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Originally posted by One Big Mob
Things like Star Wars, Marvel and DC are too big to just generalize as everyone being "toxic" though if you're being serious with this thread. You can just start labeling everything if you cast a net that big.Even though every Superman fan loves DC, not every DC fan loves Superman. 1 person likes Wonder Woman... really really likes Wonder Woman. There are absolutely company shills of course but they are equally garbage on both sides. That's going to happen when you have cross company threads between just two companies. If this board allowed every single universe eventually you would see that those Marvel and DC fans are also fans of other companies and they make that company look like shit too.
Anything that acquired a ton of fans from the Youtube era with all the "celebrities" is going to have a largely shit fanbase though. You're talking about the lowest common denominator who hangs on the words of a few prophets. They blur the lines between being a fan of the series and fans of the youtubers.
Not saying Dragon Ball didn't always have shitty fanbases but I noticed a steep decline in intelligence once people started using Geekdom as proof in anything.
Star Wars with followers of people who don't actually know anything about Star Wars past Movies/Cartoons. Marvel with people who learn everything from Dambo videos, etc.
Lacking that first hand experience makes shittier fanbases but it's becoming more common. You saw it before (and still do) with the respect thread debating, now imagine if everything someone knows about a character comes from Youtube.
A lot of posters typecast themselves as just Marvel and DC fans/haters like JBL/Alberto/Prepman/h1 but if you narrow it down to subsets of people you will find that Alpha Flight and Cyclops fans have been the most notoriously toxic on the board.
In the broader sense the most perplexing fanbase is MLP and they seem completely unstable so I'd go with that. Console shills that engage in wars are up there too. Fans of shows, crossfitters, dambo's boys, etc. The Dragon Ball "community" is on average CD's homelife tier. And he technically counts as part of that community so you can imagine how bad it gets.
Damn, I couldn't go any further without commenting.
ASOLUTELY FABULOUS post. Nailed it in a nutshell.
Of course fans are more likely to be biased toward a character or character subset than a company. I know I favor DC over Marvel as a whole but that has a lot more to do with having had access to more DC than Marvel for many more years. When I was young foreign publications numbers were limited by protection laws in Australia. Only a few American comics could actually be sold in our country directly. Instead the majority of product had to be published by Australian publishers. So a company called Murray publications reprinted US comics.
DC must have been more willing to deal this way than Marvel because there were more DC comics on the shelves. Most Murray publications were 90 page anthologies where say a JLA comic might have a Hawkman, Atom, Flash stories as well. Worlds finest would have the usual Superman/Batman story as well as a Wonder Woman or GL story. So they came out regularly. Marvel however would have a full 90 page of one title.
1I read and became a fan of Daredevil because his was one of the few US titles that was on the shelves of our newsagents (think news stands) otherwise there was a reprint of Avengers, Spiderman, Hulk, defenders (this one had Dr Strange, Hellstrom, SS stories) and very occasional one off's of others. So most of these only came out every few months when there was enough content for one character (spiderman was the only exception, I'm guessing that like Batman and Superman he had more comic titles in the US so more that could be put together quicker)
On the DC side we got a monthly JLA and World's Finest that had 4 stories, as well as a bimonthly Detective, Action, Superman, Batman, teen Titans, Legion of Superheroes. So more titles more often with for the most part the stories of kore characters in each. Comic readers down under simply got a greater saturation of DC comics than Marvel. The direct to Australian DC comics were wierd tales, tales from the crypt, wierd war and weird western (usually only one or two at a time).
Sorry about the extended speil on that, not where I was intending to go.
Still despite my heavy bias due to reading more DC than Marvel I'm much more a fanboy of JSA and related than DC overall. When it comes to Marvel that bias is purely toward Defenders and Daredevil
I can't remember if it was because it came after the Hawke government lifted these protections in 84 or not but the wierd thing was that Archi comics Adventure line (red Circle with Shield, Comet, Black Hood, the Fly, Mighty Crusaders etc) was the only comic publications from the US that I remember getting ALL DIRECT from the US. Which is probably why I like MLJ superheroes above DC. I mean most of the Australian reprints up until about 1982 were black and white interiors with only a colour cover so seeing MLJ characters TOTALLY in colour was a huge deal.