History WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings / WebOriginal

* Several characters from both ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'' and ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'' have [[CharacterBlog their own Instagram accounts, where official artwork is uploaded and presented as posts the characters had made in-universe]]. This included Octavia, Stolas' teenage daughter from ''Helluva Boss''. Unfortunately, the account was quickly bombarded with [[RuleThirtyFour porn featuring her]] (and on the squickier side, occasionally featuring her ''[[ParentalIncest and her father]]''). While the creator of both series, Creator/VivienneMedrano, expected porn of the characters to be created, she wasn't expecting it to be so mean-spirited and {{Squick}}y. The manager of the account finally got sick of it around January 2021 and [[https://www.reddit.com/r/HelluvaBoss/comments/kz9fd0/the_via_situation/ archived the account]], even breaking character in both Octavia and Stolas' accounts to explain that they were incredibly uncomfortable with how the fandom was behaving.

* Several characters from both ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'' and ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'' have [[CharacterBlog their own Instagram accounts, where official artwork was uploaded and presented as actual posts the characters had made]]. This included Octavia, Stolas' teenage daughter from ''Helluva Boss''. Unfortunately, the account was quickly bombarded with porn featuring her (and on the squickier side, occasionally featuring her ''[[ParentalIncest and her father]]''). The manager of the account finally got sick of it around January 2021 and [[https://www.reddit.com/r/HelluvaBoss/comments/kz9fd0/the_via_situation/ archived the account]], even breaking character in both Octavia and Stolas' accounts to explain that they were incredibly uncomfortable with how the fandom was behaving.

* Several characters from both ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'' and ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'' had [[CharacterBlog their own Instagram accounts, where official artwork was uploaded and presented as actual posts the characters had made]]. This included Octavia, Stolas' teenage daughter from ''Helluva Boss''. Unfortunately, the account was quickly bombarded with porn featuring her (and on the squickier side, occasionally featuring her ''[[ParentalIncest and her father]]''). The manager of the account finally got sick of it around January 2021 and [[https://www.reddit.com/r/HelluvaBoss/comments/kz9fd0/the_via_situation/ archived the account]], even breaking character in both Octavia and Stolas' accounts to explain that they were incredibly uncomfortable with how the fandom was behaving.

* Voice actress Wubcake was quite prominent in the fandom for ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'' and ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', including being widely thought of as ''the'' fan voice for the character Sunset Shimmer. In 2020, Wubcake moved away from both fandoms, announcing that she would no longer be making MLP or ''Equestria Girls''-related content. [[https://youtu.be/aSbB498SnCQ?t=1234 In a livestream]], Wubcake cited general burnout with [[{{Typecasting}} being asked to do the same kinds of lines over and over]], as well as meeting very toxic people in the communities. She cited a specific incident in which someone raised tens of thousands of dollars on [=GoFundMe=], ostensibly for cancer treatment, only to delete all of their social media accounts the moment that the money was raised. When Wubcake posted on Twitter that she hoped it wasn't a scam, Peter New -- a voice actor from ''Friendship is Magic'' (best known for voicing Big [=McIntosh=]) -- {{Quote Mine}}d Wubcake and sent his followers after her, leading to a ton of harassment. All of this contributed to Wubcake's decision to bolt from ''MLP'' content and never look back. She now primarily does ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' fan content

* On ''Website/DragonCave'', the Frilled Dragon was a very nice, but exceptionally common breed. The combination of this and its description being the same as other, more valuable breeds caused a massive backlash, to the point of outright insulting its sprite and artist. At first, the creator tried to brainstorm ways to make it more appealing, but eventually she got so sick of the thing that she straight out discontinued the breed. However, on May 21, 2016 Frilled Dragons returned, complete with their original descriptions and with a sprite for the males. The creator [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone regretted having them retired in the first place]], admitting that they were less mature at thte time, and they really could have handled it better.

* Blog/MarkDoesStuff used to allow people to do one-off commissions of movies and episodes of TV shows, which would let you see Mark react to it for the first time and get a short write-up about it. This was stopped, partially because it was too time-consuming and hosting was overly expensive, but also because fans of a show would become hugely demanding if Mark didn't watch the ''entire'' show or write enough about it. Similarly, enough bronies kept sending Mark rude, sexist and racist messages demanding him to start watching ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic immediately'' that the show's permanently off his watch list, since he doesn't want to deal with the dark parts of the fandom.

