Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?
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Ryujin
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MarkB
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That's so second-millenium.
I assume you're joking.
Giving haters a validation for their hate is... counterproductive.
MarkB
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"Fan" is short for "fanatic". We just like to forget that most of the time.
Not really relevant.
Like, movies - review bombing isn't done by "real fans". It is done by people who have other axes to grind, unrelated to their fandom.
To be clear, and to explain the joke (as we all know, jokes are like frogs ... dissecting them kills them)...
The people who often exhibit the most anger toward something are those that claim that they are the real fans of it; this antipathy comes from the misguided idea that they are the true keepers of some Platonic ideal of whatever it was that caused them to love the thing before that love curdled into something more ... let's just say complicated.
It's something you see in all sorts of fandom, and was parodied on the Simpsons with the Comic Book Guy.
Personally, I think that there is something to be said for that state of pure joy where you can simply enjoy something. That doesn't mean you forever stow your critical abilities, but there is no joy in hating the things that you are supposed to love.*
*Hating the things you are supposed to love happens to be my great idea for a billboard advertisement for a divorce attorney!
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