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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9738579" data-attributes="member: 18">I mean, D&D fans are at least that volatile, so I'm surprised this was surprising! I guess it surprised you because the others have had decades? But volatile fans is something that can instantly coalesce in basically seconds, just look at the fandoms of say, Steven Universe, or god help us all, the BBC Sherlock TV series. Like, Steven Universe is this show about, essentially, being nice to people and how it's important to understand people and people are different and communication matters, and it's fanbase was just absolutely rabid, like embodying nothing about the show. Trek fans are weirdly less aggro than those others but they used to be more aggro - I remember how aggro they were in say, 1993 or 1996 on the early internet, especially old TOS fans still kind of mad about TNG/DS9 (that was a thing a lol). I don't know what caused them to calm down, maybe long years in the wilderness? I suspect SNW probably has a pretty rabid fanbase (of people who that is the first or main Trek show they've seen) but they're diluted by being mixed in with a much larger pool of "Trekkies".I think at this point we just have to roll our collective eyes at this kind of stuff, and accept maybe it just means people care? I dunno lol.</blockquote>