>>98447177I'll have to digress, as someone who saw the horse show early because folks pestered me about it being better than expected I gotta say it does pull you in for it's quality, however people distanced themselves out if the horse show due to the inane Horse Fucker fanbase and a mild Touhou effect were the horse fuckers wanted to relate everything with horses and that gave the fans a terrible reputation despite it being on its prime.
Something similar happened with undercrap and jumpscare the game, however I think the horse fucker phenomenon was the first time we got a Touhou effect and it got major backlash.
Something similar happened with Kemono Friends on /A/ but kememe is more of a holy shit this is good edutainment in a sea of mediocrity and Isekai than a bar raising cartoon for a media that was at an all time low.
Also Kememe performed a rectum apocalypse on salesfags that they still have to recover on all fronts of merchandise but it can work as an analogy on the quality stuff without an annoying fanbase.
Sorry for bringing Anime shit here but I needed to point out that it's the fanbase that killed the horse show in general and not the girly stuff.