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May 8, 2016 4:25 PM
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No surprise here but a lot of Radiohead fans (not all) from what I've seen tend to be extremely smug and elitist. A lot of them act as if Radiohead's greatness is undeniable fact.
May 8, 2016 4:58 PM
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Touchy subject.

Norwegian black metal peeps because they'll sacrifice you to sata-... just kidding.

I know this isn't an exact band or artist but to be perfectly honest... I've seen the most hate from 'i'm too hardcore death brutal metal 4 u' people.

Why? They want to push people away from the fan base when people don't fit their exact high expectations. Add when their favorite band gets a little catchier sounding...they alienate the band even though they got 12 tattoos they talk shit about even though its on their own body.

Just my perspective. Definitely a touchy subject though.
May 8, 2016 5:07 PM
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A bunch of Korean boy bands.
May 8, 2016 5:44 PM
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Waifu_Strangler said:
No surprise here but a lot of Radiohead fans (not all) from what I've seen tend to be extremely smug and elitist. A lot of them act as if Radiohead's greatness is undeniable fact.


Come into contact with opinions about the new album, hey? I love the band (quite possibly my favourite in fact) but I can't stand the 'untouchable' status so many give to them, as if they've never put a foot wrong. That's not the case.
May 8, 2016 5:47 PM
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Pink Floyd fans under age 30
May 8, 2016 6:23 PM
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This is a really tough question. I think I'm gonna go with the "defend pop punk" kids. Pop punk kids in general.
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May 8, 2016 6:26 PM
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I've seen some out of control BOTDF fans.
I don't really think one specific fan base is the worst though.
You can't generalize a fanbase or a group of individuals.

I absolutely love Radiohead don't really see the fans acting extremely smug and elitist. Maybe I just don't pay attention.
May 8, 2016 6:27 PM
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Beyonce.

She has the worst fans ever. They make Justin Bieber's fans look like saints.

"Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time."
May 8, 2016 6:36 PM
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Eminem seriously, I respect him because he's a legend but his Stans who unfortunately make up a large portion of his fanbase usually say ignorant and cliche statements and what's more annoying is that they don't even listen to Hip Hop to make these statements valid.
May 8, 2016 7:32 PM

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Fans of the "Big Four" of Thrash Metal. Perhaps Megadeth in particular
May 8, 2016 7:52 PM

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I'm not sure what bands should I name but I'm sure y'all should know: All these kind-of-alternative bands that makes all them fans think they're one level above anyone in music tastes when they're all generic stuff (a lot of bands that play in lollapalooza and coachella).

Also, if we talk about books JK Rowling, John Green and all those Twilight, Divergent, Hunger Games fanbases are cancer.
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May 8, 2016 8:18 PM

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Tyler the creator

Oh my the phases of fans they've gone thru. From rebellious atheist teens to 14 yr olds talking about chords and pretty colors
May 8, 2016 8:57 PM

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I can't stand a lot of classic rock fans. Mainly really young ones who think that they're so much better than everyone else for what they listen to, and whine about how "Music is shit nowadays" and they "Wish music was still like this today!"

I legitimately can't think of anything that gets on my nerves more than people like that.
May 8, 2016 10:20 PM

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gackt fan, the moment they ate me when i laughed at him :v ...

but seriously idk which d worse, but sure radiohed is d greatzz waifu-san xD








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May 8, 2016 11:13 PM

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The first thing that came to my head was Radiohead as well for the same reasons you said, the only song I can somewhat stand from them is the first half of "Paraded Android" because it was used as the credits song in Ergo Proxy so I got used to hearing it.

Justin Bieber's fans were extremely annoying back in the early 2010's because they all acted like he was amazing when his music was beyond irritating back then (I don't find his new stuff that great either but it doesn't make me want to cover my ears). I also remember when One Direction and The Jonas Brothers were extremely popular, I disliked them for the same reasons I disliked Bieber, their music was annoying and it was really popular so it was hard to avoid and the fan bases were even worst.
May 8, 2016 11:42 PM
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Beyonce.

