>That fandom you were a part of but now are embarrassed to

Ghostbusters. 2016 has peed in the fan-pool.

Digimon

Gravity Falls

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>>85101922
you know
that one

This was my favorite game as a babby

Sherlock

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Brony

But I have no shame in being a furry

For real though life is short if you had fun then fuck it

>>85102274
That's what fucks me over, though. Seven (give or take depending when you started, I started reading at the end of the intermission) years in the Homestuck fanbase. That's a lot of time to waste on that shit.

>>85102228
are you me

>>85101922
Marvel. Fuck the current comics, fuck the current shows, fuck the current games, and yes, fuck the MCU, which turned out to be the worst kind of cancer imaginable.

Steven Universe is an alright show. It's a shame it's become a MLP-tier embarrassment solely because of the cancerous fanbase.

>>85102180
Same. Used to draw (human) porn, so thankfully it was as bad.

Homestuck. The original stuff is just good enough to make up for the unrelenting shithole that it is now.

I also liked horse show for a little while but I never really got into it enough to consider myself "active," and it was already after the term "brony" went out of style.

Undertale, played way back in the day and even backed it with 30 buckaroos

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>>85101963

>>85103764
>way back in the day

kys

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>homestuck
>even made an original fan adventure on the forums
>liked it enough that I'm reworking it into a webcomic right now

Guess there are worse things to get out of being in a cringy Fandom

Used to go to the Scott pilgrim forums too, still have a lot of friends from there, including a dude thst worked on volume 6.

>>85103746
I loved the early stuff, up until like Act 5. That and I loved Problem Sleuth. If the fanbase hadn't become so cancerous (and I get it's basically Act 4 beyond that's cancer), I wouldn't have any problem reading the last few years worth of stuff I skipped.

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not /co/, but corpse party.

>>85103833
The fandom's dead.

>>85103946
The homestuck Fandom just turned into the steven universe Fandom in the se way that the Hetalia Fandom had turned into the homestuck fandom.

You know it to be true.

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>>85101922
Harry Potter is the only one I can think of.

I get into fandoms these days because they are shit or crazy because they remind me of the fun I had in the Homestuck fandom when it was alive

>>85102228
Wow, you must be me.

I still argue that that show was good up until the creator stepped down halfway season 3. Then it was money-grabbig bullshit.

>>85103764
Dude, Undertale is like 8 months old...

Fastest fandom rise and fall I've witnessed.

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>All these people who were into Homestuck

I can't believe how into that I was for three years. I took a bunch of photos of cosplayers at a convention, I thought about buying Con-Air.

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>>85105363
>yfw you owned Con-air before Homestuck

Get off my lawn, ya damn kids.

>>85104070
holy shit the cloning machine is out of control

Arrow

>>85101922
Early Gumball.
Jesus Christ, I don't even know how I survived the /ss/ and waifu shitposting.

>>85104070
>money-grabbing
Holy shit, are you five?

>>85101922
Honestly none of them!

Oh wait....no I remember now.
Hampster Dance. :/

>>85103833

Pretty much my situation too. What a shame.

>>85104070
It was always a vehicle to sell pieces of plastic to children, it just takes some people longer to realize it.

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>>85102180
hey at least there's a good reaction image in that

>>85105776
>>85105656
I realize how ridiculous that sounded in that context, but the amount of fan-service since season 3 compared to the beginning of the show is exponentially larger and at some point there was no more stories to tell.

I agree, I agree. It was a dumb show from the beginning.

None, really. I feel a bit lucky. I got burned by fandom shit when I was an early teen, and since then every one has seemed like the same bullshit.

Thing is at least partially good, hordes of people descend upon it, make the most ear-grating exaltations of their love for it with fucking forhorns blaring, turn off anyone who isn't immediately into it, and then the content stops appearing and then slowly devolve even further into a disgusting crowd, regurgitating memes and pornography that get more and more divorced from both reality and from the original media they were obsessed with. Then, a new thing comes along and 80% of the fuckers crawl over to that and the cycle begins a new, leaving the 20% a small, sad encampment of empty, soulless shells to continue in obscurity.

Avatar, Homestuck, Steven Universe, Undertale, JJBA, MLP, it's all the same bullshit.

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>>85105833
>Fan service is out of control

Undertale I'm afraid
I mean there was some good OC in the beginning but now it's just fallen apart into sheer cancer
I still think it's a great game but the fanbase is trash

>>85101922
>horse
>undertale
I honestly thought undertale would be a game that would be forgotten in a week or two
I shouldn't made that much fanart those first couple of days
Is 7/10 game imo

>Peterfags

Nothing /co/-related, thankfully.

>>85103550
Agreed.

>>85105983
I've been in the Undertale fandom since the game came out and what really got me as how suddenly it became trash. It wasn't a gradual process of anything like Homestuck or MLP.

Like it was great for a month or two, but then it went into a downhill spiral or quality that other fanbases can only dream of.

But I'll never truly leave it as long as it keeps producing good Toriel porn

Transformers. I've never been into the comics so I've avoided that hornets nest but even the toy side of things has been getting increasingly worse over the years and I spend far less time on /toy/ than I used to.

>>85105833
I dropped out halfway through season four because of the drop in quality, never once interacted with the fans though.

Anyone notice Voltron is going through the symptoms in fast forward?

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I haven't played a single one of the games to this day. But I loved the shit out of this show. I got out around the time I moved on to anime. I looked back years later and holy hell, what a bullet I dodged.

>>85106220
Sonic 2 and 3&K are really good
Generally the only insufferable part about classic fans is that they're impossible to please.

FNAF
Yeah I know, it was a shit horror game, but it was one of the first mystery stories in a video game that I got into. I left that shithole after the 4th installment when the asshole wouldn't give the answer.

Horse show
Homestuck
Doctor Who

High school was rough.

>>85106205

I like the new Voltron a lot, but everyone I've seen in the fandom just immediately jumped into porn and nothing else.

Zootopia

>>85101922
Marvel

>>85103550
I only watch the MCU stuff with my friends out of obligation to them, but I'm genuinely saddened by how utterly mediocre-to-awful everything has been since Bendis got elevated to an A-list writer. It's like Marvel have actively been trying to sabotage their fanbase since House of M, and it's been a slippery slope since then. Not even the occasional bright spot like King's Vision or Ewing can save that company right now.
Don't even get me started on their cartoons, why they decided to pull the plug on EMH and SSM and give us their current slate if garbage baffles me.
At least DC still put out largely good comics.

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>>85105610
I actually loved the early Gumball following on /co/. The threads were autism in its purest form but it was fun. Haven't watched Gumball since 2014, though.

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>>85106220

I was the opposite. I liked the games, but thought the comics/series/anime were shit.

>>85101922


TLA/KoR

Alternatively, SU. I love SU, but watching tumblr dismember that show like a pack of zombies really makes it hard to watch now.


Speaking of zombies, I know it's not technically what you're talking about, but I used to be huge into old zombie films, now I can't stand watching a zombie film because of TWD.

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not /co/ but Minecraft

Not a day I regret ever leaving it

Adventure Time. it pains me to watch anything past season 4. I had a tumblr and everything

Sonic the Hedgehog.
I was actually embarrassed when I first got into the fandom (I mean I liked some of the games and the cartoon, but once I delved into the internet for it that's when the embarrassment happened.) I honestly said to myself "It's probably just a phase." but no I read fanfic and fancomics, I liked the fanart, I looked up info on the games I didn't play even if the stories were dumb or the game was bad; and I still sort of like it.

>>85107125
I miss stickypad.

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sonic

i don't know what the hell was wrong with me i even edited pics on paint and i had OCs

it's extra weird because all the things i like now are the complete opposite of sonic, i also never watched steven universe because for some reason it reminds me of sonic

also minecraft i guess but i only played until beta 1.8.1

>>85101922
Early Gravity Falls when I thought season one was just foreshadowing a depth of mysteries that would be explored in season 2.

>>85107198
I miss a lot of the old Gumball drawfags. The only ones that seem to still be alive are Sunibee and sometimes Shamelesss draws Gumball stuff.

Why did stickypad disappear anyway? I heard it was because of Gamergate drama but I don't remember.

>>85104129
I'm not sure if the fandom has fallen since it was a self contained thing, it wasn't an ongoing series like a comic or show. I think they're just less vocal now. Just bought an Undertale themed album the other day.

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>>85103992
>Real Talk
At the time I cared about homestuck most my friends that were into hetalia jump ship into homestuck. I didn't want to deal homestuck ever since and jump ship to SU b4 they did and it happening again...

