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Originally Posted by Ethers
I don’t think they all are. Social media, Twitter in particular, seems to have driven this thing where it’s kinda cool and enlightened to slag off your own club constantly. Rather than than do what normal fans do, and suck it up then just get on with it, with a sense of (probably misplaced) optimism.
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You’re bang on re: social media, would even go further back to Internet forums in general. I remember following one band in particular who I thought (and still think) made good music. Thing is, you’d sign up to their forum and post something positive and all you’d get is “They’re awful now, youve missed the good years” and “oh look the mainstream fans are in”. The lead singer and songwriter would post and his own fans would be calling him a useless @#%&! etc. In the end he just stopped posting.
They’re like hipster football fans - “I preferred their early stuff”.