She has the worst fans ever. They make Justin Bieber's fans look like saints.


This, didnt they attack Rachel Ray because Z was allegedly cheating with her?
May 8, 2016 11:48 PM

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dizzyur said:
Rhaeserys said:
Beyonce.

She has the worst fans ever. They make Justin Bieber's fans look like saints.


This, didnt they attack Rachel Ray because Z was allegedly cheating with her?


I wouldn't say they didn't, that's for sure.

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May 9, 2016 5:13 AM

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Fans of those "classic" bands/singers. By "classic", I mean bands like the Beatles or Queens or singers like Michael Jackson. The problem with these people is that you must like them or you're a kid that doesn't know anything.
May 9, 2016 6:24 AM

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Slip knot fans

Feels like every time I encounter a slip knot fan, I'm gonna be chopped in little bits.
May 9, 2016 7:20 AM

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This depends on everyone personal experience with fanbases really.. I get that fans of 'darker' music can come off as somewhat intimidating though ಠ_ಠ ... personally though, I've been part of an animu community where a lot of the other members constantly talked about rap and how oh so badass those rappers are..

Personally though, I dislike the majority of rap music and being surrounded by people who talked about barely anything else kind of made me dislike the fanbase ¬_¬
May 9, 2016 10:55 AM

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Rapper fans, most of them are really annoying some times
May 9, 2016 3:51 PM

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AndyShoes said:
Rapper fans, most of them are really annoying some times
put some respek on ma genre
May 9, 2016 4:02 PM

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This may be a strange answer but there are many artists that have the fanbase i hate, so all i can tell you is what kind of fanbase i hate.

I hate the fanbases that don't seem to be there for the music, and if you look at the comment sections you can tell. Bands like one direction where they are there just bcuz the band members are hot to nicki minaj where they just talk about drama between artists, who she dating, and her butt.

Now obviously some ppl are always there for the music, but when most comments or the majority isn't then it's bad.
May 9, 2016 4:10 PM

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Beyoncé fans

Bey could bend on stage and shit out a massive brick and they still be like omg yasss bitch queen slay #patriarchyslain
May 10, 2016 8:55 AM

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1017 said:
AndyShoes said:
Rapper fans, most of them are really annoying some times
put some respek on ma genre


I should explain myself better lol

What i've said applies particularly to my country's rappers fanbases
May 10, 2016 9:28 AM

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Justin Bieber or Taylor Swift =\
May 10, 2016 9:30 AM

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dizzyur said:
Rhaeserys said:
Beyonce.

She has the worst fans ever. They make Justin Bieber's fans look like saints.


This, didnt they attack Rachel Ray because Z was allegedly cheating with her?


Lol, yeah they confused Rachael Ray with Rachel Roy >.>
ROY was the one suspected of cheating.
May 10, 2016 10:32 AM

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Pretty much every teenager that's a fan of something else other than modern popular music. Especially 15 year olds who think they're metalheads because they listen to Avenged Sevenfold and Disturbed..
May 10, 2016 5:39 PM

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Metal fans, taylor swift fans, iron maiden/kiss/queen/who fans, aside from a couple of songs I don't understand the appeal of any of those bands, but people never give any reason that they're so acclaimed, aside from "they're just great bands" . In recent times though the worst fanbase are kanye stans. Tlop was such a fucking underwhelming album smfh, but people insisted that it was great."another classic 'ye album" they said, "very experimental album" they said. Rofl.

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May 10, 2016 6:15 PM

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1)Bands that appeal to kids who still think the scene kid thing is cool. Bands like BOTDF, Falling In Reverse, Bring Me The Horizon, Pierce The Veil, Black Veil Brides.

2)Teenage classic rock fanboys/girls.

Basically, #1 and #2 summed up are kids who think they are unique even though their taste is just as bland and generic as someone who only likes Nicki Minaj or Taylor Swift.

