Board Thread:Off-topic discussion/@comment-25779132-20150821170947/@comment-24746914-20150829215040

Fanbases can be very creepy sometimes, although it's usually particular members rather than a whole.

For instance, Pokemon and Digimon (two fairly well known fanbases, also well known for constantly having people fighting over which is better, which annoys me to no end) seem to overall be fairly chill. Lots of people use Pokemon or Digimon for avatars/signatures on forums, and generally seem to be normal from what I see of them.

(I should also mention I'm friends with multiple people who are fans of both, and I myself think both shows and the Pokemon games are pretty cool and people need to stop comparing apples to oranges with them.)

Then, if you look on places like DeviantArt, you can unearth some pretty creepy stuff like Vore, the obvious creepy/overly sexualized fanart. But that's one small subsection of a much larger overall fanbase.

The same kind of thing applies to Furries for instance, most of them are pretty normal (I know multiple). The classic "all furries are furries because they like overly sexualized anthro animals" type argument doesn't actually hold true for the most part.

I think the bad press about fanbases tends to be from the fact that people tend to view the bad as far outweighing the good.