User blog comment:Ceras SanMarina/A blog post./@comment-1616397-20091022173448

Knowing you, Ceras, I assume that it's South Park fandom you're talking about. I will never understand the Wendy-bashing. As you said, though, this is a trend that crosses fandoms. Can someone clue me in on why adolescent females bash characters that are, for all intents and purposes, role models for adolescent females (strong, independent types)? This is where being older and never having been female is a weakness; I can't begin to imagine the mentality behind this.

The problem that's going on with shipping in Hetalia fandom isn't because it's growing in popularity. It's because the fandom has reached a point where certain things are settling into patterns. There's no longer this wild growth spurt where things were going in every direction and every spectrum of opinion was considered "acceptable". It's obvious that there are now certain preferred pairings in certain areas of the fandom. Just go on the Kink Meme and look; more than half of the requests are JOKER and FrUK. There's already a backlash against this.

I'm tempted to say that we should just let this war happen, let it burn out, then go back to having a sane fandom. The problem is that we old-school Doctor Who fans (I've been in the fandom since 1979) did just that when the Newfen shipper wars began, and that fandom became so toxic that it fractured.

Maybe voluntary segregation might be the solution. Let the shippers go on their merry way, and us history!fags and gen-types can have our own little playpens. It'd be depressing if that happens, but it'll sure keep the fandom off Fandom Wank.