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What on earth is superwholock and why is everyone slightly salty about it?

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Jun 4th, 2019
  1. love-lays-bleeding said: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA yeah. Imho people would be less salty if the fans at the time were less generally awful to everyone. Hijacking posts was one thing, but they would start fights with people too. Or “call their fandom army” when challenged. Basically it was a legion of fans with all the misplaced arrogance of a popular white middle schooler.
  2. old-type-40 said: My impression is that many who are salty about it now were a part of it. My suspicion is many were teens who were wildly enthusiastic about these shows. But as young adults, they’ve taken the typical attitude of people that age who disdain anything or anybody who is popular. They don’t realize that displaying such disdain is still following a crowd.
  3. katbelleinthedark reblogged this from tinsnip and added:
    You don’t want to know.But in case you do, it was an unholy crossover between Supernatural, Doctor Who and Sherlock (for...
  4. spyrograph said: Crossover fandom shenanigans taken to an unprecedented and unequaled extreme.
  5. kitkat-bar said: So it’s a (very large) group of fans in late 2012 who were all typically obsessed with Doctor who + supernatural + sherlock. Often other shows were there too (Merlin comes to mind). They were … idk, like any ohter group of fans in 2012, tbh, enthusiastic and loud and a little overeager. But I think they’re looked at as cringe culture now?
  6. kitkat-bar said: O lord okay
  7. hebicakes said: Isn’t superwholock that early fandom on tumblr that’s like… supernatural + doctor who + sherlock?
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