Artists, bands and genres with the worst fanbases -

[Pointless Pedant]

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.

Porcupine Tree fans really aren't young either. The band hasn't even existed anymore for a decade. The worst fanbases in music are the ones made up of ultra-passionate teenagers, and prog is definitely not that (though I'm sure it might have had them back when Porcupine Tree still existed in the 2000s).

I'd agree that Steven Wilson does a great live show though.

 

[nukes]

Bladee fans

I’m not sure who’s ever come across “drainers” here, but if you follow anything related to rap music you’ll probably come across a bunch of them. All they do is circlejerk Bladee and bring up their music taste at any opportunity.

 

[EmpireOfTheClouds]

Can't believe I'm saying this because I love this band dearly, but Ghost.

Dear fucking lord. Maybe it's the fact that I've been listening to them since 2012, before their second album came out and I'm experiencing the eventual growing pains, but since 2015 their fanbase pretty much began nosediving. Thankfully the band's music has been more than good enough to make up for it, but it's gotten to the point where I hope Tobias Forge pulls a Mars Volta on the next album, where after attracting so many cringe fans to the base they went and made an extremely off putting record on purpose (The Bedlam in Goliath) just to scare away said fans.

I say they've been going downhill because I'm 2013 people began respecting the whole anonymity thing and saw the band for their music and loved the costumes and had the elemental nicknames for the ghouls based on the elemental symbols in their insturments, which was really cool.

But then somewhere along the way, Cirice came out and was a massive hit, and then they attracted so many cringe teenage girls and Tumblr fans to their base. But it didn't reach new heights until 2018 when the Prequelle album was released and got a new lineup, and suddenly their fan base was awash with said Tumblr types and really sad 40 year old women/men who date abusive assholes on purpose, and now the ghouls have cringe nicknames like "Dewdrop" and "Mountain" (which I've been told the band apparently hate too). It's almost impossible to look them up on Instagram without finding Tumblr screenshots that read "DEWDROP IS MY PRECIOUS ANGER BABY" and "TOBIAS FORGE IS TOTELLINI FUDGECAKE". Part of my soul is dying just typing that out.

 

[Fart]

Billie Eilish, without a doubt. We all know how rabid the K-pop fan base is, but Billie’s fans are arguably second only to them, and the worst out of any single artist or band as opposed to a genre.

I don’t have any screenshots or whatnot because just about all of my experiences with them are from before joining the Farms, but I’ve seen fan accounts gang up in numbers of at least a few dozen to harass people who don’t bow down to their attention seeking overlord on Twitter and Instagram - even for a statement as innocuous as “I don’t really like Billie Eilish’s music.” In some cases I’ve even seen them try to get people banned off of said platforms, and have succeeded in doing so at least three times that I can recall.

While most of what I just described above happened on Instagram as opposed to Twitter, the latter isn’t much better.

Anyone who follows the K-pop “stans” knows how much they love “cancelling” anyone who steps out of line, usually by means of tweeting “#[X celebrity]IsOverParty” until their fingers bleed, a trend in which Billie’s fans follow suit.

However, some time around the spring of this year, #BillieIsOverParty trended on Twitter. Why? I’m not sure. But I checked it out just to see what I was in for, and sure enough, the tag was flooded with ten thousand variations of “y’all are just salty because Billie is better than you’ll ever be!!11”, most of which were accompanied by a GIF of Billie herself dancing with a shit eating grin... you know, exactly like the K-pop spergs do. Cancellation for thee but not for me.

 

[TowinKarz]

Back when he was still popular, Marilyn Manson had some real trash in his wake.

Granted, small sample size here because I shared an apartment with a coven of them, but they were all the same. Thought his edginess was genuine, that they were the vanguard of the future generation for "rejecting society, man!" and that he was the most important figure of the 20th Century. He was clung to by the last generation that could really get a rise out of thier parents with nose piercings and black eyeliner. And I'm talking "Maybe Johnny needs an intervention?" kind of a rise, not "There goes Johnny again with his cadaver-makeup, well, i'ts only because he can't wear it while on the clock at Sam's Club" kind. The last of the 90's teen rebels upset that their rebellion had gone unnoticed.... whose idea of edgy was a black T-shirt that said "CAUTION SHARP EDGES" and when nobody flinched, they just assumed we were too IGNORANT to understand we were being prodded..

They were also proto-SJW in their inability to articulate WHY or have ANY patience for those who disagreed....

MANSON IS THE ULTIMATE EVOLUTION OF HUMANITY!

Uh, how?

BECAUSE HIS MUSIC IS REVOLUTIONARY!

In what way?

It's NOT my job to teach you, if you can't see it, you're just too DUMB! Just go back to your job you useless corporate drone! It's a good thing your kind are going to be purged some day...


BTW - Of that group, last I heard, one was in jail and the rest are forever couch-surfing to stay ahead of creditors.

