I saw a post about antis leaving fandoms and I think there’s more to it than it meets the eye: they’re just moving into newer, more popular fandom. You know how almost capitalistic new fandoms nowadays are, series are supposed to be binged, they’re a huge hit for months or max year or two then bam, everyone expects you to move on. We know most of antis are under 20-23, so they follow that “social media way of consuming media” pattern. Hence that’s why fandom that was a huge hit in 2019 will have less percentage of antis in 2023 than when it was at its peak. For example: BSD – I was in that fandom around 2016 when it was relatively unknown manga and I don’t recall stumbling into antis. Nowadays, when BSD is hella popular (esp on tiktok) there are antis everywhere. Ship that was raging with popularity back then is now considered “problematic” cuz age gap. I myself am in fandom (although half dead) that reached peak popularity during 00s and it’s hella rare to run into an anti. So yea, I defo think “catch it while it’s hot” trend is in coleration with % of antis in a fandom