SerGoldenhandtheJust
Deluded Dreamer
I mean to be fair, it isn't a knock against XY to say it split the fandom. The change from XY to SM definitely did, but like if it was from BW to SM for example, the ire and stuff would be way less.Ignoring the trite, boilerplate responses since the need to make these sort of threads thinly-veiled series wars related is always there. Of course, before PAD has a history of this, before we had these sort of threads so it never really surprises me when newer users tank up the mantle even to this day. The regurgitation and the specificity will never stop being funny.
XY wasn't what caused this massive " split " or whatever euphuism to describe the sort of toxicity/series wars people engage in these days, it was simply because the series after it took a wildly different direction. And to be exact, I'm not blaming SM for this. Personally I think there's a very good possibility that the next series will be able to shake off some of fandom problems, but I thought JN had a good possibility of doing that as well. For me, I'll always be glad that I was part of the community during XY's runtime. Its impact on the community for me during that period was all but positive.
Plus I really think the reason for such a shift to SM structure was because of how taxing the XY production was, and basically taking the old formula to its limit
I do think there is a feeling of closure that some XY fans didn't get from the series that they wanted, and since they liked it so much they've been angry ever since the show took a new direction, even more so when JN didn't give them what they hoped for