* The WebVideo/GameGrumps had to take down an episode of their ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' playthrough because they were making fun of the less-than-helpful FAQ they'd been using and made the mistake of mentioning the author's name, which led to a few fans tracking the author down and harassing him, some even going so far as to hunt down his personal phone number. The episode was reposted later with the author's name censored, and Arin and Dan sent him a personal apology; thankfully, the author was cool about the whole thing[[note]]especially since he admitted that he wrote the FAQ when he was in middle school, so naturally it wasn't as well-written as it could have been[[/note]], and noted that the vast majority of Grumps fans in the original video were defending him or calling out the VocalMinority who suggested harassing him.
* ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' made it ''very'' clear that there would no more be match ups between characters from ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' and ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' after the ''very'' divisive Goku vs. Superman battles ended [[spoiler:with Superman the flat-out winner, both times]]. That doesn't mean they won't use those franchises again - indeed, ComicBook/LexLuthor battled ComicBook/IronMan and Hercule battled [[Franchise/StreetFighter Dan Hibiki]] afterwards. You just won't see something like Gohan vs. Superboy.
* Internet analyst Creator/LilyOrchard hates the [[VocalMinority Vocal Minorities]] of fans for various Western-animated cartoons, especially [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic bronies]]. Most of the problems she has with them wind up in her opinion series ''Glass of Water''. She usually deletes comments on her videos that don't provide some kind of maturely-worded criticism because she "can't trust fans to do that on their own", and she almost always disables ratings. Orchard also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5a4XrJcThY posted a video]] where she admitted that she was having a CreatorBreakdown from people asking the same questions over and over on her videos. Orchard also called out one fan for doxxing her address so they could send her a UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch and a copy of ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'' because they wanted her to bash the game, which Orchard had previously said that she was not interested in doing.

* Voice actress Wubcake was quite prominent in the fandom for ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'' and ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', including being widely thought of as ''the'' fan voice for the character Sunset Shimmer. In 2020, Wubcake moved away from both fandoms, announcing that she would no longer be making MLP or ''Equestria Girls''-related content. [[https://youtu.be/aSbB498SnCQ?t=1234 In a livestream]], Wubcake cited general burnout with [[{{Typecasting}} being asked to do the same kinds of lines over and over]], as well as meeting very toxic people in the communities. She cited a specific incident in which someone raised tens of thousands of dollars on [=GoFundMe=], ostensibly for cancer treatment, only to delete all of their social media accounts the moment that the money was raised. When Wubcake posted on Twitter that she hoped it wasn't a scam, Peter New -- a voice actor from ''Friendship is Magic'' (best known for voicing Big McIntosh) -- {{Quote Mine}}d Wubcake and sent his followers after her, leading to a ton of harassment. All of this contributed to Wubcake's decision to bolt from ''MLP'' content and never look back. She now primarily does ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' fan content

* Voice actress Wubcake was quite prominent in the fandom for ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'' and ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', including being widely thought of as ''the'' fan voice for the character Sunset Shimmer. In 2020, Wubcake moved away from both fandoms, announcing that she would no longer be making MLP or ''Equestria Girls''-related content. [[https://youtu.be/aSbB498SnCQ?t=1234 In a livestream]], Wubcake cited general burnout with [[{{Typecasting}} being asked to do the same kinds of lines over and over]], as well as meeting very toxic people in the communities. She cited a specific incident in which someone raised tens of thousand of dollars on [=GoFundMe=], ostensibly for cancer treatment, only to delete all of their social media accounts the moment that the money was raised. When Wubcake posted on Twitter that she hoped it wasn't a scam, Peter New -- a voice actor from ''Friendship is Magic'' -- {{Quote Mine}}d Wubcake and sent his followers after her, leading to a ton of harassment. All of this contributed to Wubcake's decision to bolt from ''MLP'' content and never look back.

