>>85440878>>85441123I'm a Tumblr fag that started out on like 2012. I can confirm YES, it did got that bad.
Even if the people you followed had completly unrelated content you'd see that money-fucker son of a bitch on your dashboard everyday.
The AUs started out normally at first (your usual stuff, genderbend, high school, vampire, etc.) but by the middle point of the fandom shit got weird really fucking quickly. There's even a wiki for the fandom and they have an entire page dedicated to keep up with all the askblogs people were making.
Eventually it all got too weird and there was nothing else to make an AU for so the fandom collapsed. There's still some people who post about it to this day every now and then but it's either the tame AUs you see in every fandom or "NEVER FORGET"
