There's a certain individual in the Touhou fandom that likes to gatekeep content; ruining the fun and characters. His sole purpose is to annoy people and be a obnoxious troll. I'm not really fond of the ( )guy. He just want reactions, there seems to be a few species that like this kind of content.
Yeah, very much seems to be a troll. I guess nobody really cared enough to address this example until now, and I started shaking the water a bit recently about him.
There's a fan work that brings out the maximum overdrive level; "Koshi Koshi Heart Throbbing Adventure" mainly know as KKHTA.
I have never watched KKHTA. I found out about the existence of that series through TVtropes. Not knowing what it is, I decided to read the synopsis and the tropes associated. What can I say is that I did not really like it at all. It seemed way too gruesome, way too graphic, and something I really wished I could forget I saw. Just reading what happened to Ran and Chen is enough to put off a lot of people. Randomly seeing a few short clips presenting various deaths from the show made it look even more graphic and gruesome, and so I decided to just stay far from it. However, it seems like there are people who unironically like this series. I don't know if they actually like it, or it it is "sunken cost fallacy".
Bonus round for (potentially) graphic and controversial: Zounouse and his doujins. I will only say one thing: canned human meat (of the outsiders, not the villagers)
The more tamer version "Osana Reimu" also hated, since the people assume that the story was emotional. Thus, making fan cry.
I did not know there are people who hate Osana Reimu. I personally never watched it, but I heard lots of praise about it, since it is apparently very well written and emotional. To me, it is just shocking how quickly Joyful can change the tone of his work, going from an emotional trainwreck like Osana Reimu to creating the extremely light-hearted Three Fairies SAY YA! music video from Shinra-Bansho.
Exactly like Isaac said, they bring bad reputation to the fandom. There is a channel called "XE3G weeb" who milk every single trend that comes to the fandom.
Thing is XG3E is not just milking the trends. He actually is the creator of the "I want mommy" meme, as he is the one with the oldest video on that format (or at least he is the oldest ones I have seen), just in the first days of January this year. I had the feeling everyone copied him afterwards. And it is not just about shitposting. That would be easy to just brush off. His attitude is a little bit questionable - like today he says "I am feeling ashamed of myself for shitposting" to "I have come to accept my shitposting fate, and embraced the cringe" to [insert horny thought about Reisen]. First time when he apologized, people took the bait. I personally (almost) took it too, even if I kept a raiser eyebrow. In the end, it was unfortunate that I was right, just a few days later.
About the fumos, they are overpriced and sometime come us bootlegs. Not to mention most of them are only exclusive in Japan. It's just dolls with Touhou character on it. The circles once again begin to rotate: those who have the fumo will make fun of those who don't have it and those who make it theirselves spreading wild fire.
The Fumo situation is quite funny, especially since it came as a surprise. But here is the background as I understood it
- in late August 2020, AmAmi put an announcement for the sale of these plush companions - around 370 plushies of 16 variations
- the sale was supposed to last 3 weeks, but the offer was exhausted in mere minutes (20 minutes as a whole, counting AmiAmi crashing from the amount of traffic)
- many people left unsatisfied, calling for mismanagement of the website, too few plushies put on sale and scalpers/bots that managed to buy multiple Fumo while others lost them from the shopping cart literally when they were about to pay for the product
- around the same time of this sale, there has been another event that was negatively received - the Roblox server "Become Fumo" was featured in a relatively big sized "normie" YouTube channel, which brought more attention towards the server and the plushies
- naturally, along with the reasons I have already mentioned, people have put the blame on "normies" and this new wave of people for what happened
- second Fumo sale on AmiAmi took place in October
- this time, a bit of a larger stock has been put on sale, but the problems repeated - the whole stock (around 400 plushies) was exhausted in literally 3 minutes
You may ask why so little Fumo are put on sale, knowing there is an ever increasing demand for them. Officially, the explanation is that they are partially hand-made, and so it takes a while for one to be done. Another explanation, more towards conspiracy theory, is that this low number is don on purpose, in order to create artificial scarcity. Or, another explanation that is even more of a tinfoil hat moment, is that the Japanese community simply hates us, those outside JP, which explains why they do not translate most of their stuff and seemingly want to keep it for themselves; that fact that the West got into the fandom and merch being completely accidental.
