A few posts back I was going off on Doomcock (That name still is so stupid and idiotic. How can he even take himself seriously?) and his his poorly thought out, toxic ideas. If you watch his videos, it becomes clear he is a true toxic fan. He dislikes everything that does not fit with what is clearly a narrow view of the world. It is clear if he were alive at the time of the original Star Trek, he would have hated it because it was too political and was forcing a 'woke' (Yes I know the term did was not in use at the time) narrative down everyone's throat. If he had his present attitude and went to see Star Wars for the first time in 1977, he would have found Leia to be forcing a feminist agenda on us as she talked down to Han Solo who was only trying to rescue her. And the famous cantina scene was clearly just an unneeded political statement about accepting diversity. If you listen to his statements, this is very much the kind of logic he uses to say the modern releases of the franchises are bad, but somehow is unable to see the hypocrisy he is promoting as well as the actual history of those franchise he is ignoring. So many modern fans pretend the political ideas have not been there all along.
I've have stated many times that if Roddenberry were still alive, he would openly call himself a Social Justice Warrior and hold that title as a badge of honor. And then Doomcock (Every time I type that name I want to scream out about how moronic it is) would do a whole video insulting the man and saying he had no idea what Trek is really about and lacks all respect for it.
So why is it that I am doing a post like this. After all what is the harm if a couple of fans dislike where the franchises are going and want to express their views?
Toxic fans, like Doomcock (Does anyone actually take that name seriously?) are far more harmful than they will admit.
For while everyone is allowed to have their opinions, and the freedom to express them in whatever manner they desire, putting out videos like those Doomcock (Such a sad name) and others put on youtube hurts the franchises more than anything else. They are being childish and encouraging people to not give those franchises a chance. They are telling people not to watch various shows all because they dislike them, not at all considering others might enjoy them. And if others do enjoy them, the toxic fans are putting them down for not sharing their ‘superior’ opinions. The toxic fans are bullying all the fans (Who very often outnumber the toxic fans) who disagree. This does create a group of possible fans, who will not give anything in a franchise a chance, so they will miss out on something they might actually enjoy if they tried. Scaring people away from any franchise as a whole only serves to hurt the actual fans all the more. The toxic fans are not doing anything positive for any of these franchises they continuously attack all because they dislike the directions the franchises have taken. The toxic fans need to wake up and realize they are not the end-all, be-all of fandom and that the whole of the fandoms would be better served if they were to focus on being constructive with their criticism instead of making the childish attacks they seem so fond of.
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