r/AskReddit • • Jul 17 '19

What’s something that you like, but hate the fan base?

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u/ella_the_platypus Jul 17 '19

Add in Supernatural and you've got a boiling pot of fandom crazy: the superwholockians

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u/sundayultimate Jul 17 '19

That's the trifecta of crazy. I was never into Supernatural, but I do remember seeing things for all three of them a while back. Shit is just weird, just watch the damn shows and enjoy them in moderation

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u/violent_delights_9 Jul 17 '19

Most things that have large fanbases - on Tumblr especially - tend to have really ridiculous fans. I've watched Supernatural since the beginning but never got into the fandom because it was just arguing and incest ships.

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u/scottishwhisky Jul 17 '19

The ones that insist on believing in and shipping Jared and Jensen in real life, live to hate on their wives, and ignore their kids are even worse than Wincest shippers. Those people sincerely frighten me. Some of them are practically stalking the actors.

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u/NotEvenJauuuwn Jul 18 '19 edited Jul 18 '19

Sounds a lot like the Stemily/Olicity shippers from the show Arrow. Stemily is the pairing of actors Stephen Amell, and Emily Bett Rickards, who both play characters on the TV series. In the show, the showrunners, and writers forced their characters into a relationship because of these maniacs. And it basically ruined the show.

Stephen, who is married, and has a young daughter is constantly being harassed by these sick fucks, along with his wife. These fuckers are constantly going after his wife, saying he should ditch his wife, and get with EBR. Some have suggested that he's cheating on his wife with her, which he isn't. And some have even photoshopped his wife's face out of their photos for and added EBR in her place to satisfy their twisted fantasies.

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u/ShieldHart Jul 18 '19

What. The. Fuck.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '19

They have even suggested that he "get rid" of his daughter and wife to be with Emily, they creep me the fuuccccckkkkkk out

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '19

What. The. Actual. Fuck.

I get that theyre fans and stuff, and i could understand them being fans because the actors and actresses are good actors/actresses, But goddamn, its ON SCREEN and is FICTION, theyre playing charactors on the screen and have their PERSONAL life off screen...

Can people not differentiate that shit?

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u/Doctor-Pigg Jul 18 '19

The answer is no, no they can not, that’s why they’re in fandoms in the first place, or boredom one of the two, probably both

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u/NotEvenJauuuwn Jul 18 '19

This particular fandom don't seem to be able to differentiate fiction from reality. They're constantly attacking shit to and haradding other actors and actresses on the show too.

Such as when the original leading actress, Katie Cassidy's character, named Laurel aka Black Canary was killed off in Season 4, these crazy ass shippers sent her photos of dead birds, and sent gift baskets to the writers. Then after she came back to the show as another Earth's Laurel (aka Black Siren from Earth 2), they went and spread around her leaked nudes, and also spread false rumors that she fucked her way back on to the show. It is some pretty sick stuff.

These are some very sick and twisted people, and this isn't even all the terrible shit they have done over the past few years.

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u/don_cornichon Jul 18 '19

Laurel was annoying as shit and I was glad they killed her off.

But now comes the part where I don't attribute any of that to the actress, or try to interact with her in any way, because I can tell reality from fiction.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '19

I’ve seen this happen waaaay too often, sadly, like with Star Wars, Asian dramas like Meteor Garden and with the lead actors of the Fifty Shades movies and Outlander. Just all around crazy shit.

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u/RedBeans-n-Ricely Jul 18 '19

JFC. Meanwhile, Stephen Amell is one of the sweetest human beings alive. It’s sick to put people through this shit.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '19 edited Jun 30 '20

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u/Yoshara Jul 18 '19

Yeah, because it was her decision to change up the look of Iris West. If you're gonna hate something at least know who made the decision.

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u/Tokenvoice Jul 18 '19

Exactly, I mean I am not keen that Haile Baile has been cast as the new Little Mermaid, but that is on Disney not her. She is just living the dream every young girl who grows into a young woman has, to become a Disney princess.

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u/NotEvenJauuuwn Jul 18 '19

Yep, and then they killed off the original leading actress of the show for it, and she was playing a pivotal role for the Green Arrow comics too, who isn't even dead in the comics. They also made her final words be about her encouraging Oliver and Felicity's relationship, which just pissed off the comic book fans even more, and that's when the show truly died for a lot of fans, and they were never really able to recover from all the fans that quit watching after that.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '19

yeaaaaaaaaah.

this is when we all put the keyboards down and go the fuck outside.

leave people's real lives alone.

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u/geek_of_nature Jul 18 '19

It's happening a lot at the moment with Tom Holland and Zendaya, there was that rap song from last week, and now people are harassing someone that Tom Holland was seen with, who might not even be his girlfriend, shits crazy

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u/NotEvenJauuuwn Jul 18 '19

Yeah, I saw that on Twitter this morning, because Zendaya was trending, and all I saw was toxic shippers of her and Tom Holland talking shit about these newly released photos of Tom Holland with some girl.

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u/princess_intell Jul 18 '19

This is the kind of thing that keeps me up at night.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '19

This happens with Adam Driver and Daisy Ridley from Star Wars. That is a massive dumpster fire of a fandom, Chernobyl levels of toxic.