>>85106220
>>85107195
>>85107288

Did we all dodge the furry bullet?

>>85107296
He was very pro-Gamergate and people harassed him on his blog because of that. He eventually had a meltdown, deleted his blog and fell off the face of the earth

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>>85101922
SU is still failry new but lord do i hate the fanbase
all their gemsonas and shitty MVs suck
and especially all the porn
and all the "OMg!!!! THIS IS THE BEST SHIP AND THESE CHAARaCTERS ArE TRAns AND THis ONE IS GAYYY!!! HEADCANNoNNNN!!"

>>85105933
The JJBA growth was crazy to me when they started the anime.

>>85107489
kinda, i like girls with cat ears

it is technically not furry according to a pic i've seen posted a few times

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Sonic
>Played most of the games.
>Watched the shows.
Made 5 ocs.
I stay away from the turbocancer and focus on the games,hype for sonic mainia.

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>>85107572
I swear /sug/ does that sometimes
And God I don't even want to know what the fuck is going on Tumblr

>>85107489

Yeah I think I survived the plague of becoming a furry.

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>>85101922
>Steven universe
mainly because I watched ONE episode on youtube and now i am constantly getting stupid theory stuff and stuff getting spoiled for me because of images, its still one of my favorite shows but jesus I thought people where JOKING when they talked about how crazy the fandom was.

But if we aren't doing just /co/ stuff..

>Percy fucking Jackson.

I used to write TERRIBLE fanfiction for that back when I was the fandom when I was like 11, mainly where me and this other friend I had back then (who is now a otherkin asexual who identifies as a Pidgeon, I am not joking. Glad I stopped talking to her.) fought over the edgelord badass of the series Nico and I made brony bashing jokes while have never watched the show. I was THAT asshole.

I'm pretty sure my fanfiction should still be up, if anyone wants to read it I'll link it.


.

>>85102228
>>85104070
same. fucking bronyism is a cancer on my conscience. I just tell people i have mild autism and i'm doing the best i can

I've been feeling pretty lame recently when I watch Steven Universe. As if the show gets kiddy-er with each episode.

>used to be a brony early on
>the later the show goes on I start to hate the characters and the stories
>drift off and never touch it ever again or identify as it again

phew

>>85106220
I grew up with classic Sonic games.

I hate what the franchise is now and the fandom concerns me, but I can't bring myself to hate the little blue bastard.

Yugioh is the only one I look back on with true regret, both the fandom and show offend me while most things I'm only ashamed of the fans.

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>>85108223
Oh man Yu-Gi-Oh and Magic where super fun to play back in middle school. I do agree the fandom was trash but thats what happens when your core demographic is kids. One of my closest friends I met through playing Yu-Gi-Oh at a Tournament.

I had to bury him two weeks ago.

Pic related, he always had a soft spot for Bakura, was gonna cosplay him for a con later on this month.

Things you saw but never got into
>Homestuck
Huh,Seems ok, Sunglass DJ Guy Looks Baller,Trolls are a thing I guess.
>Rainbow Horse Show
Catchy Songs,Nice Colors,I ain't opening that can of autistic worms so I passed.
>Gundam
Fuckin sick space opera with giant robots! I'm gonna dive in later. And I never did.

>>85108166
Same. Sonic will always be to me what he was in my head when I was 9.

>Your Big Horse: Relationships Are Alchemic

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>>85108223
The fandom I get but bruh the manga was dope as fuck, niggas got fucking ruined kaiji style with none of that sent to the shadow realm shit.

And how can you hear this and not get hype as fuck

https://youtu.be/IVmtUK_1jh4

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>>85107572
This, I tried out the fandom before it went full nuclear and one day they started talking about futa gems and it went all downhill from there. I think I drew this just to spite Misha.

>>85105488
unfamiliar with homestuck but ConAir was great, along with The Rock w/Sean Connery

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I was really into ponies for awhile. I avidly browsed /mlp/ from its inception all the way until the Scruffening in 2013. After the board was ruined, I stopped browsing /mlp/ and subsequently stopped watching the show altogether.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss it a little, as shitty as it was. The board was mostly /b/tards and the ponyfags who were exiled from /co/ so there was a lot of drama and shitposting threads that were dumb but fun.

There were also the tripfags who everybody hated like Thomas Westley and RainboomCrash. Fucking RainboomCrash.

>>85106625
Don't forget the shipping, parts of the fandom are literally going through giant Gay Zutara vs Gay Kataang wars right now except with even less justification for either pairing. And the Gay Zutarans are having a civil war of their own due to being the side that attracts more SJWs.

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>>85108166

Same here. That said, I can't say I didn't enjoy that 25th anniversary party despite Sega fucking up the streaming.

>mfw Sonic Mania's announcement

Colorful Horses

I watched the first episode of mlp love on tv on my own to see what it would be like. The next day I went to class and told my best friend to watch it. We both watched every episode, every week till the show went to shit mid season 2. Honestly though, the 1st season is damn good if you forget about the fandom.

This I'm ashamed of but it's too late to change anything, so I'll keep doing it.
I have watched the show The Mighty Boosh every single night for the last 6 or so years. Usually I get through about 3 episodes a night then fall asleep. The sad thing is, there are only 20 episodes in the whole series. I did the math s a long time ago, turns out I've seen every episode over 300 times.

>>85107489
Yeah but i do like anime cat girls and i dont think that count as furry

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Sonic. Used to draw terrible gay tailsxanything porn. Moved on to smol horses and never looked back.

Sadly I got into horses when I was already 21 and pretty much dead-set in being a degenerate, so I'm with it for life now. It's so funny seeing people move on from ponies to become a multicolored skunk furry or whatever. I can't imagine being into it in high school...christ.

>>85101922
>anime
Oh but i am still part of it. But i never was those people who go like naruto or try to do kamehamehas. I hide my powerlevel for reason since high school and i stopped going to cons long time ago.

>>85101963
beat you to it, >>85102174

All the ones I've ever been in, particularly the technicolor horses. Had a new guy come into work, like a guy that could literally say "m'lady" at any second and he had to comment on the colorful horses available at the gift shop.

My supervisor was uncomfortable and gave an awkward laugh, and I cringed. Holy shit I wish I never was as cringe-worthy as he is.

>>85102124
Tamers Master Race.

But yeah, this. I just can't get into the new OVAs and the fans annoy the shit outta me.

>>85103674
Not really. It's just popular, and due to being popular draws in your usual crowd of assholes pulling shit for the attention
>inb4 that one girl got bullied on tumblr
that's nothing compared with the shit that's been going down in the Star Wars fandom ever since TFA came out. It's not the fandom itself, it's a certain class of assholes who gravitate towards whatever is popular at the time.

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>>85101922
Adventure Time
What a mistake. I used to love it for being swords and sorcery in a weird cartoonish setting but then it turned sour and ruined everything for me.

Every other fandom i've been in I still like to this day, no regrets anywhere else, though they're mostly not /co/ and don't get embarrassing with age.

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jojo

discovered it when trying out the new CPS3 emulator to play street fighter 3, jojo's bizarre adventure was an available game so I gave it a shot. pretty damn cool.

but then the anime got released and suddenly it's popular now.

sorry, not /co/ related, just wanted to get this off my mind.

>>85101922
>LoK
>Homestuck
>not /co/ but Undertale
>Ben 10
>SU

It's the fandoms that drove me away, especially with all the shipping nonsense they involve themselves with. They take it so seriously, too... I think the biggest offenders of this are LoK, Homestuck and Steven Universe. All of those fandoms fight over who's gay or bi, and why that pairing wouldn't work because gay, and then there's all the baloney about how everything has to be lgbt-inclusive or someshit.

>>85107952
gimme gimme, I wanna read

>>85110007
You dislike it cause it's popular now and that's it?

>>85107431
Why does this one particular stock photo man lead such a depressing existence

Literally all he does is related to killing himself

>>85110103
I still like it, I just don't really want to admit it and be part of same group as the people who started liking it since a few years ago.

yes, I understand that I'm a hipster, simple as that.

Fandoms exist to make you hate the people who like the things you do, not because they like the things you do, but because they take it a step too far and become the things you like in a world where it is better to not have it than to have it.

Be the silent majority, enjoy the things you like from a good safe distance, unless your thing is shit, then it's going to smell, and then it's your problem.

>>85108223
Yugioh, that takes me back. I never really got into the fandom, per say, but I did use to own like 10,000 cards and go to tournaments at the local Books A Million.

Thinking back on how much money i wasted on those cards for a game I only played for about 3 years or so...

It was fun and all, but still.

