Far be it from me to be a killjoy but

[yvannairie]

As funny and harmless as I find the jokes about blorbo from my shows or PenisSMP or whatever, I wish more people making them would recognize that these jokes aren't always being made by people who are "in on it" and that there are people in fandom with vested interest in policing other people's behavior and gaining a social power position for the purpose of justifying whatever abuse they wish to perpetuate on the "bad" fans.

As much as I don't put a lot of stock in people being too "fandom-brained" -- in fact that is exactly the kind of unnecessary nastiness I'm implicitly decrying with this, and I see it mostly being brought up when someone is being unacceptably excited in their own personal space -- I do think people underestimate just how mainstream a hobby has to be before mocking it doesn't just make you the jackass. Not even sports can really be considered an acceptable target, even if you believe in such things as acceptable targets.