The MHA Fandom Is COOKED

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]So this video is about the My Hero Academia fandoms. Did the My Hero Academia fandom get worse? K-pop stans, dream stans, Valorant players, Swifties, Sonic fans, Friday Night Funkin', bronies, furries, and most definitely Hazbin Hotel fans. And maybe Okay, I am sorry, but I have to say that Hazbin Hotel fans have has been one of like the worst fandoms I've seen so far. But I mean all of these I feel like furries are like more tame. It It really depends. Like you have to pick your cherry, but like Hazbin I've seen dude Let's not talk about like the guy who spent like 40 Yeah, the verbalist video. Let's not forget about how much doug I freaking spent. How much was it? Like 40,000 on like a self-insert freaking video song?

[00:00:47]It's insane. 50k dude Jujutsu Kaisen fans as well. These are all communities where their reputation precedes them, mostly because from the outside for one reason or another, a lot of them are described like they are the nickel Oh no, not that internet with the general assumption all participants of said groups radiate just as much ionizing cringe as the people that unequipped their entire lower half just to use a public urinal. I didn't mention One Piece or Dragon Ball Z fans there for a reason because I'd rather not have the cartel after me or my street address posted online after just saying a single negative thing about either of them.

[00:01:23]Hell, if you even say you're a fan and you haven't watched all 1,000 episodes with subtitles and you don't know which one of Luffy's nut stretched the lowest, they will not consider you a fan and will publicly Have you guys seen how like Logan Paul is like larping on Twitter about like being like a One Piece fan? He posted like that he owns like a manga and he's like, "Oh, I own one of like the the super rare pieces."

[00:01:48]And then like he couldn't even like write the name properly. He wrote like Luffy D. Monkey. I I find that so [ __ ] funny cuz that is like a peak lifer. Hello. on you for attempting to be one. But anyway, these communities have a reputation like this down to one similarity they all share. I like how Taylor Swift is here cuz like also the Swifties are like terrible.

[00:02:09]>> is usually the smallest percentage of the community that commonly accounts for 5 to 10% of the whole fan base that are usually the loudest, most visual part, and the first thing outsiders encounter, which results in that instance being their initial and possibly the only perception of the entire community.

[00:02:31]Even though the rest of the community may not be like this at all, they may just be silently enjoying that form of media or hobby. But unfortunately, they will >> Yeah. That's what I mean.

[00:02:40]Uh that's the the bad thing with like communities, right? It's like you get the coin flip. Like you have like genuinely chill communities and people who just like enjoy the hobby, and then you have like the people who like like drag it down so bad.

[00:02:53]still share said reputation just for being associated with that thing. But those parts of the community are the ones that are seen the most and are the people that either enjoy that form of media so much it will often be the only thing they post about. They are overly enthusiastic or serious about it to the point where it starts to become obnoxious or feel like they're trying to force it down your throat. Sometimes they base their entire personality around it. They mirror their own interests onto it. They obsess over it.

[00:03:21]In the worst cases, they cannot distinguish fiction from reality. And if you say anything about it that can even be remotely interpreted as negative, they will treat it like you have just slapped their elderly grandmother with a flaccid penis. And at some point it goes well past just simply enjoying that thing. Which with all that's Another community that's like super super bad is the freaking K-pop stans. Dude, the side of Twitter with the K-pop stans and the the like the Swifties, they're scary. If you say anything bad like oh I freaking hate like King Jong-kook, you're going to have the girl idol being like oh my god I'm going to dox you and they these [ __ ] they will straight up find your address somehow or be like this you and then send you like a screenshot of something that you said in like the 1980s. It's it's unbelievable how committed these people are. Like they're they're so ruthless and they're so committed to like whatever fan or community they are of. Yeah no the the BTS fans and the K-pop fans they they just scare me. They're they're they're like scary though. They're the same with the Swifties. Same result in a reaction or use of the word cringe when the community is described by someone outside of it. And I think that is a common symptom many communities face when the media or topic it's based on becomes extremely popular to the point where people that avidly enjoy it have been there since it was a niche have to start hiding they ever had an interest in it. And there's nothing you can do to stop this. No matter how much gatekeeping is deployed, once it graduates from a niche to mass consumption you either deal with it, move on, or forever complain about it.