3) Sjw fans of Beyoncé, Nicki Minaj, Zayn Malik. They only care about them because of the color of their skin.
May 11, 2016 4:25 AM

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cherrystyles805 said:
1)Bands that appeal to kids who still think the scene kid thing is cool. Bands like BOTDF, Falling In Reverse, Bring Me The Horizon, Pierce The Veil, Black Veil Brides.

2)Teenage classic rock fanboys/girls.

Basically, #1 and #2 summed up are kids who think they are unique even though their taste is just as bland and generic as someone who only likes Nicki Minaj or Taylor Swift.

3) Sjw fans of Beyoncé, Nicki Minaj, Zayn Malik. They only care about them because of the color of their skin.


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May 15, 2016 11:46 AM

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I have little contact with the contemporary popular music scene, so I can't comment on the relative tendency of today's fan bases to make nuisances out of themselves. My exposure is typically limited to the annual spectacle of the Eurovision Song Contest. Eurovision fans seem to be at least somewhat annoying, but I don't know how they compare to other contemporary fan bases.

Annoying fan bases are nothing new. I can come up with some historical examples.

In the 1930s, certain male singers attracted that most annoying type of fan - the squeeing fangirl. Rudy Vallee, Russ Columbo, and Bing Crosby were especially popular, and otherwise sane women went completely nuts in their presence. The nuisance level of this fan base was well known enough to be satirized in cartoons of the time. Incidentally, I love these singers, and had I been around in the 1930s, I would have been right there squeeing along with all the other fangirls.

By the 1940s, Russ Columbo was dead, and Rudy Vallee had faded, while Bing Crosby was still going strong. Then, Frank Sinatra came along and the fangirls went completely nuts again. His fan base during that decade may well have been one of the most annoying ever, if the satires in contemporary cartoons are to be believed. Over time, the furor gradually faded, but then came Elvis Presley in the 1950s, and a new generation was caught up in a similar mania. My mother was an Elvis freak back then, and by all accounts, she was far too passionate in her appreciation for this singer.

In the 1980s, I had the misfortune to experience an annoying fan base in junior high school. There was a huge rivalry between fans of hard rock/heavy metal and fans of new wave music. The new wave people were fairly low key and were noticeable mainly because of their unusual fashion sense but were typically not annoying. The hard rock and heavy metal fans, on the other hand, could be rather in-your-face about their passion, and they delighted in scrawling graffiti all over the school, especially on the desks. I became annoyed with Iron Maiden fans because they were the worst offenders; I got tired of seeing Iron Maiden logos inexpertly scrawled on desks everywhere.
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May 15, 2016 5:36 PM
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Lately, it's been Beyonce. They've been perhaps militant in their arguments when it comes to defending the blatant racism/sexism that Lemonade has. If you think the neo-Beliebers are bad, please be informed of the fact that there could be something else out there.

Honorary Mentions go to of course, Neo-Beliebers, Nicki Minaj, or One Direction. Cannot stand any of those both with music and the people that defend that stuff. I'll give anything niche-oriented a pass because to be fair, they don't exist in commonplace settings.
May 15, 2016 5:43 PM

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definitely blood on the dancefloor or any other emo bands like that

my younger sister is one of them and they try to say that the music is amazing and refuse to respect the fact that other people dont
then blast it when absolutely no one wants to hear it

im not even biased it's happened to me so many times by preteens and people my age
May 19, 2016 8:09 AM

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Metal as a whole, really. Metal fans (not all, but a good portion) believe that metal is the apex of music, and constantly shit on every other genre, especially stuff like pop and techno. Then, you have a subset of metal elitists that I call the old-school elitists. These people are even worse than normal metal elitists because they think that metal from the 70s, 80s, and 90s are better than modern metal.

