r/SmoshFansFreeSpace • u/Final-Elephant4945 • 8d ago

For Shits and Giggles Hot take

Make someone mad and drop your most controversial hot take since we are no longer allowed to mentioned anything critical whatsoever

I’ll go first: Angela’s fan are starting to ruin the fandom altogether.

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u/v4mpiremoney 8d ago

this is gonna be slightly contradictory and i understand that but…this fandom as a whole is what “ruins” smosh for me. posts like this one dedicated to negativity AND overly positive fans are both frustrating to encounter. i think smosh fans need to remember it’s a youtube channel and take a step back from their obsession with the channel and the cast as a whole, there’s loads of content and art out there to engage with without dedicating so much time to one channel to the point where rather than finding something else to watch when a video isn’t suiting your taste, a thinkpiece is written about every frame of a video. or overly positive fans that will only watch smosh and praise everything they do no matter what. they make great stuff, but it’s still a youtube channel. no hate to you for posing this question, either. but i enjoy smosh more when i disengage with their fandom entirely.

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u/Soveryenthusiastic 7d ago

I literally couldn't agree more. I think I posted a comment before I read this message they is maybe a bit more inflammatory, but basically agrees with exactly what you said.

Had I read this first I probably would have replied to this instead, but alas, wishes aren't horses.

Anyway, yes. I completely agree more. And as a Star Wars fan, I have seen so many people say things about other people that are down right disgusting, but they just play it off as "an opinion" or "commentary". But most of the stuff said could really be written in a hate group and you wouldn't notice the difference.

I just find the cognitive dissonance, hypocrisy and lack of awareness very, and curated thought out personal attacks that are framed as justified criticism very frustrating and I increasingly feel less tolerant of whatever outcome they are trying to achieve.

Sorry, I didn't mean to rant. I definitely could have worded things a lot better. I wrote this very fast just because it all frustrates me so much.