The other day I was driving home and listening to sports radio and I guess they had been talking about a trade a team didn't make and the fans were angry. One of the hosts said that the angry fans reminded him of nerds who get angry and become toxic because their fan theories didn't come true. I couldn't have rolled my eyes any harder.
Just brought back memories of all the moronic critics when The Last Jedi came out. It wasn't enough to simply say they enjoyed the movie, they had to crap on everyone who didn't and Disney being Disney went along with it. I remember hearing the "you're just mad because your fan theories did come true" or "You just wanted to see a heroic Luke" I remember asking someone who said those exact things why it was a bad thing to want to see a heroic Luke. They didn't respond.
This also popped up in Game of Thrones with Arya killing the Night King and people getting called sexist for saying that it should've been Jon.
I guess in hindsight this exposed all the media shills for what they were. Anyone who was actually interested in the IP would know that fan theories have been around in nerdom since the beginning. Anyone who actually cared about the IPs would know this, but this is what happens when a site/channel that was made to cater to fans is bought out by a corporation and gets re-staffed with a bunch of hacks. Sci-Fi Channel and the Star Wars websites I would frequent in the 90s and early 00s come to mind.
To be honest when I saw your title my mind went somewhere else. I thought of the old "the Rugrats don't exist and are a figment of Angelica's imagination" theory that's been floating around the internet. Evil isn't a descriptor that would have come to mind for me but it was close enough I guess.
Those are fun as well. Have you heard the one with Batman? That he is really an inmate in Arkham and his delusions make him think he is a crime fighter? Or the one that says the events of Breaking Bad started the zombie infection in Walking Dead
Darth Jar Jar is my favorite theory, although that's more of a behind-the-scenes speculation instead of fanfiction
I have heard that Lucas had bigger plans for Jar Jar. Him being a Sith Lord does seem kinda cool
I noticed that when episode 9 came out. Although as an EU fan I loved seeing all the Disney Star Wars people who bashed Dark Empire trying to justify the emperor clone. I never heard that about Jetsons and Flintstones. You ever hear that Elder Scrolls takes place in the far future from Fallout?