Thread:BlackDragonKid/@comment-33072322-20171116142245/@comment-29273225-20171127193719

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Time for philosophical FredbearGolden to make a philosophical speech.

Is it just me, or does indie horror games receive a lot of hate?

To me, I feel like they receive the hate because they think it's overrated or they think the fanbase is cancer.

With the games being overrated, yeah, they probably are, but most likely they like a fanbase that to others, seems overrated, and they get all defensive when someone talks bad about it (the hypocrites).

When hating the fanbase, it's mostly due to the vast younger members that end up tarnishing the fandom's reputation. They always talk about the game/characters and annoy other people. They do things that tarnish the fandom even more by doing quote-on-quote "cringy" things like declaring that the game is the best and act childish towards any negative response. However, they're (mostly) kids, and usually older people tend to bully them just because they're young. While some can be straight out rude and curse and what not, some are decent and have sense, so you can't treat them like they're like how most are. They're just appreciating the game like you are, but there are some cases where they act cringey, so it's hard sometimes.

Then there are the....shippers and some...questionable fan art...*shudder*, but pretty much every fanbase has it, so you can't really judge on that.

The fact is that you can't deem a fanbase "cancer" or "toxic" based on the community because while the cringey stuff and "toxic" stuff are there, the community is not entirely like that and there's decent folks like us who have common sense. Most people deem certain fanbase as "cancer" just because of what they see at first, but if they looked a little more into it, they'd find that it's probably not all that bad...hopefully.

And that concludes my philosophical speech/rant.

TL;TR People judge fanbases on the bad stuff and assume it's a toxic fandom or something, but that's not it.