Why do non fans try so hard to engage with fandom?

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨PixelNomad@sopuli.xyz⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

I made a post asking specifically for DC fans their opinions. The people who responded aren’t actual fans—they’re just people who think they are fans but have never picked up a comic in their life. My question is: why do non-fans try so hard to engage with real fans?? You aren’t a real fan of DC, Marvel, or anything superhero-related, so you don’t deserve to be in the fandom space.

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Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨51⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
I saw your other post here. You responded to someone who said they enjoyed the Absolute comics by telling them that your question isn’t for them because they’re not a real DC fan. If you ask me, that makes you the one who isn’t a real fan, and in my opinion, makes your current and previous questions entirely disingenuous.

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otacon239@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
This is known as gatekeeping. There’s no such thing as a “real fan”. People from all walks of life want to be involved in a conversation about a thing they find enjoyable. If anything, we should welcome those looking to be involved or experienced with things they don’t yet understand.

This is a bit different if they’re confidently incorrect and argue, but I have to imagine this is not the majority. You can take on the role of an educator to help those that don’t know understand more.

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- msokiovt@lemmy.today ⁨59⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  The Linux community, and niches inside that community, is quite infamous for gatekeeping. Because you don’t use a piece of software that other people use (for usually ideological reasons), you get attacked for it.
  
  I would know, because I was attacked for proudly embracing the use of XLibre. I didn’t care one bit.
  
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- PixelNomad@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  This is known as gatekeeping.
  
  There is literally nothing wrong with gatekeeping and yes there is such a thing as a “real fan”
  
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  - pressedhams@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    I’m a big fan of gatekeeping and I don’t appreciate you trying to say what is and isn’t gate keeping as you clearly aren’t a real fan of it.
    
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  - Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    There is nothing wrong with [thing that is universally accepted as wrong]
    
    Mate, I love you, but please consider that your opinions don’t ALWAYS correspond with reality.
    
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  - Montagge@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Please define with concise and quantifiable metrics for what constitutes a real fan of DC
    
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U7826391786239@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
yikes

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Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Counter question: Why do some fans gatekeep their passion and insult those who they deem aren’t “real fans” when it only creates a negative connotation with the fandom and convinces people with slight interest in the subject to avoid becoming a “real fan”?

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Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Because you have the strictest definition of “fan” which is “people who think the same as me about this franchise”.

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rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
Looks to me like you just arbitrarily decided without actual proof that people don’t read the comics, instead of considering that they DID read them and came to different conclusions than you.

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