Recent Fuckery in Fandom

[transemacabre]

Ah, batshit crazy fanbrats. Good to know nothing's changed in fandom and I can go along being embarrassed to be associated with the whole thing.

1) A fan pretended to be Tom Hiddleston's old makeup artist and got him to friend her and her "sister" on Twitter. She then told him a friend of hers would be in town and wouldn't be so kind as to show her around? Tom Hiddleston is a nice man and said yes. Then it came out that the makeup artist was a fake, her sister was a fake, and the "friend" was presumably the crazy fanbrat herself, desperately trying to get close to Tom Hiddleston.

If I were Tom Hiddleston, I'd lock myself in my house and never leave again.

2) Jeph Jacques, creator of Questionable Content, posted a story about a character who is uncomfortable with wearing a bathing suit because she has poor self-image. SJWs respond by complaining that she's not fat enough and call him a horrible person.

He has an emotional breakdown and stabs himself in the hand, severing two tendons, requiring a stay in the hospital. His breakdown was apparently partly caused by the response from SJWs.

This is why we can't have nice things.

Comments

[lokifan]

...I don't think #2 is the same at all. Like, seriously, calling people names is not nice but it's kind of business as usual on the internet - nothing like the serious, scary crazy of #1. Jacques' mental health issues are why we can't have nice things, in this instance.

#1 freaks me out though; it's even crazier than Who fans shouting at an 11-year-old actress on her Twitter, which is not a record I wanted to see broken :S

[transemacabre.livejournal.com]

I'd say quite possibly the *worst* fannish behavior I've ever come across is the KPop fans who harassed a fellow fangirl into suicide after she met and took pictures with the band they were all into.

And regardless of Jacques' mental issues, its Not Nice to harass and demonize someone to the point where they physically harm themselves. The guy didn't rape anyone (O hi thar Kynn), he didn't steal money, identities, or manipulate anyone into a cult (O hi thar Amy Player). He kept making posts on his Twitter that made it clear he was being pushed to the breaking point.