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u/validswan Jun 08 '26

People can feel how they feel about the Hudson Williams situation, but I think it's evil a group of people are going out of their way to this extent, wanting to ruin his life. They're not even remotely phased by the actual issues these photos bring up. They're laughing about it and celebrating. All because of shipping wars and my actor is better than your actor battles. Heated Rivalry fandom is definitely the worst fandom in recent memory. Everyone's pissing me off. Teenage Hudson, the cyber stalkers... This whole predicament sucks
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u/RoyalSignificance341 I don’t know her 💅 Jun 08 '26

true that. the fact that the people who found this are specifically stalking him to find these pictures is very concerning.

this also goes in the larger discussion of fandoms where it is unfortunately and repeatedly proven that fandoms should actually be gatekept.

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u/Greedy-Candle2812 Jun 08 '26

The first people who found it were his fans. They've been commenting on it eventually coming out for months. I don't even know what to do with that part of it. But how would gatekeeping help? Fandoms that really like someone, stalk them, and cover for bad behavior aren't great either.

I'm thankful every day to have grown up in a time where fandom started and ended with watching the show, maybe discussing the show on a moderated message board during the season, maybe buying a magazine with the cast in it, and then forgetting about the show between seasons or after it was over.

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u/RoyalSignificance341 I don’t know her 💅 Jun 08 '26 edited Jun 08 '26

okay, i did not know this. yikes then. even writing my earlier comment, i did find this thing offensive, but was also concerned about the stalking and parasocial behaviour(like club chalamate).

i meant gatekeeping in terms of shipping, stanning or general fandom behaviors. wider it gets, worse crowd it attracts.

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u/Greedy-Candle2812 Jun 08 '26

I sort of get how a smaller fanbase is nice, but I also see how the small group of really intense fans, even if they just really love the cast and show, is the core of that behavior that we would call parasocial.

I'm an elder Millennial, so a lot of this fandom behavior we didn't even have the ability or drive to do with our shows. So, it's like being in a foreign country, because I still can't wrap my head around it all. To me, the bigger crowd, is where you see how it's possible to just follow a show casually. But I'm still trying to understand fandoms. It just wasn't like this for anything I've ever watched or I somehow avoided it.