I'm rewatching all of Stranger Things with my mother to prepare for the finale and I couldn't help but think of how these fandoms are so awful to people, and the exposure these kids had to endure and the eventual turning and backlash, because people didn't like creative decisions made. They were angry. They wanted their time and money back, which you're not going to get, that's not how it works. So hordes of people not sure what to do with this uncomfortable feeling, they can't sit with and go off to their own spaces. They have to spill out and lash out they wasted an hour or 8 hours of their life for work they didn't like the end result of. I get that feeling, I've been upset by creative choice and such and vented. Yet there is this appetite in the culture for people to be demanding that they have been wronged. They have been burned. They have been betrayed of the end product that they wanted served for them on demand.

It floods in the formal media press pieces, to rapid over the top emotional complaints/rants on social media and that's how it goes but yet they can't even leave it at that, it's not good enough. Rapidly to the source, go onto these people's special social media pages and let them know. Who wouldn't fucking hate that? Why wouldn't people be resentful, check out or lose their minds and the grasp they once held onto with their creative work. Being an actor is like being spilt into a haunted ventriloquist doll the audience wants to never forget and continually interact and be entertained. 

I think of the actress who plays El on Stranger Things, Millie Bobbie's trajectory. The way she was turned on, dissected apart, and eventually despised far away from the clever fun kid rapping Nicki Minaj's Monster verse to eventually being sexually mocked and exploited, and told she's no good now, she's actually trash. She actually can't act we found out. 'I'm tired of her', etc. But outside of Millie it goes to all those kids, the older actors, the creators and other TV shows. Like the now despised Game of Thrones. 

'How dare this didn't work out the way I wanted this thing that I loved!? Well you know I actually hate it now. It's ruined! Toss it, discard it into nothing...What's next on the menu?'

Art isn't for you on demand. This has repulsed me over the past over a decade seeing this new kind of consumption for the audiences of these enterprises who become determined to bend art to their will from their favorite creators and creatives. 

'You need to rewrite this.'

'You need to re-shoot that.' 

'Re-record now!'

 'When that gets released again you need to remove this.' 

Chasing people over their social media platforms the fans demanding they want to the art they want from you, not what YOU yourself the artist wanted to put out.

'How could you disappoint us like this?!'

'The audience, you need to listen to your audience and fans! They are communicating their wants and desires outside of what you want to do, you the creator of ___. It doesn't matter they are in control now!' 

'You don't just need to listen, you have to directly cater or what good are you? You're not listening hard enough!'

'You didn't think of me in mind!'