>>96143731Batman fans are the one group of fans most catered for by DC, yet a large and vocal element of them are still never satisfied, or just start REEEEEEEEing if they think one character is taking spotlight and attention away from another.
X-Men fans are what happens to this type of audience when they're NOT the most catered to anymore. There are still a lot of X-Men comics, and probably more than sales justify, but it's still not enough, because they're not being treated as #1 anymore, and fans are just losing their minds over it, and coming up with elaborate conspiracy theories about how Marvel only started pushing other books because of movie rights, and otherwise the X-Men would still be #1, rather than face up to how sales had been dropping since the late 1990s, other books' sales overtook them, and the more they doubled down on "metaphor for minorities" and modern-day identity politics, you alienate more readers than you're going to gain. There is truth in the movie-rights being a factor, but the decline was already happening years before that became an issue.
It's the sense of entitlement from a fandom that won't accept that the world has moved on and it's not the 1980s or 1990s anymore, they're not #1 anymore, and they're not going to be the most catered for and pandered to anymore.
Even now, there are around 10 X-books a month, and that's still not enough.
