In cases like Nintendo games and Undertale/Deltarune for example, I feel like the fandoms are kinda overbearing/annoying despite being centered around good games. In others like Touhou Project or I Wanna Be the Guy, the fandom by far carries the games well past their individual face values. Personally, I think there's a good in between spot with smaller/less in-your-face fandoms... kinda like this one we all ended up in.

i really love small communities like this because i feel like i'm actually able to make friends over a shared interest when there's so little people... it took me like 1 year of lurking to be like more active i think (and the anonymity of being a small white dog helps!) im trying to branch out into fandom spaces again to socialize more and i still find it difficult with say,, undertale yellow where the discord servers ive found have like 1000+ people (and all of the fan projects are FULL i want to do ART for silly undertale game p le ase let me in, let me in!!-) most of my fandom interaction is with fanart. i dont know what actual fandom spaces are like outside of looking at art of it on social media lol

i'm not much of a fandom guy, things they do can be kinda iffy for me personally i mostly just have to trust my friends to care when i start talking about video games (not a very high success rate)

haha queery