Why is the omori fandom insane

Wildly passionate fandoms are nothing new, we've had them since the 1960s with Star Trek (heck, the origin of a LOT of "cringe" nerd culture like shipping and Mary Sues) and even earlier. We've lived through Undertale, Homestuck, RWBY, Harry Potter, Hamilton, Hetalia, the Hunger Games, Twilight, Rick and Morty, Danganronpa, Madoka and Haruhi, Death Note, Among Us, the million Minecrafter groups, etc. People are going to like things a lot, others not so much, and the ones who REALLY REALLY REALLY like it are going to sadly slam the people who don't. We will survive this one too

That said, I DO feel like it's much easier and quicker to express said "wild sides of fandom"to the point that it feels like it's way worse than it actually is IMO. Whereas in the 90s/00s, before major social media took off, people just wildly vented or raved on individual forums or fansites or even in fanzines. Youtube, Twitter, Tiktok, Instagram, Reddit, Tumblr, etc. weren't really things, and thus fandom couldn't really spread as rapidly as it can nowadays. 15 minutes of fame, indeed!

And TBF, in terms of cringe fandoms, I myself was ENDLESSLY pushing the gospel of the "bloody bunny movie" (AKA Watership Down) to like everyone I knew back in middle school haha. As much as I still like, if not love, the movie now, I could be pretty cringe myself when it came to pushing my specific niche interests on others.

Later, at one point, I was so into gaming culture that like, my own family, which normally ENCOURAGED me to talk as much as possible, basically told me to just shut up and find something new to talk about already.

Later got into "indie film/foreign film/hipster" mode where I just hated anything popular. I think many of us had a phase like that.

Anyway, long story short to say that almost all of us have had a "cringe fandom phase" at one point or another.

WATERMELON HAIR?!?!?

Probably because watermelon hair sounds like something out of some bizarro anime.

Ehhh, shipping I don't associate with nerds. A more fitting nerd fan stereotype would be autistic weirdos like me, Robert Stainton, Dogseatingdogs6 & a lot of unironic Go!Animate enjoyers.

I mean yeah, but that's not too weird compared to teenagers & even full grown adults unironically making & enjoying Go!Animate videos thanks to their, well, for the lack of better words, autistic tendencies(again, I'm an autistic weirdo myself & I don't mean to offend such people).