History YMMV / SurvivorFanCharacters

* ArchiveBinge: "Twenty-one" completed seasons and over 2000 comics in total, with more on the way. Even reading just ''one'' season is going to require you to set aside a good chunk of time.

* ArchiveBinge: Twenty completed seasons and over 2000 comics in total, with more on the way. Even reading just ''one'' season is going to require you to set aside a good chunk of time.

** Shiro from season 19 is either a painfully one-dimensional and unpleasant character who absolutely didn't deserve [[spoiler:to be dragged to victory by Micah]] or an unfortunate victim of her upbringing who's been absolved of her wrongdoing by her actions in the reunion show. [[TakeAThirdOption Alternatively]], she's a genuinely amusing villain character who avoids many of the toxic traits present in more [[TheScrappy Scrappy]]-tier villains while still offering entertaining conflict throughout the season and making the otherwise generic Micah's win more palatable.

** E.T. from season 18 is an interesting retroactive example. At the time of the finale he was merely a BaseBreakingCharacter, but as time has passed he has become increasingly despised by the fanbase due to his [[NeverLiveItDown infamous]] sexual harassment of Yessi alongside fellow scrappy Kitsunie, with many interpreting her later vote for him to win as him being EasilyForgiven. Not helping matters is a perceived lack of consistent characterization and motives in retrospect and his excellent social game being largely an InformedAbility.

** E.T. from season 18 is an interesting retroactive example. At the time of the finale he was merely a BaseBreakingCharacter, but as time has passed he has become increasingly despised by the fanbase due to his [[NeverLiveItDown infamous]] sexual harassment of Yessi alongside fellow scrappy Kitsunie. Not helping matters is a perceived lack of consistent characterization and motives in retrospect and his excellent social game being largely an InformedAbility.

** Season 21.5 had the misfortune of following the incredibly popular Season 20. Despite both having incredibly popular winners and the rest of the most popular characters were similarly beloved, it following Season 20 led to a greater fan focus on 21.5's more negative-toned cast, with nearly a third of the cast falling into HateSink or even [[TheScrappy Scrappy]] territory and receiving plenty of fan hate as a result. This combined with said negative characters' high level of focus in the pre-merge at the expense of later major characters' screentime led to the feeling that the cast was weaker than 20's by a sizeable margin.

** Season 21.5 had the misfortune of following the incredibly popular Season 20. Despite both having incredibly popular winners and the rest of the most popular characters were similarly beloved, it following Season 20 led to a greater fan focus on 21.5's more negative-toned cast, with nearly a third of the cast falling into HateSink or even [[TheScrappy Scrappy]] territory. This combined with said negative characters' high level of focus in the pre-merge at the expense of later major characters led to the overall feeling that the cast was overall not as solid as 20's.

** Season 21.5 brought along Karen, a comic relief character who made it all the way to the Final 9 and ''still' remained a fan-favorite thanks to her brand of deadpan humor proving heavily popular with the reader base, with many wishing she'd made it even ''further''.

* SpoiledByTheFormat: Aside from a few exceptions, most from the [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness early seasons]]; reader submitted characters generally do not leave until the fourth episode. Thus, if you know which characters are and aren't viewer summited, then you can easily tell who's in actual danger or who is not.

** The author has realized this and taken steps to avoid it in later seasons with [[BigBadEnsemble several]] {{Arc Villain}}s [[BigBadEnsemble with different goals]] instead of one BigBad in Season 13 and more realistic antagonists who had some redeemable qualities and didn't hog the spotlight away from the eventual final duo in Season 14. The series returned to "one baddie per season" format from Season 15 onward, but they seem to be getting less attention now.

** Season 21 gave the world a few, such as Masanari becoming "Macaroni" or Stone becoming "Stoner".

** [[spoiler:Aurora]] from Season 19 became a meme before she was even officially revealed, the reason being a friend of her owner leaking her name and identity on Discord and being salty about her making the season.