History WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings / WebOriginal

* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' Internet analyst Creator/LilyOrchard hates the fanbase despite having no intention of leaving it, and a ton of the problems she has with them wind up in her opinion series ''Glass of Water''. She always deletes a massive percentage of [=YouTube=] comments on her videos that don't provide some kind of legit, maturely-worded criticism because she "can't trust fans to do that on their own".

** Elsagate[[labelnote:What?]]Essentially, channels were making inappropriate videos targeted at kids that featured kids characters (most prominently Elsa from Disney/{{Frozen}}, hence the name "Elsagate"). [=YouTube=] ignored this until ''news outlets'' reported it, at which point they had to do something to salvage their reputation.[[/labelnote]] started a chain reaction that caused [=YouTube=] to implement a rating system which basically consists of only G (kid-friendly) and R (not kid-friendly). And only R-rated content will be eligible for monetization. In essence, [=YouTube=], beginning in 2020, will operate on the concept of RatedMForMoney taken to its logical extreme.
*** Unusually, this has more to do with bringing the site into compliance with existing laws forbidding ads targeted at young children than it does with the fandom of the site.

* Fanfiction.net used to allow ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' fanfic and even outright {{MST}}ing on other categories back in the early days of the site. But since too many {{jerkass}}es (ab)used the category to attack authors and/or insult their work, [=MSTs=] are no longer allowed on the site.
* Similarly, a fair number of fanfiction sites ban {{MST}}s because of {{jerkass}}es who use them to attack authors and/or insult their work.

* Because of generally good behavior and quality in sporkings presented, Das Mervin, mod of the sporking community Blog/DasSporking, announced that new sporkers no longer had to apply or be approved of and could post whenever they wanted to. Three months later, a series of major cases of rule-breaking caused Mervin to temporarily shut down the comm and announce that sporkers once again could only post after being approved.
* Blog/MarkDoesStuff used to allow people to do one off commissions of movies and episodes of random TV shows, which would let you see Mark react to it for the first time and get a short write-up about it. It was eventually stopped, in part because it was too time-consuming and hosting was overly expensive, but also because fans of the show would become hugely demanding if Mark didn't watch the ''entire'' show or write enough about it. Similarly, enough bronies kept sending Mark demanding, rude, sexist and racist stuff demanding to just go and start watching ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic immediately'' that its now permanently off his watch list, since he does not want to deal with the dark parts of its fandom.

* Similarly, a fair number of fanfiction sites ban {{MST}}s because of {{jerkass}}es who use {{MST}}s to attack authors and/or insult their work.

* For a short period after retiring from updating his review site, Creator/MarkPrindle would use his Facebook account to briefly post about albums he listened to recently. This changed in part because of fans constantly asking him to just un-retire his site since he's still reviewing things: Instead he started simply posting a list of music he listened to, with factual information included in parentheses (primarily year of release, genre, and where the artist is from), inviting his followers to discuss ''their'' opinions in comments. However if someone asks his opinion about a particular album he'll give an answer.

* As an AprilFoolsDay prank, Maddox changed ''Website/TheBestPageInTheUniverse'' into ''[[http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=april_fools04 One of the Better Pages in the Universe]]''. Most of the fans didn't get the joke and thought that it was either a serious new direction, a change imposed by a girlfriend, or a hack. After [[http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=april_fools_you_morons reviewing the emails he received reacting to the prank]], Maddox declared "I seriously contemplated taking down my site and just posting links to [[{{Rule34}} animal porn]] for you retards. You're all idiots, and I've lost what little respect I had for you."

* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' Internet analyst Creator/LilyPeet hates the fanbase despite having no intention of leaving it, and a ton of the problems she has with them wind up in her opinion series ''Glass of Water''. She always deletes a massive percentage of [=YouTube=] comments on her videos that don't provide some kind of legit, maturely-worded criticism because she "can't trust fans to do that on their own".

