Call of Duty (COD) fanbase. or at least a few people who called themselves COD fans (maybe 100-150 active posters over a couple of years) There was a time I used to watch Let's Plays on youtube (2010-2011). I watched Chuggaaconroy play some Mario and Pokemon games and in the comments there was these COD fans that messed the whole comment section up. Before they appeared the comment section was a relatively peaceful place, but their foolish pride was just too much. They basically told Chuggaaconroy how childish Mario and Pokemon games were. Then they said that he should play a real game, COD to redeem himself and become a man. Now these people who wrote these comments were bad trolls, but they won. They ruined half the comment section with something that was completely unnecessary. Video after video. Month after month. And also year after year. Today there are no such comments there thankfully. The moral I took from the story was that you don't need to write a whole lot to prove them wrong. All you need to say is that you're: Good enough as you're and that you don't have to prove anything to strangers on the internet. Today people just get upset over someone just mentioning a topic they don't like on a thread. This sucks because it hinders people from expressing themselves. The moment you want to share something amazing you have to think of that someone might attack, ridicule, insult, harass, degrade or hate you because of it. It's not what they say that matters. What matters is the negativity that they bring. It ruins all the fun. Some people mention that bronies bringing the ponies to non-pony thread as a bad thing. This is not true, I would say that it's the intolerance of ponies that is the problem. Good things come when people can mix things with other unrelated things. The majority people are tolerant and fine with someone bringing in unknown/unwanted stuff. What seams to matter is the intolerance in the minority, and an other thing that matters is how you go about it. Basic thread moral, apply that and you should be doing your part just fine. Now I would like to finish with that if it's true that we can believe in what god created us (religious freedom). The I also think we can like what we enjoy. Therefor I don't blame the whole COD fanbase, in fact I believe they think the COD comments that I mentioned are unnecessary as well. Sometimes I find bronies that make comments that I don't stand for and would be against.
It's hard to communicate IRL. A ton of people don't know how to communicate with others (you have to know how the other person thinks like). Then add a barrier such as the internet, it only makes it harder. I can't even tell if the other one is serious or not. This leads to a lot of misunderstanding, and this negative spiral has made the youtube comments one bad community for large parts of it.
I blame it on the system for making it harder to do right.
and I blame it on people who fail to realize the failure of the system.