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>>85110228
Oh, oh god I'm reading this again. I was such a fucking stupid 11 year old. All the stupid outdated internet memes, all weird me turning dudes into chicks because I didn't realize I liked women back then and thought it was a sin to like women, thaila and nico giving birth to luke again who automatically becomes a full grown man.

jesus christ I need a fucking drink.

>>85101922
do you have to interact with other members of the fanbase (irl or online) to be considered a part of a fandom?
or is it enough to just like something?

>>85109932
What happened with TFA? I know about the whole Rey thing, and I try to stay up to date on things, but did something in particular happen?

>>85102208
This. The fucking Bothersome Bride or whatever the fuck it was called was so bad it managed to lower the quality of all nine of its predecessors for me.

>>85110336
I think interaction is key.

Lot's of peoples say they like Harry Potter for instance, but because it's so popular that comes off as normal, and you're just a fan. To be considered part of the "fandom", I'd think you'd have to interact and discuss with people about HP. Write a fanfic, make some art, go to a convention, chat rooms, etc.

>>85101922

/co/

The company wars bullshit is getting out of hand every time a new movie is announced. I enjoy talking about it with you guys but every thread turns in to shit posting and it's just painful.

>>85110303
I sympathize
>Be twelve
>Have intellectual capacity to create long-term stories
>Like LOTR and Digimon
>"I KNOW I'LL COMBINE EVERYTHING I LIKE TOGETHER!"
>"KINGDOM HEARTS CAN DO IT SO IT'S A-OK!"
>"Okay, so Sauronmon has reached his Super-Duper-Omega-Mega and Megatron has all the Dark Dragonballs. Only a brave alliance of warrior Pokemon/Digimon/Monster Rancher hybrids can overpower them and save the numerous scantily-clad girlfriend-princesses."

>>85107998
People always talk about mild autism but has anyone ever gotten spicy autism?

>>85110431
Actually yeah, I wish I wasn't as addicted to 4chan as I am now.

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>>85110435
Did you actually write this? Cause after finishing the TRAINWRECK that was "PJO The Awful Realm of Torture." I kinda wanna see more

>>85101922
Mlp.

>>85109907
Someone might make fun of me for saying this, but whatever. I think Tamers holds up not just as a Digimon show, but as a legit sci-fi anime.

>>85102228
This is literally me.

>>85107843
Holy shit. My edit.

>>85110448
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4PTf7LgsIE

>>85110352
No single incident, it's just insane shipping wars and people using social justice movements to bash their notps and make it seem like anyone shipping what they don't ship is actually objectively a horrible person supporting racism, ableism, abuse, pedophilia and incest, creating harrassment blogs, receipt blogs, sending anon hate, bullying, whatnot.

In the manner of
>Finn is a lovely man and a good person!
>Therefore, if you ship Rey with ANYONE ELSE than Finn, it can be only because of racism!

>Omg you make me sick with your blatant internalised racism "I'm not racist" that's exactly what a racist would say it's because of you that black people don't get enough representation and positive role models in the media lmao of course you'd ship her with the white boy, because his lilywhite skin is the only thing your racist ass can tolerate no matter how abusive or problematic the relationship is ugh I get anxiety from thinking people like you exist, did you think about all of the abuse survivors at all, they'll feel unsafe in the fandom knowing there are people like YOU enabling, normalizing and romanticizing abuse and racism with your shipping kill yourself
also
>I found out a person I really like ships x, so I had to unfollow them
>I found this not x-related fanart / meta text / edit that's really amazing, but then I found some content for ship x on their blog, they're a filthy x -shipper, so I immediately deleted it
>hey just a heads up - the person you reblogged y content from actually ships x, you might want to delete it
>if any of you ship x or like y unfollow me immediately I don't want any of your nasty asses anywhere near my blog or my blog's son ever again

Essentially the entire fandom, every tag, is full of that. Maybe 80% that and 20% fanworks.
It seems like they're actively trying to create the illusion that people would actually become pariah that should be shunned and blog for merely liking the "wrong" thing

>>85110464
No, it was "role-played"/screamed out by me and my friends as we ran around in circles in the backyard.

All that I can firmly recall was that Morgoth/Melkor and Illuvatar both ruled their own planets: the good guys was in the shape of a hand making a thumbs up and the bad guys in the shape of a hand going thumbs down.

I know anything I did write probably got nuked in one hard-drive meltdown or the other. A lot of it was clearly influenced by MTG's lore as well.

It makes me miss childhood.

>>85110430
A big difference is engagement. A typical fan of LOTR might read the books and watch the movies, but a LOTR fanatic will be engaged with a community of like-minded people and go further into discussion. A lot of people make the mistake that fandom=knows more, but that's not necessarily the case: a fuckton of LOTR people aren't philogists for example.

>>85110223
I would imagine that he's just the one friend of the photographer who's idea the series was who thought it's fun to pose in a suicide and office- related series of stock images, but doesn't model for stock images otherwise.

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Homestuck, truthfully I was mostly there for the cool music it had and a few select characters. I used to talk about it with people until I saw what other kinds of people liked it in person. MLP almost got me, but I pulled back before that autism demon bit me. I think a lot of the Homestuck kids grew out of it thankfully.

It's all just a phase for the majority of people who are into it, anyone below 18 is given the benefit of the doubt in my books cause they're gonna change a lot. Above that seems to be the fucking danger zone though, if somebody's deep into this shit at like 22 keep your distance at whatever the cost.

>>85110586
That sounds hilarious.

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>>85110598
I know that feel bro, my older brother took a FFXXII Complete Guide book and we would go on adventures, fighting creatures based on what ever boss creature he flipped the page to. He always had a soft spot for airship battles.

Man, childhood was fun.

Pic related, I remember this motherfucker took FOUR HOURS TO BEAT and when my brother beat his ass we got ice cream he was so happy.

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>>85110473
I like the way you think, anon.

I used to be saddened that Tamers was so obscure compared to Adventure, but after witnessing the current autism over Adventure Tri, Im almost glad it is.

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>>85110586
Sounds autistic.

Being a Brony.

Like, it wasn't just that I was into the show, but I was one of those guys that went to the cons and stuff. I didn't go full blown autism and wear a ton of merch in public, but I did sneak a derpy keyring dangle thing around, and various other things.

I was comfortable enough around my roomates to watch new episodes as they came out in the living room during season 2. I ended up moving for work, but looking back I cringe so hard wondering what they were thinking the whole time.

Tiny horses.

Thing is though, I never really participated much in the fandom, outside of watching the show and one or two fanart sites. I still watch the show though.

>>85105833
The GoH toys look good though.

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>>85107572
>>85107843
>>85108481
This desu. The sad part is I'm still in it

>>85102228
>>85103490
>>85104070
>>85107998
>>85110476
What the fuck, are we long lost brothers?

>>85101922
Sonic, but only the Sonic from the Adventure series onward.
Classic Sonic is the shit.

/co/

Homestuck.

I still am in it, to an extent, seeing as I'm seven fucking years deep and I need to see this shit show to the end.

Shit turned ugly pretty fast around here, with RPing, liveblogging, and fan fics oit the ass. And yet, here was still somehow the least awful iteration of the fandom by a wide margin.

But as much as I bitch about it, there were some genuinely enjoyable moments that I miss. Like the one time we pooled our money to send the author a gigantic blue horse dildo from bad dragon, and a smaller candy corn dragon dildo for his girlfriend.

>>85110740
From the outside, it is, but it worries me a bit that they all take it dead serious.

Apparently that sort of attitude has already started to leak to US universities - there are students who genuinely posit that "problematic" or "potentially triggering" subjects or opinions should not be discussed at all, and in fact presenting them should be punishable, because there may be a "survivor" somewhere in the audience who'll get anxiety or "triggered" or whatever. You know, legal studies should completely avoid teaching anything to do with rape because it may make potential rape survivors among the students uncomfortable, speakers whose views may challenge popular views or who may have unconservative or sharp opinions shouldn't be allowed to speak because someone may feel a bit offended etc.

This is of course is somewhat bad for the development of one's mind, critical thinking, free speech, for society in general, because facing and analysing new, annoying or offending ideas and debating them is crucial for the development of thought and science and society. The "only the CORRECT opinion is allowed, if you think anything else or question it you are a bad person and must be publicly corrected and will be silenced if you don't admit you were 100% wrong" mentality is really bad.

