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Donald Trump

Zelda fans

Theres loads of really bad ones.

The ones that spring to mind for me are:

Souls
Resident Evil
Star Wars

WoW

I remember getting ganked/harassed by much higher level players regularly for no reason, and the prevailing community attitude used to be that such behaviour is completely okay and just part of the game.

Sony

WWE is really bad right now and I dunno why. A lot of really aggro guys that inject fighting where there doesnt need to be any

League of Legends fans are miserable and always have been

Critical Role has a really bad fanbase as well as a bunch of really creepy hatedom people. Parasocial relationships really fuck people up.

Sonic fans are probably the most stereotypical bad fandom there is but there has been an uptick in recent years of people tryo to defend stuff that used to be considered bad even by sonic fans

Resident Evil

Nintendo fanboys will DDOS websites and issue death threats.

No Mans Sky attracted a weird and aggressive fanbase even pre-release.

Furries

Bronies

Tupac/Em fans

Undertale

Weebs (not to be confused with the casual anime fan, but the dudes who post absolutely nothing but that shit to the point where it's their entire persona)

People obsessed with their pets

Sonic fans

Pokemon

Nintendo

Drake

PC part loyalists spring to mind as needlessly hostile and desperate for attention, especially these days.

Wrestling (the fake tv kind)
Star Wars
Sony and Nintendo
Steven Universe
Undertale
Trump
Musk
Sonic
MLP
Adults who whine about baby shows on youtube

Glob posted...

Star Wars

No one hates Star Wars more than Star Wars fans themselves.

Jesus has a pretty terrible fanbase.

Furries
PewDiePie
Paul Brothers

nintendo bros

Dark_Arbron posted...

Nintendo fanboys will DDOS websites and issue death threats.

Like they are the only ones doing it...
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/nvuzl6/the_behavior_of_sonys_fanboys_has_been_completely/

Dallas Cowboys fans that are not from Texas

Riot (developer) fanbyos.

IMO, the Sonic fanbase is still the undisputed champion of bad fanbases.

The Sonic fanbase contains Richard Kuta, Spax3, AND CWC. That's like a who's who of terrible internet people.

PlayStation

Drones
Final Fantasy
Soulsbros

Oh, and Eagles fans from Jersey

Foppe posted...

Like they are the only ones doing it...
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/nvuzl6/the_behavior_of_sonys_fanboys_has_been_completely/

I hadnt heard about that. It isnt something Id have put past them though.

Nothing beats sports fans when it comes to the worst fanbase. America football and soccer especially.

You don't see Star Wars or Sonic fans being so loud and obnoxious all the time, questioning people's manliness and sexual preferences for not liking their sport, or rioting over a game. Don't think any other fandoms have beheaded people over their fandoms either.

Southernfatman posted...

Nothing beats sports fans when it comes to the worst fanbase. America football and soccer especially.

You don't see Star Wars or Sonic fans being so loud and obnoxious all the time, questioning people's manliness and sexual preferences for not liking their sport, or rioting over a game. Don't think any other fandoms have beheaded people over their fandoms either.

Soccer fans have started RIOTS when their team lost a game.

Without a doubt Nintendo fans.

I am currently banned from the Actual Poll Of The Day forums because I kept rubbishing Nintendo. Oh it is alright for them to rubbish Microsoft or Sony but the minute you say anything bad about "the almighty Nintendo" all hells breaks loose. The number of moderations I have had from that place for saying "Nintendon't" or calling this place "Nintnedofaqs" is laughable.

Also:
Donald Trump fans

Sony fans (nowhere near as bad as Nintendo)

Assassin's Creed fans

Mass Effect fans

Final Fantasy fans

VGAddict90 posted...

Soccer fans have started RIOTS when their team lost a game.

If you go into the wrong section at a game, you will get the shit kicked out of you, nevermind who is winning.

As a regular at football games for years, I've seen some things that weren't nice.

The graffiti community kinda sucks tbh

Shitheads a plenty

Agree with lots of them in this topic, but need to add kingdom hearts

Undertale
Steven Universe

Sonic used to be bad, but the self-aware ones can be pretty funny >_>

Keeping it to geekdom PC fanboys are the worst.

