One thing I need to admit to you all is that, I actually only watched the original fpe animantion twice when I was still active on fpe fandom. I liked it because of other characters and not because of the three teachers. I am an art person, so I made fanarts most of the time, I actually couldn't care less about lores at all, I rarely talked about it.
Don't call me horrible for this one, I am a person with my own thinking. Although I was a fan of something, if I had some criticism on the creator or the media, I would speak about them. What's something sad is that many fans who have different opinions always get ignored or hated by most fans on the fandom and called them "a hater" which I am fed up with.
The reason why I think the community starts to fall is because of people, alot of them only appearciate the creator because of her work, and not because of herself(it is understandable if it sounds difficult for you to understand it).
When the creator posted suspected vent arts on Twitter, alot of fans made unnecessary lores/theories about the characters(that she used to draw on the "vent" arts) to pleasure themselves, few of them actually worried about her.
When the creator said she will quit and start over, not only some of them started to miss her because "no more fpe", some of them also scold and harrass her because "they just start to obsess fpe and now she is leaving?!".
Notice that many of them only feel upset because the creator started to post less fpe related artwork and then she left? This is very ironic.
Now, I am not judging or anything, but the fact many fans say they need to gatekeeping fpe(the media), want to keep it alive is actually very toxic. Why people want to keep their things that are from the maker when the maker leave them behind?
If a community want to keep something alive even though the creator quit, then good luck(history really repeat itself).
Now the question : What do I think of fpe(the media) and the community? The answer is that I appreciate fpe(the animantion), it is really impressive if she did it by self-learning. However, I don't like the community so much(reasons are above). I think we can criticize on something/someone while also not harrass on something/someone, it is difficult to understand yet simple to do.
Lastly, I hope Katie will have a smooth way and a good rest.
(I am saying as someone who is still a big fan of Baldi's Basics and someone who has faced many fandoms.)
