Top 10 Fandoms that Most Represent the Phrase: "The Only People Who Hate It More Than the Haters are the Fans"

When doing a simple Google search for the phrase "No one hates it more than the fans," it seems that the phrase might have been invented specifically to talk about the Star Wars fandom.

Say all you want about the Steven Universe fandom or the Bronies, but the Star Wars fandom is, in my experience, the most toxic fandom. George Lucas sold it, and honestly, I can't blame him after all the hate he's received for decades. All he wanted was to make a space opera for kids and their parents to enjoy.

Ahmed Best almost killed himself after receiving hate for playing Jar Jar. Kelly Marie Tran deleted her entire Instagram after the racist hate she received for playing Rose Tico. There were boycotts of "Force Awakens" just because of the casting of John Boyega. This fandom has some really toxic people.

Part of the reason is that the Star Wars fandom is relatively old. The people who were the target audience (kids) when the originals came out in 1977, 1980, and 1983 were adults (no longer the target audience) when the prequels came out in 1999, 2002, and 2005. Naturally, they viewed the series with different, more cynical eyes than they did as children, and this led to bitterness and toxicity.

Then, the people who were kids during the prequels grew up and hated on the sequels. Even when fans do think critically about their favorites, it turns into bitterness quickly. I can't count the number of Star Wars blogs, Reddit threads/Subreddits, YouTube videos/channels, or lists on this site that seem to exist solely to criticize the series.

It's really kind of tragic to see the way that this fandom has become the very thing it sought to destroy.

I think that users of this website in particular know what I am talking about when I say that the Total Drama fans tend to be more defined by the things that they hate about the show. These include the characters that they feel are overused or underused, the plot lines they disliked, what they believe different characters "deserved," and what couples they love the most being better than those that they hate the most, rather than the things that they actually love about the show.

Then, like many other toxic fandoms, Total Drama has received reboots and spinoffs, which tend to be the catalysts for all sorts of toxicity, generally in the form of whining about the new instead of just appreciating the old.

This entry is a bit unique as Miraculous is a relatively young fandom. However, it has grown quickly. Combined with immature writers on Twitter/X, it has become quite toxic, and just about anything can lead to a controversy. Each season of the show is different, and those that prefer certain characters or episode styles...

No one hates Clone High more than the people who were fans back in 2003 and then grew up to find that the show was no longer targeted towards them.

This show has gone through so many eras and has so many different kinds of episodes. Different people became fans at different points in time and after watching different kinds of episodes, so there are many ideas about "what South Park is." When the show doesn't fit into the tiny boxes that some fans put it into, the show receives a ton of hate from its own fans.

Then there's the social commentary side of the show that people are always disagreeing upon. The show critiques just about every group, and many people seem to be unable to understand the nuances of this criticism. These people then become toxic when a group that they happen to be part of is called out, and instead of swallowing their pride, they whine about the show "going downhill."

And that's not even getting into all of the controversies surrounding the romantic pairings of elementary-school-aged children and the ship wars that the different pairings create.

This show was just asking to have a problematic fandom when they included a love triangle in the first episode, and then dragged out the love triangle for four seasons. Then, they added yet another love triangle involving the plot twist of a character being gay. No matter how much or how little they explored this character, it will still be entirely too much for some people and entirely too little for others.

This show is still pretty young, so the controversies within the fandom are not a product of age, but of popularity. Despite being a show about nerdy kids, Stranger Things is relatively mainstream, and the bigger a fandom becomes, the more passionate it becomes.

Ever since the beginning of Phase 4, fanboys have been rioting about "woke" movies "ruining the MCU." I don't have the energy to get into all of the flaws in those arguments.

I'm not all that familiar with this fandom, but based on the fact that the only Nintendo YouTubers I know are Nathaniel Bandy and NicoBBQ, who, from my understanding, mostly make videos about the things that most bother them about Nintendo games, it felt fitting to put this fanbase on the list. Both Nathaniel Bandy and NicoBBQ have tons of fans, and yet they make content that puts down the franchise that they claim to love. While there are positive videos, these negative videos raise some interesting questions about Nintendo fans.

One interesting thing to note is that the Nintendo fandom is one of the oldest: the company got its start with card games in 1889.

It's safe to say that pretty much every reality TV show has an extremely toxic fandom. They whine about new format changes when these shows are constantly evolving and throw a big tantrum when something doesn't go their way.

Regarding the contestants in these shows, they make a big fuss that Person A did or didn't deserve better or why Person X should have won over Person Y. Some fans will go as far as sending death threats to these contestants on social media.