* ''WebAnimation/SuperMarioBrosZ'' creator Alvin Earthworm was constantly being asked on his social media when the next episode of the series was coming out. The show was something he does as a hobby and he, by his own admittance, didn't expect it to take off like it did.

** Elsagate started a chain reaction which led to [=YouTube=] implementing a rating system which basically consists of only two ratings: G and R. And only R-rated content will be eligible for big bucks in monetization. In essence, [=YouTube=], beginning in 2020, will operate on the concept of RatedMForMoney taken to its logical extreme.
* In a Reddit AMA, ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' co-writer and co-director Miles Luna stated that he cannot write scenes involving his character Jaune Arc due to the fact that many fans have accused Miles of making Jaune his self-insert character and making him lose interest in doing so.

** Elsagate started a chain reaction which led to [=YouTube=] implementing a rating system which basically consists of only two ratings: G and R. And only R-rated content will be eligible for big bucks in monetization.

* In 2018, [=YouTube=] severely tightened its monetization rules so that eligibility is only possible for those with at least 4,000 hours of overall watch time and at least 1,000 subscribers. Though advertising on inappropriate content was not a new problem, there are indications everywhere that the controversies involving Logan Paul had everything to do with it.

* For a short period after retiring from updating his review site, Creator/MarkPrindle would use his Facebook account to briefly post about albums he listened to recently. This changed in part because of fans constantly asking him to just un-retire his site since he's still reviewing things: Instead he started simply posting a list of music he listened to, with factual information included in parentheses (primarily year of release, genre, and where the artist is from), inviting his followers to discuss ''their'' opinions in comments. If someone asks his opinion about a particular album he'll give an answer.

* For a short period after retiring from updating his review site, Creator/MarkPrindle would use his Facebook account to briefly post about albums he listened to recently. This changed in part because of fans constantly asking him to just un-retire his site since he's still reviewing things: Instead he started simply posting a list of music he listened to, with factual information included in parentheses (primarily year of release, genre, and where the artist is from), inviting his followers to discuss ''their' opinions in comments. If someone asks his opinion about a particular album he'll give an answer.

* After {{WebVideo/Chadtronic}} showcased him in the (now deleted) "DEEP INTO YOUTUBE 1" video, Obscure [[DerangedAnimation (and surreal)]] 3D animator Nicolas Fedorov had his videos explode in popularity. However, this is one of the few instances where the ColbertBump turned into a ''bad'' thing, as he became increasingly impatient with the influx of fans coming in from Chadtronic's channel, lashed out against them, and eventually purged all of his media accounts and went off the internet permanently. The only way to watch his videos now (or the first "DEEP INTO YOUTUBE" for that matter) was to KeepCirculatingTheTapes.

* ''Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses'':

** Another Allison-related one. Her relationship with her boyfriend {{WebVideo/Phelous}} produced lots of videos and [[FriendlyFandoms a shared fanbase]], but due to some people hitting her with [[YokoOhNo accusations]] of ruining Phelous' work, she [[http://allisonpregler.tumblr.com/post/42994299935/you-know-for-a-year-and-a-half-now-ive-been says]] she's become hesitant to make videos with Phelous.

* In January 2018, Creator/GavinFree, a well-known member of Creator/RoosterTeeth and creator of ''WebVideo/TheSlowMoGuys'', and his girlfriend, former Rooster Teeth member Meg Turney, had a crazed fan break into their house with a shotgun with the intention of killing Gavin as he had an obsession with Meg and hated Gavin for being with her. While Gavin recovered from the incident, Meg hasn't as her [=YouTube=] channel had went silent for six months before she put up a video letting her fans know of what's going on, that she's been nervous to return to her videos in fear of a copycat.

