3 Fan Communities That Hate Their Own Members

[Evenglare]

Really? Not starwars? This list is not accurate at all without star wars. I have never seen such a self depreciating community in my life.

 

[Obryn]

Frankly, I find the guy's girlfriend's experience all too believable. And the hobby shop employee.

Most of the hobby isn't terrible, but enough of it is to give it a hint of... Can I say "verisimilitude"?

 

[DrunkonDuty]

It matches pretty well with my own experience of all 3 fandoms.

I'll admit that sometimes in my younger days I was the douche who made fun of other people's fun. Hell, I'm pretty sure I am still a douche nowadays, but only with my mates where being a bastard is considered normal.

 

[Iosue]

This is my huge problem with Cracked. "Funny" is placed before accuracy, and unlike, say, QI, the funny doesn't make up for the stuff they say.

It's like the Game of Thrones trailer that called Jorah "Lord Friendzone" because they couldn't remember the character's name. That part is funny, but when they go on to forget as many characters as they do (I think they forget the names of Theon and maybe even Daenerys, but I'm not 100%), it makes me think they're idiots or divorced from reality. And that's not funny to me, unfortunately.

Yeah, but the whole point of Honest Trailers is that everything is a joke. Everybody gets a goofy name. The Avengers were listed as "Bhor, Pink Eye, Iron Man Pooping, Not Eric Bana, and the Human Torch". So it's not that they actually forgot the names of Theon, etc., but that they always goof on people's names, and there are a lot characters in GoT, so the obvious joke is, "Too many people to remember." (Daenerys is not included, BTW -- she's in "the 10 characters whose names you actually remember".)

I mean, it's not exactly high comedy, so if you don't find it funny, to each his own. But we can't really say they actually don't know the names of characters, let alone that they are idiots or divorced from reality.

 

[Umbran]

....and there are a lot characters in GoT, so the obvious joke is, "Too many people to remember." .

It isn't like they're the only ones to make that particular joke:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/the-names-of-game-of-thrones-characters-according-to-someone

 

[howandwhy99]

He has some clever jokes and the whole article feels like he's trying to be amusing, but overall I found it bitter and that's not funny.

 

[JamesonCourage]

I mean, it's not exactly high comedy, so if you don't find it funny, to each his own. But we can't really say they actually don't know the names of characters, let alone that they are idiots or divorced from reality.

Yeah, it's definitely subjective. I hate "dumb" humor (say, Dumb and Dumber), but I get that it has a lot of people that like it (look at the success of, say, Dumb and Dumber). Obviously they probably knew the names of most of the characters (I doubt they knew all of them, but that's probably true of the average viewer), I just don't find that kind of humor funny (the "idiot" type humor). Not knowing minor characters I get, but some of the major ones with their own arcs? I think that's where they pushed it out of the realm of what I'd find funny.