Artists, bands and genres with the worst fanbases -

[Big Luigi Fan]

Of course every big fan of anything is fucking annoying, but which music artist etc do you have your biggest hateboners for?

For me, it's Autechre. Worst fans. It doesn't help that their music is actually ok.

 

[BONE_Buddy]

Sabaton.

The music is decent, even good at times, but yeeash, their fans can be a bit much.

 

[HeyYou]

K-pop is the gold standard.

 

[Frank D'arbo]

Originally I'd say Metalheads but Kpop fans somehow dethroned them as not only the worst music fanbase but quite possibly the worst fanbase period.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Black metal fans. The stereotypical ones seem to have a stick superglued into their ass.

 

[Thumb Butler]

Whatever popular female pop singer at the moment as well as the stars of yesterday. Madonna, Lady Gaga, and so on.

 

[Grand_Ole_Ostritch]

Radiohead fans are the Rick and Morty fans of music.

 

[Ita Mori]

Arctic Monkeys fans; because Black Eyed Peas fans weren't bad enough.

 

[Calandrino]

I don't get the idea of hating somebody just because of their musical preferences. I personally love Autechre and black metal, but I don't blame anyone for being too stupid or artistically backward to be able to grasp such music. I'm not a snob and I don't blame people for sticking to music that's more on their level of mental development.

 

[The Shadow]

Anyone that describes something as not "real" punk, metal, whatever.

No one cares. I like to listen to Dokken or Skid Row once in a while. Somehow that negates enjoying Electric Wizard and Testament.

 

[The Wizard]

Like others said, K-Pop.

Its actually kind of astounding how such generic boy/girlband music can inspire such vitriol and idiocy in people. Maybe the songs have binaural beats put in them to shut off parts of your brain.

 

[Admiral Mantoid]

I used to think Juggalos and Metalheads were the worst until the coming of K-Pop stans. And that's saying something, especially with Juggalos and Metalheads.

 

[verissimus]

NGE fans (well it's really the shills/pretentious essayists of such that really get to me)...also...well I don't know if they count as a fanbase, but anybody that is obsessed with "shipping" is also among the worst.

Oh also the Last of Us fans. Screw em.

 

[Ungrim Ironfist]

In general, fans of progressive rock/metal and specifically Tool fans are among the most miserable people in music. I like the genre (and also Tool, to some extent) but you'll struggle to find a more pretentious cunt than your average prog head. Their dedication to the genre is almost militant, claiming that nothing greater exists within the realm of music. Most of them couldn't tell you the first thing about jazz or classical though. Given how rich prog rock can be, due to the fusion of so many genres, it's astonishing just how narrow minded many of them are. Just a thoroughly unpleasant fanbase, overall.

Spoiler: PSA

Also everyone should go listen to Thick as A Brick. It's fucking brilliant.

 

[ColtWalker1847]

I used to think Juggalos and Metalheads were the worst until the coming of K-Pop stans. And that's saying something, especially with Juggalos.

Juggalos have been the historic high water mark for a terrible fanbase, yes.

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

Beautubers (Beauty Community).

 

[Sea creature]

K-pop fans on twitter make me want to drink bleach.

 

[Decepticon Spy]

The hornet's nest that is the RWBY FNDM, where the slightest wrongthink and half assed criticisms about the show's obvious pandering and awful writing will be persecuted by the tumblr/reddit jihadists.

Edit: mistook prosecuted with persecuted

 

[All Cops Are Based]

The vast majority of Throbbing Gristle/Coil/Psychic TV fans. The perfect storm of occult/"magick" tarot card neckbeards, Charles Manson fanclub members and troons. The more normal fans are still largely up-their-own-ass artkids who think their music taste makes them some sort of transgressive cultural vanguard.

The first wave industrial thing was said to be an analogous movement to punk and post-punk, but I have a theory it was really just the corpse of hippie counterculture beginning to rot and ferment into something edgy and grimdark.


Also, militant poptimists are way more elitist and snobby than proper "music snobs" in their own way.

 

[Syaoran Li]

Two words....

Punk Rock

Punk music is extremely overrated and awful in its own right (The Ramones and some of the early 80's Goth bands being the only real exceptions to the rule) but the punk subculture is even worse and always has been outside of maybe the earliest British punks in the 70's and early 80's, who were more genuine in their anti-conformity and weren't pretentious anarchist snobs like their successors and American equivalents.

Coincidentally, a lot of those early British apolitical punks would later become the cool Goth bands I mentioned earlier, the prime examples being The Sisters of Mercy or Siouxsie and The Banshees (Andrew Eldritch is a left-leaning liberal in his personal life but The Sisters of Mercy aren't anything like Crass or even Rage Against The Machine)

The Ramones were more or less the closest that American punk got to that early British punk ethos of rebelling against stodgy conformity, but most of the American scene had more in line with the pretentious anarcho-douchebags from Crass than The Sex Pistols or even Siouxsie.

GG Allin was a terrible musician, but he was one hell of a showman who gleefully blurred the line between massive lolcow and master troll, so I'll give him some props for his sheer audacity.

Punks as a general rule tend to be extremely pretentious and with an unwarranted sense of elitism, prone to purity spirals and conformity disguised as "non-conformity" and in many ways were proto-SJW's. The "dangerhair" look is basically the clueless 2010's affectation of old punk fashion and punk aesthetics.

Always remember that Antifa emerged from the hardcore punk scene in the 1980's, at least in North America.

The worst part of all this is that the pop culture narrative sort of lionized punk rock as this revolutionary innovative thing and more or less enshrined it as a sort of orthodoxy, especially when championing the death of disco in 1980 or the death of hair metal/rise of Grunge in the early 90's.

I honestly think the death of rock music in the mainstream and the rise of pretentious indie music in the 2010's can be at least partially connected to punk rock and its lionization by Gen X and the Early Millennials if you really look a little deeper.

The only reason why hip-hop fully supplanted rock in the mainstream during the late 2000's/2010's was because it was already popular alongside rock and the rise of the indie snob and typical Punk and Alternative pretentiousness killed rock for good, leaving no real competition.

Even in the late 90's/early 2000's, rock and hip-hop more or less fully co-existed in the mainstream scene even if they were in slightly different mainstream niches.

K-Pop stans are the most bugfuck insane and Juggalos are probably the most cringe of music fandoms, but when it comes to music subcultures, none have been more downright awful and undeservedly celebrated in my opinion than punk.

Punk rock only really worked in its initial context of reacting to the stodgy and stuck-up society of 1970's Britain, and had it remained a mostly British phenomenon for the Late Boomer/Early Gen X'er crowd, it probably wouldn't have gotten as bad as it eventually did.

The Goth scene of the 80's was the most genuine continuation of that spirit in my opinion, and I think it says a lot when the earliest Goths in 1979-1980 were initially referred to as "positive punks" because they rejected the hyper-political anarchist direction punk was ultimately heading towards.