>>96026321>The current 30-40 year olds that hate change really do need to shut up, I still see arguments about "truck not monkey" in a few places. And people call other fandons toxic, jesus.I'm an old 30yo fucking faggot and let me tell you the TF fandom has never been worse than it is now. Back in the old day is the fandom was semi-decent we all felt connected to it because of our nostalgia, we had cash to spend to satisfy it, the comics were jerking off our nostalgia boner it was good. There were loud obnoxious trukk hurr monkey hurr cunts but they were a vocal minority of forums. Hell I remember when we all eagerly awaited the new episode of Armada, yes fucking ARMADA to talk about it. When Unicron was in it it blew our fucking minds.
But ever since the Baymovies happened suddenly a fuckton of people remembered that Transformers existed but they only remembered the extremely rose-coloured glasses version of it. They tough that every episode had the animation quality of the 86 movie, that it was this deep serious piece of Asimov like science fiction of epic proportions that THEY tough it was when they were like 5. So that's how the vocal geewuuun minority became a majority, a fuckload of people flooding the fandom that don't remember anything outside of like the first 3 episodes of the cartoon and the movie.
They can't stand that anyone got into the franchise by other means that watching G1 in the 80s. They get ANGRY when they see teen (especially women) who are super into the franchise but only care about TFP or the IDW comics. They are bitter angry men who can't handle the fact that the 80s are over, so transformers became their autistic way of clinging to and they screech anytime the franchise dares and do anything new because they are afraid that it will take the 80s away from them.
And that's only talking about the fiction side I'm not even getting into the toxic pile of festering shit that is the toy part of the fandom.