* Website/GoAnimate was retooled in 2014 as a pay-only business website and later removed the option for casual [=GoPlus=] accounts presumably due to this trope. Even though it was made with anybody's usage in mind, you tend to be viewed as the laughingstock of the internet when your video-making website is used to make videos where characters from shows like WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}} [[YouAreGrounded get grounded]] and sometimes assaulted. However, people still found ways to make those videos, so in late 2015 the company announced that, starting in 2016, they would move from Flash to [=HTML5=] and remove any non-business-related themes in order to both save money and exterminate the misuse of the platform. However, the Comedy World themes were still accessible through a hidden menu in the main video maker. Once people abused this to make Alvin Hung (the creator of [=GoAnimate=]) the new grounded video target, the themes were pulled for good. Unfortunately, they then proceeded to latch on ''another'' holdout, [=GoAnimate=] for Schools, which was the last [=GoAnimate=] service that still used the Comedy World themes; said users used fake school e-mails to sign up, which led to ''that'' removing all the Comedy World themes from the website. The site continued to remove features left as artifacts on other websites, such as Wix, but users found out that using the extension Requestly lets you use the (archived) Comedy World themes. Eventually, the abuse got so bad that the company had no choice but to remove [=GoAnimate=] for Schools completely in 2019. As the school version was made to be used by kids, any doubt left that the Grounded videos and fandom didn't have at least something to do with the removal of the non-business themes evaporated. Because of all this, it's likely that this means the use of the program for Grounded videos [[GenreKiller will likely come to an end entirely]].

* Voice actress Wubcake was quite prominent in the fandom for ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls'' and ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', including being widely thought of as ''the'' fan voice for the character Sunset Shimmer. In 2020, Wubcake moved away from both fandoms, announcing that she would no longer be making MLP or ''Equestria Girls''-related content. [[https://youtu.be/aSbB498SnCQ?t=1234 In a livestream]], Wubcake cited general burnout with [[{{Typecasting}} being asked to do the same kinds of lines over and over]], as well as meeting very toxic people in the communities. She cited a specific incident in which someone raised tens of thousand of dollars on [=GoFundMe=], ostensibly for cancer treatment, only to delete all of their social media accounts the moment that the money was raised. When Wubcake posted on Twitter that she hoped it wasn't a scam, Peter New -- a voice actor from ''Friendship is Magic'' -- {{Quote Mine}}d Wubcake and sent his followers after her, leading to a ton of harassment. All of this contributed to Wubcake's decision to bolt from ''MLP'' content and never look back.

* Most of, if not all of, ''Creator/AchievementHunter'' have been a little cynical towards their fandom. This can be due to many things including the [=YouTube=] comments complaining about Let's Plays being uploaded late, hateful comments towards any achievement hunter not in the "main six" (most notably Lindsay has been the subject of sexist comments), being shown sexual fan art of them kissing or even having sex with their friends/coworkers, and more. However, the biggest annoyance they face is constantly having their "catchphrases" or even just things they've said once being constantly tweeted or messaged to them in some way. This specifically happened to Ray, which led to him from being one of the loudest and most talkative to being the quietest, out of fear of creating a new phrase to be constantly hounded with on Twitter. Also at RTX 2014, the Achievement Hunter panel was full of uncomfortable questions and people just requesting shoutouts. It got so annoying that when one fan was up to ask a question, he first said "I have a real question," which led to the hunters and eventually the audience cheering.

** 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 hit Walker, including a Facebook post having to be deleted because over 100 people were calling him names for asking why the review got hated. Walker lost his patience, and his "like what you like" mantra was essentially dropped.

* WebAnimation/{{Hololive}} Generation 5's Mano Aloe accidentally leaked footage of her character via test stream before her official debut, which resulted in a two-week suspension. However, "anti-fans" then uncovered her personal information and used it to send her harassing phonecalls and [=DMs=] on social media, as well as tracking down her family members and even her then-boyfriend (with their relationship ending specifically because of the harassment he was getting) and harassed ''them'' as well. After the suspension was up, COVER Corporation (who runs hololive) announced that Aloe had decided to permanently retire from the role because she was "not physically or mentally prepared to continue with her activities".

* RuleThirtyFour (the site) learned this the hard way, after Dreamhost (their old host) forced them to pull toddlercon. The following April, after they had completed the move to Dutch servers, they put up one of those stock FBI warnings (which had anyone paid attention to where they moved would have been bloody obviously fake) and claimed LoliconAndShotacon was about to go, which was further helped along by E-Hentai ''really'' having to do this at coincidentally the same time due to their own hosts, and also the guilty verdicts of the Whorley and Handley cases in real life. The response when the veil was lifted? A hacker taking over the site and replacing everything with pictures of tigers (both tanks and animals), then his penis, and finally 20ish straight days of [=DDoS=], which obliterated a server and made the site run like crap for years. [[SeriousBusiness Porn on the Internet. Srsbsns.]] Interestingly, the second April Fools' joke went ''completely unnoticed'' due to the furor over the first, with a total of three comments over the following week about it. The second 2010 April Fools' joke? Aliasing Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles to [[MemeticMutation Big_Green_Talking_Turtles]], Baxter's infamous line in the first season. Was lampshaded later when the site ran a vote for what missing features from the move were to return. This being the internet, the joke option won, and so everything was turned into Atari Jaguars instead, continuing the big cat theme the troll had started.[[note]]In reality, their code was on that dead server, and their coder was chased off during the first April so there was no one to repair them anyway.[[/note]]

