Fandom culture is dying because now we just insult someone who disagrees with us...No, actually. If someone politely disagrees with you and shares their opinion and you insult them instead of engaging in a discussion or just ignoring them, you're just a rude person. It's not fandom culture, it's you. You're the problem. You owe someone basic decency if you choose to reply unless they're an outright troll. If you can write out an essay to a blog you know and act high and mighty and pretentious as if you're in a literary salon but don't bother to do same to a stranger because you only can be arsed to treat someone as a human being as long as you need to impress them, your opinion in any format is worthless.
You won't know what they're like if you just attack them. Half the time I can already tell someone has internal prejudices and biases and low reading comprehension and have absorbed other opinions in fandom like a sponge, but if I engage, I engage until insulted to discuss or even to debate normally.
If you can’t bring yourself to not be nasty, just admit you're a lout. You're not cunty or cool.




















