Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The True Doctor Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho,rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Toxic fandom Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 03:47:16 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 04:47:17 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="0552be217695354c4de9e9aa860a0092"; logging-data="905108"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX191yqgZSRve+bqQU0IJOAj/Fla3QNreISs=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:C+N6m85jAWiGMgEZ8mnTrlbEV/0= Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2239 On 11/06/2024 01:35, Blueshirt wrote: > The Last Doctor wrote: > >> Blueshirt wrote: >>> The Doctor wrote: >>> >>>> RTD not retconning the Timeless Child is the ultimate recipe >>>> for toxic fandom. >>> >>> Parts of Doctor Who fandom have been toxic long before the >>> Timeless Child was thought of... >>> >>> Pretending it only happened in 2017 is revisionism. >> >> The sort of people who rant “Retcon the Timeless Child” and >> “Doctor Who ended in 2017” and similar stuff, instead of >> either walking away or finding things still to enjoy about the >> show, ARE the toxic fandom. > > They can't walk away Mike, they have to watch is so nobody else > has to. They are providing a service for fandom. The people on > YouTube even agree with them. So we must be the ones doing > something wrong! The people on YouTube also have more viewers than this degeneracy of a show has on Disney+. -- The True Doctor https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCngrZwoS0n21IRcXpKO79Lw "To be woke is to be uninformed which is exactly the opposite of what it stands for." -William Shatner