Why Do You DISLIKE Your Fandom?

"What do you dislike the most about the fandoms you are in?" Are there shipping wars? Is misinformation common? Does everyone love a character you hate? Let's all share what pet peeves we have with the fandoms we're in, just like these folks from r/FanFiction did! (But be civil to each other, please!)

[nixash]

Taking a complex character and turning them into one archetype... The amount of male characters in fandoms turned into "soft uwu boys" because they have emotions is incredible lol

[surrealsweets]

I hate the fact that multiple fandoms have the problem of treating young girl characters like the literal devil for making a few mistakes but then turning around and acting like characters who are just completely horrible are "just misunderstood"

[sgtsurgeon.]

If I had a nickel for everytime a complex, well thought out male character that has a few androgynous traits was boiled down into an uwu soft boy, I'd be a millionaire

[CloudsAndDays]

I just want more fandom spaces that are distinctly for adults that are not solely porn based.

[midxight.unkxown]

the one thing i hate is that many of the fans ignore most characters leaving severe amounts of lore behind

[TheLastBlenderBender]

What i will call the "Papyrus effect" it's not fandom-specific but it's when the fandom takes a character that isn’t a child, but has a childish personality and infantalizes them and uses it as a reason to hate on any ships or nsfw of sed character. This is especially troublesome when the character is either canonically neurodivergent or neurodivergent-coded

[-Oddity]

I hate that many fandoms don't seem to understand what Friendship is. If two characters are nice to each other or spend any amount time alone together, it has to be because "they're in a relationship."

[hatredddd]

The neurodivergent/coded character outright being called "mentally a child", being infantilized, doesnt know what sex is, etc. As a neurodivergent person, this is the biggest yikes personally and it makes me wonder how they think of and treat real life neurodivergent people.😬 This mindset ruined the character for me, i cringe when people show even the smallest amount of "childish" behavior in this character even if it would be perfectly normal and okay or even in character.

[AlexiosTheSixth]

the "people treating headcanons as canon" part is too real
I was in a fandom once where some people did that then started harassing people because they like a character who is "evil" in their headcanon

[Things-with-wings]

As an aro ace, it is incredibly frustrating when most of my fandom seems to revolve around ships/love interests. Don’t get me wrong, I think the ships are cute, but there is many other concepts in the media that could be expanded on..

[marshy]

The underappreciation of platonic love/friendships with characters. It's easy to find an abuncance of shipping content, but it seems as though that a lot of content of characters who platonically love each other are mostly found in found family groupings. Though of course, that's not to say that there aren't examples of characters having really good friendships with each other in fandom.

[awesome_sith]

The amount of mischaracterization in the fandom gets really annoying at times. Characters get dumbed down to "She's depressed" or "He's mean to everyone" and it ruins the point and depth of the characters and any character growth that they've had gets ignored. It feels so difficult to find examples of people writing the characters correctly and not just using the dumbed down fandom version.

[Azyne]

Genshin. No explaination needed unfortunately

[weinereater-wmqm]

For me, it's "uwuification" or "woobifying" when the character is canonically capable of themselves, and has their rough moments, but still capable. They don't need some "holier-than-thou savior" to help them do everything and treat the character like they cannot do anything by themselves without fucking it up and bashing them over it

[MothInASuit]

My fandom doesn’t understand that platonic relationships can do things that romantic and sexual relationships do, and still be a platonic relationship. They have bashed multiple creators for making platonic relationships do “too much” when it’s just fine.

[PossumInBoots]

I sometimes get upset when people HC mental disabilities without thinking about WHY they do. For this example I'll use Denki. I feel like some people HC that he has ADHD, which is alright in itself, but then they also constantly feel the need to "remind" everybody that he's an idiot. As somebody with ADHD, it feels a bit hurtful. Let it be known, I AGREE WITH THIS HC. I see Denki possibly having ADHD because "he just like me fr". I just hate when people tie in a mental disability HC with a character being stupid.

[queijo]

I hate how they took my favorite character and reduced her entire personality to "cute smol lesbian bean amazing girlfriend". Bro, she had so much development and personality but they just ignore all of that.

[samworld]

When people claim that a ship is “toxic” when the worst things that they have done is argue with each other and have a few disagreements but are actually good for each other but when two people are incredibly toxic for each other it is automatically the best ship ever and is adorable and the pairing is “couple goals”.
Edit: WHERE ARE ALL THESES LIKES COMING

[krystal-animations]

the amount of people in my fandom that get revealed to be problematic or a groomer is concerning and i've multiple times worried that someone whos content i like will get exposed to have done something bad

[chogahofa]

I was in a fandom where an actually CANON ship received a lot of hate because 1) The age difference between them is 3 years and 2) because it's straight and the girl interrupts the boy's "actual boyfriend." What’s funny is that the "boyfriend" in question has more chemistry with the girl than the guy in the ship. In fact, the "boyfriends" have literally only interactted ONCE! While for the girl, she had quite a decent chemistry with the "actual boyfriend" and they're good friends. It's so popular that a lot of people are actually convinced that they're a couple and the girl is a ship stealer. (In case you're wondering, the difference between the 2 boys is 1 year)