I certainly agree that it can be a little hard to be a known fan of the show on the forum, or at least hard when there's a reminder of that right next to all of your posts. We had a conversation a little while ago about avatars, and, like I said then, part of why my avatar is what it is is that I want to avoid people derailing unrelated conversations to talk about it and I don't want people (even just to themselves) dismissing what I'm saying because of it. That gets old really fast, I imagine. It's certainly okay to think that a particular creative work is uniquely terrible, but you've got a problem when you start thinking that there's something wrong with people for enjoying it, other than that they have bad taste and ignoring the obvious edge cases where it can plausibly be argued that the creation of the work is downright immoral.
I find myself rolling my eyes at how often people seem to want to talk about some new creepy thing someone posted on the internet, but it doesn't personally bother me until "this guy has problems" or "this show attracts lots of weird people" bleeds over into "people who like this show have problems". Because, yeah, it's probably not entirely healthy to be convinced you're in a relationship with Twilight Sparkle, per that forum post that gets posted every so often. I'm uncomfortable with it being generally okay to mock people who would probably benefit from therapy, but this is not an issue faced only by fringe elements of the fan community of this show.
I find myself rolling my eyes at how often people seem to want to talk about some new creepy thing someone posted on the internet, but it doesn't personally bother me until "this guy has problems" or "this show attracts lots of weird people" bleeds over into "people who like this show have problems". Because, yeah, it's probably not entirely healthy to be convinced you're in a relationship with Twilight Sparkle, per that forum post that gets posted every so often. I'm uncomfortable with it being generally okay to mock people who would probably benefit from therapy, but this is not an issue faced only by fringe elements of the fan community of this show.
