fanbases can be very toxic things
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counting down our picks for the top ten
times a fan base went too far about
everything Centauri took my world my
government did not take my self-respect
before we begin we publish new content
every day so be sure to subscribe to our
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this list we’re discussing the times
when a devout fan base went too far and
caused some type of damage to a property
Institute or individual we’re not
limiting ourselves to one entertainment
medium fan bases from music movies video
games and TV shows will all be included
here I was making before I even met you
all just needed to meet you properly to
know I’m negan number 10 The Walking
Dead fans issued death threats to Josh
McDermitt you got a name asshole death
threats are certainly not a new thing in
the toxic landscape of social media and
Josh McDermitt of The Walking Dead found
himself the subject of some very
dangerous and personal posts in 2017 it
seems as if the show’s fans weren’t
pleased with his character Eugene as
McDermott was the recipient of numerous
death threats
this cosmic Dermott to take to Facebook
live and post a video explaining his
hurt and worry stating quote I don’t
know if you’re talking about Josh or
Eugene you can think whatever you want
but if you when you start saying you
hope I die I don’t know if you’re
talking about Josh or Eugene and I got
to report that shit so just don’t be an
asshole
he subsequently deleted all of his
social media accounts looks like trolls
can be even worse than walkers number 9
Marvel fans harassed Joss Whedon on
Twitter
to do was he what did he do this
wrong to the first Avengers movie made
one and a half billion dollars and its
sequel age of Ultron came in at about
1.4 billion it’s no surprise that within
the hundreds of millions of people who
went to see these movies there would be
a few bad apples upon the release of age
of Ultron Joss Whedon was bombarded with
hostile social media posts with most of
them stemming from the perceived lower
quality of the movie and Whedon supposed
sexism regarding the treatment of Black
Widow we didn’t quit social media
shortly after age of Ultron release and
while he implied it was for personal
reasons many still believe he left due
just makes me stronger number eight the
price is right fans caused Drew Carey to
turn off the comments on his blog
The Price is Right is certainly an odd
show to get all riled up about when Drew
Carey was still relatively new to the
long-running game show he ran a personal
blog that he used to communicate with
his fans however Carey immediately noted
the hostile readers and fans of his show
whom he called quote people that are
metaphorically out on the street with
their pants down yelling at a telephone
pole he then shut down the comments on
his blog after one reader called his
co-worker a quote horrible bigoted name
talk about a not so warm welcome number
seven batman fans had the rotten tomatos
The Dark Knight was one of the best
movies of 2008 so Batman fans were damn
near shaking with anticipation for its
follow-up The Dark Knight Rises so when
they saw that a few professional critics
had some not so nice things to say about
the movie they launched into a
various critics became the subjects of
some extremely harsh statements and
death threats causing the reviews
aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes to shut
down its user comments the site’s
editor-in-chief later stated that quote
threats and hate speech will get your
commenting privileges revoked and
declared that he would ban users if the
antagonistic behavior continued no
number six Mythbusters fans caused the
Mythbusters to leave the forum failure
is always an option and here we have
fans of a show literally driving away
the subjects of their devotion with
their toxic behavior how funny is that
Adam Kari and grant all posted in a
dedicated Mythbusters fan forum as they
found it to be a good way to interact
with their fans however said fans
behavior soon caused problems
Adam eventually left because he was
receiving death threats over myth
outcomes grant left because he was
getting sick of the fans who apparently
knew more than they did and Kari
eventually got sick of the constant
sexual comments and lustful behavior of
her admirers request denied number 5
babylon 5 fans issued death threats to
its creator it really is quite safe I
have set the Machine so it can handle
humans Babylon 5 may not have the
largest fan base but it was certainly a
devoted one unfortunately for the show’s
creator J michael Straczynski devoted
fans are often the most easily
frustrated Straczynski was active on the
show’s fan forums throughout its
original run despite often being the
subject of harassment however things
took a turn when claudia christian who
played susan for four seasons was forced
to leave the show due to contract
negotiations this resulted in scary
phone calls and death threats issued
directly to Straczynski resulting in him
significantly limiting his contributions
to the forum as much as our humanity got
our humanity is the only thing that’s
going to get us out again
number four Doctor Who and Torchwood
fans called the writers homophobic you
asking me on a date
interested but as long as it’s not in an
office Doctor Who fans have quite the
reputation for being toxic while we’re
sure that 99% of its fanbase are lovely
people
the very vocal 1% tend to ruin
everything for everyone
Doctor Who viewers and fans of its
spin-off Torchwood took a particular
hatred to the death of Ianto Jones in
the fourth episode of the series called
children of earth
[Music]
many people personally attacked writer
James Moran on his Twitter account and
others called the show’s writers
