Odd fandom(s)
Iâve been to plenty of actor fandoms where the hate and anti- attitude could get quite loud, sickening, and even scary. Yet, Iâve never seen a fandom so filled with people who spend their time trashing, defaming, insulting, bullying the actor directly on SM, committing libel against the actor, yet still maintaining they are fans. The ones I alluded to in the other fandoms, would sometimes even affirm themselves as proud haters, but they would rather play stab the finger and miss thirty times in a row, before calling themselves fans or sympathizers of said actor, and get stuck cleaning a five year worth of stable dung, before associating with the actorâs fans. Which at least is more honest than what goes on in Hiddlestonâs âfanâdom.
The insistence that this continuous bashing is nothing but healthy criticism, even gets me worried, sometimes: do these people live or lived in relationships where gaslighting and humiliation was so recurrent, they came to consider that as normal? Are they living in messed up realities where abuse equals love? âI only do this because I love you!â kind of thing? Troubling. But then upon farther analyses, itâs clear a few of these individuals do pride themselves in being the absolute most destructive they can against Tom, and state so. But, then, why call themselves âfansâ? In other corners of the internet, a community that spends their time assassinating the character of a given target, to then post some pics and lust over the body parts, followed by some more degrading and spiteful insults, is defined with other adjectives. Â
Even more curious, is that the simple act of pointing this out, will get you ostracized. And those that donât participate and/or criticize the righteous stream of hate get labeled ânanniesâ, âstansâ, a.k.a... you know... fans. Funny fandom, here.Â
