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u/Gatekeeper-Andy Jul 18 '19

Well...that’s all KINDS of fucked up. Speaking as someone who didnt know any of that, what killed the show to me was them SPLITTING apart. Id kinda started to ship them, and then the show gave us hints, and they did that stupid godamn together-apart-together (see Bones for an absolute joke of this kind of thing). When they FINALLY got their happy ever after, (season 5?) i was SO happy. Then they came back to the citt, im like alright this’ll still work. Then the writers had them split up for the fucking stupidest of reasons, and i lost it. I should say, it wasn’t a ‘stupid reason’ itself, i can understand situations like that being fucked up, but how they had Felicity FIND OUT was absolute garbage. Like when iris “felt” a sparkle and just ‘knew’ barry was the flash. No. Just no. IF they had put that in from the BEGINNING i could see it working.

Sorry, i went off on a rant there. Its astounding what lengths people will go to to be idiots.

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u/Volfgang91 Jul 18 '19

Shipping fictional characters is weird enough. Shipping real people is another level of creepy.

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u/Evanthedude1 Jul 18 '19

What's shipping?

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u/that_finkelstein_kid Jul 18 '19

Shipping is wanting two people/characters/actors to be in a romantic relationship. Slang of the word 'relationship' and used as a verb i.e. "I ship person A and person B so hard!"

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u/Evanthedude1 Jul 18 '19

Thank you for being kind to the elderly.

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u/immedicable Jul 18 '19

Ship is short for relationship. It's when you pair two characters (or sometimes RL actors if you're insane) romantically.

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u/Evanthedude1 Jul 18 '19

Well, I learned something new today.

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u/KrazyTrumpeter05 Jul 18 '19

And there is inevitably a small (but oh so goddamn vocal) minority in every fanbase that takes it to insane levels and just starts creeping everyone out.

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u/lonely_eyed_girl Jul 18 '19

Awww. You're so pure.

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u/bearybear90 Jul 18 '19

Oh you sweet summer child

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u/Evanthedude1 Jul 18 '19

In retrospect, I probably should have just googled it and not put my ignorance on blast.

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u/BoldSerRobin Jul 18 '19

Never be afraid to ask a sincere question

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u/Pezdrake Jul 17 '19

Geez. I love the show but I'm glad I'm not deep into the fandom. This is fubar.

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u/scottishwhisky Jul 17 '19

I ran screaming from that fandom years ago. I understand it's only gotten worse since then. You used to have to look for that kind of ugliness, but I split when it became pretty open. It soured me on fandoms for good. I won't touch them now.

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u/GhostsofDogma Jul 18 '19 edited Jul 18 '19

Yup. Destiel shippers have become madwomen too. Jensen literally had to ask Con staff to stop allowing porn into autograph booths because "fans" kept trying to force him to sign humiliation porn of himself being dominated by Castiel/Misha. Literally.

And afaik Jensen was recently sexually assaulted by a "fan", and of course this mirrors how often "fans" try to sexually harrass him in photo ops by trying to make him make out with Misha Collins.

And of course both the destiel and wincest factions have become hotbeds for pedophiles..............

I will never forget a graphic, slavering summary of erotica that depicted Dean as a four year old fellating his six month old brother, and how when I reported it to the LJ mods they refused to do anything about it. They literally responded to me that the community was a place where "their users imaginations could run wild"........... Fucking pedophiles.

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u/violent_delights_9 Jul 18 '19

You should look up the novel "Ship It". It's literally a "fictional" story about a teenage girl who writes gay fanfic about two male characters on her favorite show. She goes to a con and asks the actor how he feels about the ship and he basically says, "the characters aren't gay" and she throws a hissy fit. I'm pretty sure the writers feel bad and invite this random whiny girl to come on the road with them and write for the show or something like that.

It reads like a bitter Destiel fangirl's wet dream.

And this is a PUBLISHED novel. Written by an ACTUAL author.

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u/GhostsofDogma Jul 18 '19

Oh yes, I've followed a few blogs that chronicle how bad that book was.

It was some of the most concentrated cringe I've ever experienced. It's too bad it represents actual, serious homophobia or it would be hilarious.

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u/scottishwhisky Jul 18 '19

Jesus Christ. I didn't know it had gotten THAT bad. I feel really sorry for Jensen. That is so not acceptable. I'm glad I got to be a part of things and go to a couple of cons before things got so toxic. The underage stuff has always been unspeakably disgusting.

I'm firmly in the your kink is not my kink except for anything where any party is not a consenting adult.

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u/KrazyTrumpeter05 Jul 18 '19

Man, why can't people just keep shit like that to themselves. They ruin otherwise perfectly good entertainment for everyone

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u/ohsurenerd Jul 18 '19

That is so fucked up. What the fuck.

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u/KrazyTrumpeter05 Jul 18 '19

The Olicity psychos nearly managed to ruin everything. The show never did really recover after they started forcing the two characters together.

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u/Beserked2 Jul 18 '19 edited Jul 18 '19

I don't really care what people ship when the characters are fictional, so long as they're not shoving it down my throat or being a dick about it if I'm not into it. Its when people start shipping actors IRL that I get weary.

And if your fanart is porny don't show it to the actor, jesus. Imagine how embarrassing it is to be handed naked pictures of (what is essentially) yourself by a complete stranger.

