Artists, bands and genres with the worst fanbases -

[Pretty Boy Extremism]

As a metalhead I can undoubtedly say that we are the wor-

K-pop is the gold standard.

Nevermind, I stand corrected

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I tend to dislike rap music.

Fans of rap like to play crap rap with loud, low bass.

Said bass is very repetitive.

And are the lyrics almost always about "gangsta culture"?

 

[Cheerlead-in-Chief]

Blood on the Dance floor fangirls and victims.

 

[EveyDwyer]

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

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

I briefly posted on a Tool forum back in the day but had to stop. Everyone was so snarky and up themselves. It was like ok you guys listen to a band that does "smart music", you aren't the ones making the music. Settle down.

 

[Moguro Fukuzou]

Besides also agreeing that kpop fans are the literal worst (even if some of the songs are catchy), I'd also say anti-fans are pretty insufferable even if they aren't from a specific genre.

Take a band like The Beatles where you can broadly break up the fans into: legit fans that have grown to enjoy their music and the band members, casual listeners, and people that say they like the Beatles because it makes them look "cool" to listen to older music but really know nothing about the band besides knowing Paul and John. Due to this third group, there's also an annoying group that go off about how by not listening to the "overrated" Beatles they're better than everyone and won't shut up about it. It isn't just a problem with the Beatles, but really any popular group will have those people or if you're Nickleback. Usually those same people when asked about what they listen to pull out the old "Oh, you've probably never heard of them since they're kind of underground" when typically they never are. I don't know if those types count as musical hipsters, but it's like they want to feel special that they don't like a popular band and get back pats.

I've run into those types a bunch after getting into The Beatles so that's mainly why I used them as an example, a lot of them hover around discussion of the group like flies because of the high praise given to them. There probably also a problem that many people have run into given how vocal they are about it.

 

[Inflatable Julay]

Punk fans are insufferable. Animal Collective fans are probably the worst though and I say that as someone who liked their first few albums.

Punk is weird because the entire point is being anti-conformist but you get judged for not being a "true punk"

My favorite band is Queen, and looking back I was the stereotype of the high school intellectual who discovers Queen and thinks it makes him more cultured and sophisticated than everyone else. And that was before reddit, that shit is even worse now.

 

[Autumnal Equinox]

I'm a big fan of prog rock, but I'll concede that there's a lot of pretentious douchebags in the fanbase. No matter what your favorite prog band may be, you'll always have a group of asses coming after you telling you that you're not a TRUE AND HONEST fan since you like the one band. They're worse than goths at times.

 

[Raging Capybara]

I disagree completely with anyone who's saying progtards here. I think you are confusing prog metal fans with standard prog rock fans.

Progtards are some of the most chill and calm people I've ever seen in my life, they are all centenary boomers anyway so I would not expect differently.

I think the most annoying ones are Rush fans, but as I said, we are almost entering the metal side of things with Rush.

 

[Pretty Boy Extremism]

Due to this third group, there's also an annoying group that go off about how by not listening to the "overrated" Beatles they're better than everyone and won't shut up about it.

"The fact that so many books still name the Beatles as "the greatest or most significant or most influential" rock band ever only tells you how far rock music still is from becoming a serious art. Jazz critics have long recognized that the greatest jazz musicians of all times are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Classical critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven over classical musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Rock critics, instead, are still blinded by commercial success. The Beatles sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Jazz critics grow up listening to a lot of jazz music of the past, classical critics grow up listening to a lot of classical music of the past. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers."
~Piero "Scruffy" Scaruffi

 

[Jeff Boomhauer]

For some that haven't been mentioned here yet:

Twenty One Pilots fans. They act like every single song speaks to them on a personal level, and will attack anyone that throws them even a slight hint of criticism.

Melanie Martinez fans were also completely insufferable, until she was outed as a pedo. They thankfully shut up after that.

 

[Damien Thorne]

Besides also agreeing that kpop fans are the literal worst (even if some of the songs are catchy), I'd also say anti-fans are pretty insufferable even if they aren't from a specific genre.

Take a band like The Beatles where you can broadly break up the fans into: legit fans that have grown to enjoy their music and the band members, casual listeners, and people that say they like the Beatles because it makes them look "cool" to listen to older music but really know nothing about the band besides knowing Paul and John. Due to this third group, there's also an annoying group that go off about how by not listening to the "overrated" Beatles they're better than everyone and won't shut up about it. It isn't just a problem with the Beatles, but really any popular group will have those people or if you're Nickleback. Usually those same people when asked about what they listen to pull out the old "Oh, you've probably never heard of them since they're kind of underground" when typically they never are. I don't know if those types count as musical hipsters, but it's like they want to feel special that they don't like a popular band and get back pats.

I've run into those types a bunch after getting into The Beatles so that's mainly why I used them as an example, a lot of them hover around discussion of the group like flies because of the high praise given to them. There probably also a problem that many people have run into given how vocal they are about it.

I am waiting for Paul and Ringo to die so I can start listening to The Beatles. That way, I could claim I only listened to them when they were underground.