* [[http://www.postsecret.com/ PostSecret]] opened an [=iPhone=] app at the end of 2011 so people could take photographs and edit them quickly to make their own secrets and send them to a separate secret section that other app users could see. While mostly secrets similar to those found on the website people started to send in generally hurtful secrets, often about other secrets sent through the app. [=PostSecret=] is known for sending in the most personal secrets people have so rude comments aren't looked upon kindly. This started a huge fight between those being rude, trolls and those trying to defend those being attacked. Actual secrets got pilled under all of these. The creators tried to set up a system where they would screen every secret sent in, which was at an average of 30,000 per day. This quickly proved impossible and the app was closed on the first day of 2012, lasting a total of four months. A lot of the secrets near the end of the app commented that the app and the "secrets" involved were proof that people really can't govern themselves.

* ''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 fifty dollars could participate in the chat, which pissed off some long time fans who couldn't spare the money.
* [[Creator/TheCynicalBrit TotalBiscuit]], a [=YouTuber=] known for his highly professional video game commentary and being very opinionated, came under scrutiny multiple times for getting mad at fanboys for being too rabid or too bossy. One of the biggest controversies involving him was when he got mad at a user because they, after telling someone that he didn't take requests in a completely passive manner (and not rude at all), had told him that he should have took requests because he owed it to his fans:
--> ''"All fanboys must die."''

* Most of, if not all of, ''Creator/AchievementHunter'' have been a little cynical towards their fandom. This can be due to many things including the [=YouTube=] comments complaining about Let's Plays being uploaded late, hateful comments towards any achievement hunter not in the "main six" (most notably Lindsay has been the subject of sexist comments), being shown sexual fan art of them kissing or even having sex with their friends/coworkers and more. However, the biggest annoyance they face is constantly having their "catchphrases" or even just things they've said once being constantly tweeted to or messaged to them in some way. This specifically happened to Ray which led to him from being one of the loudest and most talkative to being the quietest out of being afraid of creating a new phrase to be constantly hounded by on Twitter. Also at RTX 2014, the Achievement Hunter panel was full of uncomfortable questions and people just requesting shoutouts. It got so annoying that when one fan was up to ask a question he first said "I have a real question," which led to the hunters and eventually the audience cheering.

* In the beginning of 2015, the {{Creepypasta}} Wiki's chat room was taken down for multiple reasons (mainly, drama). Before that, it was taken down a few times as well, but restored after a short while. Now, it's gone for good.

** LetsPlay/{{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 didn't touch the game for a long while before he opted to return to it via Twitch. And just to be sure he didn't get spoiled or harassed again, Mark made it a point to completely ignore the Twitch chat the entire time.

* WebVideo/{{PIEGUYRULZ}} admitted that harassment from fans over him ''not'' making his "Every Episode Of [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarepants SpongeBob]] Reviewed" series and Bottom of the Bakery series in favor of other content played a significant factor in why Pie Guy lost his passion for making said videos and put them on indefinite hold. Not helping was backlash over his to-date final Every Episode of [=SpongeBob=]: Pie Guy gave Season 10 (a season that the ''[=SpongeBob=]'' fanbase largely saw as [[WinBackTheCrowd a return to form for the show]]) [[SoOkayItsAverage a "Meh" rating]] for [[ItsTheSameSoItSucks using too many ideas and concepts from earlier seasons for it to merit a total pass from him]], resulting in [[HePannedItNowHeSucks backlash from fans]] who disagreed.

* An anime artist known for drawing Yaoi once decided to draw a picture of her OC making out with an OC of her real life boyfriend. Her fanbase proceeded to flood the comments section saying how disgusting it was and saying she was skimping on them. She proceeded to delete her account because people began to make misogynistic comments without taking into account that the artist was female.

