It is 9:30pm on a Thursday night as I am writing this, and I wish I didn’t have to write this.
I’m not a person who usually post about things on this site, haven’t in close to 3 years, but there has been something happening that has been bothering me.
Just because you saw the Bohemian Rhapsody and you think you know everything about the band doesn’t mean you actually do.
And just because you don’t like the way someone shows their fan feelings, doesn’t mean you have the right to tell them how to be a “proper fan”.
I have been a Queen fan since I was 4 yrs old. My mother and my uncle were fans before I was even thought of being born. I am a 2nd generation Queen fan in my family, so this band is not new to me.
I am disgusted by the behavior that I am hearing from some other fans who happen to post fan works on this site, about the vitriol and borderline violence that is thrown at people who don’t fan in the same way that others do. I’m not going to say that I thought the Queen fandom was above this, because no fandom is, but I will say that the people who are messaging people and verbally accosting people in the fandom, are not actual fans.
These are not people who love the band, care about the band, and care about other fans. These people who are trying to “control” a fandom, which is an absurd idea in and of itself, these are people who are lacking and have nothing else going for them.
These are people who are miserable and who have to spread that misery to other people. It has just happened to show up in the Queen fandom, because Queen is a hot item right now because of the movie.
These are people who feel entitled to have their say in something, because they are not heard anywhere else in their lives.
There are Queen fans who are much older than this website and this movie and have been fans longer than some of these “fans” have been alive and I guarantee you, if you bought this attitude to them, they would embarrass the hell out of you. They would make you cry and send you home with your tail between your legs.
People like these “fans” only do this shit to people they think they can get away with this type of behavior with.
I’ve been on the internet a long time, longer than a lot of these new “fans” on this website doing this nonsense ( and before some of them were even born), and I have seen this all before. These “fans” doing these things are not new and these bully “fans” never deviate from the script.
Let me tell you this one thing, you are not special and above it all or have better taste in music than anyone else because you (supposedly) like Queen. You are just like all the other toxic fans in every other fandom that has found it’s home on the internet.  You are not special, you are actually VERY common.
I know what I’m saying is going to displease people, ruffle some feathers, and cause people to try and come after me. I don’t care. I am a fan of this band, I hold the four members of Queen very close to my chest, and whatever you say to me won’t change that and won’t change my love of this band.
And if the people who are doing this all in the name of Freddie or in the name of Queen, you are wasting your breath and your time.
And as much as I love them, Queen is just a band. At the end of the day, they are just a band.
And is a band worth threatening someone’s well being over?
Really?
