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For the record, it was brought up here
Basically, the issue is the one word title thing has been going on longer than Disney/Tangled, but it's only now that people seem to be complaining about it, which is pretty odd.
That's because it didn't become a trend until Tangled. Now almost every film has a single word title—Tangled, Frozen, Zootopia, Moana, Gigantic... I remember the original problem arising because Tangled was a last minute change. For years it was Rapunzel but a year or two before release they announced a name change. People didn't like it because it was generic, nonsensical (I guess it refers to tangled hair?), or they felt it was only chosen to avoid the Girl-Show Ghetto.
That doesn't even make sense then since, you know, Moana isn't even a One-Word Title. Certainly no more than Rapunzel.
In my opinion it doesn't make sense because, well, it's just inaccurate. As I said before, Moana isn't a One-Word Title. But Disney's had works with One Word Titles... and in between many of those movies that they list they've had plenty of movies with fuller titles. It's just a kind of nonsensical argument.
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It is one word technically, it just so happens to be a name. I didn't pay too much attention to people complaining about the name though so I am not an expert in their arguments.
... then it's not a One-Word Title, though. That's a Character Title.
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To adress the original question, a Broken Base requires that there be at least two vocal factions in the fandom: one that thinks something about the work is good / great / the best thing about the work and another that thinks the same thing is bad / awful / destroying the work. The thing they differ on is the Base Breaker. Simply not liking the name or naming trend is not a Broken Base.
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So for the sake of discussion, what if there are two distinct, virulent sides completely at each other's throats, but (like this case) the argument is nonsense?
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Keeping in mind that this example doesn't apply (because no-one is saying One-Word Title is good/great/awesome), if a picayune thing is Serious Business for the fanbase, it still counts.
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On the Moana page I had added an example under Broken Base and another troper deleted it. They said that fans complaining about the name counts more as Fan Dumb than a Broken Base. Does it? I don't personally mind the One-Word Title trend Disney has but I do understand the disdain towards it. It seems to go beyond just Fan Dumb behavior. Some consider them too bland, too generic, etc.
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