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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9370093" data-attributes="member: 6790260">As a former Homestuck fan...I can definitely say I saw parts of this myself. Uncritical acceptance of a warped, simplistic, context-divorced version of important concepts (like privilege) plus active...I guess "hostile astroturfing", led to some of the worst purity-culture toxicity I've ever seen. I made several friends in the HS community, and still keep contact with them today. But good Lord, the amount of faux-intellectualism from literal twelve-to-fourteen-year-olds was staggering--not to mention the idolization of, and adoration for, characters who were outright abusive, harmful, or coercive, while vilifying or even (sometimes literally) demonizing characters who had done far, far lesser things.There's a strangely absolutist character to some of this. Like cultural relativism has wrapped all the way around and come back into black-and-white thinking from the other direction.But, as you say, this is probably not the thread for such talk. Just wanted to note that I've had experiences in that direction with a specific, identifiable fandom and its...more extreme elements.</blockquote>