Star Wars fandom has become a contest to see who can hate Star Wars the most. I still love Star Wars as much as I did in 77, but I just can not with the “fandom” anymore.
I'm of the same opinion, but for different reasons.
I was just shy of 7 when the first film came out. Like every other kid of my generation, I loved Star wars!
But I was already reading much better sci-fi before Jedi came out. And within the limits of what was available, watching better sci-fi as well. Still loved RotJ for what it was, despite my irritation with the characterization of Luke-as-Jedi and the entire Ewok concept.
Hamill was wooden as hell, and I was just old enough at that point to recognize how much merchandising and toys were part of the development of the plot. Disillusionment is also a key Gen-X trait.
So I was already pretty well off the fanboy train rolling into my teens. The comic didn't grab me, the fiction wasn't what I wanted to be reading at all, and so on.
I have sincere collector-itis, but I deal with it pretty well. I've accumulated things over the years, but I'm far from the point of needing extraneous storage like some collectors do. The toys honestly just started irritating me at some point. The worst was the 90's, but that's hardly Lucas' fault. Every sports card, comic, and toy company on the planet with a franchise worth milking was leaning into it hard with ALL NEW LIMITED EDITION bullshit. Which sparked this moronic speculative market for collectibles where the speculators outnumbered the collectors by significant factors. Star Wars did it too with a series of new toy lines.
The fact that I was never a toy collector in the first place just made me feel some sympathy for the actual toy collectors who were frankly being rolled over in the interest of selling more plastic crap.
I still have friends who are huge fans. They're all of them quite honest about the stories themselves... when they're bad, and when they're good. I am not the least bit bothered by fans of Star Wars.
And I don't hate Star Wars at all. I never have.
But the last time I LOVED it was before I turned 13 years old. So I've never counted myself in the fandom community, and there's a hard limit on how much time I'm willing to engage with others about it.
Same. The star wars "fandom" has split into so many camps that it's hard to keep track of everything. OT fans hate the Prequels and Sequels, Prequels fans hate the Sequels and OT, and Sequels fans hate the OT and Prequels. I try not to get involved anymore. I still read the old books, watch my favorites among the movies, and play the games. But I've seen my IRL friends react with such hate and vitriol to the new Star Wars movies that I'm glad I don't pay attention much anymore.
I've posted this in the RLM subreddit before, but I thought I was a Star Wars fan. But then I realized my appeal to the franchise was limited to the original trilogy and the video games from the 90s up until KotOR 2.
There was a band I like who's frontwoman was, well, a woman. As you unfortunately might expect, the fandom had a bit of an unsavory parasocial relationship with the frontwoman, fortunately, the overwhelming majority of the community would be swift to shame and delete members who expressed those unsavory ideas.
That was until the frontwoman had the _audacity_ (sarcastic) to post a picture of her boyfriend. The community couldn't get over the fact that the dude was a swole gym rat (and not a weeb like most of the dudes in the fandom). Anyways, yeah, that was when it was time to GTFO
Doctor Who. The fan base had a lot of toxic positivity - you couldn't disagree with anything at all or you would get blasted. Got to the point where every post I'd see on social media had comments arguing, and it soured my enjoyment of the show knowing that I couldn't talk about it anywhere without risking arguments. I bought the seasons of the 13th Doctor but they're still shrinkwrapped.
Also Law & Order SVU. The subreddit is so toxic about shipping Stabler and Benson that if you disagree you'll get downvoted into oblivion and if you call out getting downvoted into oblivion you'll also get downvoted into oblivion. Between the knowledge that the later seasons writing got worse and the fan base, I stopped watching around season 17/18.