And I think it's the result of teenagers growing up in online environments where that sort of irrelevant ridiculousness is treated like serious business. Which fictional pairing of fictional characters in a science fiction franchise is totally as SERIOUS as actively silencing minorities and supporting oppression, and whether or not people applaud through clapping or if they just do jazz hands so that no-one is startled by the loud noise is also SERIOUS. It's crazy

>>85101922
4chan.org/co/

steven universe

>>85101922
Katawa Shoujo

>>85103813
Maybe the anon means the demo. That was 3 years ago

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Adventure Time

I loved the original short and when I heard it was being made into an actual show I was excited. Then the show actually began airing and it was all downhill from there. I couldn't handle the constant fucking shipping and the retarded theories

>>85101922
I will always be embarassed for watching Steven Universe. I think there's something wrong with not feeling shame for enjoying it.

>>85102228
Quite the opposite for me. I've just found the furry side of me more obscure/at times obtrusive.

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>>85101922
This shit. The online fandom even inspired me to take up making shitty fan animations (thank god I never posted any online).

>>85111307
I completely forgot about this book series. The fandom is total shit though.

>>85111345
It really is. I still remember all those in-fandom memes.

I regret nothing

>>85111307
>>85111345
>>85111376
Do tell. It's always interesting to hear first hand accounts.

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SU

Mostly because I realized I was in it for the waifus and that isn't healthy
Slightly because of the girly fans and their constant shipping

>tfw pearl isn't real
>tfw no pearl points
>tfw will never know what lies within the pearl prize pouch

>>85108066
witnessed your truthful post and not its post number

very true post about the degradation of steven universe.

>>85101922
Elfquest. It was like the worst of Anne McCaffery's fandom had children with the worst of Heinlein's later years fandom and they grew into teenagers who embodied the worst of D&D stereotypes. Also it reminds me of an ex.

>>85110435
>>"Okay, so Sauronmon has reached his Super-Duper-Omega-Mega and Megatron has all the Dark Dragonballs. Only a brave alliance of warrior Pokemon/Digimon/Monster Rancher hybrids can overpower them and save the numerous scantily-clad girlfriend-princesses."


I...would read the SHIT out of that.

Superwholock is the only one I really, really regret. Hannibal was top-tier, solely for the gratuitous amount of porn.

MLP is in an odd grey area of, it was too fun at the time to ever cringe. I didn't do anything cringey. I learned my lesson by then.

Not /co/ but Harry Potter.

Used to read through snape hermione fanfics. There's one author on fanfic.net who writes novel quality smut with good plots. I read through it every year still.

>>85108066
You still watching buddy? The show gets progressively darker and more serious. The most recent episodes are intense.

Season one is mostly silly though.

Sonic as a kid and MLP later.

Wasn't active in the fandoms, but I did show an episode of MLP to my friends. Bad idea.

>>85102208
Just pretend they only made six episodes.

>>85103550
Don't agree on the comics (Hulk and Vision).
But holy shit are you right about the films

i never really understood what being in a fandom entailed.
is just enjoying and being a fan of something being in the fandom or do you have to contribute things to said thing, like fanart or talking with other people about it?

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>>85106220
I grew up with the classic games, the cartoon series (both AoStH & SatAM), and the comic series... as well as any merchandise that was available (t-shirts, shoes, underwear, collectibles, stuffed toys, remote-controlled cars, etc.). I loved it all and it was such a huge part of my childhood. I was 12 or so when I finally managed to view the internet without strict supervision or through a major proxy filter and I never was as horrified when I first discovered furry porn and how big and deep the rabbit hole was for the Sonic fandom. It's been years, but for a very long time, I couldn't look back at my childhood with nostalgia because the thought of millions of degenerates who saw my childhood hero as a sexual fetish icon tainted everything I saw and loved about the franchise as a kid.

Fuck you, furfags. Fuck you, Sonic fandom. Your associated stigma has forever soiled my memories. Now I never want to mention just how much Sonic meant to me as a kid lest I be lumped in with those disgusting fetishists.

>>85110473
Yeah man, that bit where he's got fucking huge dragon monster on the playground will always be great.

I also Unironically like the English dub for the 1st movie. Should they have mashed 3 films together? No. Was the voice acting and sound track hype? YES.

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>>85101922

>>85103550
Both Marvel and DC for me. Wasted years on that tripe.

>>85106786
E:^)

>>85107572
Shipping is what killed wander over yonder. I'm glad it isn't getting a third season

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>>85101922
I would be ashamed of belonging to the Homestuck fandom if I'd been more active in it.

/co/ talking about MLP always depresses me because it's usually about people falling off the ride, but watching friends fade away is very different from shame.

>>85111646
Are you me?

>>85110992
what is going on with tri? I am enjoying it since I was a huge digimon fan as a kid, but I dont see much stupid going on online compaired to the old days with the shipping wars when I sift through tags. Just some fanart every so often and more people shipping izzy and mimi now or waiting for that new girl to be interesting.

>>85111027
They probably thought their roommate was a fucking faggot.

>>85101922
mlp. It was honestly all fine until i discovered 4chan and /mlp/

This thread is starting to make me wonder if there's a correlation between how deep you were into the mlp fandom and how bad you think later seasons got, like the deeper you were in the more you think the later seasons sucked.

Ctrl-Alt-Delete

>>85113207
jesus christ anon, that's horrible.

>>85106597
These three, except I was only casually into Doctor Who. After watching a bunch of new episodes and a few of the old ones, I decided I liked the idea and concept of the show more than where they were taking it nowadays.

Bailed out of Homestuck fandom late 2010, Quadrupeds Ahoy early 2013, and I don't remember when the first 13th Doctor episode aired but it was right after that one.

Man. I used to love Homestuck. I loved every bit of it. Even the fandom was cool, long ago, when the biggest segment of it was on its own forums.

Then I had to love Homestuck despite the fandom, ignoring them really hard to keep my attention on the source material.

And then Homestuck ended and I don't really like Homestuck all that much anymore. I really wish this silly piece of media that helped inspire me for a little over half a decade had a better ending that didn't feel like it was pissing on my face, but I guess it helped me stop being depressed and shut-in when it was good so it's not all bad.

>>85102228
>no shame in being a furry

All furries must be crucified and gassed ... at the same fucking time.

Fuck all furries, you are all pedophile hedonistic scum who violate animals and children if given the chance. You are all worse than so called trans binary gendered subhumans.

Ban all furries! BAN ALL FURRIES!!

SHOO SHOO FURRY!! SHOO SHOO!!

>>85111198
>I still am in it, to an extent, seeing as I'm seven fucking years deep and I need to see this shit show to the end.
What the fuck are you talking about, it's already over. It's done.

If you're waiting for an epilogue you're better off just forgetting it and hope it'll pleasantly surprise you once it comes out in two years.

>>85111200
>Apparently that sort of attitude has already started to leak to US universities - there are students who genuinely posit that "problematic" or "potentially triggering" subjects or opinions should not be discussed at all, and in fact presenting them should be punishable, because there may be a "survivor" somewhere in the audience who'll get anxiety or "triggered" or whatever. You know, legal studies should completely avoid teaching anything to do with rape because it may make potential rape survivors among the students uncomfortable, speakers whose views may challenge popular views or who may have unconservative or sharp opinions shouldn't be allowed to speak because someone may feel a bit offended etc.
>This is of course is somewhat bad for the development of one's mind, critical thinking, free speech, for society in general, because facing and analysing new, annoying or offending ideas and debating them is crucial for the development of thought and science and society. The "only the CORRECT opinion is allowed, if you think anything else or question it you are a bad person and must be publicly corrected and will be silenced if you don't admit you were 100% wrong" mentality is really bad.
Yeah, I remember Obama talking about this and basically saying everything you said. I don't know if it's still a popular mindset in university to this day or if the "triggering" shit already hit its peak.

Anyone here used to be so active in the Frozen fandom?

Homestuck. If my friends found my cosplay pics I would die.

>>85104129
Almost 11 months actually

>>85113645
I posted in all 1000 generals...for what?

MLP but I don't really regret it too much. Did I go deeper then I should have, maybe. But it did let me find the most competitive TF2 pub server I've ever seen. I spent some much time on it until it went full austism. I miss it so.

>>85106220
>"wow I sure am glad I dodged a bullet"
>watches anime

>>85113645
I'm still active in the Frozen fandom

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I was such an internet bully on livejournal over the stupidest shit
I'm sorry megan499, you don't have to kill yourself and it's possible Xena/Gabrielle aren't a couple

>>85113796
>it's possible Xena/Gabrielle aren't a couple
Woah woah woah hey.

Let's not get crazy here.

