generation of fans, who didn't grow up with the franchise, ruined it by making it cringe and gay. They perpetuate this bizarre love/hate relationship with J.K. Rowling and have thoroughly tainted the series for many people, myself included.
 
Tabletop RPGs, especially Dungeons and Dragons. I was introduced to D&D around 4th edition and stopped playing it regularly right after 5th edition came out, at least publicly. This was a cool time to play in public campaigns and was a good mixture of players. You had those who were new to the game and the oldfags from Advanced and 3rd were still around, educating the rest of us coming into the scene and entertaining us with old campaign stories. Yeah, you'd have a weirdo every so often but they didn't last long and were usually harmless.

5th edition really opened the floodgates to weirdos, trannies, and creeps for whatever reason.

My advice if you want to get into tabletop games, stay away from campaigns at game stores and just make your own at home with friends. Whether it's 3 friends or 15 friends, its a fun time.
 
PetiteFeet said:
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I grew up on gen one ponies and I thought the show looked cute. So I started watching it. I never thought in a million years it would be infested with perverts who wanted to have sex with cartoon horses. Sonic, sure. That's infested with filth. But MLP seemed like something those types wouldn't be interested in. Boy was I wrong. (:_(
 
I've been trying to adapt my mindset into the whole 'I'm here for the appetizers and not the whole meal' mentality when it comes to franchises. And it started with disassociating myself from the fandom as a whole. I don't give a fuck about the fandom of any franchise or any medium because I know if I even attempt to get involved, what I like may be tainted because my enjoyment of said franchise is going to collide with whatever batshit head-canon some fat ugly nerd will have, eventually.

From there, I try to pick pieces about franchises that I like, though I may not like the entirety of whatever the franchise is. Star Wars? I love lightsabers and some of the ships and gadgets shown in it. Yet I can't say I'm 100% behind everything about it and I'm not going to go out of my way to defend it or justify or beat dead horses with redundant criticisms about it.

Anyways, for the sake of the question asked, some things have been ruined for me before I tried changing my approach to franchises.

Anime - Fat, hairy neckbeards have long ruined whatever reach they have with anything regarding anime. It has long been turned into a vessel for them to twist anything into some fetish fantasy with underaged-looking characters.

It's hard for me to narrow down just one particular thing. Because everything I've tried to enjoy, has been fucked with because people dragging their dogshit, half-baked political beliefs that nobody asked for. Worse if things devolve into gender and identity politics which now, oh fuck! We gotta placate to these neanderthals by ripping down what made something great so we can make it more of a process for their one-tracked minds to process. Bringing in characters that appeal to their little standards and even re-defining already established characters to make them more relatable.

I mean, fuck.
 
Jew Hate. It's getting the point where I can't bitch about Israel without some coworker chiming in about campus protests, colonialism, and the need for solidarity between Palestinians and other marginalized groups, and that really takes a lot of the fun out of it.

In a way it's almost fitting, since the Jew fandom ruined my ability to enjoy Islamophobia years ago, but it still sucks.
 
I really liked Touhou, especially the music. There were a lot of songs from the games that were fun to play on the guitar. The problem was that people would ask you where the song was from and you had to explain it while praying that they wouldn't dig into it and realize how fucked up the fandom was. To be fair it's not like Touhou was "ruined" by it's fans, because the games were not some masterpiece in the first place other than having good music. The fandom made touhou what it is in the first place, there really wasn't something to ruin.
 
Xenoblade games. Somehow they became infested will all sorts of people of gender who preach about media literacy while not understanding basic story telling or what's even presented to them in the game.
 
not a franchise but pretty much all anime and gaming, it used to be niche and nerdy but it became mainstream and the newfans who don't like the old shit and all new shit ends up catering to them instead of the build in fanbase and the quality of it all just drops off a cliff.
 
