Ever have one of those times where you try to recall past times where you feel happy--such as reliving your childhood through viewing stuff that you grew up on--only to have your happy thought shot down by people who seem to just have so much anger within themselves that they hate to just hate?

I have been set upon by these people several times and as noted, these people exhibit extremist behaviors, hence why they're labeled extremists.

Such behaviors would often include screaming pointless insults towards fellow users using derogatory terms I shalt not mention here, drawing kill art of characters they seemingly have psychosis issues over, whining like crybabies when another person likes a different pairing than the one they support, calling other well-beloved characters Mary Sues and Gary Stues without acknowledging the faults of the characters they themselves support, and (as is seemingly the case in one well-known fandom) being so insanely crazy that not only would they pair themselves--real people--with a fictional character, they would also kill that character or even threaten to off themselves in reality just to have their dreams realized.

Seriously, these people need help and to see that too many fandoms are plagued with such people is astounding. I can understand disliking a character due to their characterization (ex: comic Terra being written as a character one is meant to hate) or due to some reasonable reasoning behind the dislike (ex: a character being written as a fangirlish stalker to another, as per that aforementioned well-known fandom associated with that last batch of extremists), but these people--as I said--seemingly just hate to hate and it doth boggle the mind.

But with the world being as it is right now (with the economic crunch; people suffering; society still glorifying exploitation, sex, and violence; kids learning about stuff they definately are not ready to handle at increasingly younger ages; and just the overall cynical demoralization of the world's young people [who are the future leaders of tomorrow]), how can we curb the hate and turn the dying franchises into something worth being proud of once more?

Indeed, people say that "it shouldn't matter, because it's not real", but the thing is that the creators of all these beloved characters created them with their heart and soul for a reason. And that reason was so that fans could find some light in a given franchise and enjoy it, despite all the problems a franchise might have.

To be honest, all these extremists--coupled with those who say "it doesn't matter" (and this time, I am not meaning to quote The Rock....it just fit the situation)--sometimes truly make me ashamed to be a fan of franchises and especially to be a fan with a romantic mind, for obvious reasons (the main reason being that some other fans seem to lump all shipping fans together as stupid, ignorant, blind, or what have you).

I just could use a pick-up, apparently, which is odd, because I am usually rarely like this.