Fandom Is Broken: Controversies and entitlement shine a light on a deeply troubling side of fandom.

[Blue_Adept]

What if Annie Wilkes had the internet?

Annie, of course, is the antagonist of Stephen King's Misery, a pre-web story about the dark side of the relationship between fan and creator. When Annie finds novelist Paul Sheldon - the author of her favorite romance series, about a woman named Misery Chastain - in a car accident off a mountain road she takes him home to convalesce. A nurse, she tends to Paul's broken legs but refuses to take him to a hospital; you see, Paul has recently killed off Misery and Annie will have none of that. While she has the man in her care she brutally forces him to write a new Misery Chastain novel that will bring the heroine back from the dead. The story is a very, very thinly veiled metaphor for the relationship between pop fiction creators and their most dedicated, most rabid fanbases and the way the creators can be trapped, bullied and tortured by their own creations and the people who love them.

But what if Annie Wilkes had the internet? What if she didn't have to kidnap Paul in order to make her displeasure with him known? What if she could tweet hate at him all day, or could fill message boards with personal bile about him or could directly send him death threats through Facebook, email or Tumblr? If Annie Wilkes had the internet she would fit right in with a disturbingly large segment of fandom.

http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2016/05/30/fandom-is-broken

Politics is its own particular kind of fandom and you can see elements of that in the article as well. Interesting stuff because even though this talks movies/comics/tv, you see how the mindset has bled into ~everything~.

[The2ndWheel]

1. Wouldn't say it's broken

Where else could fandom go, with the internet amplifying the ability of fans to find and go over every little detail, besides ever more heated disagreements? Why the hell would that get more cordial?

[Blue_Adept]

2. The squeaky wheel gets the grease

There are just a lot more squeaky wheels these days and more and more of them are just terrible people.

[irisblue]

3. or she could have read "fix-it-fanfiction"

or written it. I did not see the movie or read the book so I only know your summary B_A.