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Fandom Problem #4829:

Wishing for an anime voice actor you really like to return to voice your favourite character is like wishing on a monkey's paw. It happened to me recently. I was so overjoyed and even thanked the person who brought him back then I found out he supported some terrible things/views. I feel like I was punished for wanting him back!

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4828

I remember a CGI animation company wanting to avoid comparison with "a great CGI animation company".

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Fandom Problem #4828:

When people refer to every CGI animated film as "Pixar".

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Fandom Problem #4827:

Fandom tags are for fandom things. Art, fanfics, gifs, headcanons, role playing and so on. Is your donation post a fandom thing? No. Neither is the drama between you and whomeverthefuck. And please don't vent in the tags about how mad you are at certain users, that is a you problem and you ain't the main character.

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Fandom Problem #4826:

When someone who thinks they're oh-so-progressive accuses an author of "child coding" a character and accuses anyone attracted to said character of pedophilia....when in reality that character is disabled.

They just equated mental disabilities to children, and claimed it's unnatural to be attracted to someone with a disability.

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4824

There is exceptionally a smart character (one fictional guy who embodies the "human wikipedia" trope can refute a snobby dude's words in a long sentence.), but a smart character created by creators without knowledge feel similar to the ask.

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Fandom Problem #4825:'

The only thing that baffles me more than "you can't have technology in fantasy worlds" is all the fans that defend said stance.

It's all down to writing execution. Some writers can pull it off, and others clearly can't. Assuming it's bad writing on the basis of the idea is not always proper criticism.

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Fandom Problem #4824:

When a character is the "smart one" of the group mainly because they're the only level head in a group of chaotic idiots--but the fandom (and hell, even later on, the SHOW) takes "the smart one" way too literally and now their entire character is just "this one is the human Wikipedia"

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Fandom Problem #4823:

Say it with me now!

TYPING 👏 SOMETHING 👏 LIKE 👏 THIS 👏 DOESN'T 👏 MAKE 👏 IT 👏 TRUE!!! 👏

TYPING 👏 SOMETHING 👏 LIKE 👏 THIS 👏 DOESN'T 👏 MAKE 👏 IT 👏 TRUE!!! 👏

TYPING 👏 SOMETHING 👏 LIKE 👏 THIS 👏 DOESN'T 👏 MAKE 👏 IT 👏 TRUE!!! 👏

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Fandom Problem #4822:

When one person from your fandom / ship has a batshit nuclear bad take that goes sorta viral and becomes a meme due to its sheer stupidity and from now until the end of time any time someone mentions your fandom / ship someone always goes "Ugh those are the guys that are always going around saying [batshit nuclear bad take] don't listen to anything they say 😒" even though the vast majority of us have never said anything close to resembling that.

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Re: 4774

Some fans of the relatively wholesome works bully another fandom or one person.

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4820: This is why cancel and mob culture sucks donkey balls. It exploits the basic fact that a lot of people are prone to reactionary, knee jerk judgments, which results in them spreading shit without even thinking or fact-checking. Because surely, the outrage is enough to validate a claim! Surely! Brain off, angry hats on, I guess.

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4819: That's the Xam'd: Lost Memories "fandom" in a nutshell. There's basically no one at home, lol. The characters aren't amazingly in-depth and there is only, say, one outstanding romantic relationship in the entire show, so in a way, I can understand the lack of fandom. Fandoms are often sparked by the shipping potential of characters. But the creature designs were great and I found the lore, if not incomplete, to be pretty compelling, and I would've loved to see expansions on that.

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#4821: This is a valid ask, and I want to expand on something it mentions re: gamification with coins. At first glance, and with the information provided, someone will probably think, "wait, what's wrong with this? It just sounds like tumblr badges". And you'd be right, because that's definitely what it sounds like. But the context is very different. A lot of roleplayers found the introduction of coins as rewards for post count to be a bit gaudy, because the site in question is a roleplaying site, for writing and for writers. There are many styles of roleplaying from one-liner dialogue replies, to novellas and chapter-length epics. Due to this, using post count as a marker for rewarding users was seen as, erm, not particularly balanced, since people who write one-liners can churn out 50 posts a night, whereas people who write novella may post one reply every two weeks. Users who brought this up and asked for a different system that, at least, addressed this distinction, were dismissed outright.

From what I recall, there was a lot of dismissing happening about a multitude of topics, not just this one, but it quickly became clear that the only kind of feedback the developers wanted was affirmative feedback. If they didn't already have something in mind, it wouldn't be on the radar. It was really offensive because they always emphasized how the site would be "by roleplayers, for roleplayers", but their definition of PBP roleplaying (and the styles of roleplaying included under that umbrella) was so narrow, it wasn't really a project intended for the greater roleplay community. It was just a pet project tailored to the preferences of whoever was in charge.

Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with making a website and tailoring it like that. ;ut the lack of honesty about what they were trying to do was very gross. It felt like "smile and wave" publicity, and stringing along potential users to boost initial user numbers.

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Re: #4819

It's fun to create "void" as a "fan work" but it always ends in my own home. There will be people who read wiki article abt a lesser-known work, however, it does still.

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Hi! For 4821 about roleplaying, I think op is referring to pbp (play by post) roleplaying which is just writing, unrelated to video games. :)

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Fandom Problem #4821:

When a developer starts creating a new roleplay website for fandom people, then almost instantly, it gets run into the ground by puritan nonsense in the rules, gamification, coins that reward people by the post count instead of word count or content, and shitty cliques that attack people for liking certain characters or roleplaying certain ways (which was allowed by the dev within their discord server, despite the "strong emphasis on community and respect" or whatever)... And then, the developer totally ghosts all their blogs and platforms, so all the people who donated money to create the site were SOL and have no way to contact them. Fortunately, I didn't donate any money to that disaster because I'm leery of startups in general, but wow, what a mess

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