I did the Naruto run in public for YEARS

I dodged every bullet. Even Sonic and MLP. I enjoyed MLP for what it was and didn't go autistic over it. I also liked Gravity Falls and Steven Universe but I'm not as active on those show in the fandom side of things. I still chat on here about new cartoon episodes most of the time though.

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South Park.I was a huge fujoshit.

I was a part of the fandom since '04 or 05, and I left around 3 years ago because the fandom started getting infiltrated by SJWs crying about everything in the show and certain ships being toxic and problematic and oppressive and all those other SJW buzzwords. I also completely lost interest in the shipping and yaoi shit and cringe when I remember it.

Who /Supernatural/ here?

Memes

Everyone.

Since I came on 4Chan for the first time around 3 years ago, it looks that nowadays you aren't allowed to being a fan of anything or else people will start calling you cuck/faggot/SJW/cancer/shill/jew/Tumblr.

>>85112805

it's full of kids want yell "i want it nao" and eating up anything movie related even if it's completely non canon.(actually, it's near everything)

>>85110271

truer words were never spoken.

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>>85111198
>Shit turned ugly pretty fast around here, with RPing, liveblogging
You're allowed to talk about fantroll unironically in threads now. There was a 3 year period from HSG ending to april of this year where threads were actually good, mostly because the trips and namefags were gone, but even from now tripfags arise, that classpect dude thinks he's a fucking authority despite being here for 3 months and I'm pretty sure he jumped from le reddit boogeyman

DC.

>>85101922
/co/

Powerpuff Girls.

/pol/ show me the light and now I no longer identify myself as a feminist! Thanks /pol/!

>>85108078
Same here. I like season 1, it was a nice little show. The community had its autism, but had enough good aspects to stay.

Then season 2 came out and they started pandering to the older audience and it sucked. Community somehow got even fucking worse and I stopped there.

DC.

Never before have I seen a fandom become so desperate, paranoid and cultish. It used to be that DC fans just hated on their own writers for fucking with "muh ___"

Now DC fans believe everyone is out to get them. The whole world is some big Marvel conspiracy against them, and CLEARLY the shitty movies we've been getting MUST be secretly genius works if you only take the time to understand it.

MLP and SU.

I was part of the Sonic fandom at one point too, but at least with that it was easier to leave because of how obvious the decrease in quality was. With MLP and SU, however, it was a gradual decline which made a lot of fans including myself embarrassed to even be a part of it. Both shows started out strong, but as they became popular the fandoms became infested with furries and/or homestuck faggots that ruin it for anyone who's a casual fan of the show. It makes it impossible to discuss the show rationally when half the fandom is only watching it for porn and shipping.

Not to mention the fact its patently obvious the writers started pandering to the fans after it became popular, too. So not only did the fandoms get bad, but the writing as well. Shows do better when the writers APPRECIATE the fans without PANDERING to them. It shows the writers weren't expecting the show to get that far in the first place and figured it'd be done after 1 season, but they become greedy once they realize they picked up a huge following.

>>85115071
Continued: When I first started watching SU I had no idea we'd be in for magic lesbian aliens and tons of filler episodes focusing on the feelings of each character. Like give me a fucking break, you took us on this ride, realize the fans want deeper lore and shit, then in return throw us an occasional bone? And SU fags will defend that? Lol. I have no issue about lesbian thing or it appealing to Tumblr, I have a problem with the fact the writers got greedy, just like the MLP writers did, and opposed to coming up with their own original work, they attempt to pander to a certain demographic, and once they realize that's effective they keep the story grounded so it keeps doing that. MLP did a similar thing once it came to season 3. Instead of progressing the story, they made Twilight a princess and made Discord, the fan favorite villain, a good guy.... Just cuz fans wanted him around and they knew it'd be hard to do that if he stayed a bad guy. SU writers did the same thing with Peridot.

DC

>>85115009
Do most movie fans even read the comics?

Undertale

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>watch personally owned miniature equine
>get really into it
>Read Fallout Equestria, a fanfic longer than war & peace, and half (at that time) of Fallout Equestria: Blackjack and Hookers edition.
>writefag in vore, and/or other threads.
>Stopped watching sometime around the beginning of season 5.
>don't even have any interest in the show, or porn anymore.
One day I'd like to go back watch the rest when the show is done and over, but I'm burnt out on the whole thing.

>>85115096
And don't give me the "well dey made the ep before she became popular" bull fucking shit. they knew she'd become popular. between all the constant hiatuses you don't think they go back and make creative changes based on how the fans react? writers do that all the fucking time. they don't just write the ep, send it into CN and it gets set in stone never to see the light of day before airing. You're a moronic shill if you believe that. when Peridot first appeared the internet fucking imploded with how much they liked her. you really think the writers didn't take note of that and decide to keep her around as a main character?

Horses.

At least I made some fantastic friends out of it.

>>85115096
SU isn't exactly pandering because of the amount of time it takes to make the episodes. And all the drama and angst is really Sugar's thing, if you've read Pug Davis or seen her AT epidodes. She just so happens to like including romance on the gay side too but that's because that's what she does anyway, not because "omg all this pandering"

>>85106220
You can always still read the comics

>>85115096
weird. my post dissapored. anyways, don't give me that shit saying "well dey made the Peridot episodes before she became popular". Bull shit. Writers go back and make changes on scripts all the time, especially if its a cartoon where they don't have to actually film anything. The internet exploded when Peridot first appeared. You don;t think the writers took notice of that and decided to make her a main character?

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>>85115322
Why are you repeating your messages

>>85115281
my point is, a little romance and drama is okay when it's permitted, but not every other fucking episode. and if it really takes that long to make episodes, they can easily take notice of how popular certain characters have become in past episodes and capitalize on that, rather than coming up with their own original ideas. I rarely see original ideas come out of SU. its usually the same rehashed shit all the time. until they reach Homeworld I feel like we're gonna keep seeing a lot of the same. That's my complaint. you keep saying "well if they gave us Homeworld and all the lore now, they'd be spewing their load too early". I disagree. How do you know that? How aren't you sure, once they reach Homeworld, it'll open a whole new storyline that will last multiple episodes and even seasons? you're acting like you know what the writers are thinking when they make creative decisions, or you're just making excuses for them.

>>85115281
Also unlike Adventure time the story is much more planned out. From how Steven and Peridot interacted in Marble Madness and Keeping it Together it was obvious she would be redeemed.

I do think that she stole the spotlight for a little while aftee her redemption but I chalk that up to one of the new boarders at the time (Lauren Zuke) doing her eps and being a huge fangirl.

I'm sorry but you sound like a total conspiracy theorist. It's Rebecca Sugar, you should have known very well what you were in for.

>>85115363
for some reason I kept refreshing my page and my post wasn't showing up. took like 4 min just for it to appear on my screen. weird.

>>85115434
>From how Steven and Peridot interacted in Marble Madness and Keeping it Together it was obvious she would be redeemed.

How so? She definitely came off as an incompetent clumsy antagonist to me, but nothing led me to believing she'd redeem herself and become a regular...

>>85101922
I was a big fan of MLP the first season. Made a lot of fan content. Clear decline in season 2 when the talent started leaving. Season 3 I didn't like it any more but continued to draw it as I still liked the characters, so why not.

New waves of fans started pouring in, despite the shit the show was turning into. People were clearly fans because of memes not the show. Poseurs everywhere. People claimed they were actually looking forward to that Equestria Girls abortion. Fans had this weird sense of self-entitlement. That Pinkiepony character was claiming she got raped by bronies at the mall, and had Joseco's or whatever art shut down because she went all moral fag over the pun "Princess Molestia."

I just dropped everything at that point. I just lost all taste for everything related, like over night. Only thing I miss is a few friends I made among other artists.

>>85115433
Jesus calm down. Don't you know of something called buildup?

I DO know that because from a storytelling standpoint it would be such a huge game changer that there couldn't be any turning back - that's why you get everything else out of the way. You save the best for last. When they do get there, it's gonna be nothing but plot, and god knows what might happen to Beach City judging from the episode titles.

It's obvious that this isn't your kind of show so if it makes you this angry, just drop it.

>>85103857
Ayyy

Also I didn't really care for the anime adaption...

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>>85111200
You sound autistically invested in the comings and goings of people on the internet.

>>85115495
>Not as competent as she seemed
>Clearly a rookie (surprised by her own weapons, as if she was only made a week ago)
>Steven decides he'll befriend her all the way back in Marble Madness
>Peridot doesn't even attack Steven again the next time she sees him in Keeping it Together, and their interaction is almost friendly until the CGs arrive

It was coming a mile away and I loved it. But I do miss Peridot being used for not-comic relief, desu

>>85115571
>character acting a certain way for two episodes before major change = buildup

lol ok.

also, you claiming I'm acting angry is clearly projecting. the way I type doesn't always equivalate to how my emotions are at the moment. clearly you're the one who's jimmies are being rustled because you know I'm providing legitimate criticism which you can't defend. even if I am angry, why's that relevant? just prove your point and move on. and I won't drop it. you ain't the boss of me, anon.