* While far from the only reason why he quit making the content his channel was famous for, WebVideo/{{PIEGUYRULZ}} later admitted that harassment from fans over him ''not'' making his signature "Every Episode Of [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarepants SpongeBob]] Reviewed" series and Bottom of the Bakery series in favor of other content and backlash over his to-date final Every Episode of [=SpongeBob=] video[[labelnote:*]]Pie Guy gave Season 10 (a season that the ''[=SpongeBob=]'' fanbase largely saw as [[WinBackTheCrowd a return to form for the show]]) [[SoOkayItsAverage a "Meh" rating]] for [[ItsTheSameSoItSucks using too many ideas and concepts from earlier seasons for it to merit a total pass from him]], resulting in [[HePannedItNowHeSucks backlash from fans]] who disagreed.[[/labelnote]] did play a significant factor in why Pie Guy lost his passion for making said videos and put them on indefinite hold.

* Internet analyst Creator/LilyOrchard hates the VocalMinority of cartoon fans (especially [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic bronies]]), and most of the problems she has with them wind up in her opinion series ''Glass of Water''. She usually deletes comments on her videos that don't provide some kind of maturely-worded criticism because she "can't trust fans to do that on their own", and she almost always disables ratings. Orchard also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5a4XrJcThY posted a video]] where she admitted that she was having a CreatorBreakdown from people asking the same questions over and over on her videos. Orchard also called out one fan for doxxing her address so they could send her a UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch and a copy of ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'' because they wanted her to bash the game.

* ''WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}}''
** The comments section for videos on their channel were removed after viewers wouldn't stop bickering amongst themselves or posting links to videos for the guys to riff on, even after it became apparent that such links were always ignored. After much clamoring, the comments were reinstated, [[HistoryRepeats only for the same things to happen in the comments that were happening before]]. The comments were removed again, and this time, they were gone for good. 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. Both of these things ended up intensely creeping out the Retsupurae creators.
** In 2013, the creators started editing out the names of Let's Players due to fans thinking that having a Restupurae made about someone meant that it was okay to bully the Let's Player off of [=YouTube=]. In spite of the names being removed, 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 person who's playing it.

* Artists have been known to remove their galleries from art sites due to harassment from certain fans and other such stuff. Due to some of the troublesome nature, many prefer to remain anonymous or only speak through their friends nowadays. Some examples include:
** Someone opening requests and winding up with people obsessively asking when their requests were done, or winding up with so much they can't do it anymore. Other times, artists have only opened up certain commission slots depending on the comments posted due to "snipers" only to get constantly complained at. Artists have been known to limit commission slots or put restrictions on the content because people would post within ten minutes and buy off most of the slots, etc.
** Seeing their work posted on other sites without their permission, traced, ripped, etc. Sometimes even worse when ''they'' got accused of it and got banned by the art thieves because of bribery, nepotism, and corruption on art sites favoring the thieves. One glaring example is Sitrophe, who had an OC named Equilibrium. So many people stole the OC that [[http://sweetdreamsmonkey.deviantart.com/art/Equilibrium-Sold-595941112 Sitrophe was forced to sell it.]]
** HetIsEw mentalities. Extreme fans have been known to send hate mail to creators because they made a heterosexual pair canon, or drew pictures of heterosexual couples. This has happened numerous times on Website/{{deviantART}}, Sheezyart, and even [=FurAffinity=]. An anime artist known for drawing Yaoi once decided to draw a picture of her OC making out with an OC of her real life boyfriend. Her fanbase proceeded to flood the comments section saying how disgusting it was and saying she was skimping on them. She proceeded to delete her account because people began to make misogynistic comments without taking into account that ''the artist was female in real life''.
** There's one comic that shows the inverse cause, but same result of this. An artist in the UsefulNotes/FurryFandom (complete with Furry Avatar) posts a picture, asking for comments. One of the comments heaped on the praise, but gave [[{{Squick}} too much information]]. This shifts the artist out of the furry avatar state, cue a couple of {{beat}} panels, and he's trying to get to sleep with "[[BrainBleach Sweaty from arousal]]" running in a loop in his head.
** Some artists have been known to close commissions down after people harassed them. Either stuff happened in real life and commissioners harassed them about when their pic would be done, terrible customers would ask them to constantly redo the pic because they messed stuff up, people stiffing payment, etc. A real life professional artist (read: Someone who draws art for a living) had to put stiff requirements on commissions because she had to spend up to $100 in supplies for a troublesome customer only for him to stiff her and cancel the job when it was already done. She put it in her portfolio anyways, but proceeded to see that pic put up ''in that customers' gallery'' and treated as a "Request". Another artist reported a troublesome customer asking him to redo the pic numerous times and found every rejected sketch uploaded to that customer's gallery.
** In almost any art web site, artists who grow popular tend to be cautious in revealing their contact and messenger information due to people either trying to mooch off of them for free art or harass them over anything.
** Fan artists have closed their galleries or stopped posting altogether due to offensive comments that fanfiction or fan art is not art and accusations of plagiarism and tracing.
** It is quite common on erotic/hentai galleries for any artist who attempts to create a story sequence with any sort of extended buildup to be bombarded with comments demanding that they "get to the sex already", "stop messing about" or even "stop doing it wrong". Unsurprisingly, some artists just lose their mojo, their groove, or their temper, and stop posting instead.
** Many artists, particularly on Pixiv, are staunchly against the posting of their art on other sites; pages like the Japan-based [[http://ofp.yu.to/ Online Fanarts Protection]] exist to inform people about such policies. Although artists are generally fine with people linking to the pages for their art on sites like Twitter and Facebook, they draw the line at their art being uploaded onto sites such as Website/{{Tumblr}}, and will often have a quip on their Pixiv profile warning users against the unauthorized posting of their art on other sites, or at the least telling fans to ask them before reposting. Some artists will go as far as to make their works private or delete them altogether if this problem is bad enough. Reactions to this sort of policy have been mixed; fellow artists generally agree with them, citing that they prefer to control where on the web their works show up (especially considering some users don't bother to give credit to the original artist when posting their images, or worse, [[UsefulNotes/{{Plagiarism}} claim the art as their own]]) while many non-artists, especially Westerners, feel that there's no point complaining about it by virtue of content on the Internet being easily reposted elsewhere and that asking artists for permission to post art on other sites is too much of a hassle, especially when [[LanguageBarrier most artists on Pixiv do not understand English and most Westerners don't know Japanese]].
* Many IRC-channels have been removed due to harassment and flame wars. The same applies to websites as well; before Serenes Forest became the new go-to place for ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' information, other sites had served the purpose and were later shut down because the moderators and administrators got too tired of dealing with the raging fans.

