User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Wiki domains will be changing from wikia.com to fandom.com in early 2019/@comment-25646820-20180823050640/@comment-25646820-20180823180854

The fallacy in your approach, Brandon, is that in order to understand what a thing is, you have to understand where it started and how it evolved. When Wikia claims to be the authority on Fandom and uses a definition of such that it only uses, what you are doing is corporate cultural appropriation and you don't seem to get how offensive that is to those of us who belong to the culture you are appropriating.

Fandom has broadened in many ways without doing the watering down you are doing. Consider Anime Fandom, which certainly didn't exist in the '30s (not the '70s as you mistakenly write) when Fandom started. Anime fen have their own subculture, their own conventions, their own communication fora and so on. Same for Furry Fandom. All of these groups created their own subculture, not just said, "Hey, I really like anime." That broadens what a Fandom is by adding flavors, but still being ice cream. What you are doing is more less like adding a flavor of ice cream and more like selling skim milk.

You keep focusing for some reason on the minor example I used of a particular movie, "Rich Crazy Asians" as if that was the main point I am trying to make to you. So, fine, let's stipulate that there's some fandom out there for this movie.

You still keep missing the main point:

Wikia has acted and continues to act in a way that demonstrates that they don't care in the slightest for the concerns of the content creators, the ones who actually produced what people come to Wikia sites for.

The video thing was an example of this and this change is too. Wikia's attitude is we are making this change whether you like it or not and then you seem puzzled as to why we are unhappy.

The fact that you are arguing with us instead of listening to us is another example of Wikia's disregard for content creators.

I work in real life on a virtual world that is almost completely user generated content. If we showed such callous disregard for our users as you have, we'd have been out of business long ago. Instead, we recognize that our business succeeds when our users are happy and we listen carefully to complaints of our Community, because we know that without our content creators, we'd be out of business.