User blog:MrAnimatedToon/Something that bothers me about the TLH fandom.

Hello there, MrAnimatedToon here and... I want to talk about something for a bit.

Like you may have already guessed, I'm a fan of The Loud House. That's pretty much common knowledge by now. But that doesn't mean I don't have my problems with the show itself. But that's not a bad thing, after all, no cartoon show is perfect. But I've noticed a certain attitude in part of the show's fanbase that really irkes me. About how the characters in the show act.

There seems to be a portion of the fanbase that treats Lincoln as if he was some kind of saint. That none of the sisters should treat him badly, because then it's a demonstration of child abuse and parental favoritism. This portion of the fanbase is known by some as "Lincoln Worshippers", and this particular attitude is denominated "St. Lincoln". I for one, don't agree with this notion at all... but not for the reasons you might think. Don't get me wrong on this, I love Lincoln. He's a great protagonist and he's very relatable. But he is nowhere near a perfect child, he has made some bad actions over the course of the show. But that doesn't make him hateable. I'd rather say that it makes him human. Because I don't mind characters I love acting selfish from time to time. After all, nobody is perfect. However, this portion of the fandom doesn't seem to recognize this. Which I don't get, because not only is it impossible and unrealistic for a sibling (or in this case, a bunch of siblings) to get along 24/7, but because I'm pretty sure the Loud sisters have better things to do than please their brother's desires. Also, if you have seen the show, you'll notice that Lincoln doesn't really mind all the stuff that happens to him. Not only because he has a thick skin, but because he seems to genuinely enjoy spending time with his family. He hangs out with them, feels bad whenever he wrongs them, and there are even times where Lincoln joins on his sisters shenanigans, proving that he's not so above it all. So I don't understand why people who watch the show have a problem with Lincoln being supposedly "mistreated" when even the character himself doesn't seem to mind (and don't try to use "Stockholm Syndrome" as an excuse, because if Driving Miss Hazy and City Slickers showed us something, is that he's not afraid on calling people out on their crud.

That was the part of the fanbase that everyone complains about. But now I'm gonna talk about the other portion of the fanbase that no one seems to have a problem with (with the exception of a few others) but that personally irkes me just as bad, if not, worse than the "St. Linc" does. That part is the one that seems to do the opposite of "St. Linc", pin all the blame on Lincoln but put the sisters always in the right. To save some time, my opinion on the sisters is basically the same as Lincoln, they're all great characters and I enjoy them all a lot. But I've noticed some people defending the sisters saying that all the times Lincoln has suffered, he brings it into himself, and that everyone who critizices the thing that happen to him and blame the sisters for it are either Lincoln worshippers, biased, and in some cases, misoginystic. I find this attitude just as wrong as the above for a couple of reasons:

1. The people who show this complains might actually have a point. I'm not saying that Lincoln should be treated like a god, but I am saying that some of the instances where he gets the short end of the stick could be dialed down a bit. Which thankfully, as of Season 3, it's happening a little.

2. To me, that's hypocritical. It's basically like saying that people should not have opinions unless it's my own.

3. What does hating the way a certain character is treated have to do with sexism? I don't care if someone has other gender than mine, everyone should be treated equally, no matter gender, race or belief.

And that's my biggest problem with the fanbase. When it comes to defending a character, it's always one way, or another. And it wouldn't matter to so much, except that this seems to be a problem from this fanbase only. And maybe I'm wrong on this. Maybe it's just because of my overexposure to the fandom recently. But I feel this is one of the reasons why everyone has a bad opinion on our fanbase lately.