* The fandom of ''Website/DragonCave'' is known for being overly prone to some types of fans, but only once has it really become this. The Frilled dragon was a very nice, but exceptionally common breed. The combination of this and its description being the same as other, more valuable breeds caused a massive backlash, to the point of outright insulting its sprite and artist. At first, the creator tried to brainstorm ways to make it more appealing, but eventually she got so sick of the thing that she straight out discontinued the breed. Now ''nobody'', even the many players who love them, can get more.\\
Exactly four years after their initial retirement on May 4, 2010 however, the creator posted in a suggestion thread where someone suggested Frilled Dragons to return stating that she actually ''wants'' to bring them back (and mentioned something along the lines of "being immature at the time they retired"), and on May 21, 2016 they finally returned (along with the other retired breed), complete with their original descriptions and with a sprite for the males. In other words, the creator [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone regretted having them retired in the first place]], and now everyone can get Frilled Dragons once more.
* Even when {{Creator/JoshScorcher}} personally begged people not to harass the target of his response videos (such as Creator/LilyOrchard, with whom Josh has a long-standing feud), it still happened anyway. As a result of some of the more extreme members of his fanbase harassing the people he makes response videos to, Josh decided to stop doing response videos altogether.

* LetsPlay/CaptainSparklez is mostly positive about fan feedback, but on occasion he gets fed up with StopHavingFunGuys and very nearly cancelled one of his modded ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' shows because they were being unreasonable. For context, that series had ''over one hundred mods installed'', and fans ''expected him to know how every single one worked''.
* LetsPlay/KimRichards, a member of the LetsPlay/{{Yogscast}}, has mentioned that due to irrational fan hatred, to the point of harassment, racism, and "fans" ''calling for her to be fired'' because they don't like her, she does not read the comments section for her videos anywhere near as much as she used to. [[http://lomadia.tumblr.com/post/126333226873/i-just-saw-a-post-about-you-getting-a-pc-with She's also turned off the "ask" function on her Tumblr due to constant abuse]].

* Internet analyst Creator/LilyOrchard hates the VocalMinority of cartoon fans (especially [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic bronies]]), and most of the problems she has with them wind up in her opinion series ''Glass of Water''. She usually deletes comments on her videos that don't provide some kind of maturely-worded criticism because she "can't trust fans to do that on their own", and she almost always disables ratings. Orchard also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5a4XrJcThY posted a video]] where she admitted that she was having a CreatorBreakdown from people asking the same questions over and over on her videos. Orchard also called out one fan for ''doxxing her address'' so they could send her a UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch and a copy of ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'' because they wanted her to bash the game.

