'Toxic' Fandoms
I've been thinking about writing something about this topic for a while, but what spurred me on to get around to actually writing about it was seeing a post on my Facebook feed the other day regarding fans of Game of Thrones starting a petition to remake the show's recent 8th season. Now, I definitely wouldn't consider myself a GOT fan (I watched the first season about four years ago and never got back into it) so I'm not as bothered about seeing spoilers on my social media feeds, but from what I can gather, this season has been rather controversial with fans. Most the criticism I've seen from people following it appears to be legitimate criticism (at least on the surface), but seeing news that some fans were starting a petition to get HBO to spend an awful lot of money to remake something they had just spent a similar amount of money on just because they personally didn't like it reminded me of how fans of a certain franchise that I do consider myself a big fan...