User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/How we're testing the fandom.com domain migration/@comment-179.252.239.21-20181026023028/@comment-34687312-20181026161353

There's "so much drama" because Wikia users who take these sources of information seriously--such as myself--are upset at the fact that fandom is inserting the word "fandom" into all Wikia URLs (hence the title "domain migration").

There are multiple reasons why people are upset, and part of it is that Wikia (I suppose it's "fandom" now :/) will probably not be taken seriously from an outside perspective anymore. Typically people don't go looking for reliable information on "Fandom" sites. Their popularity has already dramatically dropped over a course of a few years, so it's natural and understandable that people are getting pissed off at them for making this change.

I could list other reasons, but I don't think I'll waste the time. Just scroll through the comments and read the complaints to see what I mean.