* Littlenommer (real name Katie) was known not only for being the girlfriend of Trott of LetsPlay/HatFilms, but also being quite involved with the fandom on Tumblr. This changed in 2015 when fans began harassing her when she asked them to tone down the shipping and sexualizing her boyfriend, causing her to temporarily turn off anonymous asks. The last straw, however, was harassment during a stream by the Sirs, followed by a mind-blowingly stupid post [[http://midnight-spyro14.tumblr.com/post/133054814756/what-is-your-response-to-littlenommer-having-to that accused her of being insecure in her relationship due to harassment]], basically blaming her for the abuse. Katie vowed to never moderate for the trio again and temporarily deactivated her Tumblr.

** LetsPlay/{{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.

* WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}} removed the comments section on their channel after 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]]. When the comments were taken away this time, they were 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. Both of these things ended up intensely creeping out the Retsupurae creators.
** 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.

* 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 has mostly recovered from the incident, he stopped doing meet and greets with fans at live events, had his RTX schedule privatized, and significantly scaled back his social media output. Meg didn't recover as well since her [=YouTube=] channel went silent for six months before she put up a video letting her fans know of what's going on, that she had been nervous to return to her videos in fear of a copycat.

* 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]] 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.

* RuleThirtyFour (the site) learned this the hard way, after Dreamhost (their old host) forced them to pull toddlercon. The following April, after they had completed the move to Dutch servers, they put up one of those stock FBI warnings (which had anyone paid attention to where they moved would have been bloody obviously fake) and claimed LoliconAndShotacon was about to go, which was further helped along by E-Hentai ''really'' having to do this at coincidentally the same time due to their own hosts, and also the guilty verdicts of the Whorley and Handley cases in real life. The response when the veil was lifted? A hacker taking over the site and replacing everything with pictures of tigers (both tanks and animals), then his penis, and finally 20ish straight days of [=DDoS=], which obliterated a server and is partly responsible for why the site runs like crap today. [[SeriousBusiness Porn on the Internet. Srsbsns.]] Interestingly, the second April Fools' joke went ''completely unnoticed'' due to the furor over the first, with a total of three comments over the following week about it. The second 2010 April Fools' joke? Aliasing Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles to [[MemeticMutation Big_Green_Talking_Turtles]], Baxter's infamous line in the first season. Was lampshaded later when the site ran a vote for what missing features from the move were to return. This being the internet, the joke option won, and so everything was turned into Atari Jaguars instead, continuing the big cat theme the troll had started.[[note]]In reality, their code was on that dead server, and their coder was chased off during the first April so there was no one to repair them anyway.[[/note]]

* While far from the only reason why he quit making the content his channel was famous for, WebVideo/{{PIEGUYRULZ}} later admitted that harassment from fans over him ''not'' making his signature "Every Episode Of [[WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarepants SpongeBob]] Reviewed" series and Bottom of the Bakery series in favor of other content and backlash over his final Every Episode of [=SpongeBob=] video[[labelnote:*]]Pie Guy gave Season 10 (a season that the ''[=SpongeBob=]'' fanbase largely saw as [[WinBackTheCrowd a return to form for the show]]) [[SoOkayItsAverage a "Meh" rating]] for [[ItsTheSameSoItSucks using too many ideas and concepts from earlier seasons for it to merit a total pass from him]][[/labelnote]] did play a significant factor in why Pie Guy lost his passion for making said videos and put them on indefinite hold.

* Due to heavy backlash and criticism towards WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter's Nick-O-Rama series (as well as excessive hostility), Enter would, in a state of annoyance and anger, delete his Twitter account, citing "toxicity" as a factor in it.

* [=YouTube=] video game cover artist "Little V" Mills did two covers of songs from ''VideoGame/Persona5'': one of "Life Will Change", and one of "Rivers in the Desert". In the latter video, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcA2R5lqInA&lc=Ugh1sKFQDgPFVHgCoAEC Mills commented]] that he was planning to cover more songs from the ''Persona'' series, but changed his mind due to comments from ''Persona 5'' fans that either spoiled the game or nitpicked the lyrics. As such, a small EP of ''Persona'' songs was also cancelled.

* Due to heavy backlash and criticism towards WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter's Nick-O-Rama series (as well as excessive hostility), Enter would, in a state of annoyance and anger, delete his Twitter account, citing "toxicity" as a factor in it.

