I don't know who wrote this, but they are right about anti-fandom, or anti anything generally. It's one thing to make a page to vent about things. It's another thing to be anti.
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I really don't understand the logic - or the point - behind anti-sites. So you don't like something; is that cause to build a webpage and declare your opinions to the world? There's lots of things I don't like, but I haven't gone as far as to build an anti-shrine to them - I've got other things to do, things I enjoy doing much more than making a page about something I hate.
In all, I've seen about ... hm, ten or so anti-sites, mostly for Sailormoon and Pokemon. They all seemed pretty much the same to me: lots of loud, angry bashing, and plenty crude insults towards anyone who would dare like whatever the site was built to denounce. Oh, no, because I like something this guy/girl doesn't, that means I must sleep with my parents and that I'm going to burn in hell. Joy.
Every one of them proclaimed that fans of whatever series better get out fast, or any variety of bad things would happen - one Pokemon-hater actually tried to build in a virus to his webpage for Pokemon-lovers to download.
Call me slow, but I'm confused. What's the point, really? I'd rather make a page about stuff I like, because I have more fun that way - but maybe it's just me. Maybe I don't have that inherent vindictiveness to create an anti-site - ye great gods and little fishes know I don't have the thick skin to stand the constant flaming such sites get on a regular basis. Maybe there's some kind of fun in building such a page, but it's something I can't understand.
Anti-sites are useless, i.m.o., especially if that's the only page the webmaster has. They don't really do anything but broadcast a single, negative opinion to the world, and they often provoke flamewars which, if anything, are even more pointless than the pages that inspired them.
I think that about all such places, even ones that I, in essence, agree with. Take, for example, the Anti-Relena HQ - yes, I don't like Relena either. However, I still think it's going a bit too far about something (or someone, as this case may be) they claim to despise. However, at least the girl(s?) who run that site, unlike many anti-site maintainers, is quite cordial in her dealings with Relena-fans (in fact, she's linked to a pro-Relena page, as a sister site), and does not pause every second word to toss out a cussword.
Anti-anti-sites aren't really that much better, I think - they're still anti-sites, and that, to me, still makes them rather pointless. While I don't like anti-sites, and don't believe anyone should waste their time with them, I'm not going to start some guestbook crusade to harrass all anti-page owners until they get taken down. What you do with your online time and resources is your own buisness - you have as much of a right to make those sites as I do to make pages about sites about things I like. That doesn't change my opinion on them, however: I don't like them, and I wish people wouldn't make them - but one small person isn't going to change the entire world.
Yes, I know some of my Pawprints might smack on the beginnings of anti-sites - but they're only small essays, which I can write and post and ignore, if I want. A site requires maintaining and updates; essays really don't, unless you get new information that you want to expand on. And unlike anti-sites, my anti-character prints and sayings don't dominate my entire webpage. Not only that, but I don't bash people who like what I don't. So you're a Relena fan, or a whatever fan. Good for you - I may disagree with you, but I won't hate you on the simple basis that you have a different opinion as me.
This is a short 'Print, I realize. There's just not much to say about this without repeating myself a dozen times over.
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