Tagging for later, I've got some good ones

Soccer fans by far

Dave Matthews Band

Disco Elysium fans. The game is great, but the subreddit is atrocious.

Dead by Daylight fans

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I'll add this to my list. I had someone essentially lose their shit at me because I said I thought Blasphemous was better because I liked the art and combat flow more. I didn't say Hollow Knight was bad even, just my preference.

Nicki Minaj fans have literally commited murder over her. I once saw a girl on twitter talk shit about Nicki Minaj and people were posting pictures of her mom's work building

Hate the most? None.

Some of the absolutely worst fanbase imo:

Pokemon: It's no surprise since the biggest fanbases attract the most jerkoffs, but Pokemon has like multiples axes of shitty fans.

You have the original Genwunners who bitch and moan about the Keyring Pokemon and the Ice Cream Pokemon, god forbid Pokemon fit an arbitrary definition you made up about what is and isn't a Pokemon.

You have the competitive scene with IVs and EVs and hundreds of hours of egg breeding per Pokemon - I really hate the idea that there's an ideal way to play Pokemon that involves no-lifing the game and looking down on people who don't subscribe to the same insane mental philosophy as you.

And then there's the people who are kneejerk defensive of newer titles like Scarlet and Violet - I was on board with SwSh, and I thought Arceus was an okay game, but the former generation of games were clearly undercooked and S/V was clearly worse. Instead of thinking "huh game freak fast-tracking development on new games and releasing legends arceus and s/v in the same year is kind of fucked up, maybe they should treat the devs better and spend more time developing the games", the discourse becomes "the newest games don't run like shit because they're released in an unfinished state, it's because the games are too advanced to run on the Nintendo Switch!".

I sincerely hate all three of those factions, specifically I hate the idea that any of those three viewpoints are the definitive way to experience the Pokemon franchise. Also Ash haters and people who mythologize Red from gen 1 are stupid and annoying.

Sherlock: Fans of Steven Moffat's Sherlock are some of the most delusional people I've ever had the misfortune of seeing. We're talking about a shipping war that was so prolonged and intense that the fanbase ignored the show bringing a character back to life without explaining it, demonised a character who married one of the people in their ship to the point of hatemail being sent to multiple real people involved in the show, and when the final season ended up being a poorly produced pile of dogshit, they became convinced that the season was dogshit on purpose and that there was going to be a secret fourth episode that explained why the season was dogshit and got their favorite pairing together and all that sort of insane fan rambling.

Sherlock was a part of this compound fandom on Tumblr called Superwholock - Supernatural, Doctor Who, Sherlock. When Supernatural ended, it was such an insane shitshow and the fan theories people were making to justify their favourite gay pairing was both hilarious and kind of validated through foreign dubs. Supernatural fans were annoying, but the culmination of their fandom was legitimately hilarious. Doctor Who was annoying all through Steven Moffat's run - I maintain that despite a few good episodes, Moffat is a wanker and his run on Doctor Who was wanky and annoying. Chibnall's run ended up being annoying, but I rejoined the Doctor Who fandom after Moffat and I genuinely enjoy it.

Sherlock's fanbase was a steaming pile of shit all the way through. No hate if you enjoy the show, but if you were there to witness the brain rot firsthand, you know what I'm talking about.

Adolf Hitler

reminds me of a podcast i listened too recently where they "Draft" a "team" of 5 items in a given category.

https://twitter.com/EddieBarstool/status/1678929996574801920?s=20

Im going to say all and none because in reality most fanbases are so massive in size you are going to not even be able to properly gauge them from the small sample size you are going to encounter.

Id also say the internet in general is the worst of anything encountered online.

Bill Nye The Science Guy

Every single gaming platform's fanboys alongside annoying ass PC elitists/master race shit (ones that actually plays it serious). Final fantasy fanbase.

Believe it or not, TV fanboys are extremely annoying, lol. At the end of the day its just insecure dudes needing to reassure theirselves with their expensive TV purchase, but its still funny to find out LG vs sony vs samsung fanboys or OLED vs QLED/LCD/miniLED and so on is a thing that happens.

Now I am wondering if boxers and briefs has fanboys that is battling it out on a forum out there somewhere.

Trump, Musk, Cryptocurrency, Andrew Tate.

Basically, shitty things have shitty fandoms.