>>85110955
>know that feel bro, my older brother took a FFXXII Complete Guide book and we would go on adventures, fighting creatures based on what ever boss creature he flipped the page to. He always had a soft spot for airship battles.

Oh shit my friends and I did the same with X. I loved those monster designs even thiugh it wasn't until I was older that I realized how goofy all the characters were.

>>85115744
lol

>>85114091

Reporting in. I fell off of watching it after season 5 like most people, but stopped being involved with the fandom a year or so before because dear god the other fujoshi shippers were getting creepy.

When people started unrionically shipping Dean with the car, I knew I had to get out.

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Gaia Online.

I had even joined a discussion guild for the comic characters and another one for gay shipping.

I thought the plot was going somewhere with Gambino being killed and Edward moping about not listening to his friend. Then Gino Gambino ended up as a ship captain with two homeless gods.

In retrospect, I should have known something was wrong internally when the shipping and character moments were relegated to a four panel comic.

I was never part of the fandom but I like Undertale.
I've seen some posts of how it turned to shit so quickly and I have to ask: are you guys surprised?
Because it was pretty obvious to me it would attract the shittiest types of persons on the internet: pretentious douchebags, fujoshis, furries and, I'm not even using this adjective ironnically, redditors. The humor is "quirky", the meta makes people think it's "deep"... I love it, but I've made a point of staying away from the fandom and it seems I was right.

>>85115721
>Not as competent as she seemed
>Clearly a rookie (surprised by her own weapons, as if she was only made a week ago)

Okay? That's lots of villains in shows and movies who are incompetent or not good at their job, but continue acting as villains. I don't see how this is relevant to her becoming a good guy.

>Steven decides he'll befriend her all the way back in Marble Madness

Steven attempts to befriend literally everyone who isn't a menacing brute like Jasper. Most kids wouldn't befriend a pink cosmic lion or gem monster either but he did. I don't see your point.

>Peridot doesn't even attack Steven again the next time she sees him in Keeping it Together, and their interaction is almost friendly until the CGs arrive

See, this point actually makes valid sense, however, after Jasper is defeated and Peridot sticks around, why does it take so long for her to become friendly to Steven? if her plan was to befriend him all along why doesn't she just do it? you're trying to make her sound like she sympathized with Steven all along and that was the writer's plan but it clearly wasn't. they just wanted a corky and random character around because they probably knew fans would like her, which apparently they were correct in thinking that. does that count as pandering? I dunno.

>>85113168
I was never really into the fandom and I still watch it. Still holds up pretty well. People making videos or essay long rants about how the show is "ruined forever" have always made me cringe way more than anything on the show itself.

The most I ever did fandom related was buy some fan art here and there. If anything, the show got me into supporting artists I like.

>>85115879

I never cared about Gaia's "plot", I just liked playing dress-up with my avatar and talking shit about anime.

I also got into it later than some other communities, I think I was 16 and fell out of it a few years later after I started college.

I think damn near every Fandom I've taken part in I've later come to regret. Any community you base around a singular piece of media is going to become an incestuous, xenophobic circle jerk, and while a circle jerk is fun for a time eventually you're going to get rubbed raw.

Probably Sonic. I got into the games and comics about the time Sonic Adventure was released, and was in the fandom for a few years. I even posted on sites like Sonic HQ. I was sort of naive about furries at the time too, so I didn't think much of having a do-not-steal Sonic sprite avatar. I just gradually drifted out of it as both the games and comics got worse, and I'm thankful I did.

Also MLP to an extent. Again, between episode hiatuses and the show itself kind of spinning its wheels in Season 4/5, I gradually lost interest in it for the most part.

>>85116096
this. if there's one thing I've learned from the internet, if you're gonna be a fan of something, just be a casual fan. as soon as you enter the fandom, you get a really sour taste in your mouth, because there's a lot of fans who would rather praise their show/movie/whatever to no end, rather than have actual discussions and share thoughts and criticisms. Just take a peak in the SU generals. It's literally 99% circle jerking talking about shippings, porn, and waifus, and 1% talking about the actual show.

>>85115795
also you completely ignored what I said about Homeworld. there's no way of knowing the "buildup" will be worth it. you're kinda just assuming that based of pure faith in the writers.

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Transformers. A good part of that was because the media in general kind of took a downturn, and the toys became shit (though I'd rather pay more for third parties anyway).

The fandom, god fucking damn. I don't even mind the shipping and gay robot shit or whatever because that's always been a thing when I got into it (late 2008), and even I participated in that stuff somewhat, but like many fandoms—Tumblr happened.
>>85116210
Not him, but aren't fandoms basically just communities?
I'd find it hard to avoid them if I want to have some discussion, especially as somebody who doesn't really have any friends let alone friends who like the stuff.

>>85110473
I personally prefer Data squad a bit more, I won't deny that Tamers is a pretty awesome show

>>85102228
>But I have no shame in being a furry
And how is that? Furries are the mothers of bronies.

>>85116417
there's different factions of communities within fandoms, though. there's message board communities, 4chan communities, and IRL communities who don't really take part in online shit but go to conventions and stuff.

>>85116417
I haven't went on TFW2005 in awhile and I lurk the generals on here and /toy/ very rarely. has it really gotten that bad? It seems Tumblr has managed to infect a lot of fandoms.

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>>85116210
I'll be honest, I do dip into the fandoms and contribute to all that detrimental stuff you mentioned, but I think that doing that now and then is alright.
It's when you start to take it too seriously that the problems start. When you start to actually believe the stupid headcanons, or think that your gay fapfic is anything more than just something to jerk it to. It's fine to enjoy something, it's fine to cook up theories, but ultimately it's just a show or comic or whatever the hell.
Also, I'm pretty sure the reason the GF and SU fan bases are so bad are all the hiatuses. Without new content to promote new discussion, people spiral deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole. And when they actually get something new they've already kind of poisoned the well.

>>85113729
Kill yourself.

transformers
specifically transformers 2005 board
before bay discussion was amicable about what and how the movie could be. also the direction of series. different universes about transformers was good. everyone liked their version and discussion was good.

then came the bay movie.
if you had an opinion about bay/his tf movie in less than positive you were burned at the stake and sometimes banned for a day to a week. i'm pretty sure tf2005 and, i forgot which other board' got paid to advertise bay.

after a while and lots and lots of bans, they finally gave in and made a thread about the hate. and it reach epic levels. for every negative post, someone (paid of course) would post 3 to 5 positive posts.

bay (hasbro/etc) divided the fans.

my friends who didn't grow up on tf laughed and didn't understand. it wasn't until their shows got the hollywood treatment that they understood the pain/disappointment.

>>85116637
>Also, I'm pretty sure the reason the GF and SU fan bases are so bad are all the hiatuses. Without new content to promote new discussion, people spiral deeper and deeper down the rabbit hole. And when they actually get something new they've already kind of poisoned the well.

exactly. I feel like I'd actually enjoy SU more if there wasn't so many hiatuses. I used to love Gumball, too, but then new episodes RARELY ever came out so I sorta just lost interest.

SU had a great opening and first season overall, but once it got into season 2 I kinda expected..... more? And instead we got more hiatuses. It keeps it difficult to remain interested when the show is already really slow and takes forever to get to the good parts due to constant "buildup". Maybe that's why I have such a bad taste for the SU fandom, because I fail to understand how you can to be so deep into a show that's both slow and has constant hiatuses. Most people would get bored of it but they keep circle jerking over literally nothing. I remember we used to get like daily threads of "OMG LOOK THERE'S A STICK FIGURE IN THE BACKGROUND WHO KINDA LOOKS LIKE YELLOW DIAMOND. DEEP LORE, DUDES, DEEP LORE". Like, when all you can talk about is the background foreshadowing at stuff, that shows how much the show lacks in actual substance and the fandom is okay with that, which is kinda sad.

>>85116637
Yup. Without new content, autists talk about their next favorite thing - themselves.

>>85116868
>i forgot which other board' got paid to advertise bay.

holy shit, really? wow. not surprised, but that's funny. no wonder they kept the shitty movie board around months after the movies came out despite there being nothing but shitposting in them.