homophobic causing series creator
Russell T Davies to call them out on
their stupidity and toxic behavior
James Moran subsequently shut down his
personal blog and never wrote for either
show again number 3 Steven universe fans
let a fan artist to attempt suicide are
you alright
turns out you can’t even draw your
favorite characters without being
viciously harassed online in one
particularly brutal instance tumblr
users ami zero seven zero posted various
drawings of her favorite Steven universe
characters however many people took
issue with the drawings with some
calling them transphobic racist and fat
shaming sami was viciously harassed for
her drawings and eventually attempted
suicide after posting what looked like a
suicide note on tumblr sami luckily
survived her suicide attempt and at
least one of the bullies was arrested on
charges of cyber stalking and cyber
harassment but your life is short and
you have dreams i won’t let you give up
on everything you want number two
gamers harassed zoe quinn and started
gamergate it’s like you’re just
constantly surrounded by nothing but hey
gamers have a particularly nasty
reputation while many are perfectly nice
and welcoming others unfortunately make
the Hobby look childish and toxic in
august 2014
independent video game developer zoe
quinn became the subject of a
particularly nasty blog post by her
ex-boyfriend this blog post eventually
snowballed into the gamergate
controversy a harassment campaign geared
primarily against women in the field of
gaming the campaign was filled with
false accusations Daxing and many
personal rape and death threats towards
various women it’s terrorism on women in
this industry it’s scaring every single
one of us before we unveil our number
one pick
here are some dishonorable mentions an
owner Frances Padilla says a few have
been flinging pizzas some people have
tried and missed some people have gotten
tomorrow
there if you’re gonna be a jerk stay the
hell away he was the one who snow truly
loved before the tragedy want me to kill
him your majesty save you both the
trouble let him speak
number one Ghostbusters fans and movie
fans in general harassed the crew of the
reboot let’s go the harassment campaign
against the Ghostbusters reboot is now
legendary the internet went into an
immediate frenzy upon hearing that the
reboot would contain an all-female cast
and countless misogynistic posts cropped
up on social media the trailers were
then bombarded with down votes with many
blaming it on a combination of sexism
racism and fans holding a little too
hard onto nostalgia when the movie was
released some of its cast particularly
Leslie Jones with a subject of hate
filled racist and sexist comments
prompting Jones to leave Twitter and
Paul Feig to publicly call out the
attackers do you agree with our picks
check out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and be sure to subscribe and
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welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
times a fan base went too far about
everything Centauri took my world my
government did not take my self-respect
before we begin we publish new content
every day so be sure to subscribe to our
channel and ring the bell to get
notified about our latest videos for
this list we’re discussing the times
when a devout fan base went too far and
caused some type of damage to a property
Institute or individual we’re not
limiting ourselves to one entertainment
medium fan bases from music movies video
games and TV shows will all be included
here I was making before I even met you
all just needed to meet you properly to
know I’m negan number 10 The Walking
Dead fans issued death threats to Josh
McDermitt you got a name asshole death
threats are certainly not a new thing in
the toxic landscape of social media and
Josh McDermitt of The Walking Dead found
himself the subject of some very
dangerous and personal posts in 2017 it
seems as if the show’s fans weren’t
pleased with his character Eugene as
McDermott was the recipient of numerous
death threats
this cosmic Dermott to take to Facebook
live and post a video explaining his
hurt and worry stating quote I don’t
know if you’re talking about Josh or
Eugene you can think whatever you want
but if you when you start saying you
hope I die I don’t know if you’re
talking about Josh or Eugene and I got
to report that shit so just don’t be an
asshole
he subsequently deleted all of his
social media accounts looks like trolls
can be even worse than walkers number 9
Marvel fans harassed Joss Whedon on
to do was he what did he do this
wrong to the first Avengers movie made
one and a half billion dollars and its
sequel age of Ultron came in at about
1.4 billion it’s no surprise that within
the hundreds of millions of people who
went to see these movies there would be
a few bad apples upon the release of age
of Ultron Joss Whedon was bombarded with
hostile social media posts with most of
them stemming from the perceived lower
quality of the movie and Whedon supposed
sexism regarding the treatment of Black
Widow we didn’t quit social media
shortly after age of Ultron release and
while he implied it was for personal
reasons many still believe he left due
just makes me stronger number eight the
price is right fans caused Drew Carey to
turn off the comments on his blog
The Price is Right is certainly an odd
show to get all riled up about when Drew
Carey was still relatively new to the
long-running game show he ran a personal
blog that he used to communicate with
his fans however Carey immediately noted
the hostile readers and fans of his show
whom he called quote people that are
metaphorically out on the street with
their pants down yelling at a telephone
pole he then shut down the comments on
his blog after one reader called his
