20 Groups of Fans That Are Basically Punching Bags

Depending on how you approach it, being a fan can feel like a hobby, a job or a masochistic relationship. Some people keep their interest to a healthy minimum, standing in line for a midnight premiere and maybe buying a poster or two. Some people get kind of weird and start tweeting at anyone who says anything remotely negative about their fave. And some people get really weird and become the person tweeting negatively about their fave.

To be fair, it’s not as if many franchises are blameless. Considering the way they treat their fans, from withholding volumes for years to releasing the most bare-minimum garbage required to keep people buying Funko Pops, it’s no wonder some of them go a little off the rails. They were all called out when user DsTheRed asked r/AskReddit, “Which fanbase has been betrayed the most?”