#btw i dont think fandom interacting a lot with actors etc is healthy either

[kylosbreedingkink]

I find it really fascinating how cult like fandom spaces are. Ones I've been in such as kylux, or ones I've observed from the outside like Sherlock, reylo, Dr who, our flag means death, and so on.

Echo chambers hyping each other up, feeling like only they truly understand a show/film/whatever, blindly copying what someone with the most followers says. Having a complete disconnect from reality and how people actually behave towards one another in society. Throwing around accusations, often false, but heinous in nature to try and manipulate others into doing what they want, or ostracising people for not following the status quo of the fandom.

And then a complete lack of self awareness that they are in this echo chamber, that they might try say that they're open minded and all that but they truly aren't when someone with a different view on the show comes along. Very much you can have your thoughts but don't dare share them and upset the nature of the echo chamber.

I've seen it with my own eyes on a private kylux discord where a perceived slight, truly only perceived as the person being spoken about did fuck all honestly, but how the group just went in circles again and again adding more shit onto this persons supposed fandom crimes which there just wasn't any evidence for. But enough people said it that it was true, and pointing out otherwise was not a good idea.

And also the complete lack of self awareness a fandom echo chamber with a history of doxxing and harassment when they look down and claim to be better than a different fandom, also with a history of doxxing and harassment.

We know fandoms are toxic as fuck but when people are in a fandom, being like Thai, they just lose all sense of credibility and go full on into the cult like mentality. It's just like the right wing conspiracy theorists types of people overthinking things and hyping one another on the most bullshit thoughts until everything thinks they're true - as of course what they're saying is true, everyone else around them is saying it. The one saying otherwise is just a hater.