[00:04:56]There's no other option. But with all that said, there is one community that stands above the rest when it comes to this. Their history of transgressions against humanity has been well documented. They were actually often described as the LeBron James of hated communities. Previously in their prime just uttering the name of it was enough to inspire a visceral reaction from a normal person. And that community was the My Hero Academia fandom. Yes, My Hero Academia, the anime that was basically about a teenager becoming the top hero without originally having powers in a world filled with powers, heroes, villains, and apparently the French. And by The >> [laughter] >> you know what's crazy about My Hero Academia though? I will say that I used to be a My Hero Academia I used to be part of this exact community. Like my friends introduced me to My Hero Academia as one of my first anime. I went to a con cosplaying freaking Aizawa. I looked so bad and my friends were like cosplaying Bakugo and like Deku and stuff and it and it's like I still have like clips in my phone of like me just like cosplaying at their houses as well cuz I was like wearing the Bakugo wig and I had my friend like wearing the Deku wig and we were just like vibing and so cuz like here's the thing, the anime is good. It does get kind of annoying how whiny this guy can get though, but it it's good, but I feel like it has been so ruined for me now because of all the TikToks I've seen. Dude, the freaking TikToks where it's like [ __ ] trying I I made a mess in my pants.

[00:06:33]It's like so [ __ ] bad. It's It's just so bad. It's so bad. And it's like so cringe and you and you also get like all these trends of like people posing and everything and it got stained.

[00:06:45]Stain and Lady Nagant are my favorite villains. By the end of it, spoiler alert, he does become the top hero, kind of, but then in the ending he's all gets cooked and tossed to the side, which was still a better ending than Attack on Titan and they actually added more and changed the ending of My Hero Academia in the manga and anime because people hated it that much. But yes, this was a community that was commonly only described with either the words cringe or toxic. In fact, did you know even Jeffrey Epstein Ooh, okay, that's crazy. What? What? MC Fazz revealed he was a My Hero Academia fan. No shot. Th- This has to be like the What? Okay, this has to be like the craziest news of the day for me.

[00:07:29]>> [laughter] >> No [ __ ] shot.

[00:07:31]>> My Hero Academia.

[00:07:32]Now, that was a complete lie, but you believed it. No, [ __ ] Okay, okay, never mind. I'll take it back. [ __ ] off. I I believed it. I believed it. I was I I full-blown believed it. They have mentioned some anime in the in the in the emails. I wouldn't like doubt it if Jeffrey actually was [ __ ] My Hero Academia. Oh my god, I got re-spaded.

[00:07:54]But with how much this community was previously hated from the outside and the current state of the world, I wouldn't be surprised if you did believe it. But he was apparently a Steins;Gate fan, so Yeah, there you go. There you go. He Wait, he was actually a fan Wait, is he lying again? Uh do with that what you will. Also, I know I >> wasn't.

[00:08:11]>> [laughter] >> I did a video on this almost 2 years ago now, but today different than that video, I wanted to look into why this community more than others was hated so much, where said hate came from, and since the [music] anime has recently ended, is the hate for it still as prevalent? But first, how did My Hero Academia and the community surrounding it come to be?

[00:08:32]>> [laughter] >> THEY CAN STOP. STOP.

[00:08:36]IT'S SO BAD, DUDE. HOLY BAZOOKAS.

[00:08:42]>> [crying] >> THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT.

[00:08:44]Holy bazookas.

[00:08:47]It's so [ __ ] bad, dude. Oh my god.

[00:08:51]Was that your butt? So, My Hero Academia was first introduced to the world through the manga that released in the Weekly Shonen Jump in 2014.

[00:08:59]Shonen Jump is like a manga on magazine that usually Holy bazookas. contains the latest chapters of whatever variety of different mangas. And if a manga lands in the Shonen Jump, it's seen as a big thing a lot of people read it in Japan, and it's where a lot of popular series like One Piece and Naruto initially received a lot of attention and was an essential tool in that later success.

