It just makes it seem like it's part of a much larger problem of fans not always being supportive.
I think it boils down to the old idea that fans must always be supportive and not critical of the author's work, and I think that the arrival of Internet fandoms has changed that. Sure there were critical fans before Internet, but Internet makes them much more visible. Like fictualities says below: with the advent of the internet pro authors are being being subjected to comment from communities who previously have not had much of a public voice.
It's probably very hard for the authors to accept the idea that being a fan doesn't mean being a some kind of an adoration machine. That in fact their fans may be their hardest critics without being lunatics or something like that. I suspect it's going to take lots of time for that to sink in.
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Date: 2005-04-29 02:41 am (UTC)I think it boils down to the old idea that fans must always be supportive and not critical of the author's work, and I think that the arrival of Internet fandoms has changed that. Sure there were critical fans before Internet, but Internet makes them much more visible. Like
It's probably very hard for the authors to accept the idea that being a fan doesn't mean being a some kind of an adoration machine. That in fact their fans may be their hardest critics without being lunatics or something like that. I suspect it's going to take lots of time for that to sink in.