Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25926288-20171008010933/@comment-1916997-20180316145854

Anonymius wrote: oh right, how of silly of me, it's not like there were people who genuinely enjoyed this show and were fans of it but were later put off by the things the writers did or found it was not as good as it used to be, no of course only the people who stuck by the end are the true fans. If you are truly a fan of something, you stick with it, even through rough patches, so if people gave up on the show, or fell behind and decided not to catch up, or whatever the reason is, then yeah, I would say they aren't fans, or at least they aren't a commited fan. Also, regarding people who left because Snowing is gone or Emma is gone or whatever: liking one character or one ship means you are a fan of that character or that ship, not the show as a whole.