>>85116563
The /toy/ /tfg/ is absolute cancer, but that's kind of a given from a general that passes the bump limit at least two times a day. I actually don't know how fast it is since I don't go in there anymore, but it's definitely one of the most active threads.
Full of waifuposting (despite talking shit about /co/'s threads and husbando posting), constant Hasbro vs. Takara arguments, easy derailment, general shitposting and unnecessary hostility toward one another.

As for Tumblr, yeah. 1-2 years ago there was a case of a bunch of SJWs who bullied/harassed an artist with heart problems (not sure of the specifics), and she ended up having to get hospitalized because of serious stress or something. And all because she was drawing things they didn't like :^) You also have people who are LITERALLY SIDESWIPE with otherkin bullshit, but that's not as common
That, and it degraded IDW's ongoing MTMTE comic. Not even pulling the 'it's Tumblr because I don't like it!' thing, the author actually gives Tumblr more focus than it needs.

>>85115961
I think what caused Undertale's downfall was Toby's pride. He thought that if he never made the epilogue comic he promised, and never made any sequel/prequel, then the fandom would "quietly die" like he hoped. But by making no more canon content, the terrible AUs and headcanons were born from the fans who had nothing left to work with.

>>85116990
>constant Hasbro vs. Takara arguments, easy derailment, general shitposting and unnecessary hostility toward one another.

Yeah. I went in there once giving constructive criticism of the new Galvatron figure, and literally half the thread started yelling at me and claiming I was a troll trying to derail the thread. Like, what? Isn't the point of a /tfg/ on /toy/ to discuss the toys and give criticisms? whats the point if I can't give my opinion and only suck Hasbro's dick? it's like they're in denial that the toys suck nowadays.

>>85116637
>I think that doing that now and then is alright.
It might seem alright in a small group, but fandoms are not small. Higher concentrations of people tend to make things worse. Same goes for fans. You get swept up in the group-think hype because your fellow fans are all into the same thing that you like, that you end up losing your sense of self and moderation.

It's just a bad habit all around to associate yourself with a fandom.

SNSD

dear god what the fuck i was thinking, it got me a gf and laid but it definitively wasn't worth it

>>85102274
Life isn't short enough.

>>85117100
>SNSD
Literally what

>>85106205
I actually really enjoyed Voltron and it was pretty sane before SDCC. Then everyone lost their shit over ages and now its just exausting to go into the tag.

>>85101922
Marvel.

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>>85117073
I can somewhat understand why, considering how much shitposting and derailments that figure caused by constant criticism/praising/etc. It was probably more overblown than it has to, though.

On /m/, I remember somebody giving an Anon shit about asking why Shin Godzilla had tiny arms, like he was trying to cause a shitstorm or something. But nah, he was actually a new poster and just didn't like the tiny arms, and wondered why the design was like it.

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Ben 10 for me. Watched the original series as it aired and dropped around either alien force or ultimate alien. Finally get back into it with omniverse and get to find all there is that people talk about is gwen porn or just porn in general. I always liked ben 10 for the alien designs and the story yet everyone just seems to care about gwen and fucking porn. You can't even have a discussion thread here without having it spammed with gwen posting.

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Not /co/, but...

Is it even possible to like something without one day years later looking back on it and saying 'Wow! This really is crap! What was I thinking?'? Or is it just inevitabe?

>>85110303
>Oh, oh god I'm reading this again. I was such a fucking stupid 11 year old. All the stupid outdated internet memes, all weird me turning dudes into chicks because I didn't realize I liked women back then and thought it was a sin to like women, thaila and nico giving birth to luke again who automatically becomes a full grown man.
>
>jesus christ I need a fucking drink.

At least you don't have a real name tied to it.

>>85117374
Yeah. I still love the pokemon games, and I still get one with each new generation, even though they can get stupid sometimes. Though I still prefer gen 2 over gen 1.

>>85117374
You really have nothing you still like over the years?

What kind of media have you been consuming?

>>85117374
I think it's possible, but it's probably the more niche or smaller stuff.

The Pacific Rim fandom (back in its prime in mid-2013) is one of the fandoms I actually regret not participating more. There was this huge meet up in my province that I didn't go it, and it seemed really fun and chill. I think even Guillermo got some attention of it.

However, it was 2013. If Pacific Rim had aired in 2016, the fandom probably wouldn't have been as good.

>>85117588
Oh, I realize you were talking about media in general. Not fandoms/communities.

Then I agree with >>85117531.

Halo. I used the bungie.net forums for years before I realized how fucking toxic it was. Like seriously, the whole PR and webteam for bungie was a circlejerk for their own amusement. Glad the old forums have been shut down desu.

>>85117468
I'm in the same boat. Just downloaded Gold on an emulator and I'm having a blast.
But Jesus fuck there are too many HMs

>>85113630
It is.

Don't you remember the "It's about building a home!" debacle?

>>85117798
No, please explain.

>>85113586
Anon...

Where do you think we are?

>>85117468

Gen IV is still my favorite, but II is a close second.

>>85101922
The atheism shit of the late 00's and early 10's.

>>85117815
The Princeton protests against Halloween. And the student girl who shouted how colleges shouldn't be about learning, but safekeeping people.

Look it up. I can't type much right now.

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>>85107489
no

>>85112830
Sad but true

>>85113645
still writing fics here

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>>85117374
I still like harry potter.

I was one of e621 top uploaders.
All of my uploads are high quality images with lots of favorites.
When I stopped no one picked up my work for certain artists.

>>85105488
Holy fuck, I always wondered what that one Manny Pardo mspaint drawing was referencing.

>Worst fandom I've been in is arguably Sonic
>Still made positive because I retooled a few of my old OC's and made a shit ton of new ones for my own original ideas
>Actively avoided other horse fans when watching that show, stopped at the end of season 3
>Wasn't allowed to get invested in Pokemon until gen 4, when Pokemania was the deadest it ever was
>Only thing I regret was writing Chaotic fanfiction, but now the site is dead so nobody can read them
Feels good man.

>>85101922

I don't think i've ever really been part of a "fandom". The most i've done is post in generals for shows.

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used to read MLP fanfics voraciously in the eleventh grade, before the third season

it's been years since then, and I don't necessarily regret it, but I kind of wish I wasn't so public about it.

>>85117374
Sure, you just have to not have shit taste. Can't say there's anything I'm embarrassed about enjoying years ago that doesn't go back to my teen years.

>>85117849
A website with a rule against furry content

>>85101922
Wordgirl

>>85119877
You do know that furries are shunted off to a containment board and not banned right?

>using the word FANDOM


Fucking gay

>>85117073
/toy/, or at least fairly large chunk of it, has lost the ability to recognize trolls.
The amount of taking blatant bait at face value and blowing up over actually nothing is mind boggling.

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eddsworld

>>85120030
There's a number of boards that are bitter memesters all the way down and serve no purpose other than containing such posters.

>>85110369
I haven't seen Sherlock since season 2. What happened?

>>85101922

Mulp. I still head over to read greens every once in a while. Shut up.

>>85117374
Not /co/, but it's been 14 years and I still love EV Nova. Shit's so damn good.

More /co/ related.

I still enjoy small multicolored equines. The porn, too. And I read fan fiction. It's too late for me, the autism has completely absorbed me.

>>85105933

Heard you talking shit about my boy JoJo. Yamate, faggot

>>85105610
>>85107125

they were worse by S3, it's why the fandom collapsed and is dead now.

i honestly like Gumball now much more than i did early on, it is actually funny and a good cartoon, people were just in denial about it and projected ridiculous expectations on it. All that lore, romance, depression, slice of life nonsense that has no place in an 11 minute show.

i'm glad they're gone now.

>>85110243
You are talking about one of the most widespread shonen mangas ever created, a staple on /a/ since its inception, which started in the 80s and sold more than 100 million graphic novels before the anime was in planning stages.

You were never hipster.

>>85108481
If it's any consolation I still think this image is funny just because of how absurd it is. Also I miss Connie's S1 design.

>>85101922
DC thread? DC thread.

>>85102092
Right, because the second movie was so great. They play out a /d/'s-worth of fetishes on Lady Liberty, and in the end Love Won™. That's not the Reagan I voted for.

>>85104129
the original demo is older than that

>>85101922
Honestly? None.
I have fandom regrets but I'm not too embarrassed by what happened. Sure I was part of the Sonic OC bullshit that drew dumb shit in MS Paint on Deviantart, and even did some horrible roleplaying that started me on that OC shit but I don't think I'm embarrassed by it. Do I regret it? Of course but it hasn't really disavowed my interest in the series as a whole. I still like the game, I still like some of the cartoons, the comics, and am pretty open that I still like the franchise, even if the fandom is shitty and the games being very hit or miss.
Admittedly that may partially be because none of what I did was the slightest bit smutty. It was pretty much innocent shit. I was just a dumb shut-in of a kid with too much spare time who wanted to fit in with the fans he met.

