my theory is that it used to be a niche thing that people were kind of ostracised for (in schools anyway), but got mainstream, so the "OG" fans resented the "normies" invading "their space" and got more and more reactionary
That actually makes a lot of sense. Hell, even when I went onto the sub one of the posts in hot was about that. It was saying the people who came over from other subs are invading "their" space after forcing them out of the mainstream. They used the "why are you excluding us" comic by webcomicname.com whose LGBT ironically.
yeah, I sympathise with the whole "you mocked us for liking a thing, but now thing is cool and you want in" thing, but it isn't an excuse to be shitty to people who probably weren't even the ones mocking you in the first place
no
God, what's up with anime fans being such asshats? I love anime myself so it isn't a necessary thing but there's so many of them.
my theory is that it used to be a niche thing that people were kind of ostracised for (in schools anyway), but got mainstream, so the "OG" fans resented the "normies" invading "their space" and got more and more reactionary
same deal with gamers
That actually makes a lot of sense. Hell, even when I went onto the sub one of the posts in hot was about that. It was saying the people who came over from other subs are invading "their" space after forcing them out of the mainstream. They used the "why are you excluding us" comic by webcomicname.com whose LGBT ironically.
yeah, I sympathise with the whole "you mocked us for liking a thing, but now thing is cool and you want in" thing, but it isn't an excuse to be shitty to people who probably weren't even the ones mocking you in the first place