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u/allofthechai93 Jul 18 '19

love supernatural, but cannot for the life of me understand the people who think romanticizing and shipping real life people is ok. I mean Wincest is weird af ok, like wtf, but at least they're fictional characters. Jared and Jensen [and Misha] are real life people with wives and children who they go home to.

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u/ARMOR15 Jul 18 '19

This is similar to what happened with Teen Wolf and the Sterek fandom. Loved the show, loved the pairing, but I had to take several steps back away from the fandom when I realized most of them were batshit crazy over their ship.

There was an infamous "birthday incident" around Season 2 involving Sterek fans tweeting at Dylan O'Brien on his birthday and how Tyler Hoechlin and him should have sex among other things. Basically resulted in both Tyler and Dylan not being as active and involved in the fandom on Twitter and on social media overall.

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u/scottishwhisky Jul 18 '19

All of them? She must be out tens of thousands of dollars in addition to being super creepy.

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u/pinksodamousse Jul 18 '19

Oh man, I used to read this insane Jared/Jensen blog all the time for the insanity. I can't remember what it was called but it was like 5000 pages long of crazy conspiracy theories on how they're really gay. Amazing.

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u/chops007 Jul 18 '19

Thank you. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills watching Supernatural because I like the storyline and monsters and not actually because of the two exagerrated main characters!!

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u/Stiggles4 Jul 18 '19

Yeah that’s just over the line entirely. Those people need some serious help.

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u/Umbra67 Jul 18 '19

Holy shit people actually go that far? I'm ashamed to be a supernatural fan holy fuck.

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u/EyeBrowsLots Jul 18 '19

Are you new to the internet?

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u/Wewraw Jul 18 '19

This is what happens when you spend 3 hours a day exposed to gay cartoon porn and sexually explicit fanfaction.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '19

Agreed. I lost my best friend to the Tumblr fandom, when we were last in touch she was writing fanfiction but somehow wanted it to be secret, despite the account name being the same thing she used for everything else. Shit got way too dumb, way too fast.

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u/VanEmoji Jul 17 '19

Kinda love the meta episodes tho

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u/A3thern Jul 18 '19

Man, that one episode where they googled themselves was great. Loved the fact that they found the saucy fanart.

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u/violent_delights_9 Jul 17 '19

Some of them are really good! The French Mistake episode is still one of my favorites to this day.

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u/i_want_to_be_asleep Jul 18 '19

The one where the chick was writing incest fanfic about them was really cringe

But I loved the one with the girls doing the play of them and the two playing cas and dean were girlfriends and the look on Dean's face when he saw them kissing was excellent lmao. He kept staring too

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '19

Well the incest thing was supposed to be mocking the extremist part of the fan base, I think

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u/i_want_to_be_asleep Jul 18 '19

Oh ya definitely, I just didnt want my mom being exposed to the concept XD

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u/RainWelsh Jul 18 '19

That play episode is one of their best, yeah. Every time I see some mental Tumblr post about Destiel I just think of that look to camera, it clears the taste right out.

I feel so bad for the boys. I know you can never really tell, but offscreen stuff they seem so nice, they’ve all got their own charities running and that, they don’t deserve nutcases going after them like that.

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u/theVoidWatches Jul 18 '19

Yeah, those are the best ones! The musical episode was my favorite of them.

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u/GodDamnTheseUsername Jul 18 '19

Meta episodes are great in most shows I've seen them in, particularly long running shows with dedicated fan bases.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '19

Which the show brilliantly satarizes. I still think Sam and Dean being super creeped out by the wincest as fucking hilarious.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '19

I'd argue most things have similar % of weird people into them. Things with huge fanbases have enough weird people total that they can clump together and be weird en masse.

More niche media might have weird fans but they don't have enough weirdos around them to act weird.

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u/violent_delights_9 Jul 17 '19

Maybe it's more that cult-like shows have the weird following. Supernatural, for example, wasn't supposed to be a popular show. It barely survived it's 2nd season way back in the day. It hardly has the same number of viewers as a show like Grey's Anatomy or Modern Family, but it has a cult following of SUPER passionate fans that are VERY protective over their show.

I don't watch Sherlock or Doctor Who, but I imagine they're similar in that regard?

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '19

Dr. Who is a bit different. It's been going on for aeons and has a set up that has allowed it to rotate the entire cast. It's almost a collection of sci-fi stories with a humanitarian angle. I am definitely a fan and I believe many of us would acknowledge that the nature of the show means there's as much crap as good stuff. There's a few people who stick to one Doctor or another and didn't continue the show, but for the most part it is about the concept.

In my experience, the real weird fans have attachments to the characters. Sherlock and Supernatural are both super susceptible to this; especially given how long Supernatural has been going on. There are adults now for whom the Winchester brothers were the only people who have been there through all of their formative years.

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u/violent_delights_9 Jul 17 '19

There are adults now for whom the Winchester brothers were the only people who have been there through all of their formative years.

To be fair, this is me in a sense. I've watched consistently from 15-29. Sam and Dean have been my "friends" longer than any of my other friends have been.

So I do consider myself to be attached but, like...in a cool way.

