I made a post asking specifically for DC fans their opinions. The people who responded aren’t actual fans—they’re just people who think they are fans but have never picked up a comic in their life. My question is: why do non-fans try so hard to engage with real fans?? You aren’t a real fan of DC, Marvel, or anything superhero-related, so you don’t deserve to be in the fandom space.
The concept of “real fan” is flawed I think. I’ve never assembled a WH40K model or read any of the spinoff novels, to say nothing of playing the actual tabletop game, but I’d say I’m a fan of the franchise. I’ve played some of the video games (Space Marine, Mechanicus, Boltgun) and enjoyed them. I enjoy reading lore and worldbuilding stuff from wikis even if I’ve never touched the franchise itself, and my knowledge of 40k is almost exclusively from such wikis.