* The website Website/KnowYourMeme ended up shutting down its "Cringeworthy" image gallery after a series of pictures depicting a drawing of an inflated Disney/{{Hercules}} kept getting posted and upvoted by fans, as well as the fact that the image gallery as a whole was becoming a haven for Flame Wars thanks to people uploading things they themselves found cringeworthy but others did not.[[note]]Especially political subject matter.[[/note]] The galleries for "Childhood Enhanced" and "Ruined Childhood" followed suit, mostly because "Childhood Enhanced" would mostly be pictures of female characters in more sexual scenes.

* Internet analyst Creator/LilyOrchard hates the VocalMinority of fans from western animation shows (especially [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic bronies]]), and most of the problems she has with them wind up in her opinion series ''Glass of Water''. She either deletes comments on her videos that don't provide some kind of maturely-worded criticism because she "can't trust fans to do that on their own", and almost always disables ratings. Orchard also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5a4XrJcThY posted a video]] where she admitted that she was suffering from CreatorBreakdown from people asking the same questions over and over on her videos. Orchard also took one fan to task for doxxing her so that they could send her a UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch and a copy of ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'', just because they wanted her to bash the game.

* Littlenommer, a.k.a. Katie, was known not only for being the girlfriend of Trott of LetsPlay/HatFilms, but also being quite involved with the fandom on Tumblr. This eventually changed in 2015 when fans began harassing her when she asked them to tone down the shipping and stop sexualising her boyfriend, causing her to temporarily turn off anonymous asks. The last straw, however, was harassment during a stream by the Sirs, followed by a mind-blowingly stupid post [[http://midnight-spyro14.tumblr.com/post/133054814756/what-is-your-response-to-littlenommer-having-to that accused her of being insecure in her relationship due to harassment]], basically blaming her for the abuse. Katie vowed to never again moderate for the trio and deactivated her Tumblr for some time, though she has since returned.

* Website/GoAnimate was retooled in 2014 as a pay-only business website and later removed the option for casual [=GoPlus=] accounts presumably due to this trope. Because even though it was made with anybody's usage in mind, you tend to be looked at as the laughingstock of the internet when your video-making website has tons of videos made where "baby show" characters like WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}} [[YouAreGrounded get grounded]] and sometimes assaulted. However, kids still found ways to make those videos, so in late 2015 the company announced that starting January 2016, they would move from Flash to [=HTML5=] and remove any non-business-related themes, to both save money and exterminate incorrect usage of the platform. The fandom [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks exploded with rage and]] site founder Alvin Hung quickly became a giant pariah. However, the Comedy World themes were still accessible through a hidden menu in the main video maker. Once people abused this to make Alvin Hung the new grounded video target, the themes were pulled for good. Unfortunately, they then proceeded to latch on ''another'' holdout, [=GoAnimate=] for Schools, which was the last [=GoAnimate=] membership still using the Comedy World themes; said users abused fake school e-mails to sign up, which led to ''that'' service also switching to [=HTML5=], and thus finally removing all the Comedy World themes from the website. The site continued to remove features left as artifacts on other websites, such as Wix, but many users found out that using the extension Requestly lets you use the (archived) Comedy World themes. Eventually, the abuse got so bad that the company had no choice but to remove [=GoAnimate=] for Schools completely by 2019. As the school version was made to be used by kids, any doubt left that the Grounded videos and fandom didn't have at least something to do with the removal of the non-business themes evaporated. Because of all this, it's likely that this means the use of the program for Grounded videos [[GenreKiller will likely not be as common, if it doesn't outright come to an end]].

** Elsagate ended up causing this for Website/YouTube, although 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. Essentially, channels were making inappropriate videos targeted at kids that featured characters from childrens' media (most prominently Elsa from ''[[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Frozen]]'', hence the name). [=YouTube=] largely ignored it until news outlets reported what was happening, at which point [=YouTube=] had to do something to salvage their reputation. However, the removal of "Elsagate" started a chain reaction that caused [=YouTube=] to implement a rating system, which consists of "kid-friendly" and "not kid-friendly". And only not-kid-friendly content will be eligible for monetization. In essence, [=YouTube=] operates on the concept of RatedMForMoney taken to its logical extreme. In short, what was once a series of prank videos snowballed into changes across the entire website.

* Due to heavy backlash and criticism towards WebVideo/{{The Mysterious Mr Enter}}'s Nick-O-Rama series (as well as excessive hostility), Enter would, in a state of annoyance and anger, delete his Twitter account, citing "toxicity" as a factor in it.