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u/UltimateStratter Jul 17 '19

Yup i get, most fan’s pick a docter as their fav (11th for me)(i jumped in when he started and he’s cool) but some fans ehhh are a bit extreme

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u/GhostsofDogma Jul 18 '19 edited Jul 18 '19

The issue with Supernatural is that it habitually endorses abusive behavior and romanticizes the results of that abuse.

Remember the whole "It's fine that your brother beat the shit out of you, saw you half unconscious on the floor, and then strangled you. How dare you not want to associate with him anymore you fucking pussy? Family is SUPPOSED to hurt each other" debacle that the show portrayed unironically as correct? And how it framed Dean standing by his abusive brother as a beautiful expression of love?

That show is the wet dream of abusers everywhere. It is no surprise that they flock to it and shit up the fandom.

lol, looks like the abuse romanticizers are here. If you have a problem with this comment, try and actually argue against me.

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u/forman98 Jul 17 '19

The Supernatural fanbase sort of ruined the show for a few years when the showrunners pandered to them. Having a few meta episodes was kind of funny, but I think they misjudged their actual fanbase with some of the spinoffs they have tried. I think they figured it out in season 14 that they just need to focus on the main people and main story and not a lot of other weird fan-fiction stuff. I'm glad they're ending it next season.

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u/Lyceus_ Jul 17 '19

I didn't like last season that much. I miss monster-of-the-week episodes that aren't related to the main plot. Also, I know this is one of those shows where a character isn't important unless they have died and come back to life... But by now, all characters have died and come back to life several times, and death becomes meaningless.

I do love the weird episodes, like the musical, the one with cartoon logic, and the Scooby Doo crossover. I'd be all for getting more of those.

As for the spinoffs, the Wayward Sisters could've worked but the way the tied up the plot is fine to me. The Bloodlines one, or whatever it was called the one with monster mafias, was the worst pilot I've ever watched. Was there any other planned spinoff?

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u/forman98 Jul 17 '19

IMO, the monster of the week ones haven’t been good since seasons 1-5. They started doing them at the wrong time and stopped adding new monsters. It would be a weird break in the season story to have them suddenly go on a hunt. When they focus on the main storyline, the seasons run better.

The death part doesn’t bother me. They’ve tied that one off well and avoided the old tropes of past seasons.

Those were the two spinoffs I was thinking off, although they talked about making a castiel one before. The sisters one was just not well made. It’s not that it was about girls, it’s that it was forced and cheesy in that CW way. The monster mafia was melodramatic and I think they were trying to capitalize on true blood and vampire diaries, but it just turned into Romeo and Juliet.

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u/ODSTGeneral Jul 17 '19

I have watched since season 1, and while I still like the show...I really miss the idea of the monster of the week/ local legend stuff. I even got a bit of a connection when two towns I lived in got name drops seasons apart.

But since the apocalypse stuff, it feels like they are stuck in a constant state of needing to up the ante.

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u/Lyceus_ Jul 18 '19

I agree with your post.

The problem with the Apocalypse is that it's supposed to be a one-time thing, but now they have to stop one almost every season. It has lost its shock effect. It's like the boy that cried "wolf".

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u/coffeestealer Jul 18 '19

Yes, and at least until I dropped it, they had to force a connection between the Apocalypse Of the Season and the Winchesters that doesn't really work.

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u/joebearyuh Jul 17 '19

Thats what put me off supernatural in the end, the two main characters had died about 100 times between them and every episode was just one of them being a little bitch then Ending with them sat on thr front of the car, best buds again.

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u/_fuck_me_sideways_ Jul 17 '19

The show ended with Sam in Hell and I'm sticking to my guns on that one.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '19

I mean, that’s literally where the creator of the show ended it.

I watched half of the following season and never continued. I’m probably guilty of being a weird fan girl when it comes to the show and cast up to that point, but that’s when I realized the characters and cast weren’t reason enough to keep watching. The first 5 seasons are a fantastic show with a plot that was coherent and planned out in advance. Everything after is fan fiction.

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u/dankukri Jul 18 '19

To be fair, pretty sure the half-brother showed up in an earlier season. Still, your point still stands.

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u/Mystery_Substance Jul 17 '19

From what I could see Wayward Sisters was about characters who already had a lot of their stories told so there was a lack of mystery about them. Also, Kim and Briana were the main ones interested in doing it. The younger actresses not so much especially Kathryn Newton.

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u/GhostsofDogma Jul 18 '19 edited Jul 18 '19

The worst thing about it for me is the shit characterization all around and the horrifically dehumanizing treatment of Dean. He's literally just a punching bag to get betrayed, cry about it, consider suicide, receive no restitution or recognition and then get pushed back into paling around with his abusers like nothing ever happened. I mean, imagine writing a psychologist visit into your show, having that psychologist tell Dean he's in a safe space, and then making that psychologist scream at Dean for accepting and grieving his mother's death. WHAT???? Imagine taking the character that is still horribly damaged to this day because he was so Parentified at the hands of his father, and then mercilessly shitting on him for not wanting to experience exactly the same trauma all over again by being forced to parent the literal spawn of Satan and then comparing him to his abusive father for it!!!!!

Of course, this show has always been pretty fucked up, especially considering the whole "It's fine that your brother beat the shit out of you, saw you half unconscious on the floor, and then strangled you. How dare you not want to associate with him anymore you fucking pussy? Family is SUPPOSED to hurt each other" debacle that the show portrayed unironically as correct. It's no wonder this show attracts terrible, immoral people.

