Aug 3, 2016, 12:30 AM
Fanbase entitlement
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@Insomnia Sad truth, every time I read about something like this, even if I liked the thing before, I will almost inevitably start to like it less. Guilt by association, I suppose. This kind of stuff is really that off-putting to me.
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@surreality Me too, for a bit. Now I just avoid large parts of the internet. If I see a headline heading that way? I try not to read it. Then I go back and binge a couple of years later.
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@Insomnia said in Fanbase entitlement:
[rubs his face]
Holy shit.
This is the sort of thing that makes me glad I tripped and happened to fall into a sane fandom (for now). Not that I really participate, but I do get a lot of it on my Twitter feed, and Wynonna Earp fans are a delight.
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Fandoms are crazy, part 2. Because change.org petitions really can work, DC fans try to get rid of Rotten Tomatoes.
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Steven Universe Fan artist bullied because fandoms are just awesome.
They are so great they drive the people who make the things off of twitter and other social media.
When I was little, I thought it would be cool to be famous. Now if I ever am, I want it to be famous in the 80's.
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And seriously, why do these people think this is in any way okay?
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Ppl cray.
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@Insomnia said in Fanbase entitlement:
And seriously, why do these people think this is in any way okay?
The thing that really freaks me out is the responses to the article, far too many of which have some variation on, "What did he expect when he chose to be famous?"
Dude plays video games. I'm PRETTY DAMNED SURE he did not foresee this leading to people bringing tour groups to his house. Because that's a crazy thing.
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Even if he played sports or sang songs or whatever makes you famous these days... it's a consequence of it, not a natural extension. We've the right to buy t-shirts and tickets, not show up at these guys' door.
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@Arkandel Oh, I completely agree. I despise the culture of perving on celebrities of any stripe, like it's some sort of sacred right to know the detailed romantic relationships of that guy who pretended to be that character you liked that one time. I'm just saying, more, that there's no reasonable logical path from "decided to play video games on YouTube" that ends up in "expects strangers to drop by his house with schoolchildren".
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Considering I was told to "adult more" when a weird guy sent me harassing stuff and then showed up unannounced at my appointment only business, yeah, this attitude of "what do you expect? it's your fault for being so famous/hot/searchable/ect" does not surprise me in the least. I think pewdiepie is adorbs because he's a really cute kiddo. Unfortunately in our culture ill people /kill/ their crushes/obsessions (and most of the time there will be plenty of people who say that it's the murder victim's fault too). So I hope now this means he'll take some extra security precautions--but I don't know. People spend milllions on security and yet people still manage to get into their houses, ect. I think I would be a whole hell of a lot more freaked out than he seems to be. Just in my very diminished personal experience of unannounced weirdo showing up on my biz doorstep has me still feeling unsafe if I'm there alone and I hate it.
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Time for him to move to conservative suburbia under and assumed alias. Obvs.
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The utter hatred and vitriol towards game developers just gets me these days.
No Man's Sky is an example. Apparently, Hello Games should be ashamed of itself and APOLOGIZE because the game doesn't exactly match the VERY FIRST TRAILER they showed a few years ago.
Not, 'This was a trailer of what their intended goal with the game is' (which has been common for freaking ever), but 'They should be ashamed and refund everyone because THEY LIED'
No Man's Sky never, ever made itself out to be an MMO, except because the multiplayer stuff isn't 100% totally implemented and totally like EVE... 'they failed.' There's people insisting that it would take 'one programmer just a week' to implement full multiplayer ability.
...if it was just kids (like, the under-18 crowd) doing this, that'd be one thing. But I know people who were entirely around for the Daikatana bullshit whining the same refrain.
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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@Auspice It's like that for the makers of almost every product, every politician, and every other thing you can think of.
Y'all finished or y'all done? I ain't go no more talkin'.
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"I paid $20 to buy your product, that means I own you."
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@Auspice OTOH, Star Citizen.
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@Insomnia said in Fanbase entitlement:
@Auspice OTOH, Star Citizen.
Well. I haven't seen anyone issue death threats over SC yet.
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Christ, this makes me despair for humanity. (And how about that guy's fandom, huh?) I mean, I've long said that I'd never get a tattoo because the only thing I could think of that I would want on my body for the rest of my life is Sam Elliott's. If I ever saw the man in person, though, I'd a) blush furiously, which is embarrassing when you're a guy in his 50s, and b) not approach him unless he were sitting at a table and signing autographs because getting in someone's face otherwise is simply rude.
I know it's my fault for thinking that others do and should behave like I do, but how can you objectify someone so much that you'd do the things these links describe? People that do this must be fundamentally fucked in the head to the point that they totally lack empathy and don't recognize others' humanity. At least maybe it's mildly a good thing that the Internet makes it easier to spot the sociopaths, although I still think that branding them on the face isn't a bad idea.