# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-most-annoying-fanbase/324558/121 "2005-10-05T20:04:58Z")
[http://www.brunching.com/geekhierarchy.html](http://www.brunching.com/geekhierarchy.html) by the way, I consider published science fiction authors geeky, so this starts below my own annoyance level. But its true, so true! ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2005, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-most-annoying-fanbase/324558/122 "2005-10-05T21:15:55Z")
> [@jrfranchi](#): > > 2nd Place: The Trekkies who are apparently ashamed of being Trekkies and decided to call themselves Trekkers. WTF Trekkers like the show. Trekkies wear the uniforms/makeup/speak klingon. There-in lies the difference. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@The\_Hook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hook)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2005, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-most-annoying-fanbase/324558/123 "2005-10-06T00:23:19Z")
> [@Silentgoldfish](#): > > 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. You mean, _pretending_ to be really depressed. I don’t like to wish ill on people, but what the hell: I wish for some of these jerks to, for once, experience real major depression. See if they like it. And I mean, silly or not, most of these people like the kind of art that is loosely based on Tim Burton’s work. Tim Burton. That’s right, a guy who is far from suffering the Wacko Jacko kind of vitiligo and dressing with clothes that look like they were rescued from the Exxon Valdez disaster. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2005, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-most-annoying-fanbase/324558/124 "2005-10-06T00:31:20Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > Trekkers like the show. Trekkies wear the uniforms/makeup/speak klingon. There-in lies the difference. Not really true. I have met too many Trekkers that were more likely to wear the uniforms than us much older, original Run and early syndication year’s kids, which were okay with the term Trekkies but would never dress up as the characters. When there was only the original series and no movies yet, when the only books were Star Logs, not original Novels, Trekkies were just people that cared enough about the show to desperately hope it would rise again. The ones who wore Spock Ears and dressed in PJs {I mean Starfleet uniforms} were Dweebs. BTW I was born the day Star Trek first aired. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2005, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-most-annoying-fanbase/324558/125 "2005-10-06T00:37:51Z")
> [@Priceguy](#): > > I play and judge Magic the Gathering and travel around Europe to do so, and I go out of my way to avoid mentioning it. I’ll just say “a card game” and similar because there’s just _no_ way to explain the game at, for example, a family dinner. I also just say “a card game” when referring to Magic, because there’s just _no_ way to explain the game to, for example, a girl and still have a chance in hell of getting laid. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2005, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-most-annoying-fanbase/324558/126 "2005-10-06T00:45:11Z")
> [@iamthewalrus(:3=](#): > > I also just say “a card game” when referring to Magic, because there’s just _no_ way to explain the game to, for example, a girl and still have a chance in hell of getting laid. I like that, about 9-10 times a year I Ref a long running D&D campaign. If I am asked what I’m doing Friday night, I just say I have some friends coming over for a game. 😉 Thankfully my wife tolerates this. She gets more upset when I have other friends over to shoot pool and watch Baseball or Football. Apparently we are noisier and the pool table is in the basement under the bedrooms. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2005, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-most-annoying-fanbase/324558/127 "2005-10-06T00:54:05Z")
> [@VCO3](#): > > In the sense that they’re poorly and embarrassingly written, are predicated on ideas, plots, and concepts that have already been recycled to death in more popular film, book, and television franchises, and “brought to life” with computer animation and effects so poor that they recall the early days of the Sega Genesis and Microsoft Paint. These shows are there for you to watch when there’s nothing else on TV, not for you to preorder expensive DVD boxed sets of to own for eternity. The number of errors in this paragraph exceeds infinity. Please try again. Most annoying fans: Yankee fans and Raiders fans. I can do without the **S** word **C** arrying **A** ssholes, too. ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2005, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-most-annoying-fanbase/324558/128 "2005-10-06T07:37:34Z")
Most asinine fans: The ones that turn against the object of their fandom the second it achieves a modicum of mainstream success. Mostly found in indie rock circles (the Death Cab For Cutie major-label-sellout-backlash should be starting any day now), although they can be found in TV fan communities as well (“X Files was great the first season, after that it sucked”) ---