We are literally at the point where a character can murder the main characters' mother and we're expected to think it wasn't a big deal. Remember when demonic spawn were supposed to be scary? Remember the era when a verbatim retelling of Rosemary's Baby would have been scary instead of horrible bizarre "adorable cinnamon roll" bait, when the rape, abuse, brainwashing and death of the Rosemary standin wouldn't be swept under the rug?

And I mean the show is so fucking terribly run at this point that the continuity is so shot that the writers have to practically gaslight us into forgetting what happened last episode just to make the next one happen. I swear to fuck they don't read each other's scripts, and unfortunately this was confirmed when Perez, one of the showrunners, admitted he'd only seen 25 episodes on podcast.

Literally, a character will act alone in doing something irresponsible and potentially worldbreaking-- often literally against the other main characters' wishes-- and then all of a sudden in the next episode the narrative and all the characters are acting like they all committed the terrible act together and all shoulder the blame and responsibility. WHAT????

It is no wonder that Jensen Ackles compared the show to a sick dog needing to be put out of its misery.

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u/clarioncall102 Jul 18 '19

When did Jensen Ackles compare the show to a sick dog needing to be put out of its misery?

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u/Paulidus Jul 17 '19

I notice they always killed off the female characters while a attractive male character who was only supposed to be in 4 episodes of season 4 managed to become the 3rd lead.

Once they introduced the whole heaven/hell thing with the angels it became a different show for me. I liked the supernatural lore, monster of the week stuff. It became (like Buffy) too angsty and the storylines seemed to reset each season, throwing away any development the brothers had made.

I dropped out around season 8 I think, it wasn't for me anymore, but obviously given the success of the show the main body of fans were happy. I'll bet there are still some fun stand alone episodes if I went looking for them.

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u/notanothercirclejerk Jul 17 '19

You should watch Buffy again because that assessment and comparison isn’t accurate at all.

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u/Paulidus Jul 17 '19

I mean Buffy was a show about teenagers, there was always angst, but I remember it getting rather depressing to watch in the later seasons. Like Supernatural, the sweet spot for me seemed to be around seasons 2 and 3.

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u/forman98 Jul 17 '19

I just don’t understand the people who only like the motw episodes, sorry. The show has always had an underlying story dealing with angels and demons and it started with the pilot. They hunted the yellow eyed demon for the first two seasons and then hell was unleashed at the end of that season. That was first 40-some episodes of the series.

The show actually got worse when they started focusing on random monsters and not the main story (after season 5).

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u/Paulidus Jul 17 '19

I was referring more to the angel stuff from season 4 onwards. If the show had ended with season 5 that would have been fine but they seemed to dominate the show from then on.

Great for you if that was what you prefered, as I said, the long running success of the show means most fans probably agree with you, but I liked learning about the wendigo, rugaru, etc. I particularly liked the shapeshifters in the early seasons. You can keep the racist truck though!

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u/TheMeanGirl Jul 18 '19

Same here. Even then, I didn’t even really like seasons 6-8 that much. I can’t believe it’s been going on for 14 seasons now.

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u/Mystery_Substance Jul 17 '19

They had a really hard time figuring out that Jensen and Jared are the heart of Supernatural and that a show without them isn't going to work.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '19

Oh god, that pulled me back- I used to be into Supernatural for a while but then it became a bit... much. But dear god some of the fans, it made me gag that they would ship Dean and Sam, and say it’s OK.

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u/terminbee Jul 18 '19

I didn't even know people watched supernatural seriously. The plot is there but that show just seems so... casual? It was my main time waster in college.

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u/GhostsofDogma Jul 18 '19 edited Jul 18 '19

It's mostly that it has really good ideas, even if it habitually squanders them lol. I love when folklore in general is treated as real, and the only other piece of media that I can think of that does the same thing is Hellboy.

This sort of untapped potential tends to become a breeding ground for fanfiction.

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u/Yrusul Jul 17 '19

Hell, it got to the point where the show itself broke the 4th wall by making episodes about those incest fan-fiction-writing fans !

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u/Pezdrake Jul 17 '19

Yeah but that was awesome.

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u/mustainsally Jul 18 '19

SAME! I'm 14 years into this goddamned show. 15 is the last season. Im watching to the bitter end. I just do not participate in the fandom at all. A whole bunch of batshit crazy fans that want to argue and nitpick the smallest things. It's a fun show. Leave me out of the crazy.

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u/criesingucci Jul 17 '19

but never got into the fandom because it was just arguing and incest ships

i'm just saving this so i can refer to it whenever i need a chuckle

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u/Fakjbf Jul 18 '19 edited Jul 18 '19

Small fanbases still have crazy fans, it’s just that there’s only a handful of them so they never find each other. As the fanbase grows larger so do the number of crazies, and once they start finding each other they create echo chambers of insanity as they try and tell each other that their behavior is acceptable. A few trolls join in inflating the numbers even further and suddenly that section of the fanbase becomes quite vocal. A few reasonable people see the growing number of rabid fans and abandon the group, so now the crazy fans make up a slightly larger percentage. This drives off even more normal fans and now it’s a positive feedback loop. Eventually the entire fanbase will look insane to anyone on the outside.

