>>96497064Media in general attracts a faucet of 1) fans with a diehard passion that'd constantly go out and shield it from criticism, 2) attract a mainstream crowd drowning it by debasing, gatekeeping and/or play pretend cus its trendy, or 3) get those greasy, seedy elements all crawling over it cus they found it appealing.
These are but three varied outcomes, but they'll be largely present. You can probably blame the spread over time that it escalates since its contaminated at first.
Now the counter by the bad fandom indicting bad piece of media runs by assumption and not treating the product just. This is why reading up information to come to a conclusion by yourself is best.