* Sometimes, when a group of videos on [=YouTube=] gets taken down due to [[ScrewedByTheLawyer copyright infringement]], fans of the videos will quite unfairly and needlessly harp on the uploader. In at least one case, this has resulted in the uploader personally taking down
''all'' of their videos.
* WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}} removed the comments section on their channel after their viewers wouldn't stop bickering amongst themselves or posting links to videos for the guys to riff on, even after it became apparent that the guys ignored said links. After much clamoring in the videos, the comments were reinstated [[HistoryRepeats only for the same thing to happen again]], and this time it seems they're gone for good. The suggestions may have also been partly responsible for the removal of their Formspring, although it may have just been a temporary thing in the first place. Not helping matters was the person who posted a fandom secret of pairing the guys up, or the person who uploaded a video consisting of nothing but Slowbeef's laughter strung together for ten minutes, intensely creeping them out.
** In 2013, they started editing out the names of authors in their traditional [=RPs=] due to the massive amount of fans taking "Riff" to mean "Bully the uploader off of [=YouTube=]". Fans continued to track the people down and harass them, which eventually spelled the death of "traditional retsupurae" in favor of riffing longplays of games, where they mock the content of the game itself and not the player.
* As an AprilFoolsDay prank, Maddox changed ''Website/TheBestPageInTheUniverse'' into ''[[http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=april_fools04 One of the Better Pages in the Universe]]''. Most of the fans didn't get the joke and thought that it was either a serious new direction, a change imposed by a girlfriend, or a hack. After [[http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=april_fools_you_morons reviewing the emails he received reacting to the prank]], he declared, "I seriously contemplated taking down my site and just posting links to [[{{Rule34}} animal porn]] for you retards. You're all idiots, and I've lost what little respect I had for you."
* A lot of Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses contributors used to have FAQ threads on the forums where they would answer any question. Not only have those threads gone because of questions that got too personal, rude, or creepy, but most of the people on the forums have fled the place altogether because of the culminating mess of white knights, stalkers, trolls, sexist homophobes, and death threats.
** There was a site-wide RunningGag that everyone wanted Creator/AllisonPregler and treated her like a sex symbol. It had a lot of funny moments, there was no sexist behavior involved, and it produced loads of FanficFuel. Unfortunately, too many fans took it as permission to just consider her as a hot chick and not a reviewer, so the jokes had to die down.

** While Creator/DougWalker never liked ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', his first review of it was him trying his best to be nice and constantly interrupting his own opinions to assure people he was probably just overreacting and would never be a FanHater about it. However, a wave of HePannedItNowHeSucks, including a Facebook post having to be deleted because over 100 people were calling him names for asking why the review got hated so much, made him lose his patience and his "like what you like" mantra was essentially dropped.

** There's been at least one occasion where fans have shown up unannounced and uninvited in {{cosplay}} outside of Spoony's house (and did the same thing to his parents, having looked up his address before he moved out) and refused to leave until the police were called. Considering that his brother is a police officer who has had people try murder him, Noah was ''not'' amused.

* ''WebVideo/VideoGamesAwesome'' used to have it where anyone could communicate with them in their chat room during their playthroughs, but after one too many instances of trolls spoiling the game for them, they made it so that only donators who contributed at least $50 could participate in the chat, which pissed off some long time fans who couldn't spare the money.

** During the six days that Joel had his channel hijacked by a [[{{Troll}} script]] [[InternetToughGuy kiddie]], Vinny was forced to call out fans for their incredibly volatile responses to the incident, which included attacking both himself and Joel for giving little vocal response to the incident. Vinny specifically called this VocalMinority "the worst kind of Vinesauce fans" and heavily reiterated that they were doing exactly what the hijacker wanted them to do.

* There was a fun little web game called ''Space Email'', where people could send random, anonymous letters to people, ranging from funny (or spammy), sad, or heartwarming. But less than ''two days'' after it was made, the program was shut down, because many people also used it as a way to be racist, post other people's personal information, and other unpleasant things. In order to protect others from getting hurt, the program was pulled, ruining the chance for anyone else to make a letter.

