Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-40192166-20190718083112

Unlike the fandoms of old, these days, fandoms are more similar to political parties or religions focused on pairing characters in nonsensical romantic (and often intimate) relationships and bickering about which pairing is the best, (aka ships,) as if characters — who are often times complex — are nothing more than Pokemon cards. Ships are followed by droves of fan-content that is based on insignificant bits of the original content that has been extrapolated to a laughable degree, (usually causing more bickering.) Instead of forming a community around a piece of original content and discussing what is learned from it, the modern fandom feels like it naively parodies what it is trying to worship, and in the process, comes off as extremely facetious in light of what the original content and it's respected creator(s) were aiming to get across to fans. Making fan-art and fan fiction and all of that is cool, but I ask; is a group that creates their own content based on someone else' idea truly a group of fans of the original concept, or are there simply too many chefs in the kitchen? 