**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2005, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-most-annoying-fanbase/324558/129 "2005-10-06T08:30:04Z")
I think I mentioned this earlier, but even if I did, it bears repeating: **Crazed, pedantic, fanatical, foaming-at-the-mouth Initial D purist psychopaths** No understanding of how the American comic industry works. No understanding of even the most elementary concepts of marketing and publicity. No concept of demographics or how to appeal to them. No historical perspective (Star Blazers, anyone?) whatsoever. No appreciation of how big a chance Tokyopop was taking on this. Tired, simpleminded arguments about rap music that got old fifteen years ago. Violent, bordering on criminally insane, overreactions to minuscule changes. Complete, utter blindness to ANY new developments (and how they tie in to some of the decisions Tokyopop made). _No_ arguement whatsoever. _No_ responding to questions. _No_ accepting of anything even a micron off the party line. And might I add, they’re _freaking rude as hell_. (I’ve never met one in person, BTW, for which I am extraordinarily grateful.) ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2005, 10:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-most-annoying-fanbase/324558/130 "2005-10-06T10:02:16Z")
I find the fans of the following people extremely annoying because they allow these people to have careers, thereby exposing me to them at least long enough for me to lunge for the remote: 1. Nancy Grace (_Damn, I cannot stand this woman!_ Wanna slap 'er.) 2. Cher (I know, not around much lately…but in my heart of hearts I know she will never go away for keeps.) 3. Rosie O’Donnell (Refer to no. 1.) 4. Julia Roberts (Seems like a phony and a bitch.) 5. Jon Stewart (Has never so much as made me smile…before _The Daily Show_ or since.) 6. Katie Couric (Also refer to no. 1) 7. Ellen DeGeneres (I know: everybody loves her, and I don’t mind her that much myself, but that idiotic dancing drives me up a frickin’ wall. And those shoes…!) 8. Madonna (I bet this woman doesn’t have a genuine friend in the world.) 9. Jerry Springer (See no. 1, but change “woman” to “man” and “slap 'er” to “slug 'im”.) 10. Geraldo Rivera (Attention whore. Another one that never goes away.) ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2005, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-most-annoying-fanbase/324558/131 "2005-10-06T12:38:50Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > Related to Linux fandom are those who are fans of certain distributions of Limux. generally, it seems like the distros that are harder to install have the more vurilent fanbases. While there’s certainly more Ubuntu fans, they’re not as obsessive and defensive as Slackware or Gentoo fans. Gentoo users are like the ricers of the computer world, spending hours to compile and tweak software so it runs 3% faster than that of a precompiled binary, and they’ll make damn sure you know about it. > > An even more niche form of fandom are those who are completely enamored with a particular message board system. There’s more than a few people caught up in a vBulletin v Invision Power Board rivalry, refusing to acknowleghe the weaknesses of their preferred program or the strengths of the other. Go into the vBulletin message board, casually mention how you like vBulletin but the administrator control panel in Invision Power Board seems less cluttered, and pull up a chair. The flames aren’t coming from Jeloft staff; it’s the fans fueling them. You want specfic? MySQL fans. NEXTstep fans. vi & emacs fans. linux shell fans (tcsh vs zsh vs whatever). linux window manager fans. Jabber fans. Wikipedia fans. I get to work with these people all freaking day long. ---
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2005, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-most-annoying-fanbase/324558/132 "2005-10-06T13:01:50Z")
Oh, i forgot: GPL vs BSD Licensing fans _shudder_. And people who refuse to use garbage collected languages… And naming convention/brace style fans… _hides in a corner and whimpers_ ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2005, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-most-annoying-fanbase/324558/133 "2005-10-06T13:28:00Z")
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#): > > Really? What a bunch of weirdos among weirdos! I first learned about Rocky from the Rialto theater in Raleigh, NC. I’ve been to a variety of shows since then, some more obscene than the Rialto’s, but none more raucous. The fun in that crowd was coming up with some new horrible thing to yell, and the folks that came up with the best new lines were the stars of the group. Rocky Nazis wouldn’t have lasted a minute. > > Daniel Wow, small world. I went to a couple of those shows at the Rialto back in the day. It was kind of funny seeing the old guard of Rocky fans sitting with their toast and squirt guns, looking quaintly out of place as the current troupe did things that were completely different. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2005, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-most-annoying-fanbase/324558/134 "2005-10-06T17:01:35Z")
> [@iamthewalrus(:3=](#): > > I also just say “a card game” when referring to Magic, because there’s just _no_ way to explain the game to, for example, a girl and still have a chance in hell of getting laid. My friends love to tell the story about how we were playing magic, some girls came over and said “what’s this?”, I said “It’s like Pokemon for grownups”, and they instantly lost interest. My friends like to pretend that we were all gonna get laid until I opened my fool mouth. Riiiiiiiiiight. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lamest-most-annoying-fanbase/324558.md?page=6)