co-worker a quote horrible bigoted name
talk about a not so warm welcome number
seven batman fans had the rotten tomatos
The Dark Knight was one of the best
movies of 2008 so Batman fans were damn
near shaking with anticipation for its
follow-up The Dark Knight Rises so when
they saw that a few professional critics
had some not so nice things to say about
the movie they launched into a
various critics became the subjects of
some extremely harsh statements and
death threats causing the reviews
aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes to shut
down its user comments the site’s
editor-in-chief later stated that quote
threats and hate speech will get your
commenting privileges revoked and
declared that he would ban users if the
antagonistic behavior continued no
number six Mythbusters fans caused the
Mythbusters to leave the forum failure
is always an option and here we have
fans of a show literally driving away
the subjects of their devotion with
their toxic behavior how funny is that
Adam Kari and grant all posted in a
dedicated Mythbusters fan forum as they
found it to be a good way to interact
with their fans however said fans
behavior soon caused problems
Adam eventually left because he was
receiving death threats over myth
outcomes grant left because he was
getting sick of the fans who apparently
knew more than they did and Kari
eventually got sick of the constant
sexual comments and lustful behavior of
her admirers request denied number 5
babylon 5 fans issued death threats to
its creator it really is quite safe I
have set the Machine so it can handle
humans Babylon 5 may not have the
largest fan base but it was certainly a
devoted one unfortunately for the show’s
creator J michael Straczynski devoted
fans are often the most easily
frustrated Straczynski was active on the
show’s fan forums throughout its
original run despite often being the
subject of harassment however things
took a turn when claudia christian who
played susan for four seasons was forced
to leave the show due to contract
negotiations this resulted in scary
phone calls and death threats issued
directly to Straczynski resulting in him
significantly limiting his contributions
to the forum as much as our humanity got
our humanity is the only thing that’s
going to get us out again
number four Doctor Who and Torchwood
fans called the writers homophobic you
asking me on a date
interested but as long as it’s not in an
office Doctor Who fans have quite the
reputation for being toxic while we’re
sure that 99% of its fanbase are lovely
people
the very vocal 1% tend to ruin
everything for everyone
Doctor Who viewers and fans of its
spin-off Torchwood took a particular
hatred to the death of Ianto Jones in
the fourth episode of the series called
children of earth
[Music]
many people personally attacked writer
James Moran on his Twitter account and
others called the show’s writers
homophobic causing series creator
Russell T Davies to call them out on
their stupidity and toxic behavior
James Moran subsequently shut down his
personal blog and never wrote for either
show again number 3 Steven universe fans
let a fan artist to attempt suicide are
you alright
turns out you can’t even draw your
favorite characters without being
viciously harassed online in one
particularly brutal instance tumblr
users ami zero seven zero posted various
drawings of her favorite Steven universe
characters however many people took
issue with the drawings with some
calling them transphobic racist and fat
shaming sami was viciously harassed for
her drawings and eventually attempted
suicide after posting what looked like a
suicide note on tumblr sami luckily
survived her suicide attempt and at
least one of the bullies was arrested on
charges of cyber stalking and cyber
harassment but your life is short and
you have dreams i won’t let you give up
on everything you want number two
gamers harassed zoe quinn and started
gamergate it’s like you’re just
constantly surrounded by nothing but hey
gamers have a particularly nasty
reputation while many are perfectly nice
and welcoming others unfortunately make
the Hobby look childish and toxic in
august 2014
independent video game developer zoe
quinn became the subject of a
particularly nasty blog post by her
ex-boyfriend this blog post eventually
snowballed into the gamergate
controversy a harassment campaign geared
primarily against women in the field of
gaming the campaign was filled with
false accusations Daxing and many
personal rape and death threats towards
various women it’s terrorism on women in
this industry it’s scaring every single
one of us before we unveil our number
one pick
here are some dishonorable mentions an
owner Frances Padilla says a few have
been flinging pizzas some people have
tried and missed some people have gotten
tomorrow
there if you’re gonna be a jerk stay the
hell away he was the one who snow truly
loved before the tragedy want me to kill
him your majesty save you both the
trouble let him speak
number one Ghostbusters fans and movie
fans in general harassed the crew of the
reboot let’s go the harassment campaign
against the Ghostbusters reboot is now
legendary the internet went into an
immediate frenzy upon hearing that the
reboot would contain an all-female cast
and countless misogynistic posts cropped
up on social media the trailers were
then bombarded with down votes with many
blaming it on a combination of sexism
racism and fans holding a little too
hard onto nostalgia when the movie was
released some of its cast particularly
Leslie Jones with a subject of hate
filled racist and sexist comments
prompting Jones to leave Twitter and
Paul Feig to publicly call out the
attackers do you agree with our picks
check out these other great clips from
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