Fandom Pet Peeves

Posted 5 years, 3 days ago by PS-X

Another pet peeve thread let's go

My fandom pet peeves are when people ship their characters with the canon characters. I don't know, it's just weird. But that's just me.


Please don't get too negative here.

Sadismancer

Mob mentalities of any fandom gets me, also when people get alienated from said fandom because of mob mentality.

TyrianCallows

-Canon x Canon OC kids (especially when it gets into the mpreg fetish)

-"One ship ruling" and if you ship any of those characters with another character you're essentially x-phobic and deserve to die (coughrwbycough)

-people who selfship my favs but they get the characters personality totally wrong as to how you see them????? (mainly bc I selfship a bit w/ very obvious killers in series and they like to make some of these more emotionally colder characters these like lovey-dovey teddy bears???? idk)

-minors who claim their kin to my favs and follow me despite me saying that im uncomf w/ that as most of the time my favs are sexually appealing to me.

-Edit new one: Child x Adult Character fanfics just a big ol yikes my dudes

TheStrayCat

People role playing Canon characters is fine

People role playing characters grossly out of character drives me nuts fjdbdh d

ParadiseLost

“PUT GENO IN SMASH SAKURAI”

Like...Sakurai is stressed out over this series already, has been since Melee, and youre the reason why.

In other words, when the fans of a series try to force the creator to do stuff they shouldn’t have to. Biggest pet peeve. (Fnaf 7 is probably another instance.)

PS-X

Ships get on my nerves as well. Some are ok. Some make sense, and some are just...not ok. One of my friends recently started watching the Voltron Netflix reboot, and another one of my friends made a comment about him shipping the wrong people, and that ended the conversation

Tacocado

OOoh lord. When people Roleplay Canon characters and just do them wrong it gets to me so bad, Like, That absolute bad ass utterly breaking down for literally no reason, out of literally nowhere? That's not character development, boo

Lilina

(off-topic, but do we really need more pet peeves threads? like, i feel as if there's already too many, though. no offense btw.)

Anyway...

Tfw fans hate their own series. This is unfortunately common in some fandoms like Fire Emblem, and tbh, it's annoying me.

sylvari

when the story is just WAY too long. you know it should've ended a long time ago, but in order to keep making money or just for whatever reason they just keep going. due to this people start finding retcons (the biggest pet peeve of mine) and they start fighting over what will happen next. they start arguments over the retcons. they start fighting over the state of the characters since some just seem to take a giant 180. people trying to defend the writers position and people trying to dismantle it.... yaknow it just becomes a HUGE battle at each others throat.

like yall we're supposed to simultaneously like the same thing.. not... kill each other over it... dang

TheStrayCat

I'm a non romantic person myself so when I think of strong bonds and love, I always think of friendships and familial bonds first, so it drives me crazy when I can be like "Look at how close X and X are! What amazing friends!" But the whole fandom is just screaming "THEYRE A SHIP THEYRE CANON !!! ITS CANON !!!!!!1!" 

I really respect people who are not obnoxious about their OTPs but I wish more people wouldn't freak out over them x,x 

SeaSlugs

Omg yes, I stopped participating in fandoms bc of of peeves.

- Mob mentality. Stupid. Absolutely the biggest annoyance, and you can immediately tell when cliques are present. 

- Headcanons treated as canon...that bothers me a lot, too.

- Canon x FC. Not a huge peeve, and it's not a HUGE deal or a deal thing at all, I just don't really like it. If you're comfortable w. It then more power to you! It just got ruined for me.

cookeycat

- "etitists", "true fans", "fandom police", fanatics, bullies, crazy people etc.

- any kind of gatekeeping

- shipping wars, headcanon wars

- child X adult ships. wtf. it's a real cancer.

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that's why I stay away form any fandoms.

MariahKat

People who think their headcanons and ships MUST be the canon because *insert vague reaching reason here* and how if you don't agree or their headcanons/ships don't come true you and or the creator are *insert word here*phobic.


People reducing characters to one whole trait.


When people claim they love a character(s) so much but then find out their headcanon wasn't a fact and suddenly say how they were "baited" and other delusional non-sense


People who think their AU is "making it better" and why the original "is crap" (why are you even watching/reading it if you hate it??????)


Oh and people who DON'T REALIZE FRIENDS CAN EXIST AND DON'T NEED TO BE A COUPLE-- likeshipwhateverbutcanwejusthavefriendshiptoothanks



i could go on...