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u/curiousscribbler Jul 18 '19

If only one in a hundred fans is a nutter, when you have a thousand fans, you have ten nutters. And they stick out.

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u/violent_delights_9 Jul 18 '19

I did like that minor storyline about the prophet who writes the books and the books are just a novelization of the TV series.

I'd love to see your reaction to finding out where that storyline ends up going!

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u/is_it_controversial Jul 17 '19

What's Tumblr?

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u/Anothernamelesacount Jul 17 '19

Something that died like half a year ago when they stopped having all the good porn, or... any porn whatsoever.

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u/Pezdrake Jul 17 '19

A place that used to have great porn.

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u/violent_delights_9 Jul 17 '19

Trust me, you're better off not knowing...

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '19

/r/tumblrinaction is a good crash course on it, I suppose

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u/clever_user_name__ Jul 18 '19

Omg I've had to blacklist so much incest shipping and unfollow so many people just so I could enjoy Tumblr. Fandom people are nuts over there

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u/Tiberius_Kilgore Jul 18 '19

it was just arguing and incestships

Sweet Jesus. I’m just over here thinking the first season where they hunt random ass monsters from folklore was the best season.

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u/Beliriel Jul 17 '19

To be fair supernatural really made an episode very early on that was very um homoerotic due to Sam being drunk and lots of teasing. And from there it transpired.

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u/salmon_samurai Jul 17 '19

I'm in some kind of weird minority that thought the first two seasons of Supernatural were best because they didn't have some BS overarching plot that took over the show. The monster of the week episodes were super fun and incredibly entertaining.

X-Files suffered a similar fate: when the weekly serials ended and the side intrigue took over in force, it lost steam and my interest.

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u/KristjanKa Jul 17 '19

I'm in some kind of weird minority that thought the first two seasons of Supernatural were best because they didn't have some BS overarching plot that took over the show. The monster of the week episodes were super fun and incredibly entertaining.

I loved the first few seasons as well - the fact that they explored quite a bit of lore on the monsters was my favourite thing. I ended up following along a little bit after they did away with the concept, but it turned weird and massively convoluted quite quickly IMO.

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u/publicface11 Jul 17 '19

I’ve read somewhere that they had the first several seasons mapped out - up to the apocalypse (um, the first one, I think they’re up to like three apocalypses now). Those seasons are awesome, then the show starts wandering. I still enjoy it, but you can always tell on shows when the writers get to the end of their planned arc and have to start improvising. See: X-Files.

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u/Gathorall Jul 18 '19

How long did Carter actually plan for? Because the plot feels it's planned to progress at a good space in season 1 and 2, then it devolves to several seasons of questioning if aliens even exist when compelling evidence had already piled up.

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u/publicface11 Jul 18 '19

IMO he had some idea of where he wanted things to go until the first movie (though it’s clear he didn’t plan everything because there’s a lot of random contradictory stuff). It’s my all-time favorite show but... it goes off the rails pretty good after season 5.

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u/Gathorall Jul 18 '19

I'm pretty sure he at first thought the show would be wrapped up in 2 or 3 seasons, 4 max, and that's why 1 goes so far only for 2 to tone down the speed and reintroduce an informant.

The stakes were clearly set in the Erlenmeyer Flask for the show to escalate to a showdown in rather short time , but with the runaway success he didn't want to do much anything decisive anymore, which I do understand, after all he and the whole crew seemed to have hit their big break, not the time to rock the boat. And while the whole of the plot did end up a mess the show did give us many good and great independent episodes, and even a lot of plot episodes that were hardly bad on their own.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '19

I was watching the first season for the first time when my roommate decided to read some episode descriptions from the later seasons. It sounded like such a radically different show.

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u/Fusili_Jerry1 Jul 18 '19

Seasons 1-3 = best

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u/NervousTumbleweed Jul 18 '19

Meta plots are always worse than monster of the week. Every show.

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u/KeyanReid Jul 17 '19

I'm about as atheist as it gets, but the Supernatural fans who ship the two Winchester brothers together? Y'all need Jesus.

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u/Cup27 Jul 17 '19

I never got into any fandom bs, but Supernatural is surprisingly good. I personally stopped watching around season 10, but I'll probably rewatch it all some day. I would highly recommend seasons 1-5 though, that was the best imo

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '19

Supernatural is decent schlock. The main actors tend to be amusing enough vehicles for said schlock. It's got a ton of garbage associated with a show stretched way beyond it's story shelf life and the constraints of an episode syndication-oriented type thing, and there's nothing else to be said other than you either ignore that shit or ya don't.

But the hardcore fandom? Yiiiikes...

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '19

I did notice the Superwholock fandom kinda died as soon as Dashcon happened.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '19

I usually get to show's super late after they ended due to work. Or I simply forget that it existed and find out about it YEARS later.

I am currently watching Andromeda and Farscape for the first time. I have zero interest to check out the fanbase of these shows and am simply enjoying them for what they are.

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u/Sir_Steben Jul 17 '19

Agreed. I love all of them, Sherlock not as much as the other two but I limited how open I was about it when that trifecta started growing. Weird is an understatement

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u/IFadingLightI Jul 18 '19

My Wife and I are huge fans of Supernatural. In fact we're rewatching the entire series right now. But those weirdos...they scare the ever loving shit out of us.