Dysnomia said:
I grew up on gen one ponies and I thought the show looked cute. So I started watching it. I never thought in a million years it would be infested with perverts who wanted to have sex with cartoon horses. Sonic, sure. That's infested with filth. But MLP seemed like something those types wouldn't be interested in. Boy was I wrong. (:_(
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Yeah I still don't understand how the show enraptured so many degenerate neckbeards, but thankfully you can easily avoid them if you strictly stay away from fanmade content and avoid the fanbase as a whole.
Rules 34 and 35 of the internet really has shown themselves to be true time and time again.
 
Azumanga Daioh. This'll sound dumb but I remember when it started to get popular again in like 2019-2020 or so, and that's when I first found it (being a stupid zoomer). There was a nice little "Goldilocks" period from there, until about 2022-ish when it started showing up on platforms like TikTok and Twitter/X.
 
Star Wars I pretty much hate the entire fandom.

I hate the fans who clap at any new shit thrown at them.

I hate fans who act like the Prequels are now good because the Sequels sucked. If you grew up on the Prequels great but I grew up on a lot of shit I love but can admit is objectively bad so don't try to tell me they're masterpieces.

I hate fans who just blindly hate the Disney Era stuff while treating the Lucas era like a sacred cow. Most of Disney SW is bad or mediocre crap but outside of the Clone Wars animated series Lucas hadn't made anything good since ROTJ.

I hate gatekeeper fans who act like Star Wars needs to be this or that or it's not "real" Star Wars.

I hate faggots who cosplay outside of Star Wars events. Like dude you're 35 and it's your wedding dress like an adult.

I hate jagoffs who yelled "Lucas raped their childhoods".
 
Anything with Michael Sheen these days. I'm an old school fan of his and have loved his work since 2010, even met the guy that year. Ever since he's been in Good Omens though, he's attracted a lot of obnoxious fans which just ruins watching his stuff nowadays.

Don't even get me started on the fans of his who are convinced that Michael and David Tennant are gay, despite the fact that David Tennant is a married man with kids and I've only ever seen Michael date women. They're even more annoying to see.
 
Undertale. It's a good game, but everyone treated it like the Bible when it took off. It may be a novel experience, but it's not a tool to end world violence. The fanbase placed the game on an absurdly high pedestal as some untouchable, artistic masterpiece, and it made me want nothing to do with the IP. Also, there are inevitably cases in real life where you need to shoot bad people before they take innocent lives or kill you. You cannot defuse holy jihad by petting the Muslim.
 
The Vocaloid fandom is always some level of horrendous. Miku is trans, Miku and Teto are brown actually, liking [insert character/song] is problematic, shipping wars, pirating software, endless producer drama, endless gooner tourists.

I don't know what it is about Metalocalypse, but it now attracts the most overly-sensitive fans that all insist Pickles is trans and Murderface is gay and should have had a serious coming-out plot line like Mac from Always Sunny. It's the same with Metal Family. The fans try to cope that the only reason there's no actual LGBT rep is because of Russian laws preventing it. Otherwise, the creators would totally make everyone gay and trans.
 
Wuhan Wet Market said:
pokemon is full of annoying autists and scalpers. sanrio is full of bpd evil women . my little pony, no explanation needed. and fallout.
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Pokemon also has the unfortunate tendency of it's fans to keep 'supporting' Pokemon by still buying the games that show declines in quality, rather then refuse to buy out of principle and force Game Freak to pivot.

Thread tax: Duke Nukem.
Right before DNF launched, the old 3DRealm/Gearbox forums would be full of coom zombies who would fantasize how they hoped the game would be hypersexual with interactive sequences with NCP women who would let you touch and fondle their breasts. Instead of discussing the game much, their discussions would devolve into how it should replicate their porn fantasies about touching boobies and seeing naked women. Needless to say Gearbox must of taken what they said to heart, because they tried doing what they wanted and now Duke hasn't had a main series game since 2011.
 
I don't let fandoms ruin things for me.

Either it's good, or it's not.
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