 

[FrailQueen]

Besides the many great examples already stated, Bassnectar fans. Not the casual ones, I'm talkin about the hardcore wooks. After the allegations came out and he ended his own career (a lot of actions that screamed guilty), besides fans with actual common sense, there was a lot of panicked response from wooks who had nothing to look forward to in life but getting k-holed at a 'Nectar set. There was even a large amount of people that admitted to not giving a shit if he slept with minors.
I've seen him live once, I've never seen so many people dragged away by festival medic staff due to drug OD. He believed that him and his unhygienic wook mob had the power to get rid of the electoral college with the power of bass and ketamine or some shit. But spoiler alert, dirty wooks don't exactly have the power to change the US government in major ways like that.

 

[Sir Wesley Tailpipe]

The Tragically Hip

Just because the law requires that Canadian shit be played so much doesn’t mean The Hip were any fucking good. The fact that they are essentially unheard of outside Canada reinforces this.

 

[Lady of the House]

Pop-punk/hardcore fans. If you're gonna fuck teen groupies, at least do in a classic rock way where you wont be metoo'd after virtue signalling in your lyrics and on stage. I've been watching record collections on youtube and the young women are extremely culty about the genre, they'll basically buy any vinyl as long as it has a pretty wax coloring edition.

Also, I'm growing sick of the new wave community on tumblr. For some reason Oingo Boingo has the strongest pull for FTMs who used to want to look like David Sylvian from Japan. But literally every fanbase on tumblr is annoying. Post-Punk seems to be decently (?) untainted, aside from Joy Division I guess, same with Krautrock and early industrial.

The Tragically Hip

Just because the law requires that Canadian shit be played so much doesn’t mean The Hip were any fucking good. The fact that they are essentially unheard of outside Canada reinforces this.

The Hip is for boomers, I've never heard anyone here listening to them below the age of 35.

 

[Sir Wesley Tailpipe]

Pop-punk/hardcore fans. If you're gonna fuck teen groupies, at least do in a classic rock way where you wont be metoo'd after virtue signalling in your lyrics and on stage. I've been watching record collections on youtube and the young women are extremely culty about the genre, they'll basically buy any vinyl as long as it has a pretty wax coloring edition.

Also, I'm growing sick of the new wave community on tumblr. For some reason Oingo Boingo has the strongest pull for FTMs who used to want to look like David Sylvian from Japan. But literally every fanbase on tumblr is annoying. Post-Punk seems to be decently (?) untainted, aside from Joy Division I guess, same with Krautrock and early industrial.

The Hip is for boomers, I've never heard anyone here listening to them below the age of 35.

I’ve never encountered a Tragically Hip fan with an IQ over 35!

 

[Quantum Diabetes]

Having been around Ween fans, and liking the band since forever, this isn't much of a parody

https://thehardtimes.net/music/ween-fans-can-now-purchase-tickets-directly-through-ankle-bracelets/

 

[Phony Negro]

In my opinion, deadmau5 has some of the most gullible fans I've ever seen. They believe every fucking thing he says without taking the time to think or do research on what he's talking about.

Like how deadmau5 flat-out said that BT (Brian Transeau) hires ghost producers without any evidence to back that up and for the fact that Brian credits any personnel and team on his albums. Or when he thought that BT stole a remix for "Flaming June", when Tommy Tallarico came out on Vimeo and debunked this rumor and the guy who started the rumor deleted his YouTube posts and tweets.



Nevermind that deadmau5 is a jackass.

 

[Frank D'arbo]

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"?

This isnt 1996

 

[Doctor Placebo]

This talk of rap made me remember Chris Brown. Good god, Chris Brown. His music is shitty and repetitive, and the lyrics are nothing but him jerking himself off. His fanbase seems to consist mainly of dumb trashy whores who want him to fuck them because he's rich and famous, and a few men who wish they were him but are just beta cucks who get cheated on by the same dumb trashy whores. I have no sympathy whatsoever for any ho whose face he caves in. It's the future she chose.

 

[Spunt]

Metal music has its fair share of retards, but certain bands have a bad rep even among metalheads:

Slayer - I don't know if listening to Slayer turns you into a fat, bald ogre or whether neanderthals just like their music. 30 years ago, Slayer were the most "extreme" metal band around, but now they're not that heavy, not that fast and not that blasphemous by the standards of modern extreme metal. So their fans are people who adopted them as a religion in the 80s, then stayed in a state of arrested development ever since as music moved on without them. They're like the high school bullies who never grew up, and behave like them too. Avoid festivals on days when Slayer are playing, unless you want some fat bald retard to throw up on your shoes and then try to fight you.

Marilyn Manson - I can assure @TowinKarz that even now his star has fallen, his fanbase are still monumental speds. I went to see him a few years ago. Not only was he utter shit (clearly drunk, got into a fight with his own percussionist at one point, no encore), his fans were the worst behaved fans I've seen for years. We were in the disabled section of the upper tier of the theater, because one of our group had a serious spinal problem and couldn't stand up for large periods. Dozens of speds decided to flock to the balcony in front of the disabled section in front of people who as a consequence couldn't see, and refused to move, even for the stewards. There were guys standing in the aisles groping any girl who tried to get past them. Christ knows what it was like in the pit (other than there were a lot of beer glasses flying around, one of the hit MM and he threatened to walk off). These people were mostly in their fucking thirties. I've been to Cattle Decapitation gigs with better behaved crowds.

