Tell Us Now: 17 Things We're Ashamed To Love Because Of Their Fanbases

There's a lot of stuff that we're absolutely ashamed to like. Life size he-man dolls (ahem, action figures) that we keep in our childhood bedroom at our parents suburban home with ‘MOM DO NOT THROW OUT’ sticky notes on them? Fine, questionable. 

It's one thing when something is a little embarrassing on it's own (paging all resident bronies), but it's quite another when an otherwise GOOD franchise is ruined by a cringe inducing fan base. Can everyone just relax and stop ruining perfectly good cartoons for adults? Life is hard enough as it is. Seriously gang, can we tone it down with the Supernatural fan fiction? They are BROTHERS for the love of pete.

We asked Cracked readers on Facebook, “What franchise do you love but don’t want to be associated with the fanbase?” We were (not) surprised when your answers included some very famous cartoons, videogames and television shows. One day we would love if Rick and Morty did not make this list.