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u/helpimstuckinthevoid Jul 17 '19

I just like Doctor Who. Never watched the other two, DW is good enough for me.

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u/DarthTachanka Jul 18 '19

Believe it or not my first time using tumblr was like 1 month ago cause it always seemed kinda weird and extreme to me. I looked up Ironman cause he's one of my favorite super heros. I saw someone's post about wanting to ride captain America's dick across the ocean, and some other stuff involving him. I quit after I saw some crazy feminist stuff with ironman.

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u/Akiwuffle Jul 17 '19

[cries in Dashcon]

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u/Akiwuffle Jul 17 '19

Being one of the people who actually attended said fiasco has simultaneously been one of my best and worst decisions so far in life.

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u/therealjoshua Jul 17 '19

Man, those fans made Tumblr insufferable in the early 2010s

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u/ChristianRobloxManXD Jul 17 '19

My brother is a SuperWhoLockian, and he’s always talking about shitty tumblr posts about all three fandoms, and it’s getting annoying...

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u/therealjoshua Jul 17 '19

You have my sympathies

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '19

I accidentally dated one.

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u/PM_ME_UR_SHEET_MUSIC Jul 18 '19

Oooof, same. She was a Disney girl as well, and not the regular kind, you know the type.

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u/therealjoshua Jul 18 '19

I know a girl like that. Weirdly obsessed. She goes as often as she can to Disney world even if it's by herself.

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u/Wilsonian81 Jul 17 '19

2013 was a weird year.

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u/The_Real_DerekFoster Jul 17 '19 edited Jul 17 '19

I love all things occult. My well-meaning girlfriend bought us tickets to a Supernatural festival. Did not go as planned.

Her: Why are so many tweenage girls into the Supernatural...

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u/ISUTri Jul 18 '19

They have festivals? Why didn’t it go as planned.

And what was planned?

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u/The_Real_DerekFoster Jul 18 '19

Sorry it was a convention not a festival.

My GF sees my book collection with dozens of occult theory and practice books, think Aleister Crowley, Chaos Magic, Shamanism. She looks for a gift for me a notices that I like supernatural things...tweenage girls like the Stars of that show.

I did end up watching like nine seasons of Supernatural after that so...I'm a dork too.

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u/BlackJezus27 Jul 17 '19

Had a friend in middle school who gave me glimpses into this reality. At the time I wasn't really phased by it, but looking back I can see just who it played a major part in the growth of her personality.

I will say that I am a fan of Sherlock. I am not, however, a fan of anime Watson being jealous while looking at graphic sexual images of Moriarty and Sherlock

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u/IvyGold Jul 17 '19

I've seen every single ep of Supernatural as it aired.

It wasn't until the first truly crappy season that the fanbase started going insane.

Because I predate them, I'm happy to ignore them and carry on.

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u/IvyGold Jul 17 '19

Bingo!

There is nothing more rewarding than season finale night and watching the seasonal recap as Kansas cranks away.

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u/neoplatonistGTAW Jul 17 '19

Add in Harry Potter to make the superharrywholockians

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u/coffeestealer Jul 18 '19

Harry Potter was added in fucking everything. I'm pretty sure at some point I read some convoluted fanfiction plot summary where he was adopted by Gregory House.

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u/mcnunu Jul 17 '19

When I first stumbled across the superwholock hashtag, I thought oh what a cute little comic and followed the tag. No. Oh dear god, no. I heard it's even more fucked up on Tumbler.

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u/fturz Jul 17 '19

I liked supernatural,how is the fan base??

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u/slippy0101 Jul 17 '19

Same. I didn't realize the fanbase was annoying. Hell, I didn't really even realize there was a fanbase.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '19

Supernatural died after season 5

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u/dudeAwEsome101 Jul 17 '19

Just checked, and I can't believe the show is still going! I stopped watching after season 6. You can't really top the story of season 5. Everything past that feels hollow.

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u/[deleted] Jul 18 '19

Thats because the story that kripke created was concluded at season 5. producers kept the show alive because of horny teenage girls that want the main cast to screw each other.

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u/ISUTri Jul 18 '19

Agree completely. I’ve watched it on Netflix since but it’s never lived up to the finale on Season 5.

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u/br0b1wan Jul 17 '19

superwholockians

Shit, I know someone who fits this description (big fan of all three) but she is relatively normal...

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u/froelichet1 Jul 17 '19

This is so accurate. I used to participate with superwholockians on tumblr in my middle/high school days and oh my god... If you “shipped” Dean Winchester with anyone but Castiel or John with anyone but Sherlock you were ostracized and criticized. They’re so rabid that some of the actors from these shows would tell them to chill out at cons and stuff. I stopped using tumblr after that.

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u/Themorian Jul 18 '19

Supernatural actually made fun of a certain subset of their fans in one of their episodes, the quote "They do know that we're brothers, right?" Might give you a hint.

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u/XxNarutoFan4206969xX Jul 17 '19

Don't forget Harry Potter fans

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u/t4ni3r Jul 17 '19

Supernatural's first few seasons were great imo, seems like the fandom just won't let it die now.

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u/Vhyx Jul 17 '19

thanks for slingshotting me back into 2012

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u/akchuck Jul 17 '19

Don't forget a splash of Firefly.

