This is a post I found on Digital Spy, where they criticized ATRL
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As we all know fans are an important part of a music artist's career, but lately I've been thinking: Is fandom getting out of control? Is the internet and social media allowing people to get too attached to artists? Is it going beyond simple fandom and turning into obsession? Is the hatred directed towards "rival" artists getting too extreme?
I've included some posts from a pop music forum below to use as an example. (warning: some are pretty horrible).
I just wanted to know other people's opinion on this. Do you think the "wars" between fans of rival artists are getting too extreme? Are people getting too obsessed with people they don't even know?
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ATRL is known to be a forum full of vile trolls, most use GIFs as a form of communication - forming sentences would require brain cells.
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ATRL is a very sad place.
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I understand if they get a bit too protective of their fave artists or even lash out at other artists they are in competition with (not death threats or wishing physical harm though), but I never know why they turn their aggression onto their fave artist. Whether it's just irritation (replying to every one of their tweets with 'OMG follow me please please please, you always ignore me *cries*') to sending hate to the artist's partner or to other fans who get special attention from the artist.
Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.
It proves there's a fine line between love and hate and that fandom is just too fickle to take seriously.
Sometimes I think they don't really like the artist, they are just needing an outlet to unleash all their confused emotions.
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