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Tuesday, July 02, 2019

No Toxic Fandom

There is no toxic fandom. Today, on Nerdotic, we get a video about George RR Martin and his reaction to "fans" of GoT and their reaction to the end of HBOs version of his books.

In gaming I'm considered a toxic fan. In comic books I'm considered a toxic fan. In anime and now knitting, I'm considered a toxic fan.

Fan, the word, is shortening of the word fanatic. Movie fanatics were really the first to have that moniker hurled upon them. Then we had sports fans, and on down the line.

If you're a fan, you like something. End of story.

So the reason toxic fandom doesn't exist is because they don't like whatever it is you're selling. They are most likely former fans you have somehow offended into no longer buying your product. That's not toxic, that's bad marketing on YOUR part.

Case in point, Star Wars. Disney and Lucasfilms so poorly handled the next stories in the line that George Lucas created to the point where people who were rabid, mouth frothing fanatics, won't even consider seeing another movie and the merchandising has yielded no profit at all. In fact, Disney for the first time ever has lost money on merchandising and for the first time ever Star Wars isn't making a profit.

The Star Wars fans were very vocal in their dislike of Kathleen "The Force is Feminine" Kennedy who has single-highhandedly ruined a virtual money printing machine for Lucasfilm and Disney. You have to hand it to the retard, she managed to do what no man has ever done. Well played, chica.

Another Disney product, Marvel Films. They so poorly cast the next "Tent Pole" for their Avengers franchise, then went through so many machinations and contortionist movements to try to sell Captain Marvel, a character who cannot sell comic books, but by God, Marvel will shove her down your throat, time after time, book after book, movie after movie. Nobody wants to see her. It was so bad they had to recut Avenger's: End Game at the last minute to make Brie Larson barely visible in the movie. They keep talking about her still being the main focus of the next phase, like Iron Man was for the first phase, but the audience is steadfast. They will not spend money on the cunt in any form.

Full disclosure, everything that I've seen and heard from the Captain Marvel movie leads me to believe that someone gave a gender studies feminist interpretive dance major a typewriter and the wrong Wikipedia page and then tried to make Brie Larson likable. Wow, talk about a thankless job.

In comic books, so many people have stopped buying comic books because they are so stupid, so insipid and so soy infused that they are unreadable and the characters are more like old day villains that heroic beings. Iron Heart, Iceman, and Captain Marvel (oh my, what a revisit on an horrific character). Plus, they over-ship and have ruined comic book stores, and then cancel books just to reissue with a new number one for bucks. The price of a single book now is more than a paperback first run book.

As for anime, well, I'm not buying anything new, preferring to put things on hold until they realize they are killing themselves and settling for subs from Japan, who don't even hear SJW REEEEEing. They don't care one bit what white, liberal Americans think about their products. Why? Because the fuckers don't buy anything. They steal, they pirate but they don't spent money on what they're selling and they know it and they call their bluff every single damned time. Which is why I haven't thrown my hands up and walked away from that, too.

Toxic fandom means "People Who See Through Our Shit."

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