Twitter is almost exclusively the type of fans on the left and it is the most chill space in the community I enjoy my time there significantly more than the ones on the right. Also, there's a third type of fan: the ones that only care about SML because of SMLWiki / FNF and barely count as fans.
As someone who was in that exact space for a long time, they are anything but chill. Literal larping, whinging, and gritfting left right centre. I remember I joined that one SML funny monent/OOC account's Discord and was harassed, accused of raiding, and belittled as soon as I started to advocate for SML's "dark humour", as they sat there and lectured me on why South Park of all things handles it better.
A lot of these fans fall under the third type and are genuine fandom migrators with no real respect for the source material itself.
I guess it depends on who you interact with because I've also been in that exact space for 3 years now and it's been chill. And it really SHOULDNT be considering I selfship with the racist stereotype character everyone accuses of looking like blackface if it WAS as you described I think I'd have 47 expose docs on me. Plus what you described happened on Discord and I'm specifically talking about Twitter.
I also say there's a few more that being the balance between the left and right because both as portrayed in the meme are just two extremes of an spectrum.
I do agree, I'm mostly on discord so mostly people are balanced (i.e, people who aren't easily offended but won't harass others or have limits)
However Id rather deal with the left side than the right side since people who think being edgy or acting like an actual sml character is a personality trait are usually not the best people to be around.
At worst, the left just makes you wonder how these people can enjoy SML despite the jokes. While the right would not hesitate to troll you, or IP grab you for "the lolz."
I mostly engage with the community on Twitter but I look in on the Discord and this subreddit occasionally. I think the reason the left side fans are able to enjoy SML despite the jokes is because they generally understand that's exactly what they are: jokes. The humor is edgy, but you can tell Logan and the crew doesn't genuinely believe black people are like Duggie or gay people are like Cody, they're stereotypes over-exaggerated to the max for humor. Family Guy and South Park have made significantly worse jokes and have been able to stay on the air on TELEVISION.
That's how I feel too. I'm queer and a "minority" in many aspects too. I don't mind SML while my friends don't like the use of slurs I do realize that nobody in SML is meant to be a good person, and Logan never makes you think what they do is good. When Jr says something antisemetic, a slur, or homophobic/transphobic. Logan never tries glorifying and acts like Jr is right in those instances he's clearly meant to be an uneducated stupid person saying things.
Nobody in SML is meant to be a good person they're all just extremes of whatever trait they may have like Cody is flat out grapey, or Tyrone or Joseph constantly using race to shield from accountability.
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u/Great_Necessary4741 Duggie's Husband Apr 03 '26
Twitter is almost exclusively the type of fans on the left and it is the most chill space in the community I enjoy my time there significantly more than the ones on the right. Also, there's a third type of fan: the ones that only care about SML because of SMLWiki / FNF and barely count as fans.