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Most of the time, I've found more enjoyment in stuff when I interact with other fans. It can be fun to talk about things together. I've not run into much of the toxicity that I think often must people just assume there is.

Every few years I find a kpop act I like but holy shit, the fanbase is fucking horrible. I'd rather try getting into League again before I'd interact with those creatures.

MMA. I've been training for 4 years and I really enjoy it. But I've only ever watched 2 UFC fights on TV and never really interacted with the fans.

My exception to this rule is Pokémon ROM hacks, relatively small fan base though which helps

I don't like fan bases at all. They always manage to make things weird that doesn't need to be weird. Fan fiction is culprit number one. Make your own thing, instead of making someone else's thing, but worse.

I can enjoy the things i like without needing to flaunt it obnoxiously.

Guitar/Metal, spider-man and Donald Duck comics, Harry potter-books, sports(just sports in general, exceptional achievements are exiting to watch).

The older I get the better I am at finding groups of people and fanbases where this doesn't apply. I'm in a spot with music, cooking, visual arts, science and more both IRL and online that are just nice. And it's not about lack of different opinions and being in a bubble, I just focus on and stay with people and groups who are nice about it.

Amazing Digital Circus for me. Sad that I know people who didnt watch the show just because they wanted to avoid the fans.

That is a really creative use of the meme template!

A few days ago some dude I follow did a live stream of a big ultra bike race. Every now and then I went to tune in. To figure out what's going on, of course I checked the live chat.

Man was this an awful place. Half the people are not even able to read the pinned messages, and the other half is backseating a dude that rides 2000k in 3 days and gives everyone shit for the smallest mistake.

Gaming fandoms. I personally love gaming but avoid fandoms associated with it like the plague.

This likely applies to 99 out of every 100 subjects/hobbies.

I've got a coworker who loves Formula 1. She's seen me nerd out about my special interests with our students (mainly astronomy) and has told me often how much she wished she had someone to nerd out about Formula 1 with. I feel for her, but if most fans are bad news then maybe she's dodging a bullet?

Pipe tobacco.

Love the hobby, rusticness of it, 'the art', if you will, but man is the entire community full of grumpy old incensitive conservatives. There are exceptions to the rule like a few dudes at my local shop, but for the most part, I keep to myself about it.

come join the circle jerk

My god the F1 crowd is awful. There is no debate on rules or issues, there is only "I'm right and your a fucking idiot for disagreeing". I want to get more into GT3 as I've always preferred it in racing sims, but it's kind of hard to follow comparatively.

Probably a good idea, OP. The F1 fanbase has become a circus in the past decade. A lot of newcomers bringing their tribalism mentality of other sports along with them, not understanding how F1 works.

If you actually do want to get involved in a motorsport fanbase, GTs. But watching the NLS stream with chat while Max is in a team can be fatiguing. 100+ teams on track over many classes, so effectively 16 races going on, and every five mins his fanbase, that has no idea what they're watching, start arguing about F1. Some genuinely say it's their first GT race and ask a lot of questions, the fanbase is thrilled and explains everything with welcoming arms.

"if you don't know about that..... Don't even considering talking. go watch 10000000hours of series and 500 books + comics so you can stand a conversation" and even then, most likely you won't be accepted as a fan because you don't have all the collectables from 400bc.

MotoGP. I've never met or interacted with anyone else who enjoys it. I freaking love it