User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 483: Seven Stars, Review/@comment-3987368-20160425123702/@comment-3987368-20160425141007

I get what you mean, but it still looks like it comes down to your personal investment. Attack on Titan was still a growing phenomenon back then whereas Fairy Tail is pretty saturated and it's just easier to see more toxicity. I really can't say Bleach or Naruto are any less difficult to deal with since I know both fandoms well enough.

I used to frequent Digimon boards years ago and while I was a lot younger back then, all I thought in those days about Pokemon fans was how they were a load of assholes for frequently coming over to a site that had nothing to do with their show and dissing Digimon on the untrue basis of it being a rip-off, or some other concocted lie. It was only years later where I could look beyond that myopic view to a wider scope of fan behavior.

In the end, we see what we see because that's where we're looking hardest.