[00:09:20]The author of My Hero Academia is Kohei Horikoshi, who before he started working on My Hero Academia, he had published other mangas such as Barrage, Oumagadoki Zoo, and a bunch of one-shots like the manga My Hero published in 2008. And if you couldn't tell, this was My Hero Academia before My Hero Academia existed. The main character is even called Jack Midoriya, a name shared with the lead protagonist of My Hero Academia. They also share a similar character design and backstory. This person also had no powers or quirk in a world where they are heavily involved in day-to-day life, and despite being quirkless like Deku, he wanted to still fight monsters or villains. With the only significant difference between the two being this character was a 25-year-old businessman and not a high schooler. The author actually really liked this idea, but Well, what I feel like it just has to be like the the default anime path, like, "Oh, it has to be in high school. They need to be [ __ ] teens. Otherwise, the public is not going to be happy." We talking about guys who work at the office? Nah, it needs to be a high schooler. They all need to be teens, bro. didn't consider developing it till around 2013, where a year prior his manga Barrage was canceled after two volumes, and after being devastated with this, he decided to give the concept another shot. But, in an attempt to cater to the shonen jump audience, he further refined the concept to the setting of a high school instead of a workplace, and with a main character significantly less emo. And thus, My Hero Academia was born and saw somewhat instant success, being nominated for an award a year after its release in 2015. And in the same year, the anime I'm honestly proud, by the way. Like, I'm I'm currently like learning about like context I didn't know. I'm genuinely like proud of this person. Like, they were working on something and cancel it, and then they went back to like a really old concept they were working on, and then they managed to like win an award. It's It's really cool. It's like things like these that matter, like taking like different approaches and stuff.

[00:11:18]>> adaptation of the manga would be announced and begin production, with the first episode being released in April of 2016.

[00:11:26]And by 2017, the manga would reach over 10 million sales. So, My Hero Academia must suddenly hit the ground running and so did the community. As with the release of the first season of the anime, it would lead to the title becoming increasingly popular and it even became somewhat of a gateway drug for those that have never watched anime before as by 2018 it was almost everywhere, which is unfortunate because that's when the anime started to become absolute [ __ ] I'm sorry but past season 3 it was terrible and it only got better around the end of season 6 and you can actually chew on my freshly exported kidney stone if you defend season 4 to the first half of season Dude, I don't even remember where I finished My Hero Academia. Like I did not finish it. I dropped it at some point and I don't remember where it was.

[00:12:14]I think there was like one fight going on with like Bakugo. That's the only thing I remember. I have such a bad memory. I I don't remember the [ __ ] I watched. So, I just remember I dropped it at some point and I don't know which season that was.

[00:12:27]Maybe like the second one. Around 2021 My Hero Academia would hit its overall peak in popularity. It was deemed to be on the same level That's exactly when I started watching it. as other titans in the anime industry. It was mentioned and present on almost every platform and you could not escape it. However, with its extreme popularity came somewhat of an adverse side effect and that was now that it was considered a mainstream anime the community was now so large it cultivated an environment of people that maybe loved the anime a bit too much to the point where some could say it became a bit cringe. We're not done.

[00:13:07]Daddy isn't done speaking. You'll come back here. So, at the peak of My Hero Academia's popularity in 2021 is when things like My Hero Academia cringe compilation started showing up on multiple platforms and These are so freaking funny by the way. Like they are genuinely so cringe that they're funny.

[00:13:27]Like you know you know what I mean, right? It's like cringe to the point like you feel like second-hand embarrassment, but it it's funny. I I don't know like sometimes it go like the cringe is like so high that it goes like past the cringe phase of feeling bad for them and you just laughing cuz it's like that bad. They got a lot of attention gathering millions of views and like most cringe compilations, they were a place for people to either physically recoil and curl their toes at the actions being committed in front of them. I still can't believe this was a video, by the way. Also, I just watch these videos to laugh at the people doing things they never thought they themselves I need to verify if that's real. What?

[00:14:09]Oh my god, that's so Okay, yeah, I know that's just a new level of cringe. What the [ __ ] Okay. I still can't believe this was a video, by the way. Also, I just watch these videos to laugh at the people doing things they never thought they themselves would do. Also, there's the rare occasion narcissists watch these videos to use it as a confidence boost. But yeah, around 2021 people outside and within the My Hero Academia community began to really notice how potentially corny the fan base was. And this was partially down to things like My Hero Academia fatigue. Once again, this show was everywhere. You know, wait, I wanted to mention something.

