Board Thread:Rant and Rave/@comment-32713584-20180606060016/@comment-25926288-20180707202522

Current online culture does drift negative; however, then there lies things like subcultures, etc.

Nitpicking and finding flaws becomes more prevalent when you can gather together to discuss things. (It is why I strive towards constructive discussion on the episode threads as only praise doesn’t create a conversation and it can possibly smooth out rough patches or remold other people’s opinions.)

Once has subcultures created on certain forums. Facebook is a bunch of Wild praise, Wild hate, occasional criticism and a hive of likes, dislikes, and trolling. Twitter isn’t much different except you’ll get those who are more fanatically for or against a character which blends their reality (of which it shouldn’t as the actors aren’t their tv selves). A forum is a marketplace of ideas.

Once draws in a heavy teen audience (as that was what Hulu targeted at least). So, you do have the negative and entitled prospects increasing, but the bigger issue is that the underlying material isn’t there to overcome it. Game of Thrones have ships, but everyone is engrossed in theories, news, etc, that you don’t spend most of the time facing “OTP forevers”. The Simpsons and Family have been around and they don’t experience that kind of toxicity, but negativity in the form of nostalgic fans versus newcomers, old episodes versus the newer versions.

So, the shipping culture helped guide the negativity into bisecting the show and Once couldn’t keep up (as the writing probably declined in quality overall for most of the show and it’s clear that half arc segments didn’t allow for long lasting theories to bide time when the show did whatever the show runners figured was fun.)