There is no doubt that you have heard of the term “toxic fan” at some point during your Internet travel, and if you express a negative opinion about the franchise you recently joined, you are likely to be accused of being one of them.
What is a poisonous fan? In a word; fantasy. You don’t like the latest Star Wars entries more with your fans/girls’ nature to make you overprotective of the brand, any changes will cause you to foam, complain, resist, or worse, personally attack the actors and creator.
Oh, you may be a sexist, racist or gay.
In general, this is a false and misleading description, and I think many people behind these works who have received bad reviews know this. The real result is more of their own excuses for failing to provide products that fans of any particular franchise deserve, and distracting the creators from the fact that they are trying to change the world and characters in which people fall in love in a disrespectful way Promote your own ideas or politics.
I think Rivia’s Geralt himself, Henry Cavill, described the angry reaction of fans to this situation at its best.
“I don’t think it’s poisonous. I think it’s passionate,” he said when a reporter tried to hit him with an important question about poisonous fans.
Cavill is a super geek himself, he understands the difference between toxicity and righteous indignation.
Let’s take a recent example of fans being angry about the reboot of Kevin Smith and his master of the universe.
According to reports Into the comics, Clerical Director Kevin Smith decided to reawaken the Seaman series with a new look. Fans are beginning to worry that Smith will wake up and feminize it, like many other companies have done with franchising, until it is hardly similar to the characters and stories they grew up with.
Smith emphatically denied that he would do this. This will be the same Seaman story we all know and love, just updated and more in-depth. The promotional image makes He-Man the protagonist and center of the story. Although we will see a show that grows with the audience, it is still the master of the universe.
Do not.
Smith did what fans feared he would do, and he completely ruined the Master of the Universe. The female sun just came, and the males were weak and giggling. Herman hardly appeared in it. They turned the current protagonist Tyra into an obvious lesbian.It seems that Smith is more concerned about passing Beckdale test Better than writing a good story.
For a full review, the video of Critical Drinker may be the best description. Pay attention to spoilers and language.
Netflix wants to know why this happens Lost hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
At the time of writing, it’s not surprising that “Master of the Universe: Apocalypse” on Rotten Tomatoes had a 95% “fresh” rating from critics. Critics themselves tend to dump themselves and show positive comments to such aroused trash.
The ratings are usually a more accurate judgment of the program, and its approval rate is 36%, making it “bad”.
Kevin Smith failed. He took an IP that people are familiar with and loved, and immersed it in the metaphor of feminist figures in modern mainstream society, lazily subverting people’s expectations, and making things that people don’t like. Smith’s reaction only made things worse, because he defended his creation and even told fans to “grow up”.
Just like the previous Star Wars and Marvel movies, angry fans are labeled as “toxic”, along with all accusations of paranoid character defects.
But they are not poisonous. They only know how the universe works and how the characters act, and Smith decides to destroy all of these in order to effectively create a new universe wearing the IP skin he killed. When the pretender staggered into the public square and told everyone that this was a Seaman story, fans immediately knew it was fake and did what they had the right to do; express their dissatisfaction.
Einstein said that the definition of “crazy” is trying the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, but creators continue to introduce unwanted political and social information into the relaunched franchise, when people don’t like it. At times, they will be surprised and offended. If this model continues to be that they produce bad products where people lose interest, then the problem may not lie with fans.
Fans become fans because they like the creation and existence of the universe. Changing it to the point of absurdity is likely to make fans angry, and this is what everyone from Smith to Katherine Kennedy does to the IP they control. They deserve this strong opposition because they failed to maintain the story in a meaningful way for the universe that people liked in the first place.
They failed. End of the story.
Yes, some of these fanatics are terrible, and what they can say and do is unrestricted in a civilized society.
Welcome to the internet. Every subculture has such people. Their numbers are small and do not define millions of fans spanning generations. Using them as an excuse to label the entire fan circle as toxic is both lazy and subversive. There are toxic people in the fandom, but this does not make it a toxic fandom, and more than a few pieces of trash in the park will not make the park “trash”.
If someone needs to grow up, then producers and directors like Smith need to accept L with grace and dignity. This does not mean that he must give up this scene. This doesn’t even mean that he must give up the show. Do it better next time, and do it better by listening to your fans.
