User blog comment:Ceras SanMarina/Clearing out old dA somewhat (and woot, 1st post?)/@comment-1271618-20090911071241

Yeah, the fandom just really went downhill. And you're right about it being filled with such immature people now. There are older fans that have hung around, but it's hard to find ones of that faction that aren't trollish or...drama-starters. I wound up knowing way too many of those types, but it's a long story. What saddens me is when some "name" fans support those types of people too, simply because they praise them and act nice to them.

My dA page got trolled a while back by one of those trolls that claimed I couldn't "let go of the past", but the thing is, I had long abandoned the SP fandom. If anything, they were the one that couldn't let go of anything...especially once I found out that I was trolled because that person (who hated me to begin with) got pissy that I was into Hetalia :|.

And that incident you described? Sadly, that sounds like the South Park fandom just about the time I completely detached from it (late '08). People take things way too seriously. Was it slash-related too? Because the pro-slash vs. anti-slash in the fandom was pretty sickening too, especially when it came to Stan: Either Stan is "too manly" to be gay, or "too gay" to even be friends with girls, in some peoples' minds. The characters...they are 8 or 9 years old (depending on the episode). Unless you are talking a theoretic scenario where they're older and where shipping actually comes into play, it's a little much to debate over whether an 8/9 year old is "too manly" to be gay.

And hacking...yeah, I kind of saw some people in the fandom that were as petty as that. And people defended them WHY? Because they were their "friiiiends" and were nice to them, so screw what anyone else dare say, because their "friend" couldn't possibly be in any wrong.

Thanks, though. It's really sort of a breath of fresh air to get to play around in a new fandom, where it hasn't gone too downhill and chaotic yet (fandom_secrets and "anti-Italy" trolling on dA and other places aside)