Fanbase Leadership

Fanbase Leadership is a term for when a fanbase/fandom/fan community has a leader who is in charge of said community. A lot of fanbases and communities tend to have leaders in charge of them. Pretty much every single community for past gens have a leader who makes sure everyone plays nice and kicks out trolls trying to give the community a bad name.
== Examples of notable fanbase leaders ==
There are tons of examples of leaders of fanbases. This includes:
* Grandpa Phil as the leader of the Genwunner community.
* Howard DeVille as the leader of the Gen 2 Fanatics.
* Terrence as the leader of the Genfourmers.
* Bessie as the leader of the Genfivers.
* Alex Yiik as the leader of the Clone Fans.
* Woody as the leader of the Retail Roundup.
And many many more examples.
== What a leader might do ==
Leaders of fanbases aren't all the time and a lot of them run things very differently. However, Something a lot of them have in common is the kicking out of people who make the fanbase look bad or break the rules of a fanbase, Being known as "THE guy you wanna talk to about [Series]" who knows an awful lot, Deciding the rules and general attitude of the fanbase, Ensuring the healthy growth of the fanbase by debunking criticisms of the original series and encouraging more people to join the fanbase and helping to foster fanbase culture with fellow fans.
== Criticisms against the concept ==
A bunch of "Enlightened" Reddit users tip their trilbys disrespectfully towards this concept and think that having a leader for a fan community is ridiculous (They say while moderating their subreddits and banning/downvoting people who disagree with them. Curious). And as such, They have a lot of criticisms relating to it. Some common criticisms are that "Kicking people out of the fandom does nothing!" "Why do you even like video games this much?" and "We're not a monolith!". However, There are already tons of instances of a fanbase without a leader ending up being overrun by trolls or having everyone believe that the fanbase is full of annoying edgelords without a leader going ahead and saying "No, Those guys don't represent us. I do. And I say those guys are in the wrong here."
These redditors always say stuff like "We're ALL the leaders of our favorite game's fandom!" but a minute later they all go "Why are these people mass-downvoting me for saying this character isn't as bad as the fanbase says? Why are people screaming at me for having what was the popular opinion a week ago? When did all these 'Sigma' types join the fandom? Why are hour long Youtube essays calling us the 'Worst fandom ever'? Why can't we be as civilized as the Genwunners?" without even a hint of self-awareness.