Don't get me wrong, I listen to a LOT of metal, pretty much everything from Metallica to Slipknot, but I cannot stand metal elitists.
May 19, 2016 8:37 AM

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There are too many. But every fanbase has it's bad fans ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
May 19, 2016 8:39 AM

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DIR EN GREY ´s fanbase is the worst ...
It is full of pretentious/ superficial people.

And I can´t handle the emo scene ...too much of a cringe.



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May 19, 2016 10:34 AM

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A bunch of Korean boy bands.
                    
May 22, 2016 6:55 PM

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TarDonkie said:
definitely blood on the dancefloor or any other emo bands like that

my younger sister is one of them and they try to say that the music is amazing and refuse to respect the fact that other people dont
then blast it when absolutely no one wants to hear it

im not even biased it's happened to me so many times by preteens and people my age


blood on the dancefloor isn't emo, not even close. emo in terms of music roots from hardcore punk in the late 80's, early inceptions are embrace and rites of spring. good 90's stuff would be cap'n jazz, mineral, etc etc. just wanted to clarify.
May 22, 2016 7:04 PM

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This is a really tough question. I think I'm gonna go with the "defend pop punk" kids. Pop punk kids in general.


i have to agree with you on that one, the emo scene is an abomination as well
May 22, 2016 7:38 PM

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ritesofspring said:
TarDonkie said:
definitely blood on the dancefloor or any other emo bands like that

my younger sister is one of them and they try to say that the music is amazing and refuse to respect the fact that other people dont
then blast it when absolutely no one wants to hear it

im not even biased it's happened to me so many times by preteens and people my age


blood on the dancefloor isn't emo, not even close. emo in terms of music roots from hardcore punk in the late 80's, early inceptions are embrace and rites of spring. good 90's stuff would be cap'n jazz, mineral, etc etc. just wanted to clarify.

lol sure
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May 22, 2016 7:39 PM

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Hardstyle fans tend to get really really mad and/or butthurt when an Hardstyle artist produces a track of a different genre and they automatically think "HARDSTYLE IS DYING!!!!!1111"
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TarDonkie said:
ritesofspring said:


blood on the dancefloor isn't emo, not even close. emo in terms of music roots from hardcore punk in the late 80's, early inceptions are embrace and rites of spring. good 90's stuff would be cap'n jazz, mineral, etc etc. just wanted to clarify.

lol sure
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yep not kidding m8. emo from a strictly musical perspective was never associated with hot-topic poser mall rats who's only idea of "emo music" is fall out boy and panic! at the disco.

emotive hardcore from the late 80's:
rites of spring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXO07xupJzk

cap'n jazz (90's)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS8DWIP0lB0


sounds nothing like what most people think is "emo" lol
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ritesofspring said:
TarDonkie said:

lol sure
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yep not kidding m8. emo from a strictly musical perspective was never associated with hot-topic poser mall rats who's only idea of "emo music" is fall out boy and panic! at the disco.

emotive hardcore from the late 80's:
rites of spring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXO07xupJzk

cap'n jazz (90's)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS8DWIP0lB0


sounds nothing like what most people think is "emo" lol
alright but i'm actually talking about the emo kids that listen to it rather than whatever the genre was at one point

21 pilots isnt emo but it sure as hell is played by lots of emo kids (too much for my own liking, so much that i cant listen to them anymore)
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TarDonkie said:
ritesofspring said:


yep not kidding m8. emo from a strictly musical perspective was never associated with hot-topic poser mall rats who's only idea of "emo music" is fall out boy and panic! at the disco.

emotive hardcore from the late 80's:
rites of spring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXO07xupJzk

cap'n jazz (90's)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS8DWIP0lB0


sounds nothing like what most people think is "emo" lol
alright but i'm actually talking about the emo kids that listen to it rather than whatever the genre was at one point

21 pilots isnt emo but it sure as hell is played by lots of emo kids (too much for my own liking, so much that i cant listen to them anymore)


emo unfortunately will be known by most people as a fashion subculture, hard to distinguish "emo" fashion from scene kiddies tbh.

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