* Because most of ''{{Creator/JoshScorcher}}'s'' fanbase has a tendency to harass the people he made response videos to, he decided to (maybe) stop doing response videos altogether.

* ''WebVideo/ComedyShortsGamer'' briefly disabled his [=YouTube=] comments section (and for a while, only approved certain comments) in June 2017 after many of his fans started to attack him for his content (it got to the point people linked ''viruses'' disguised as Deji's account). It has since died down.
* ''Website/DivaDirt'' disabled the comment feature on its articles after a news report about a shooting outside the WWE Performance Center was met with a lot of tasteless comments from trolls - and the editor warned the site's users that such things were not to be joked about. The comments were later re-established, however.

* Creator/RickyGervais expressly pointed out that they were no longer going to give ''Radio/TheRickyGervaisShow'' away for a period before charging for it, because they were getting annoyed at fans whining that they had missed out. So they just started charging upfront.
* ''WebAnimation/SuperMarioBrosZ'' creator Alvin Earthworm was constantly being asked on Website/{{Newgrounds}} and on his Website/DeviantArt account (among others) when the next episode of the series was coming out. The show was something he does as a hobby and, by his own admittance, didn't expect it to take off like it did.
* ''WebAnimation/{{Arfenhouse}} Teh Movie 3''. The creator, Misteroo, released two prank films instead of the promised third film because fans ''would not stop'' asking him when it would come out. The second of these was released because none of them got the hint.
* Matt Wilson, the creator of ''WebAnimation/BonusStage'', ended the series and dropped off the Internet in part due to the fans, who were by turns screamingly negative or creepily obsessed.
* [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Poké]][[Website/YouTube Tuber]] [=TamashiiHiroka=] was forced to disable comments on her videos for a year or two due to the intense controversy that her feminist views (particularly her video criticizing Lopunny's [[PlayboyBunny design]]) and [[HePannedItNowHeSucks criticisms]] of ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'' amassed. The massive amount of online harassment she received both on and off her channel was so severe that it wasn't until December 10, 2015 that she re-opened the comments sections (and even then, only because she wasn't able to continue disabling them). However, all videos released before then still have comments disabled, even if they didn't address any controversial topics. Late in 2016, she finally turned them back on.
* Creator/LittleKuriboh had mentioned his bisexuality on his Website/LiveJournal, and someone who knew him personally took that information to his parents, who didn't take it very well. LK has since stated that he will be much, much more cautious about posting personal information in the future.
* This is often the motivation for uploaders disabling comments on Website/YouTube, far more so than OrwellianEditor reasons. Case in point, Wrestling/{{WWE}}'s official [=YouTube=] Channel. However, knowing the IWC (Internet Wrestling Community), one would only be able to guess how many comments they would receive about Wrestling/RingOfHonor, Wrestling/{{TNA}}, Wrestling/ChrisBenoit, or the myriad of other "We Do Not Speak of Such Things" topics that they would undoubtedly be inundated with.
* Sometimes, when a group of videos on [=YouTube=] gets DMCA'd, fans of the videos will quite unfairly and needlessly harp on the uploader. In at least one case, this has resulted in the uploader personally taking down the rest of his/her videos.
* WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}} used to have a comments section on their channel but removed it after their viewers wouldn't stop either bickering amongst themselves or posting links to videos for the guys to riff on, even after it became apparent that Retsupurae ignored said links. After much clamouring in the videos the comments were reinstated only for the same thing to happen again and this time it seems they're gone for good. The suggestions may have also been partly responsible for the removal of their Formspring, although it may have been a temporary thing in the first place. It did not help that someone posted a fandom secret of pairing the guys up, or the person who uploaded a video consisting of nothing but Slowbeef's laughter strung together for ten minutes, intensely creeping them out. Another one happened in 2013, due to the massive amount of fans taking "Riff" to mean "Bully the uploader off of [=YouTube=]", They've started editing out the names of authors in their traditional [=RPs=]. Fans continued to track the people down and harass them, which eventually spelled the death of "traditional retsupurae" in favor of riffing longplays of games, where they mock the content of the game itself, and not the (silent) player.
* As an AprilFoolsDay prank, Maddox changed ''Website/TheBestPageInTheUniverse'' into ''[[http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=april_fools04 One of the Better Pages in the Universe]]''. Most of the fans didn't get the joke and thought either it was a serious new direction, he had a girlfriend imposing the changes, or he was hacked. After [[http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=april_fools_you_morons reviewing the emails he received reacting to the prank]], he declared, "I seriously contemplated taking down my site and just posting links to [[{{Rule34}} animal porn]] for you retards. You're all idiots, and I've lost what little respect I had for you."
* A lot of Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses contributors used to have FAQ threads on the forums where they would answer any question. Not only have those gone because of questions that got too personal, rude or creepy, but most of the people have even fled the place altogether because of the culminating mess of white knights, stalkers, trolls, sexist homophobes, and death threats.
** There was a site-wide RunningGag that everyone wanted Creator/AllisonPregler and treated her like a sex symbol. It had a lot of funny moments, there was no sexist behavior involved and it produced loads of FanficFuel, but because too many fans took it as permission to just consider her as a hot chick and not a reviewer, it had to die down.
** Another Allison-related one. Her relationship with her boyfriend {{WebVideo/Phelous}} produced lots of videos and [[FriendlyFandoms a shared fanbase]], but due to some people hitting her with [[YokoOhNo accusations]] of ruining Phelous' work, she [[http://allisonpregler.tumblr.com/post/42994299935/you-know-for-a-year-and-a-half-now-ive-been says]] she's become hesitant to make videos with Phelous as a result.
** While Creator/DougWalker never liked ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'', his first review of it was trying his best to be nice and constantly interrupting his own opinions to assure people he was probably just overreacting and would never be a FanHater about it. But a wave of HePannedItNowHeSucks, including a Facebook post having to be deleted because over 100 people were calling him names for asking why the review got hated so much, made him lose his patience and his "like what you like" mantra was essentially dropped.

