# Lamest/most annoying fanbase? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 3, 2005, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-most-annoying-fanbase/324558 "2005-10-03T12:18:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-most-annoying-fanbase/324558/61 "2005-10-04T01:20:26Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > I didn’t think Zim had a fanbase big enough to be annoying. Zim has a MASSIVE fanbase, but you won’t see much of it if you’re over the age of 15. ---
**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-most-annoying-fanbase/324558/62 "2005-10-04T02:43:13Z")
> [@davenportavenger](#): > > Fan fiction in general, and slash fiction in particular. Um, what’s the point? For me, the best part of writing fiction is making up the characters, getting to figure out all their backstory and little quirks and speech patterns for yourself. Why would someone cheat themselves out of that? And why do they have to make 100 million livejournal communities based around this crap? And slash, what the hell? Is it supposed to be hot or ironic or what? **I just really don’t get the point in stealing other people’s good characters for your bad fiction** , sexual or otherwise, and then getting so obsessed that you spend all day pairing up characters in your lame LJ communities. May I steal this for a sig line? ---
**Author:** ![fifty-six](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@fifty-six](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fifty-six)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-most-annoying-fanbase/324558/63 "2005-10-04T02:53:02Z")
Art Bell or “Coast to Coast” am fans. The problem is I am a bit of a fan myself and when a fanatic finds out they assume I belive everything on the show and go on forever it seams about Major Ed Dames, Richard C. Hoagland’s [enterprisemission.com](http://enterprisemission.com) and how the moon is some spaceship. An annoying fan base that I somehow am a part of. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-most-annoying-fanbase/324558/64 "2005-10-04T03:11:12Z")
That brings to mind those rabid _ **Daily Show** _ fans. Guess what, guys? It’s neither the first, nor the best of that genre of show. While I’ll admit to a negative bias here (because I find it neither witty nor interesting), I’m not going to be convinced by anything that it’s as GREAT as some people (even here) are making it out to be. It’s simply one more spot on the TV line up. So, go ahead and like it. Talk up a storm about every episode. Just don’t act so agrieved when someone else says they _don’t_ prefer it to a satisfying bowel movement, okay? ---
**Author:** ![dotchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@dotchan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dotchan)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-most-annoying-fanbase/324558/65 "2005-10-04T03:17:00Z")
Yes, fanfiction is childish, purile, and smack a bit of wank, but I happen to think that it’s great as a springboard into writing. I certainly wouldn’t have been interested in developing those particular talents if I didn’t have an addiciton to imagining Character X in Situation Y. (Not like that, you pervs.) That said, I HATE^HATE lemons/yaoi/noncon (nonconsentual) pairing 'fics. Ugh. I’ve had the misfortune of reading some doujinshi that made me want to scrub my brain with lye. :eek: :mad: ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-most-annoying-fanbase/324558/66 "2005-10-04T04:24:27Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > You could touch both at the same time by beating up a team mascot. **Miller** wins the thread. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-most-annoying-fanbase/324558/67 "2005-10-04T05:21:40Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > That brings to mind those rabid _ **Daily Show** _ fans. Guess what, guys? It’s neither the first, nor the best of that genre of show. While I’ll admit to a negative bias here (because I find it neither witty nor interesting), I’m not going to be convinced by anything that it’s as GREAT as some people (even here) are making it out to be. It’s simply one more spot on the TV line up. > > So, go ahead and like it. Talk up a storm about every episode. Just don’t act so agrieved when someone else says they _don’t_ prefer it to a satisfying bowel movement, okay? I love the Daily Show AND a hearty bowel movement. Why can’t I have both? 😃 (I was going to say ‘cake and eat it too’ but that would have been somewhat nasty given the subject) I think any fanbase that can’t accept that others aren’t into the same thing. When I say I don’t really like that show/band/movie I don’t want to be convinced how wrong I am. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-most-annoying-fanbase/324558/68 "2005-10-04T07:26:20Z")
This one guy. Just him. He’s the only annoying fan base I can think of. He’s a guy I work with, who was born in Arizona. He’s a fan of college football (Notre Dame), basketball (Lakers) and pro football (Cowboys). Obviously he’s the ultimate bandwagon fan, rooting only for the teams who are advertised heavily and favored to win. Jesus, buddy, didn’t you know you can only jump on one bandwagon at a time? ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-most-annoying-fanbase/324558/69 "2005-10-04T08:23:01Z")
How about marijuana fans. Holy crap, I’ve never met another group of people who could talk more about the most boringest of things in such excruciating detail. And what’s worst they repeat themselves constantly. Every conversation is the same. They caused the only time I have ever blown up in fury in my entire life. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-most-annoying-fanbase/324558/70 "2005-10-04T09:03:17Z")
