Some of them are getting woken up now that the far-right president is tanking, and they’re regretting to voting Trump to own the libs. I hope they also realize that “fandom gatekeeping” is not about keeping bad people out to preserve the quality of works, but is both a stupid tribalistic behavior, a bigoted recruitment tool, and to keep things “exotic and obscure, for street cred reasons”. I especially met the latter one within metal (and through people I knew: indie rock) circles, I knew a guy who was really angry at me for ruining Meshuggah for him, by no longer making him a special little snowflake for having several Meshuggah CDs, and thus he couldn’t show them off at meetups. (sorry for my off-topic tangent)