** After Spoony won the Mashable Open Web Award for 2009's Funniest Person to Follow, he posted a video thanking his fans for their support; unfortunately, more than a few viewers posted comments insulting his then-girlfriend Scarlett, who made a rare appearance in the video, prompting Noah to replace it with a new video titled "An Appeal For Manners".

** There's been at least one occasion where fans have shown up unannounced and uninvited in {{cosplay}} outside of Spoony's house (and did the same thing to his parents, having looked up his address before he moved out), and refused to leave until the police were called. Considering that his brother is a police officer who has had people try murder him, Noah was ''not'' amused.
** His vlog on ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2'' where he and April rip into it received a heavily negative backlash to the point where he disabled comments on the video. Spoony even made a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qGBf7vRXV8 response video]] to the backlash where he stated that while the negative reaction was expected, he was surprised at the sheer quantity of childish borderline incomprehensible vitriol for his opinion on the film. This was one of the incidences that led him to disable all comments on his videos, a decision he's stood by to this day.

* Twitch streamer Bwana had enough of the [=BrainSlug=] emoticon being synonymous with racist comments]].[[labelnote:*]]i.e. [=BrainSlug=] = [=BigNig=].[[/labelnote]] Not only did he make Twitch change the emoticon to an actual brain slug, he made the old emoticon for subscribers only.

* If LetsPlay/NintendoCapriSun is playing blind through a plot-heavy game on Twitch, he'll disable alerts, place the chat in followers only mode, and have the mods on full alert to immediately time out anyone who hints at a spoiler. This is due to his blind run of ''VisualNovel/DanganRonpa'' where a troll subscribed to the channel with a username that spoiled the name of the BigBad for all to see.