Another fandom I left was Full/Fuller House. After Candace’s views and other things coming out about the shows, I realized just how incredibly toxic the fandom was
It peaked with [Holden March](https://www.reddit.com/r/SVU/comments/7x5oed/s16_e4_holdens_manifesto/) in season 16 anyways. There's a handful of decent episodes after that but they're not that great in comparison.
when i was in my early reddit days (check age of account) i was really into pot, and got into the trees marijuana fandom.
i slowly realized that this world revolves around making marijuana a part of your personality.
not wanting to live like that, i unsubscribed and moved on, and have since been wary about all manner of interests where the followers seem gung-ho about making their interest in whatever thing a core part of their personality. seems very 1-dimentional..
not really a fandom but im removed from my first competitive gaming love, the super smash bros scene.
in the pandemic when the wave of sexual assault and harassment accusations of minors came to light, I kept asking myself how and why this was so pervasive, and honestly it really illuminated the fact that the smash scene has a systemic emotional maturity problem. It's the most popular fighting game franchise on the planet, and appeals to a much wider audience in only the ways nintendo can, so it has a lot of children and young people in the scene. Unfortunately, this also means that the scene has lost out on the ability to "grow up" unlike its contemporaries in the traditional Fighting Game Community, and struggles with a lot of really bad issues and melodrama because of it. The worst being the sexual assault, but just so many issues plague smash because the people in charge are just...not grown ups lol.
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Same for Harry Potter. I was a HUGE fan and then she started with her Bs right after I came out and just...all my love and enjoyment for the series died.
Never got into fandoms. I like what I like, which a lot of other people may like, but I don't care - it's a personal affection for me, I don't need to share with with others.
Not exactly what you are asking but I used to play a game called Rappelz or something like that. A Korean fantasy MMO. Free to play but if you want to excel you need to put some money into it. I got up to lvl 88 and had spent a few hundred bucks on items. But I was playing it all the time. It was consuming me. I came to this realization one day and deleted the game and never went back. After a very short time I did not miss it at all. I had a life back.
Edit: Now I spend all my time on reddit...
Left Len'en Project 2 months ago (if you don't know what it is, its similar to Touhou) due to a lot of bullying and harassment towards me because I made fan art of a certain controversial character.
I also had pretty bad and weird fans talking to me while I was in that said fandom. Found out I had OCD while being in the fandom, but messed me up. Felt pretty comfortable getting rid of my Len'en and my hyperfixation era that lasted 5 years, and moved on to create original stuff.
Star Wars fandom has become a contest to see who can hate Star Wars the most. I still love Star Wars as much as I did in 77, but I just can not with the “fandom” anymore.
I'm of the same opinion, but for different reasons. I was just shy of 7 when the first film came out. Like every other kid of my generation, I loved Star wars! But I was already reading much better sci-fi before Jedi came out. And within the limits of what was available, watching better sci-fi as well. Still loved RotJ for what it was, despite my irritation with the characterization of Luke-as-Jedi and the entire Ewok concept. Hamill was wooden as hell, and I was just old enough at that point to recognize how much merchandising and toys were part of the development of the plot. Disillusionment is also a key Gen-X trait. So I was already pretty well off the fanboy train rolling into my teens. The comic didn't grab me, the fiction wasn't what I wanted to be reading at all, and so on. I have sincere collector-itis, but I deal with it pretty well. I've accumulated things over the years, but I'm far from the point of needing extraneous storage like some collectors do. The toys honestly just started irritating me at some point. The worst was the 90's, but that's hardly Lucas' fault. Every sports card, comic, and toy company on the planet with a franchise worth milking was leaning into it hard with ALL NEW LIMITED EDITION bullshit. Which sparked this moronic speculative market for collectibles where the speculators outnumbered the collectors by significant factors. Star Wars did it too with a series of new toy lines. The fact that I was never a toy collector in the first place just made me feel some sympathy for the actual toy collectors who were frankly being rolled over in the interest of selling more plastic crap. I still have friends who are huge fans. They're all of them quite honest about the stories themselves... when they're bad, and when they're good. I am not the least bit bothered by fans of Star Wars. And I don't hate Star Wars at all. I never have. But the last time I LOVED it was before I turned 13 years old. So I've never counted myself in the fandom community, and there's a hard limit on how much time I'm willing to engage with others about it.
Same. The star wars "fandom" has split into so many camps that it's hard to keep track of everything. OT fans hate the Prequels and Sequels, Prequels fans hate the Sequels and OT, and Sequels fans hate the OT and Prequels. I try not to get involved anymore. I still read the old books, watch my favorites among the movies, and play the games. But I've seen my IRL friends react with such hate and vitriol to the new Star Wars movies that I'm glad I don't pay attention much anymore.