 

[McMitch4kf]

I am waiting for Paul and Ringo to die so I can start listening to The Beatles. That way, I could claim I only listened to them when they were underground.

You’re gonna be waiting a while. I’d bet money there will be a Mick Jagger/Ringo Starr “We’re the only ones left” tour in the 2030’s

 

[ToroidalBoat]

What if all music and fandoms of it suck?

 

[BIG_BRAD]

I'm a big fan of prog rock, but I'll concede that there's a lot of pretentious douchebags in the fanbase. No matter what your favorite prog band may be, you'll always have a group of asses coming after you telling you that you're not a TRUE AND HONEST fan since you like the one band. They're worse than goths at times.

found the Dream Theater/Rush fan

 

[flexedupicedout]

every emo I've come across in the last few years have always been annoying. anyone labelling themselves as ALT in 2020 is probably autistic

 

[Ungrim Ironfist]

I disagree completely with anyone who's saying progtards here. I think you are confusing prog metal fans with standard prog rock fans.

Progtards are some of the most chill and calm people I've ever seen in my life, they are all centenary boomers anyway so I would not expect differently.

I think the most annoying ones are Rush fans, but as I said, we are almost entering the metal side of things with Rush.

No one is confusing anything or anyone. Fans of prog metal and fans of prog rock are two sides of the same elitist tard coin. If your experience is that fans of King Crimson/Yes/Gentle Giant are more chill and calm than fans of Dream Theater/Porcupine Tree, I envy you, but I would postulate that the shitty elitist behaviour of the former is identical to that of the latter, because they're the same people. I went to a Steven WIlson concert once (great gig btw) where he gave out about prog fans and how miserable and narrow minded they are. Thus, one of the most prominent artists in modern prog agrees with my sentiment, for whatever that's worth (which is almost nothing).

 

[tehpope]

The more prominent genres and bands and scenes have been mentioned, but certain section of live music tapers are cringe. I'm just reminded of the whole Freezer's Revenge tale and all the nastiness that came out of that.

"Freezer's Revenge" - The story of a taper, a trading community, and one of the most notorious flame wars of all time.

The bootlegging community has never exactly been known to be the most virtuous community out there. For every tape that gets shared freely, there's always drama and backstabbing for another.

Nowhere in the Zeppelin community has this ever been more prevalent than in the saga of Freezer.

Freezer is the moniker given to a taper who taped many shows in the Louisiana area. When it comes to Zeppelin, he is known to have taped four shows: New Orleans 8/29/71, New Orleans 5/14/73, Baton Rouge 2/28/75, and Baton Rouge 5/19/77. Of these shows, two circulate widely: the 1973 and 1975 shows. Both of these recordings are noted for being outstanding, especially as far as audience recordings go. The shitstorm that ensued over the 1973 recording is legendary and exposes some of the more sordid aspects of the Zeppelin trading community.

The story is a bit complicated, but here's the basic gist of it: back around 2006, a group of young collectors purchased Freezer's master tapes of the 1973 New Orleans show. They did so on one condition postulated by Freezer - they were not to share it for a year.

Unfortunately, the collectors couldn't help themselves, so they decided to transfer the tapes themselves in order to share them with the Zeppelin community. Even worse, the tapes ended up getting damaged in the process, so they botched it up. These collectors then attempted to cover up the botched job and started blaming each other for it, but the damaged transfer ended up getting leaked out.

Meanwhile, Freezer had made a copy of the master tapes and had a friend of his upload it to The Traders' Den, a torrent site. This inevitably outed the collectors and their botched job on the master tapes.

Then the mudslinging started. The collectors started attacking Freezer and he and his allies responded in kind. What followed became a giant shitstorm as a lot of fingerpointing, backstabbing, and namecalling was flung from all sides. Freezer had already garnered a reputation for having a nasty temper and the thread that originated from his copy of the show devolved into one of the most notorious flame wars out there. The entire thread is still out there for anyone to read (note, you have to register an account at the site in order to browse, but it is free).

The thread is ridiculously long and riddled with insults of the worst kind:

It means that the best you will ever hear of LZ 2/28/75 comes from one of those crappy unverifiable generation bootlegs. I'll destroy that MASTER myself before I ever deal with ANY LZ collectors again. It means nothing LZ uncirculated will ever circulate from me. PERIOD

It means that if you can put 20,000 Monkeys names on the "professional" re-re-re-re-masters and run it over at the Hotel then you can grab a big bite of "fuck you very much" while you're at it.

Do NOT send me private messages on ANY Led Zeppelin recordings. I don't give a rat's ass about you kool-aid slurpers.

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Fuck, if we're all very fortunate, you'll commit suicide tonight, you greedy mofo.

If you'd like to consider putting a gun to your temple, I'll send you a few bucks for the ammo.

Hell, I'll even send you a link to a site with anatomical drawings so you can find your temple, fuck-wit.

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You wouldn't know a master unless you were in some gay-blade's dungeon having your nostrils lubricated with the jelly from your last can of Spam.

And don't forget, you're a soul-less wall-eyed, apple-knocking pig-fucking ungrateful cocksucker with no integrity....and that a short list of your few good points.....