* The Tropes Mirror Wiki originally was open for anyone who wanted to sign on and edit. But then a handful of jokers from [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} This Very Wiki]] decided the folks over on the Mirror needed to be "punished" for daring to actually exist as a website and started spam-bombing the Mirror by creating new pages that were titled from the old wiki (using actual trope titles of pages that hadn't been imported yet), but filled with porn spam, or ads for erectile dysfunction drugs, or cheap cigarettes, and the like. As a result, new editors have to now be approved by the admins before they can do anything on the wiki. When one of the spammers was tracked down and confronted, he admitted to doing it as a "fuck you" to the Mirror on behalf of Fast Eddie and TV Tropes, despite the Mirror's existence not violating any law, rule, regulation, or standard of behavior. A different Tropes Mirror Wiki, founded by a different user, exists today, but it can only contain material from this wiki that originated before July 2012.

** WebVideo/{{Markiplier}} had a series of videos set up of him playing the the game. However, after two videos, he stopped releasing them after the fandom got angry at his given voices for the characters and he didn't play the way ''they'' wanted to play, dropping spoilers along the way. He wouldn't touch the game for a long while before he opted to return to it via Twitch.

* After {{WebVideo/Chadtronic}} showcased him in the (now deleted) "DEEP INTO YOUTUBE 1" video, Obscure [[DerangedAnimation (and surreal)]] 3D animator Nicolas Fedorov had his videos explode in popularity. However, this is one of the few instances where the ColbertBump turned into a ''bad'' thing, as he became increasingly impatient with the influx of fans coming in from Chadtronic's channel, lashed out against them, and eventually purged all of his media accounts and went of the internet permanently. The only way to watch his videos now (or the first "DEEP INTO YOUTUBE" for that matter) was to KeepCirculatingTheTapes.

* In-universe example: At the end of the fifth season of ''WebVideo/TheGuild'', main character Sydney (who often goes by her MMO game's character name Codex) gets a job at the company that makes the MMO she and her guildmates are obsessed with. In the sixth season, she finds that the creator is a neurotic recluse who has [[ScheduleSlip scrapped the nearly-finished expansion]] multiple times for fear of provoking the ire of his game's massive HateDumb. Making matters worse, her game's guild leader Vork storms into her boss's office and demands to have retribution for thousands of petty complaints. When Vork later organizes a loud and angry mob against the MMO, Codex goes out to tell the crowd that complaining about something too much to the point where the original creators want nothing to do with the thing they used to love anymore. In other words, "This is why fandom can't have nice things" is the main theme of the season. Indeed, this very issue may have been the reason why Felicia Day stopped making episodes of ''The Guild'' after this season, since Seasons 5 and 6 had not been well-received by some in fandom.

* In a Reddit AMA, ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' co-writer and co-director Miles Luna stated that he cannot write scenes involving his character Jaune Arc due to the fact that many fans have accused Miles of making Jaune his self-insert character and making him lose interest in doing so.

* This (and the fact that he doesn't want to be remembered for it, as seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptYPz-_6sLI here]]) is the reason why Creator/MoBrosStudios will no longer do any [=SpongeBob=] countdown videos.

* BigNameFan [[Creator/MxBones Rebornica]], previous owner of a popular ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' AU, decided to leave the fandom and stop working on the AU due to death threats, complaints about their work, [[NeverLiveItDown being forced to apologize for things they had done]] ''[[NeverLiveItDown years]]'' [[NeverLiveItDown ago]], and extremely uncomfortable but popular [[DracoInLeatherPants mis]]-[[MentorShip characterizations]] of their versions of the original characters. They ended up leaving the AU to a friend that would do the AU justice, and now they're free to work on their new project, but it's still horrible to see. On March 10, 2015, Rebornica and Cam, who they left the AU to, announced that they were going to "bury" the AU after a fair deal of abuse from the ''Five Nights at Freddy's'' fandom. Also, due to people that refuse to [[NeverLiveItDown let the past]] [[{{Hatedom}} remain in the past]], they have, as of August 31st, shut down their Tumblr account until further notice. It is currently unknown if they'll ever return to the site.