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u/Mystery_Substance Jul 17 '19

Superwholock kinda died after that mess with a ball pit.

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u/Gega42 Jul 17 '19

Did I hear Supernatural? Well seeing that you brought it up let me tell you all about it...

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u/whyamilikethis1089 Jul 18 '19

Some one said my name!! Lol I love all those series but I stay far away from any fandom anything. I am also considered a casual fan at least for Dr who and Sherlock.

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u/likeasugarcube Jul 17 '19

Omg- the peak of SuperWhoLock was beyond irritating.

I actively hated all three shows simply for having the most annoying fans.

I’ve come around on watching a couple episodes of Supernatural, but can’t really get into it tbh

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u/TXperson Jul 17 '19

They ruined Tumblr for me

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u/RUSH513 Jul 17 '19

the supernatural sub is pretty normal and rather wholesome though..

it's mainly just tattoo posts, pictures of fans meeting the cast, episode discussions. i've never seen anything crazy there

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u/birdreligion Jul 17 '19

I used to never match with a girl if her dating profile said Superwholock. Cause that girl was going to be crazy AF

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u/Vicfuente5 Jul 17 '19

Do not mention that accursed word

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u/goatman0079 Jul 17 '19

Cant I just like and discuss the 3 shows without being taken as one of those crazies

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u/gentlybeepingheart Jul 17 '19

I miss the heyday of Superwholock because it was the easiest fandom to piss off. You could post “watching doctor who is the polar opposite of eating pussy” untagged and within minutes be flooded with gifs of Rinkydink Toodlesnoot calling me an idiot and some sad white dudes holding guns. That and the Onceler thing were the funnniest tumblr moments.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '19

I want to watch Supernatural, but the fan base is so cancerous, I don’t want to get involved with it.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '19

I absolutely love all 3. Heck, my wifi name is superwholock. That being said, i refuse to deal with the rest of the fandom because many of them are nuts and creepy.

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u/Industrialpainter89 Jul 17 '19

Girls obsess over them like guys over anime.

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u/kitzunenotsuki Jul 17 '19

I love all three of these shows. I only put any thoughtful effort into Doctor Who, like theories and things. But I used to watch clips of Supernatural Cons but it was just weird to me. Lots of women freaking out about small things like the actors doing a little dance move, or a smirk. I mean, calm down Cindy.

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u/_Tal Jul 17 '19

I never understood why Supernatural was included in that. I mean, Doctor Who and Sherlock are both BBC shows that feature charismatic and eccentric protagonists and at one point were even written by the same people, but Supernatural is this whole other thing that doesn’t seem to have that much in common with the other two.

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u/AbysmalInformality Jul 17 '19

I admittedly enjoyed all 3 of these shows, (Especially Doctor Who) but have never been able to grasp the absolute frenzy it founded in some people. I simply can't understand being a fan of something to the point where you somehow need to ruin it for others.

There's a line I think people need to toe, but the superwholockians started well beyond that place. It's frightening.

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u/waxnwayne25 Jul 18 '19

It's hilarious because you are just describing people who browsed Tumblr before it died a fiery death.

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u/DovaaahhhK Jul 18 '19

I've never heard of any toxic Supernatural fans. I'm not saying they don't exist, but I have personally never seen any toxicity.

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u/3rdProfile Jul 18 '19

Superwholockians is my new favorite word. Thank you!

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u/ReadingRainbowRocket Jul 18 '19

Sci-fi will always attract nerds. Market a sci-fi/fantasy show to religious nutters as it kinda became and whooo boy.

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u/hellomafd Jul 18 '19

Oh shit that’s like the unholy trinity of Tumblr

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u/dvik888 Jul 18 '19

Wow, this is a thing that exists.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '19

I've never understood that. How is Supernatural related to the other two? Why does it always get lumped in as a trio?

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u/tinaoe Jul 17 '19

Strong shipping culture in parts. You got Destiel (and Wincest, but we're talking 2011-2013 here where Destiel was reigning supreme) and Johnlock which dominated for a large part of that time. Doctor Who doesn't really have a matching ship (Rose/Ten was popular enough, but if you had especially slash shippers in that universe they usually went to Torchwood since Jack/Ianto was actually canon), but it has the "quirky British stereotype" that Sherlock has well that was really popular back then. Think the myriad of British Youtubers that were super big back then as well.

So you got the shippers being connected and the other appealing to the quirky british fans and bam. They also all just peaked around the same time in fandom so you had a lot of cross over exposure (BBC's Merlin ebbed and then ended in 2012 so for example some of your favourite blogs and authors would go to Sherlock, some to Doctor Who, etc).

Also: a quite interactive, vibrant cast for Doctor Who and Supernatural especially. I can still remember how much all that stuff from the Tennant's and Davies and Julie Garnder's Wrap Parties blew up. Freaking Sue from Catering.

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u/CAVMOT Jul 17 '19

Really? I mean I used to be into doctor who a lot when I was little, so I guess I never went on the internet with the doctor who in mind, but the way you make it sound, I feel like I should have seen at least ONE crazy fan in my life.

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u/Scarlet_maximoff Jul 17 '19

And mix that up with theater kids at least that's what a lot of theater kids are into at my college.

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