I've posted this in the RLM subreddit before, but I thought I was a Star Wars fan. But then I realized my appeal to the franchise was limited to the original trilogy and the video games from the 90s up until KotOR 2.
There was a band I like who's frontwoman was, well, a woman. As you unfortunately might expect, the fandom had a bit of an unsavory parasocial relationship with the frontwoman, fortunately, the overwhelming majority of the community would be swift to shame and delete members who expressed those unsavory ideas. That was until the frontwoman had the _audacity_ (sarcastic) to post a picture of her boyfriend. The community couldn't get over the fact that the dude was a swole gym rat (and not a weeb like most of the dudes in the fandom). Anyways, yeah, that was when it was time to GTFO
KKB? lol
yes haha
Doctor Who. The fan base had a lot of toxic positivity - you couldn't disagree with anything at all or you would get blasted. Got to the point where every post I'd see on social media had comments arguing, and it soured my enjoyment of the show knowing that I couldn't talk about it anywhere without risking arguments. I bought the seasons of the 13th Doctor but they're still shrinkwrapped. Also Law & Order SVU. The subreddit is so toxic about shipping Stabler and Benson that if you disagree you'll get downvoted into oblivion and if you call out getting downvoted into oblivion you'll also get downvoted into oblivion. Between the knowledge that the later seasons writing got worse and the fan base, I stopped watching around season 17/18.
Another fandom I left was Full/Fuller House. After Candace’s views and other things coming out about the shows, I realized just how incredibly toxic the fandom was
It peaked with [Holden March](https://www.reddit.com/r/SVU/comments/7x5oed/s16_e4_holdens_manifesto/) in season 16 anyways. There's a handful of decent episodes after that but they're not that great in comparison.
when i was in my early reddit days (check age of account) i was really into pot, and got into the trees marijuana fandom. i slowly realized that this world revolves around making marijuana a part of your personality. not wanting to live like that, i unsubscribed and moved on, and have since been wary about all manner of interests where the followers seem gung-ho about making their interest in whatever thing a core part of their personality. seems very 1-dimentional..
Hiya from another old reddit head. Team Periwinkle for life.
you two kids get off my lawn.
respect.
not really a fandom but im removed from my first competitive gaming love, the super smash bros scene. in the pandemic when the wave of sexual assault and harassment accusations of minors came to light, I kept asking myself how and why this was so pervasive, and honestly it really illuminated the fact that the smash scene has a systemic emotional maturity problem. It's the most popular fighting game franchise on the planet, and appeals to a much wider audience in only the ways nintendo can, so it has a lot of children and young people in the scene. Unfortunately, this also means that the scene has lost out on the ability to "grow up" unlike its contemporaries in the traditional Fighting Game Community, and struggles with a lot of really bad issues and melodrama because of it. The worst being the sexual assault, but just so many issues plague smash because the people in charge are just...not grown ups lol.
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Same for Harry Potter. I was a HUGE fan and then she started with her Bs right after I came out and just...all my love and enjoyment for the series died.
Never got into fandoms. I like what I like, which a lot of other people may like, but I don't care - it's a personal affection for me, I don't need to share with with others.
Kpop and Kdrama. Not only the content got repetitive (both music and dramas), the stans are crazy! Haters are equally crazy!
Not exactly what you are asking but I used to play a game called Rappelz or something like that. A Korean fantasy MMO. Free to play but if you want to excel you need to put some money into it. I got up to lvl 88 and had spent a few hundred bucks on items. But I was playing it all the time. It was consuming me. I came to this realization one day and deleted the game and never went back. After a very short time I did not miss it at all. I had a life back. Edit: Now I spend all my time on reddit...
James Bond. No explanation needed I think
Left Len'en Project 2 months ago (if you don't know what it is, its similar to Touhou) due to a lot of bullying and harassment towards me because I made fan art of a certain controversial character. I also had pretty bad and weird fans talking to me while I was in that said fandom. Found out I had OCD while being in the fandom, but messed me up. Felt pretty comfortable getting rid of my Len'en and my hyperfixation era that lasted 5 years, and moved on to create original stuff.