Different fandoms' craziness

I still feel like I'm relatively new to online fandom - it's been, what, five years? Too lazy to check. But during that time I've seen a lot: I went through the fandom_wank archives once, that was fun; I've watched SPN and Homestuck fandom meltdowns from a safe distance, and through Fanlore, fannish osmosis, and fail_fandomanon I've heard of a lot of other craziness going on in many fandoms. Sure, every fandom is different, with different fights and battlegrounds, but I thought I'm generally prepared for most.

And then I got into a sports fandom (more specifically hockey.) Nope, I was wrong.

The BNFs are paid for their job! Even though so many of them they pay more attention to their headcanon narratives than to the actual canon. Everyone takes it extremely seriously. Hostility between different camps is encouraged. Did I think that media fans overreact when they hear about spoilers or rumors? Sports fans are at least as bad, and they get to talk about it on TV. Ime it usually takes more than a season before media fans want a showrunner fired; sports fans want the GM or coach fired after ten lost games. (Of 82!)

I probably only notice it this much because it's different than I'm used to, and it's a fandom I'm currently more invested in than I was in SPN or Homestuck (fortunately I never got involved in big fights in media fandoms I was involved in.) The medium is also different: very little Lj/DW, a bit of Tumblr, lots of Twitter, blogs, newspapers, TV, Reddit, and boards. And probably to a large part also a different demographic, with a different fan background. It's frustrating at times that there seem to be few people who think rationally and don't overreact to everything. Maybe it's also that in these mediums it's harder to find and stick to a part of the fandom that you're comfortable with, or maybe I just haven't found out how yet. Not that it's not fun! Sometimes.

This post brought to you by the fan reaction to the Penguins firing Shero, but not Bylsma. ~Drama! Wow do hockey fans love scapegoats and refuse to believe that sometimes a loss is just bad luck.
(There were certainly times in the playoffs that the team didn't look as well as it should, but a lot of that is the players' fault - the coach can't do a lot if the players don't backcheck. And the whole "he lost the room" narrative is nothing but speculation. But it's easier to say it's the coach's fault, even though he led the team with the most injuries to a top spot in the standings and they had very good possession numbers, than to say the team lost because of bad luck (Crosby's shooting percentage will probably never be this low again) and the players having a cold streak. If Bylsma is fired, fine, but don't overhaul the whole team; and if he isn't, also fine, stop hating him for not living up to the fans' way too high expectations. Winning a Cup is hard.) (Btw, so happy Boston is out. But the Western semifinal is Chicago-LA again :( )

Vid rec: Next Contestant

(Huh, I have almost no SGA icons anymore...)

lilly_the_kid is the person who made Runs in the Family, an amazing John Sheppard vid to a song I never would've expected, cracky on the surface but also with a surprising amount of serious stuff and possible viewpoints etc. inside. (If you haven't seen it, go watch.)

Her new vid uses an imo unexpected song again: Next Contestant, a "Tony/Iron Man Suit (suit pov), Tony/everyone" vid.
Content Notes: [...] Mostly this is meant to be cracky fun, but I guess it can also be disturbing cracky fun. Or a wonderful romance. It's up to you.
The song works perfectly, I don't know how she does it. (I've seen it, but still.) I can't see the wonderful romance story, it's too creepy for that (especially once I remembered that there was actually a comics story like that), but it's definitely a romance of some kind, just not a very healthy one.