[00:14:45]Like a year like you can see in the picture cringe compilation. We're we're also like forgetting about Kakegurui. I know like the the topic here is My Hero Academia, but also Kakegurui for like a short while had like a really cringe community. Like with the Kakegurui mashup. It's just a was. And this was partially down to things like My Hero Academia fatigue. Once again, this show was everywhere. It had multiple seasons, multiple movies, multiple games, and it was glazed as the best anime numerous times, mainly by the fans of it, much to the disagreement of people who have watched other animes like the peak that is Code Geass. People were just getting tired of it at this point and the supposed blind glazing behind it. But that is somewhat normal for a large anime. One Piece for example has been milked just as much as My Academia and glazed 10 times >> Okay, but like One Piece people just love it. I've never seen it but like with the amount of love that this anime gets, I don't doubt it's good.

[00:15:44]But one joke that I always do all the time is like how the [ __ ] did they not find the One Piece through a thousand episodes? [laughter] What anime requires a thousand episodes to find the [ __ ] One Piece? That one ass piece that they're trying to find. I was going to say about like the gamba oriented. Yeah, Kakegurui is like gamba oriented but it's like the the factor that makes it cringe is like the gooner aspect of it.

[00:16:07]It's like very Like I don't know. They could have made the anime without adding every two seconds like these like moaning or like the or like just like every girl getting [ __ ] horny over gambling, you know?

[00:16:19]And then it becomes like a fan service in that at that point. It's It's straight up fan service.

[00:16:24]times more but that series is still nowhere near as infamous as My Academia because overexposure alone isn't the only reason it has its reputation because it's On the other hand when it comes to like to Berserk anime, I feel like the only people that like Berserk are like gym rats. I've seen so many gym rats like love Berserk. I I almost started considering watching Berserk just because of that. I was like Everyone who loves the gym loves Berserk. I considered watching it for some context. more to do with the community surrounding the anime more than the anime at all. Now My Academia was mainly picked up by younger audiences which is no surprise since its intended target audience was teens to young adults and with themes like heroes and villains and a world where almost everyone except the cook by default has a quirk which is not only going to increase initial interest in the anime from said target audience, but also increase interest in the overall concept as they may start doing things like making their own characters with their own quirks, and then it basically becomes a power scaling issue because my OC Nagasaki man can destroy your OC and one shot the whole cast of characters in the show because he's that powerful. But because a lot of the fan base are young, most are unemployed, they get easily obsessed with things because when you're that young you don't have priorities or worries, and maybe they have unrestricted access to devices without strong self-awareness, which results in what we saw with this community, a bunch of kids and teenagers ex- Oh my god, wait. Another community that is genuinely so freaking awful, guys. It's right there. I don't even know what this is. It's like the craziest thing about like this fandom is that the feet, by the way. Gacha Yeah, the thing about Gacha Life is that it's like an app where you just like edit characters and make them write stuff, right?

[00:18:15]And how does like some like a concept like that just like make the cringiest community ever that is just made with these videos? Guys, the videos are genuinely so bad. And the And the funniest part is that you guys could genuinely make so much money by just making like these Gacha videos cuz like kids eat that [ __ ] Expressing their interest and love for this show, which isn't inherently a bad >> Same thing like here, Gacha Life. I think this is like Gacha Life as well.

[00:18:40]thing. They're having fun, I guess. It's just in some cases, unfortunately, it led to a reaction of cringe from third parties.

[00:18:48]Don't call me kitty. Okay, I won't.

[00:18:53]Kitty. If they kiss, I'm going to puke.

[00:18:55]What? I Wait. No.

[00:18:58]I Um Um Ooh.

[00:19:05]Um And there was a lot of this from the My Hero Academia community. Not only people expressing their interests in the show, but interested in things like ships, which is wanting your character to have a relationship with another character, even if they have never been in the same room or shared any dialogue together. And in the case of My Hero Academia, this was one of the main topics posted about within the community, and some within said community took it way too seriously. On top of the fact some of the ships made no sense, and some were just very weird.