>>85120499
>Used to write smut about horses, poorly

I don't look back, to do so would just entice me to nuke everything. I kinda want to go back but don't know if I can.

>>85120820
Great argument, btw try bringing up shit like Doraemon, Ashita no Joe or Chibi Maruko-chan with english anime fans. I'm sure they'll know what you're talking about, after all, they are popular anime.

>>85121338
Yeah.

>>85115303
You mean the ones getting sued again

>>85119877
Right, on a board with a rule against lewd content.

Do you think that means that 4chan as a whole is against lewd or r34content? Just because furry is banned on most boards doesn't mean it's banned from 4chan

>>85116821
Nah, I'll draw more fanart and write fanfic for my ship instead, it's been too long a hiatus

X-Men, X-fags these days are the absolute worse, rivaled only by Batfags and Peterfags

>Marvel
Holy shit is it a mess now. I still love the older stuff but everything post Avengers movie is unbearable and the fans are worse. It's mostly Bendis' fault, but it still hurts to see everything in the state it's in now because of forced tumblr diversity and "synergy"

>Star Wars
Ever since TFA it's been "shipping" this and "diversity" that and "muh stronk female protagonist" the other.

>not /co/, but JJBA
Anime-only fags have ruined it. It's not even because it's more popular and mainstream now. Casuals have a really powerful penchant for running shit straight into the ground and JoJo is just the latest victim.

>diminutive equines
It was just a gradual distancing due to a gradual fading of interest. I'm not really ashamed I was part of the fandom, I'm just not anymore. I don't talk to anyone I met because of it anymore and not even the porn interest me now.

>>85117374
Is it possible to stop being friends with someone without looking back years later and hating their guts?

What kind of question is this?

>>85101922
None. But I've never been very "active" in any fandom and mostly just lurked. There is no record of me having ever been into anything.
I've lurked threads about various shows for months (sometimes even years) without ever posting in them.

>>85121338
Prior to the second anime, Jojo was more obscure as well. albeit not exactly unknown. I subscribed to Shonen Jump in high school (SHAME) and Jojo got a few previews so it had some degree of coverage.

>>85116495
Is it better to be a bitch or a son of a bitch?

>>85119805
Don't feel too bad. I wrote plenty. Under a pseudonym of course, even back then I never would have been public about it.

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>>85102228
>All these degenerates coming out of the woodworks
at least I'm not alone. I dropped MLP like a sack of bricks after S2 and I haven't touched it since.

There really aren't any I outright regret being a part of, but there are definitely some that have reached the point where I've had to take a step back, and participate in it far less.

Transformers for one, just fucking drama all over the place. Star Wars, when the big EU schism happened. All the "this is not canon/what is canon" circlejerking got old quick.

Pretty much any fandom that devolves into shipping circlejerking and namecalling is something I have to start participating in less.

>>85106205
Voltron is definitely devolving quickly. Part of that feels like the Netflix dump everything at once policy, so actual content gets burned through quicker. But mostly it's shipping shit that's the problem, like every other fandom.

>>85121183
Ghostbusters is honestly one of the most autistic fandoms I've ever seen.

My cousin was a huge fan in the early 00's, had his own suit and proton pack, would go larping in old buildings with five other guys. Was really gay and really weird.

>>85104129
The thing is, ol' Toby "Gay is the only way" Fox refuses to make any type of sequel, additional media (animation/comic), or merchandise. Therefore, the fandom will slowly diminish, just like the Invader Zim fandom.

>>85117374
Absolutely. Most of the content I like is stuff I've liked for years. Shit, in the case of movies, comics and a few tv shows, decades.

Even when a bad fandom experience may have soured me to the fandom itself, I can still enjoy the content of the show/comic/movie itself.

Generally when a fandom starts to get to where it gets too shitty for me, I just browse for specific art I want, and I chat about it with a small circle of friends.

>>85102228
This.

>>85117374
When I tried watching Hey Arnold after like a decade I still liked it.

>>85101922
Fandom is a cancer on civilized society. Anyone who has to list being a fan of a specific work of fiction in order to properly describe who they are should be shot.

>>85102228
I wasn't a brony but I did watch the entire first season. I quit like two episodes into season 2 because while it was true that it was good for a cartoon aimed at girls, it really wasn't good enough to justify the time. Songs were neat though. I sometimes consider looking to see what new ones they made in the later seasons.

TRANSFORMERS.

The fandom has always been hit or miss, but then all the fujoshits decided transformers need to have vaginas.

Fuck that shit. If I want gay robots then I want robot with dicks, not trans fetishism.

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>>85101922

DCEU. Fuck you WB. At least DC Comics is great.

>>85105933
I was into JJBA because of the fighting game and the part 3 anime. It was the only fandom I even got vaguely involved with.

>>85117374
I still like pokemon and occasionally draw fanart but the fandom is sonic tier levels of shit

>>85126842
I kind of miss that, I used to post in the JJBA generals in /vg/ back when I was getting into the manga, it was pretty fun.

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>>85126603
>but then all the fujoshits decided transformers need to have vaginas.

So since 1985?

>>85126953

No. Valves were basically holes, and that I could put up with. Cable sex was pretty popular, too.

Now they have VAGINAS, complete with labia and clitorises.

TMNT fandom is pretty autistic as well like many others fandoms. The specificity with tmnt is the huge variety of versions (many comics by many publishers, many cartoons, many movies, toys, etc...) It's a franchise that recycle itself each decade so you have 3 generations of fans (grow up in the 80's, in the 90's and the kids now). Each fan think "his" version is the best one and discussions become a mess very quickly.

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>>85107296
>I miss a lot of the old Gumball drawfags. The only ones that seem to still be alive are Sunibee and sometimes Shamelesss

Not really. I really like drawing Nicole but the threads are really off putting so I stay away from them. Things used to be fun when stuff was a mix of people being both shocked and appalled but also some eager to see lewd shenanigans but then trash happened and it really got awkward how people are 100% "GIVE US OUR FETISH!" I just lurk now.

I'd be lying if I didn't say I was a huge edgy sonicfag deviantard XDDD EBIN all the way up until i was 16. I remember finding old accounts and laughing at how quickly my attitude changed. You can actually pinpoint the moment I found 4chan.

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>>85101922
Homestuck.

>>85101922
DC Comics.

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>>85127064
So, since 1996?

>>85102228
who's that

>>85127301
I always shied away from those threads, even when I was actively drawing. Between the Steve Howe guy, the Rachel spammer, the Cocteau Twins nut, and Ross Irving, they're just too much bullshit to wade through.

>>85107296
Yeah he posted some pro-gamergate stuff on his art blog, people unfollowed him, he couldn't handle that blow to his ego so he quite forever.

>>85111573
>The most recent episodes are intense.

Ehh, felt pretty lackluster to me.

>>85116874
AT ran into a similar problem after the season 5 premier. Then particular episodes happened, and the fandom bled.

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>Watch pony show with /co/ in the very beginning days of the show
>tell friends about it, get some people watching it
>sung a song in public at school, out loud

Just end my suffering already

>>85101922
I don't really get this mentality, sure there are things I used to be a fan of, either the product changed or I did.
But almost everything has a fandom and every fandom has weirdos, doesn't change my view on the product.
That would be like stop liking football because of the streakers or hooligans.

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>>85101922
>3rd grade, parents didn't allow consoles before
>get a Genesis for Christmas for weird reasons probably having to do with a Stargate game for my brother (this was 2003)
>become a turbo Sonic autist, practically fighting the 16 bit console wars a decade after it was done

Thankfully I chilled out considerably in under a year, and never made an OC or anything.

>>85107489
I came dangerously fucking close right when I hit puberty, had a one-two punch of VGCats and Krystal.

>>85107618
>>85108765
There is literally nothing wrong with catgirls.

>>85118209
Atheism was one of those things that made sense at the time, there really was a deluge of televangelists and wannabee theocrats in the 90's and early 2000's, and we all knew that one kid whose parents wouldn't let them play Pokemon or read Harry Potter because the devil. A lot of pop-Christianity is also genuinely fucking terrible and embarrassing, from megachurches to faith cinema. I suspect the "fundie menace" fell apart so quickly because America was having a giant cringe over Bush. Bush-cringing actually explains a lot of current politics.