What are some cartoons that you stopped watching because of the fanbase surrounding it?

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For me, it’s SpongeBob. I can’t go anywhere SpongeBob related without seeing any of the following:

  • People praising the ever loving hell out of Seasons 1-3 acting as if they’re flawless masterpieces with no flaws whatsoever and dismissing everything afterwards as being terrible with no good episodes whatsoever (for the record, the first 3 seasons weren’t completely devoid of any flaws whatsoever).
  • People using Stephen Hillenburg as a way to hate on any new SpongeBob media, saying stuff like “Stephen didn’t want this!” or “Nick is disrespecting Hillenburg!” or stuff like that.
  • People using calling everything after Season 3 “modern” even though a lot of it is over 10-20 years old.
  • People using episodes from 10-15 years ago as proof that “Newer” SpongeBob is bad.
  • People taking the show’s continuity way too seriously (like with Patrick’s rock being a turtle shell in the episode “Shell Games”; like, for goodness sake, it’s an episodic cartoon, there’s no continuity!).
  • People disrespecting others’ opinions on anything newer SpongeBob.

Like, the Fanbase surrounding SpongeBob (or at least a large portion of it) is so toxic that it’s caused me to stop watching the show completely, because if I watch an episode of it again, even if it’s a classic era episode, it’s only gonna remind me of all those toxic people and why I left the fandom in the first place. Which is sad because there was a point in time where SpongeBob was my all-time favorite cartoon, but now I’ve moved onto other cartoons like Danny Phantom and Kiff.

Posted Jan 30, 2026, 5:11 AM UTC · locked

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