Elizabeth Culmer (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
edenfalling) wrote2015-09-10 02:59 pm
edenfalling) wrote2015-09-10 02:59 pm
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oh no, it's the fandom police...
I will never stop finding it fascinating how many people involved in fandom think hate-reviewing is a good idea. It's like they get a mad-on toward one particular character and feel a need to tell anyone who likes (or simply doesn't hate) that character that they are Doing Fandom Wrong.
My latest example, which I received today in regard to Uchiha Sasuke from Naruto:
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:Boring. they should execute the traitorous bastard. In my eyes, he's worse than Itachi ever was!
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This also shows up sometimes in the form of the Staunch Defender, who falls in love with a particular interpretation of a character and goes around telling anyone who dislikes that character (or simply likes them in a different way) that they are -- you guessed it -- Doing Fandom Wrong. I think the defenders tend to be a little more frothing and verbose than the haters, but it's all shades of the same impulse: you must like what I like in exactly the way I like it, or else.
Which is both hilarious and sad, and I am sure happens in all fandoms, but Naruto is the one where I run into it personally.
My latest example, which I received today in regard to Uchiha Sasuke from Naruto:
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:Boring. they should execute the traitorous bastard. In my eyes, he's worse than Itachi ever was!
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This also shows up sometimes in the form of the Staunch Defender, who falls in love with a particular interpretation of a character and goes around telling anyone who dislikes that character (or simply likes them in a different way) that they are -- you guessed it -- Doing Fandom Wrong. I think the defenders tend to be a little more frothing and verbose than the haters, but it's all shades of the same impulse: you must like what I like in exactly the way I like it, or else.
Which is both hilarious and sad, and I am sure happens in all fandoms, but Naruto is the one where I run into it personally.