My only spicy take on fandom/criticism/media is that fandom spaces are mostly for people who liked the thing, and they stop being fun when more than 50% of the posts are people talking about what they hated about it.
Most of my takes on fandom/criticism/media are pretty milquetoast -- criticism is good, harassment is bad, you can both let people like things and let people critique things.
But when I'm in a fan space and more than half the posts are complaints, I get tired. If you want to spend a year of your life hate-watching something that you haven't enjoyed since Season 1, that's fine! But you probably don't need to be on the fan forums!
I was a Twilight Hater in the late 2000s, and I wrote a lot about why I hated Twilight on my Facebook and so on, but I didn't go out of my way to find people who loved Twilight having fandom conversations and go "BUT HAS ANYONE CONSIDERED, THAT EDWARD IS VERY CONTROLLING?"
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