Critical Fandom

Critical fandom is a group of people that tend to be critical of a property’s content and its general fandom, Critical fandoms tend to be more dominant on Tumblr and are recently gaining force on Twitter.
== South Park Criticism ==
South Park has always been target of numerous critiques ever since the show debuted but it became more and more evident as the years went on to the point it reached its peak around 2015 due to Season 19’s popularity and controversy surrounding this exact same season, by the 2020s, South Park criticism became pretty much a popular thing to do.
A considerable amount of South Park crits tend to criticize the show for normalizing problematic stuff, bad characterization of some characters, poorly written episodes and due to its apathetic tone.
== Criticism towards the South Park fandom ==
All sides of the South Park fandom tend to be heavily criticized by those crits but for different reasons. 
The mainstream fandom tend to get a lot of backlash for being primarily formed by dudebros and Randy stans who are obsessed with the jokes of the show and for parroting the show’s more problematic political views.
The slash fandom once considered the most predominant side of the fandom has been consistently bashed for its portrayal of the characters in fanworks and for supporting abusive pairings such as Kyman and Cartters.
Unsurprisingly, the OC fandom has been panned by many for not being canon and because writers tend to rely on a lot of Mary Sue cliches in fanworks.
As of recently, OCs started getting associated with pedophilia because Self-Insert OCs have been accused of being a way of the author to put their fantasies on their work by shipping themselves with children characters, even when the author has no intention at all.
== Reaction and Response ==
In a similar effect to other critical fandoms, a lot of people think that South Park crits are overreacting and wasting their time by overanalyzing a satirical adult cartoon that is not meant to be taken seriously, some people in more fanon oriented spaces think they’re too hypercritical of the show and its fandom and for taking over fan spaces in sites such as Tumblr. 
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