> [@VCO3](#): > > Two: > > **Silly Goths** - That specific subset of goths that seem to have actually taken over goth culture - people who are defined by a sort of silly/cartoon approach to the goth lifestyle rather than a morose or morbid approach. They’re really into _The Nightmare Before Christmas_, music like KMFDM and the Insane Clown Posse, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, comics and branded clothing from cutesy-scary things like [“Kreepee Lenore”](http://www.bdcouvertes.com/bdlire/kitty53.jpg), [Johnny the Homicidal Maniac](http://rydia.net/bipolarama/jthm/noise-2.gif), all that [“Emily” shit](http://images-jp.amazon.com/images/P/0811840689.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg), the entire existence of the mall clothing store **Hot Topic** , and judging from that store’s website’s current front page, they’re almost entirely to blame for the existence and upcoming marketing blitz of [Corpse Bride](http://www.hottopic.com/). > > I’m not sure what it is about these goths, but the whole thing just **pisses** me off. I love classic goths - give me a pretentious clove-smoking, Baudelaire-reading, Bauhaus-listening death-obsessed weirdo ANY day, but if I as much as pass a “Silly Goth” on the street, I just want to bash their brains in. See, I’m the exact opposite. At least these guys can concieveable be fun to hang around with. Give me one more death obsessed idiot who thinks that being really depressed is the same thing as being interesting and I might just grant their wish to let go of the shackles of this cruel life. Or something. ---
**Author:** ![rinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 10:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-most-annoying-fanbase/324558/71 "2005-10-04T10:18:45Z")
> [@csharpmajor](#): > > _snip_ > (here’s a hint: if you’re TRYING to be random, you have failed) > _snip_ I am completely with you on this one. “Hamsters! Sporks! 🙂 And PIE. Hamster pie o\_o WHEEEEEEEEEE! \>,\> SPORKS AND FOONS! \<.\<” At least they’re easy to imitate. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-most-annoying-fanbase/324558/72 "2005-10-04T11:38:24Z")
Remember the tv show “Twin Peaks”? It was certainly different from regular tv when it came along, and I watched it just to see what David Lynch could get away with on a network. It soon developed a fan base of people who seemed, frankly, pathetic to me. They latched onto every line as if it were Shakespeare’s best, called themselves “Peakies” and got together in groups on viewing nights, clutching logs and dressing like the characters. Okay, I never actually met these people, but I know they were around, and that knowledge was intensely annoying by itself. It always bugs me when I find that idiots like something I also like. (Though I got bored with “Twin Peaks” before long; it started to seem like a pointless exercise rather than a story.) ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-most-annoying-fanbase/324558/73 "2005-10-04T13:47:12Z")
Maybe I should start a reverse thread about ‘Which Fandoms do you like?’ I loves me some silly-goths. I hates the regular kind, yesiree. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-most-annoying-fanbase/324558/74 "2005-10-04T14:29:59Z")
> [@brianjedi](#): > > My vote goes to Duke fans. Most of them are the worst kind of bandwagoneers who only profess to like Duke because they always weasel their way into the Elite Eight. Oh, and Coach K is a lizard. Carolina fans. Can’t stand them. Can’t stand the team. Duke fans don’t rate too highly either, but at least they’re not Carolina fans. Goths annoy me, too. They’re usually quiet, though. Carolina fans, OTOH, never shut up. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-most-annoying-fanbase/324558/75 "2005-10-04T14:37:47Z")
Surprised no one has mentioned **Jimmy Buffett** fans. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-most-annoying-fanbase/324558/76 "2005-10-04T14:39:14Z")
Serious classical music fans are not necessarily lame – many are highly perceptive and intelligent individuals – but Merciful Og in Heaven Above, they can be annoying. My esthetic can kick your esthetic’s ass. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-most-annoying-fanbase/324558/77 "2005-10-04T15:08:11Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > Surprised no one has mentioned **Jimmy Buffett** fans. They’re only annoying if you are annoyed by stoners. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-most-annoying-fanbase/324558/78 "2005-10-04T15:14:53Z")
> [@Beware of Doug](#): > > Serious classical music fans are not necessarily lame – many are highly perceptive and intelligent individuals – but Merciful Og in Heaven Above, they can be annoying. > > My esthetic can kick your esthetic’s ass. The more I learn about classical music, the more I fear I am becoming one of them. I will sometimes complain loudly about a certain arrangement or composition of a piece in front of my recreational-listener friends, only to have them mumble “I don’t hear anything wrong with it.” And then I feel like a pretentious ass ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Tixenfleaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9a140/32.png) [@Tixenfleaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tixenfleaz)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-most-annoying-fanbase/324558/79 "2005-10-04T15:20:33Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > Surprised no one has mentioned **Jimmy Buffett** fans. Sweet gods, YES!!! I live in South Florida, and while it seems to have subsided a bit, time was when you couldn’t get away from that twinkly, sugary music. Every party, every beach, and every boat would have Buffet playing ad infinitum. I learned to tell rum-sodden Parrotheads that “Sure, I like Buffet” just to avoid the inevitable accusations of communism along with a possible fistfight. I’m exaggerating a bit, but just a bit. I did get free tickets to a Buffet show once and I was rather suprised how many fights there were. Much worse than most of the metal and punk shows I’ve seen. I have to admit that I did take a certain dark pleasure in watching drunken middle-aged yuppies try vainly to beat the snot out of each other. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2005, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-most-annoying-fanbase/324558/80 "2005-10-04T15:27:32Z")
> [@csharpmajor](#): > > The more I learn about classical music, the more I fear I am becoming one of them. I will sometimes complain loudly about a certain arrangement or composition of a piece in front of my recreational-listener friends, only to have them mumble “I don’t hear anything wrong with it.” And then I feel like a pretentious ass ☹ My pretension can kick your pretension’s ass, too. It’s a situation that happens when a field becomes both very competitive and very subjective. A few achieve primacy by being virtuosi; for most musicians, all that’s left to them is to work harder, and for critics and aficionados, to engage in a never-ending dance of zealous opining and damning-with-faint-praise. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-most-annoying-fanbase/324558.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-most-annoying-fanbase/324558.md?page=5)