[00:19:37]But it's safe to say that Oh, no, not the Deku getting shipped with the child.

[00:19:41]I feel like every anime has like the weirdest ships. Like when it comes to My Hero Academia, they're genuinely so bad sometimes. In their prime, the My Hero Academia community was infatuated with the idea of shipping. It was like 80% of what was posted at that time. People created montages of their favorite ship, in-depth lore videos explaining how even if these characters may hate each other in the show, that was actually a diversion implemented by Horikoshi because those characters are actually both gay and both are heavily in love, and you can't tell them otherwise. And then you also had people who cosplayed as their favorite ship, and in some cases created their own scenarios involving SAID SHIP.

[00:20:21]OH, HELL NO. BUT IT DID EVENTUALLY GET WORSE because you had people, as said, take it way too seriously to the point where they would start a whole crusade if someone said anything negative about their ship or heaven forbid shipped a character part of their ship with somebody else. This led to a lot of infighting within the community like I [clears throat] don't know the you know, I don't remember the anime that much, but I do remember that when I was younger, the ship that I liked was Ki- Kirishima and Deku. I don't know, they just looked like they made sense. And but that was like not something I was like forcing, you know? Cuz like if they're straight, they're straight. It was just more like, "Okay, they kind of look cute together." Cuz like you know, you got like the blonde guy and you got like the red-haired guy, and it's like, "Yeah." And then and they have like the spiky and they're just like cute together. That was like my my like way of thinking when I was younger. But yeah, the fact that the creator got like so much harassment over like making this canon is just unbelievable. Gorilla warfare in fighting, it was quite common to see things like death threats and general abuse launched from one ship to another. And it even escalated to the point where these people would get angry and spike their cortisol if the show or even the manga remotely suggested their ship, which already had a 1% win rate of happening, was not in fact going to be canon. A key example was with the Bakugo and Deku ship where in the show and manga it heavily suggests Deku and Uraraka have an interest in each Yeah, when I was younger, like I was about to say I don't understand why people ship Bakugo and Deku when it's really obvious that like he likes this girl. So that's like one thing that I found like always odd about these ships. I was like it doesn't make sense. Give them instead of Deku being interested in the guy who bullied him for over half his life. And unfortunately for those fans, the story was not going to curve in a way where all along it was some tsundere I actually like you, but I'm going to act like I hate you type [ __ ] And in the chapters [music] where it shows Deku is obviously interested in Uraraka, the Baku-Deku fans would lose their [ __ ] In one event, shippers even started spamming the creator's social media because they wanted him to make their ship happen. Which wasn't the first time the creator was targeted for some of the story choices he made for My Academia.

[00:22:30]Around 2021, he would receive an influx of death threats due to the fact in the story he made it look like the character Endeavor, who initially was this terrible abusive father, was on some sort of redemption arc where he realized how much of a [ __ ] stain he was and was trying to improve himself and the relationship with his kids. And because Horikoshi was slowly fleshing him out as a half-decent character, some people online thought he shouldn't be betraying this fictional previously abusive character as anything but a bad person.

[00:22:59]So they sent him death threats over fictional character, by the way.

[00:23:04]But, events like this, the overexposure, the excessive posting, and the shipping, all were responsible for where the community is to this day and having the reputation of being toxic, cringe, and one of the worst anime communities. But, the said reputation came about during the peak of its popularity, around 2021.

[00:23:23]And, it's been some time since then. The main anime has recently ended. Yes, there is a spin-off anime that got a decent amount of attention, but not as much as the main storyline. And, My Hero Academia in general is no longer as popular as it previously was. And, a lot >> I will say that like another thing that boosted the popularity of the anime was for sure COVID. Cuz, during that period, there was like COVID going on, a lot of people were like being indoors, and the fact that like this anime was going on, a lot of people were talking about it.

[00:23:51]And then, like all the Tiks like TikToks making, like genuinely just created like, you know, this wheel effect.

