Fandom definitely got wanky and ship wars could get really heated. But as others have said, you could avoid it and still partake in fandom. Now antis are puriteens are everywhere. The most recent comments I’ve gotten on my fics from 2009-2012 are all bitching that my explicit fics have explicit content. My one kink fic must have come up on someone’s radar because for a month I was bombarded with comments from people outraged I wrote that kink that was clearly tagged and included in the summary. It’s literally insane.