Blog:Why I hate the words "Fandom" and "Hatedom"

This is Lad with another post, which is venting this time. Now, I am going to explain why I see the words "Fandom" and "Hatedom" as if they were actually swear words, like what gamers thought consoles were when the game industry crashed in North America in 1983. It's not related to video games at all though, just how the people on the internet use both words in general.

The internet is a massive place, and in fact, I talk more on the internet than in real life. I do often speak to my parents and other family members, but in school, I often stay silent due to my extreme shyness which makes me afraid of being made fun of. Each person also has its own interests, that can be shows, electronics, computers, books or even video games, together with many people that can relate. Such situations are named communities, or sometimes, "fandoms" (or "fanbases") when they share stuff dedicated to what they like. There's an opposite word also related to communities, called hatedoms, which is about hatred of something.

But... I actually hate to say or read the words "fandom" and "hatedom". Even the notoriously awful Toxic Fandoms and Hatedoms wiki was shut down for good because it was mostly consisted on hate pages about fandoms or hatedoms. I'm going to explain why right now.

You see, about "toxic fandoms and hatedoms" which I just mentioned earlier (well, I don't wanna be mad at people who commonly use this term, but I unfortunately can't really control my anger), it's the sole reason why I hate both words. Ok maybe I SHOULD explain better reasons for that. People often use the terms "toxic fandoms and hatedoms" towards communities... that are just consisted of half of the members toxic or maybe even a few. To me they're misusing the terms, since communities can almost always have nice people practically everywhere in there, which includes friendly people and anti-SJWs like me. For instance I am on the Object Show community, which is apparently hated by many due to the large amount of underaged users, rudeness, perversity (e.g. objectophiles) and probably SJWs as mentioned by one of my friends on Discord who is also an anti-SJW. But... ah, even though there's many bad people in there, the other half of them are actually friendly and don't belong to the toxic side of the community at all. I belong to the healthy side since two of my main objectives are to cleanse toxicity and social justice out of existence in order to prevent rudeness and censorship of media and speech.

So, why even say that communities are toxic just because half of the people in them are very bad? That's what I really hate to say, especially since I've been in the OSC for 3 years now (I joined in early 2018, though this seems late for me since BFDI was created in 2010). However I can accept the use of the word toxic on a community dedicated to something awful, so I call pedophiles toxic due to their mental issues and abuse of minors.

And yeah, some people even hate stuff because of their fandoms. That's just great, nothing but an extremely shitty reason for hatred towards something. Who the fuck would behave like that?!

This was my opinion on the words Fandom and Hatedom, including them paired with the word toxic. Please keep in mind, BEFORE you comment stuff like "dafuq lad? thats a retarded reason to hate those words!", I've tried to give fear reasons on this post, hoping you understand.