a lot of people especially youtube drama channels will act like certain fan bases are bad because of something inherent to them that somehow makes them worse than other fans of anything else when pretty much the whole time it's because said thing is just very popular not because it has some magical property of generating shitty behavior. there have been multiple instances where something i like started out as fairly niche and then explodes in popularity and every single time that happens the experience of being in the fan community gets significantly worse
I regret to inform you that I'm fixated on the Glasgow Willy Wonka Experience. The AI-generated script generated a villain called The Unknown that's loosely meant to be an evil chocolatier that lives in the walls and was supposed to have been defeated by getting sucked into a vacuum, but because the creators of this Experience had about eleven pounds to work with they told the actor to improvise this. I'm obsessed
The hard truth about autism acceptance that a lot of people don't want to hear is that autism acceptance also inherently requires acceptance of people who are just weird.
And yes, I mean Those TM people. Middle schoolers who growl and bark and naruto run in the halls. Thirtysomethings who live with their parents. Furries. Fourteen-year-olds who identify as stargender and use neopronouns. Picky eaters. Adults in fandoms. People who talk weird. People who dress weird.
Because autistic people shouldn't have to disclose a medical diagnosis to you to avoid being mocked and ostracized for stuff that, at absolute worst, is annoying. Ruthlessly deriding people for this stuff then tacking on a "oh, but it's okay if they're autistic" does absolutely nothing to help autistic people! Especially when undiagnosed autistic people exist.
Like it or not, if you want to be an ally to autistic people, you're going to have to take the L and leave eccentric, weird people alone. Even if you don't know them to be autistic. You shouldn't be looking for Acceptable Reasons to be mean to people in the first place. Being respectful should be the default.