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tubular, roomful...whatever you name yourself...you're douchebag, vaginal blood fart, piece of shit, who should be analy raped using bonzo's bass drum before being thrown in the oven

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Freezer.....Will you just shut the fuck up for once in your life?THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT....If you would have IGNORED my claim and not called me a liar 67 fucking times,NONE of this would have taken place.....FREEZER IS THE BAD GUY HERE!!!!!!! Any asshole that gives a stipulation like"Keep it secret for a year" is an ASSHOLE!!!!! You were testing him like your a fucking 3 year old....

FREEZER IS THE BAD GUY HERE!!!!!!! FREEZER IS THE BAD GUY HERE!!!!!!!Is this so fucking hard to understand?I think he made out ok...$2000.00 for 2 15 cent tapes with HISSY CRAP on them is a pretty good deal for him...Don't you guys think?

If you like a good Internet war, that thread is a must. Highly entertaining.

Unfortunately, things went from bad to even worse when a boot label ended up releasing the damaged master tapes. It became clear that the collectors who had purchased the tapes had done so with the sole intention of selling them to a bootleg company for profit.

One of the tragedies of all the backstabbing and backroom dealing is that we may very well never hear the other two shows Freezer taped.

In the midst of all the chaos, Freezer (supposedly) sent a copy of the 1977 Baton Rouge show to the head of The Traders' Den for the possibility of uploading in the future. Word ended up getting out, and several rather greedy people in the Zeppelin community began salivating at just the possibility of hearing the show. Word inevitably got to boot labels and it was revealed that one of them was monitoring the site, waiting for the precise moment when the recording was torrented. When Freezer was informed of this, he had the recording held back, and since then it has not leaked out.

Freezer ended up passing away a few years later, and it was said by him that he ended up destroying his master tapes in a spectacular bonfire because he was so pissed at all the backstabbing within the community. Whether he told the truth is uncertain, but the fact remains that the whole saga is a rather interesting and notorious bit of history within the Zeppelin community.

 

[Weeb Slinger]

In an attempt to pay off a long-standing karmic debt and avoid being reincarnated as a cockroach, you have decided to follow Godspeed You! Black Emperor around on tour (the most interminable groupie experience ever - you won't get laid, but you may be subjected to lengthy readings from Habermas).

One evening you take the leaflet that you were handed outside a venue, advertising some crypto-Marxist, anti-capitalist gathering taking place nearby, and carefully fold it into a paper dart, which you throw into the crowd in a blatant act of class warfare. The chances are that your improvised airplane has just hit a cunt. Not just any kind of cunt but the pseudo-intellectual, finger-wagging variety. The absolute worst distillation of cunt imaginable.

The good news is that, if they decide to do more than glower fiercely in your direction, they will probably have been listening to the band with their arms folded, giving you the upper hand in any physical altercation that might ensue.

 

[Pointless Pedant]

"The fact that so many books still name the Beatles as "the greatest or most significant or most influential" rock band ever only tells you how far rock music still is from becoming a serious art. Jazz critics have long recognized that the greatest jazz musicians of all times are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Classical critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven over classical musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Rock critics, instead, are still blinded by commercial success. The Beatles sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Jazz critics grow up listening to a lot of jazz music of the past, classical critics grow up listening to a lot of classical music of the past. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers."
~Piero "Scruffy" Scaruffi

Can't say I agree with that at all. I'd say Mingus and Davis were also on Coltrane's level during the creative golden age of jazz in the 1950s-1970s. A Love Supreme and My Favourite Things are fantastic though.

I think a lot of people are showing their age here by complaining about prog and metal heads, or other older groups like Radiohead fans. Those are mostly middle aged people these days and are pretty relaxed. They may have been bad a few decades ago but these days they're not in anywhere near the same category as K-pop fans or wiggers obsessed with rap/grime, and I say this as someone who doesn't mind hip hop itself at all. If you've ever had the experience of hearing an upper class British student trying to talk like a "roadman" then you'll know.

 

[Raging Capybara]

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No one is confusing anything or anyone. Fans of prog metal and fans of prog rock are two sides of the same elitist tard coin. If your experience is that fans of King Crimson/Yes/Gentle Giant are more chill and calm than fans of Dream Theater/Porcupine Tree, I envy you, but I would postulate that the shitty elitist behaviour of the former is identical to that of the latter, because they're the same people. I went to a Steven WIlson concert once (great gig btw) where he gave out about prog fans and how miserable and narrow minded they are. Thus, one of the most prominent artists in modern prog agrees with my sentiment, for whatever that's worth (which is almost nothing).

I don't know, man. Go to the prog archives forum and see if they are acting like absolute tards. That's not the case, that site is some of the classiest things in the world, no fightings ou petty arguments at all.

I've never seen in my life an ELP fan losing their head because someone said their favorite song suck. And again, it doesn't happen because prog fans are all old as fuck (as Pointless Pedant pointed out).

And again, porcupine tree is almost on the metal side. I've already said that this part of the fandom is annoying because they are younger. But cunts exist everywhere, I just think it's bizarre to put progtards on the same level of k-poppers and such, lol.