Anonymous writes...

I would like to reiterate something I said last time: I am thankful and admired that you keep answering questions in this site despite all the entitledness that comes your way. That said, the following questions are about this trend of attitudes and how do you deal with them.
1 First, I'm curious about where do you think this normalized entitledness came from. Because you are by far not the only creator targeted by it: it's everywhere (in fact, if you think you're getting crap over Young Justice, you should see how the Avatar "fandom" is treating Mike DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, for example). I realize it's only another symptom of people becoming awful in general, but it calls my attention that it manifests so exemplary within fandoms, of all places. Deauthorizing the authors/creators, searching the fifth foot to the cat in order to have something to complain about, pretending to make "deep analyses" or looking for complex symbolisms without being qualified for it, making unsupported assumptions about what is going on in the writing room and talking like it is fact… The way I remember it, once upon a time none of this was usual, but now it's the rule. I know you're not a psychologist, but as a long-time professional and a victim of all of this, I was wondering if you have some thoughts.
2 One particular instance of the overall phenomenon is the people that carves for excuses to hate protagonists/heroes and defend antagonists/villains. Case in point: certain people demonize M'gann, refusing to forgive her for her past mistakes and to acknowledge she has outgrown them, while simultaneously demanding more sympathy for M'comm, who has done much worse than her and is, as of yet, unrepented. It's funny: in the past, people who could not dissociate "understanding" from "justifying" manifested it by being outraged whenever an antagonist got a reasonably explaining backstory; now it's the other way around, they can't have a complex bad guy without releasing them from any responsibility. How did this happen? What would you say to this people?
3 Nowadays everyone automatically assumes they're experts in whatever topic they're arguing about, so it's not surprising how frequently they appropriate specialised terms and turn them into buzzwords. But, as a Literature scholar and a writer (a beginner, but writer still), the one that really gets under my skin is not even a specialized term, but a common word: "writing". That seems to be used for covering anything and everything now and, of course, everybody is calling anything they do not agree with "bad writing", like they get to be the judges of that. When did people started analogizing personal taste with objective quality? That is not just arrogance, it's delusion of grandeur!
4 The overall attitude, at least when it comes to "pop culture", seems to be "us fans deserve to have a say in where the story goes" (thought the "us" seems to actually mean "ME and whoever agrees with me, because if they don't, they're idiots"). An egotistic corruption of what should be the experience of reception in any work. The problem, seems to me, is that there is no way to call them out without sounding like you're the egotistic one. Have you found a way to navigate this?

Hope you're doing alright and keep finding the patience to deal with these people.