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CMV: Bad or toxic fandoms do not make the content bad by proxy

Full disclosure, I hold this view even though I am considered a fan of games, shows, and more that are all are notorious for their toxic fanbases (League of Legends, Steven Universe, Rick and Morty, etc).

I've watched a lot of reviews and talked to some people who argue that their opinions of the content itself diminishes as a result of the behavior of the fanbases. I've seen good examples of the workforce behind the fan-base's followed content (That one shutdown of a malicious question by a voice actor of My Little Pony at a con comes to mind,) but how is a content creator supposed to moderate **all** of the shitty attitudes and actions of those who engage with their content? 

I think that if we hold it to artists, musicians, writers, etc to the level of their fans, then we aren't allowing for their work to speak for itself.
gpt
I think wells can be poisoned. Sometimes the culture that grows (or festers) around a thing is enough to socially eclipse the thing itself. Irrespective of the merit of the original idea or concept, fans (sycophants, cult members, promoters, what-have-you) can make the whole scene completely insufferable.

Content creators aren't necessarily responsible for policing strangers, but sometimes even they come to disavow their own creation due to the wretched shitbags who take their intellectual property and run with it toward their own goals. The original creator of Pepe the Frog is one such person who recognized what his product became out in the world once a critical mass of toxic fans/users became the center of gravity.

We can also see where toxic fandoms of another sort pollute and defile a set of original ideas in fringe cults and in the various incarnations of religious extremism where a few bad ideas within the religious system are accentuated to the point where the whole recast set of ideas becomes irredeemable.