[00:23:58]Especially cuz like, you notice how like, it goes down after that. Like, people start touching grass and going outside again, and they're like, "Okay, bye." So, I do believe COVID had a big impact on that. I'm saying that myself because I got into uh this whole thing because it was COVID period. I had nothing to do, and my friends were like, "Oh, you should watch this anime. Everyone loves it." And And all my friends were watching it. So, I you know, I hopped onto it. But, the people within the community have grown up and moved on since then. So, it begs the question, in the current year, is the My Hero Academia community still just as cringey and toxic, or is it gotten worse or better? Well, looking at it today, things have definitely calmed down. Regarding the cringe, it's more people doing it for irony's sake, less people doing it without self-awareness.

[00:24:42]Don't get me wrong, the community is still active, but it's more just edits, animations, and people reminiscing over I was going to say like, the cringe was like strong in the like TikTok period um in the COVID period. Uh but like now, I feel like the only things I see about this are people who are genuinely like, you know, joking about like the whole thing. How cringey it used to be. You do get the odd post claiming how other anime communities are doing the same things they were doing in 2021, but they don't get nearly as much as they It It It does not come near the same. There's like, you know, right now we have like Chainsaw Man, but it's just not as strong. And again, I feel like COVID played a big role in that. Like, you know, there's a lot of Chainsaw Man fans, but like it's not as bad. I I feel like maybe the reason why is because there's a lot of adults in that now or a lot of people who like, you know, who were like teens back in 2020 are like now adults. So, I feel like that can also play like a role.

[00:25:38]JJK is like all over the place, I feel like. It's very all over the place when it comes to fandom.

[00:25:43]>> He did A common example used is the Chainsaw Man community. I still can't get that one [ __ ] week into doing audio out of my head after Instagram Reels exposed it to me. There's also the Jujutsu Kaisen community, but to be fair, they have enough self-awareness to know they are posting cringe and brand off. Regarding toxicity, it's significantly improved, especially with things like the game of Battleships.

[00:26:05]There are still posts involving ships, but a lot less and there's less arguments surrounding them. They seem to have adopted a less aggressive approach, there is a ship that contradicts theirs.

[00:26:15]But yeah, to me it seems like a lot of the core fan base has grown up or moved on since it ended. And that has led to a lot of the problems and cringe this community was known for being less prevalent. It's actually quite tame now compared to its prime. But even with that said, it still has a [ __ ] reputation and admitting you're a My Hero Academia fan in the current day will still result in a prompt decline to your social credit score. Can't you sing the song, please?

[00:26:40]>> Fine. Fine. I'll sing it, Deku. Kacchan, Kacchan, you can call me Kacchan. So, in conclusion, I have a [music] confession to make. I used to be a My Hero Academia fan.

[00:26:51]Exactly. We all were. We We always. Just that the community made it bad. Which is not really a [ __ ] secret. The videos I made when I was still a little sperm cell or still on this channel and I've been very open about it. I wasn't like a die-hard fan. I never really got into ships. I just like the story and the characters. I even had multiple My Hero Academia phone cases for multiple years, which did lead to bullying. But eventually, as I grew up, I got less interested in it, especially as I was introduced to other animes. But yeah, I was a cringe My Hero Academia fan in the past as well. So I have the credentials to make this video. [ __ ] you. The community back then was a vastly different place compared to where it is today. But even if it has changed, the reputation is still there. It is still known as one of the most cringey toxic communities and it's going to stay that way till another community takes that title. But as said before, there are a few competitors right now. But they have a long way to go till they surpass My Hero Academia. But yeah, just something I wanted to talk about today. I hope you get sperm and that's all I had to say and bye-bye. I feel like it has to be like well time for a community to like top this cringe. It has to be like something where like the gen like alpha gen like hops in. There's also some like sort of like COVID happening breaking out again. I feel like that could like then top the cringe of this. Before I end this, I want to go to the wait pregnant video. I I need to see it.

[00:28:17]Connection terminated.

[00:28:19]I'm sorry to interrupt you, Elizabeth, if you still even remember that name.

[00:28:24]But I'm afraid you've been misinformed.

[00:28:26]You are not here to receive a gift.

[00:28:28]Nor have you been called here by the individual you assume.

[00:28:32]Although you have an unseen chip And then how does a person do this with a straight face? I don't I don't even conceive this, bro. I apologize in advance to the YouTube people.

[00:28:51]>> [laughter]