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Craziest Fandom experiences Feb 8, 2024 23:04:39 GMT rowler likes this

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Post by shingujisos on Feb 8, 2024 23:04:39 GMT

Feb 8, 2024 22:48:12 GMT rowler said:

Isn't that the fandom where people pretend they have DID and say their 2nd identity is one of the teenage boys from the game who wants to murder people?

Not how I would phrase it entirely, but yes, unfortunately.

There are actually online spaces for the disorder catered to Danganronpa fans, which is.. as miserable as it sounds. Unfortunately I was in some of those spaces when I was younger and the things you can find there are abhorrent. People expressing "missing" committing crimes upon others, racism, disorder faking as you've mentioned. The misinformation surrounding DIDOSDD online is bad enough as it is, you mix impressionable children and Danganronpa and you've successfully created a molotov cocktail. Not to say every DR fan with the disorder is immediately faking, but there is a link between the two and questionable behaviour that I can't ignore.

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Craziest Fandom experiences Feb 8, 2024 23:24:33 GMT

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Post by Azuki<3 on Feb 8, 2024 23:24:33 GMT

Feb 8, 2024 23:04:39 GMT shingujisos said:

Feb 8, 2024 22:48:12 GMT rowler said:

Isn't that the fandom where people pretend they have DID and say their 2nd identity is one of the teenage boys from the game who wants to murder people?

Not how I would phrase it entirely, but yes, unfortunately.

There are actually online spaces for the disorder catered to Danganronpa fans, which is.. as miserable as it sounds. Unfortunately I was in some of those spaces when I was younger and the things you can find there are abhorrent. People expressing "missing" committing crimes upon others, racism, disorder faking as you've mentioned. The misinformation surrounding DIDOSDD online is bad enough as it is, you mix impressionable children and Danganronpa and you've successfully created a molotov cocktail. Not to say every DR fan with the disorder is immediately faking, but there is a link between the two and questionable behaviour that I can't ignore.

Thankfully I way missed the call on the crazy Danganronpa fan train, since I didn't play the games until recently. Judging by older "fan posts" about the series online though...yikes. I've even heard that it rivaled the MyHeroAca fandom to a certain extent with everyone's wild colorful OCs + super nihilistic musings +usual teen emo angst.

On that note, my partner once said: "If she has lots of Harley Quinn/Junko Enoshima/Yuno Gasai stuff splattered ALL OVER her social media profile, it's a major red flag (to me)."

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Craziest Fandom experiences Feb 8, 2024 23:34:50 GMT

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Post by shingujisos on Feb 8, 2024 23:34:50 GMT

Feb 8, 2024 23:24:33 GMT Azuki<3 said:

Thankfully I way missed the call on the crazy Danganronpa fan train, since I didn't play the games until recently. Judging by older "fan posts" about the series online though...yikes. I've even heard that it rivaled the MyHeroAca fandom to a certain extent with everyone's wild colorful OCs + super nihilistic musings +usual teen emo angst.

On that note, my partner once said: "If she has lots of Harley Quinn/Junko Enoshima/Yuno Gasai stuff splattered ALL OVER her social media profile, it's a major red flag (to me)."

Your partner is more correct than I would like to admit.. www

You're very lucky to have missed that time in the fandom. I don't know much about the BNHA fandom as it isn't my neck of the woods but as concerning as it is I have heard similar stories.. Danganronpa just had the added overall dark tone and more intense depictions of murder to even further push that behaviour.

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Craziest Fandom experiences Feb 9, 2024 7:42:31 GMT via mobile Azuki<3 likes this

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Post by angiefoodcake on Feb 9, 2024 7:42:31 GMT

Do hobbies count? The anime figure collecting communities can be pretty toxic. Such as MyFigureCollection and a few Discord servers I gladly left. I remember receiving a public death threat from a former MFC bully (banned for good) who was those 4-chan wannabes and bullied young children.

Remember, all this drama in a hobby revolving collecting plastic people.

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Craziest Fandom experiences Feb 9, 2024 13:03:45 GMT

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Post by Azuki<3 on Feb 9, 2024 13:03:45 GMT

I'm not going to throw too much shade here, but the fact that a local ANIME convention had like 50% of its audience dressed up as Homestuck characters was...surprising. Yes, we will go with "surprising" <_<Though surprisingly, ours actually weren't too bad, just obnoxious and obsessive from what I could tell (I volunteered that year). And I have a lot of patience for "baby's first fandom" people-I was awkward with my interests too at that age.

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Craziest Fandom experiences Feb 9, 2024 13:47:28 GMT

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Post by WuTangShogun on Feb 9, 2024 13:47:28 GMT

Honestly I do not think I had any bad fandom experiences from the ones already listed (such as SU)

I think the craziest fandom I am apart of has to be between Sonic, JJBA, DBZ, or Fortnite (No I am not a Fortnite kid for clarity). Also has anybody had a crazy experience with the Beyblade fandom? I've never heard of one incident involving the Beyblade fandom (unless we are counting the Ebay Beyblade sale incident).

Post by shingujisos on Feb 8, 2024 23:04:39 GMT

Post by Azuki<3 on Feb 8, 2024 23:24:33 GMT

Post by shingujisos on Feb 8, 2024 23:34:50 GMT

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Post by Azuki<3 on Feb 9, 2024 13:03:45 GMT

Post by WuTangShogun on Feb 9, 2024 13:47:28 GMT

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