Five Finger Death Punch - Bro! 5FDP Bro! Sick Gains Bro! Monster Energy Drink Bro! Though at least these days the fans get the band they deserve.

Dream Theater - Oh God, time to pack up everyone, fun's over, a Dream Theater fan has turned up and he's going to tell you all about his stupid fucking band. DT attract autists, it's the mixture of musical complexity and emotional shallowness that does it, attracting the sort of fan that mistakes jamming large numbers of notes into every bar as profundity.

Umphries McGee / Phish / Other "Improg" bands - like Dream Theater fans, but high. Worse, in other words.

In Flames - I don't know why (their music isn't terrible, even though I don't particularly care for them), but I've never met anyone in an In Flames t-shirt or hoodie who wasn't a complete prick.

Dir en Grey - Weebs! Metalheads! Together at last! Kill me.

 

[Jeff Boomhauer]

This talk of rap made me remember Chris Brown. Good god, Chris Brown. His music is shitty and repetitive, and the lyrics are nothing but him jerking himself off. His fanbase seems to consist mainly of dumb trashy whores who want him to fuck them because he's rich and famous, and a few men who wish they were him but are just beta cucks who get cheated on by the same dumb trashy whores. I have no sympathy whatsoever for any ho whose face he caves in. It's the future she chose.

His fans will just gloss over any accusations he faces, just like they did when he beat Rihanna. He's assaulted multiple people, both women and men, since then, and even threatened a woman with a gun a few years ago.
His fans have Stockholm Syndrome, almost as if he beat them, too.

 

[Doctor Placebo]

His fans will just gloss over any accusations he faces, just like they did when he beat Rihanna. He's assaulted multiple people, both women and men, since then, and even threatened a woman with a gun a few years ago.
His fans have Stockholm Syndrome, almost as if he beat them, too.

I think they're basically just a less extreme version of serial killer fangirls. Brown himself probably has some form of malignant narcissism. He shows plenty of signs, in both his behavior and lyrics. Even for a hip hop artist he's absurdly self-obsessed.

 

[TowinKarz]

@Spunt Funny you mention Slayer, the one Manson fan had abandoned them for some perceived "selling out" that as near as I could tell was just "did something I didn't like". Or maybe it was just "wasn't perfect, like me" , dude was arrogant as fuck.

And EVERY band was ALWAYS selling out to this guy, BTW.

Have to drive two cities over for their concerts? Sold out
Have one locally? Sold out
Put out their music as downloadable mp3? Sell outs
Stuck vehemently to CDs and tried to sue Napster? Sell outs.....
No new album this year? Sell out.....
Finally release it..... full of sellout garbage..... you get the idea.


This guy accused Deathklok, a fictional band in a cartoon, of selling out when the actual musicians who provided their songs made an album.....

When I pointed out that maybe his standards were just a bit too high if he was never happy with anything the band in question did? Then I 'didn't get it'

Got THAT right, buddy.

 

[Megaroad 2012]

Slayer - I don't know if listening to Slayer turns you into a fat, bald ogre or whether neanderthals just like their music. 30 years ago, Slayer were the most "extreme" metal band around, but now they're not that heavy, not that fast and not that blasphemous by the standards of modern extreme metal. So their fans are people who adopted them as a religion in the 80s, then stayed in a state of arrested development ever since as music moved on without them. They're like the high school bullies who never grew up, and behave like them too. Avoid festivals on days when Slayer are playing, unless you want some fat bald retard to throw up on your shoes and then try to fight you.

Smelliest concert has been ones featuring Slayer or Dir en grey. Fucking Slayer fans need to wash their kilts.

Dir en grey is fun to see live because of all the cat fights between crazy bitches and the autistic weeb rage when the dorks get moshed to hell by the people just there for the beer.

 

[Matthew216]

This talk of rap made me remember Chris Brown. Good god, Chris Brown. His music is shitty and repetitive, and the lyrics are nothing but him jerking himself off. His fanbase seems to consist mainly of dumb trashy whores who want him to fuck them because he's rich and famous, and a few men who wish they were him but are just beta cucks who get cheated on by the same dumb trashy whores. I have no sympathy whatsoever for any ho whose face he caves in. It's the future she chose.

Does this count as his fandom? or is it terrible just by itself?

 

[Observerer]

Tool - Fans are dumb faggots who will praise everything they release every 100 years. They think math+music=OmG BEST BAnD EVER!!!!!

Slayer - The "SLAYAH" meme is real and if you unironically yell "SLAYAH" you are gay.

Pantera - Good band but the fanbase is like the Slayer one. Bunch of dudebros wanting to fight you and yell racist slurs.

Bonus: Your avarage Pantera fan.