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Your vocal B2C fans go digitally nuclear on you? What B2C industry are you in?

• flyinglizard 5y ago
  Any non-utilitarian B2C market with enthusiasts is like that - photography, fishing, drones, mountain biking… there’s endless drama in discussion forums, brand loyalty, flame wars and all of that reaches the vendors (especially the smaller ones which directly participate in communities).
• dragonwriter 5y ago
  > Your vocal B2C fans go digitally nuclear on you? What B2C industry are you in? I've never experienced it as a target but I've seen fan rage explosions (not necessarily direct customers, depending on the particular industry, but entitled downstream fans targeting the upstream objects of fandom) in all of these non-sex-work industries: film/television, music, video games, tabletop hobby gaming (particularly RPGs), sport, software (particularly open source), ...probably some that I am forgetting.
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• throwaway6945 5y ago
  Did you read that thread about the Nvidia Shield yesterday? Or how about all the controversy over _The Last of Us 2_ having a trans character? https://collider.com/last-of-us-2-controversy-explained/ https://collider.com/last-of-us-2-controversy-explained/ Too many people have too much time on their hands.
• pseudo0 5y ago
  There was the (hilariously unsuccessful) attempt to review bomb Factorio a few weeks ago, after some fans got upset about a video the lead dev linked to in a blog post. It seems to be most common in creative industries, eg. Video games, music, movies, etc. Probably because those are the products that people get the most emotionally attached to.