Board Thread:Roblox help and discussion/@comment-35404925-20180623082553/@comment-26397550-20180624143432

Malleonaire wrote: StrongestPeaShooter wrote: I don't really hate CowCow. I really hate his fanbase though. Yeah, his fanbase is really bad. Gotten into a few Twitter arguments with some of his fans and I learned you cannot reason with them. How did I realize that?

One literally said CowCow has the right to avoid the truth. Honestly, that's fanbases of a person or limited group of people in general. Worship and "stan culture" (or "stanning"; i.e. a status of being an undoubted super-fan towards someone who then becomes perfect in their eyes) is really a terrible thing that's getting around nowadays, often to younger children (of which are very easy to influence).

As part of the Roblox fashion and clothing community (using "RFC" for this) there are very few major [big-name] and midrange relevant designers that don't take advantage of this belief held by their fans to make any and all claims or start drama to get attention for popularity. Their fans just believe they do not hold the capability to speak any wrong. And so they believe everything, and go with everything, and seldom question these people they look up to...

Thing is, when you have a fanbase full of extreme supporters/stans, you have an army ready to go after whoever you want, or tons of people ready to agree with an opinion or take a side. It puts that person with such a fanbase into a position of power to cause a stir or ruin someone else below them entirely. Even if they get proven wrong, the person with more diehard following fans will win if solely for sheer amount of personal attack. The "loser" will be ruined for months, maybe even years.

It's important to note that when "stanning" (in a general sense) is involved in most of these cases, reputation is dependent on popularity and the personality of the person. As long as they're cool, cute, talented etc they're 100% a good person and have good reputation in the eyes of the fanbase.

In terms of the RFC this is so common that no one ever really bats an eye and would rather sit and watch what happens while cheering their favourites on, other than those like me who avoid the general community due to this exact problem. We could protest and argue that these are problems that need to be fixed in our community for ages if we wanted, but it's not worth it. We were, but mostly stopped at some point, as it's not worth trying to change people who put reputation and popularity over morals. Especially on purpose.

Not really surprised that a major YouTuber primarily based in manipulation is using his fans this way, and acting in such a way. He is, also, interested in reputation and popularity over morals. His content may sometimes be in good faith and not reflect this (which I believe it mostly isn't), but the behaviour is present.

In these cases, you can only hope that amidst their constant attempts to cause problems to ruin others, that they'll ruin themselves by accident. There's not really any other way. And you can tell why that's pretty hard when their fanbase doesn't believe they can be bad or make mistakes.