Zim has a MASSIVE fanbase, but you won’t see much of it if you’re over the age of 15.
May I steal this for a sig line?
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 and how the moon is some spaceship.
An annoying fan base that I somehow am a part of.
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?
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:
Miller wins the thread. 
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
Surprised no one has mentioned Jimmy Buffett fans.
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.
They’re only annoying if you are annoyed by stoners.
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 
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.
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.