Most Obnoxious Fandoms

[mr3urious]

While I certainly don't want to lump the entire Regular Show fandom here (as I am one), I just do not get the faction of the group that hates Benson so much without the context of him being a boss and therefore automatically antagonistic in certain situations, and the fact that without those antagonistic moments, the show would be boring. And you know they've like stopped watching after the first season, where character development made the character more sympathetic, caring, and sometimes in the right completely.

Bottom line, a show without an antagonist, unless done in such a certain way that it doesn't need one, isn't worth watching.

The episode "Busted Cart" shows Benson as a more sympathetic and vulnerable character, and that he's bossed around by Mr. Maellard as often as he bosses Mordie and Rigby around. That's what makes it one of my favorite episodes.

 

[Drtooth]

The character development in that show is astounding to the point that watching a first season episode after all this is almost bizarre. Everyone just hated Mordecai and Rigby and dumped everything on them. Maybe not Pops, and Skips saw them more as stupid kids than anything. But Benson and Muscle Man were both really big jerks to them. Then they started to bond and actually care for each other. That's the magic of the show right there.

But it really feels that subtlety and nuance is lost on Benson haters. Not saying he should be the most beloved character on the show, but anyone who's had to deal with any level of authority like a teacher or a boss or something knows that they have responsibilities higher than yours. Bad employees look just as bad to the boss's boss as it does to their boss.

 

[Harleena]

Agreed.

 

[Drtooth]

Still, I can't get over Nina Needs to Dump has a legitimate, unironic fanbase.

I'd swear that, at best, anyone over the age of...what the heck age group is it even for... well, anyone over the age of whatever that is would find the concept so incredibly stupid that it would get a fanbase of those who just want to mock it. I mean, a kid's cartoon that's designed to be all about going to the bathroom? That's the clickbait worthy of youtube, just like Japanese Potty Training Video featuring cartoon tiger that no one outside of Japan recognizes as anything but a character from a Japanese Potty training Video. Seriously, I saw that tiger's face on snack foods at a Korean grocer and said "are...are these laxatives?!"

And from 4chan no less. The trolliest trolls that ever trolled! To be fair, they did give us the Bronies, but only because some uptight Straw Feminist found offensive stuff that wasn't really there and some cartoon guy whined about how cartoons aren't creator driven anymore ('cept they totally are to the point even the toy commercial based ones are cartoonist driven).

 

[mr3urious]

Seriously, I saw that tiger's face on snack foods at a Korean grocer and said "are...are these laxatives?!"

Well, Shimajiro is just a regular preschool show character and not just something created for toilet training after all.

But overall, I still find that video less disturbing than this one I saw a few years ago on YT.

Somebody please squash that little suspenders-wearing man!

 

[CensoredAlso]

Not exactly a fandom, but I think that the not-so-lovely people at PETA deserve a mention. I don't hate vegans or anyone who supports animal rights. I'm against animal testing for stupid things like make-up (the cure for AIDS, however, is a different story), and I try to go green as often as possible. But does PETA really need to protest against Pokemon? Or steal people's pets and then kill them? Or dress up in racist costumes at a dog show? Or compare chickens to Jews in concentration camps? Or get mad at people for killing flies? Or objectify women by posing them naked with lettuce? OR KILL PEOPLE'S PETS?!

PETA does frustrate me because there are genuine grievances regarding animal rights that need to be addressed. But PETA is just so extreme, and so crazy, people just end up laughing at them, rather than listening to them. They're just too insular; they don't know how to reach people who aren't in their little clique.

 

[mr3urious]

PETA does frustrate me because there are genuine grievances regarding animal rights that need to be addressed. But PETA is just so extreme, and so crazy, people just end up laughing at them, rather than listening to them. They're just too insular; they don't know how to reach people who aren't in their little clique.

That and their ad campaigns that do things like compare Holocaust victims to livestock or state that milk gives kids autism are flat-out disgusting.

 

[CensoredAlso]

That and their ad campaigns that do things like compare Holocaust victims to livestock or state that milk gives kids autism are flat-out disgusting.

I definitely understand why people would be offended by the Holocaust comparison. At the same time, I get that for PETA people, animals are very much on the same level as human beings, and therefore the slaughter houses would be just as upsetting to them.

The autism/milk thing, that's just quackery and to pass it off as science is the height of irresponsibility. They're playing on the fears of ignorant mothers who desperately want someone to blame for their child's condition.

 

[Drtooth]

Well, Shimajiro is just a regular preschool show character and not just something created for toilet training after all.

Oh yeah, he's definitely a kid classic character that hasn't been properly introduced to the American people for sure. There's a lot of context tossed out there when the character is only known through funny internet videos about toilet training. But several years back when someone showed that to me and we saw it in a Korean grocery, it was hard not to make the connection.

PETA does frustrate me because there are genuine grievances regarding animal rights that need to be addressed. But PETA is just so extreme, and so crazy, people just end up laughing at them, rather than listening to them. They're just too insular; they don't know how to reach people who aren't in their little clique.

I agree. They are more of a political group than a fandom, and by that means I could go on and complain about those who put a certain former actor president on a pedestal (frankly when it comes to Republican movie stars that held office, I'm more of a Schwarzenegger man... at least most of his movies were good).

But yeah, PETA does enough damage to actual animal rights activists out there just by force of their tofu-hamfisterey. When they said that Ben and Jerry's should replace their dairy with human milk... that's the key crazy right there. All the Godwin's law they could throw, hypocritical considering the Nazis had weirdly, wildly out of character thoughts on animal rights (go fig)... none of it shouts crazy naked guy on the subway rantings like wanting women to be milked for ice cream. That sounds like a disturbing niche porno. Their logic is pretty much Rule 34. Their idiotic and ignorant of the source material stances on Nintendo games is also awful, but... human milk ice cream. That sounds like a sketch that was too disturbing for Saturday Night Live or MadTV.

 

[CensoredAlso]

When they said that Ben and Jerry's should replace their dairy with human milk... that's the key crazy right there.

.....K, I didn't know about that one, lol.

Yeah I'm sorry, but the way PETA uses women in their imagery is beyond...just beyond!

And yeah, once again we're complaining about PETA rather than complaining about animal rights, lol. Better to help out the Humane Society or even your local shelters.

hypocritical considering the Nazis had weirdly, wildly out of character thoughts on animal rights (go fig)

Oh I didn't know this. So you weren't supposed to slaughter aryan cows or something?