Understanding The Craze - A debate

My standard disclaimer applies- I am no hater, just a girl with too much time on her hands.

There is a fine line between being a fan and being a fanatic. The former is a form of appriciation while the latter borders on crazy.

The line often seems to blur on this forum. People making personal attacks for the sake of actors who in no shape or form will ever know of your existance seems to be an everyday thing here.

Idol worship seems to be a trend among people these days. This is actually very disturbing. Where is the individuality? Why place anyone on a pedastal?

Another thing is that appriciating a work of art , say how good the acting/episode was, is a harmless and something everyone does. But to barge in on actors' personal life, insulting people for the sake of the said actors and the like is going too far from being a 'fan'.

I am a huge IPK fan. So much so that my room mate often tells me in kind words that i am a 'lifeless loser'. In a way i guess i am. Spending an abnormally long time watching old scenes on youtube and coming on IF etc.

The question is when does fan become fanatic for you? Which is alright and which is crazy?

Fold your sleeves up, open your minds and lets debate.

~Rockerchic.

*sigh* RC, this forum is infested with those who will cross that fine line 🤢 Many here are fanatics. They will blindly worship the actors, defend the characters when they r not to be defended, and it's actually quite amusing to c the level of their craze. Edited by Double007 - 11 years ago

-edited- Edited by arisai - 11 years ago

After seeing and reading a lot...The one video where this woman comes up to Sanaya, and says : "I love you more than my husband and children"...Is where I started to believe that troubled souls roam this earth.

Edited by MentalExotica - 11 years ago

Nice post, Edited by barunroxx7 - 11 years ago

I don't want to say anything and rub people the wrong way, but there a few things that bother me with the way some "fans" behave on this forum. For the most part, it's harmless obsession. I think a lot of people go through this phase and even I did. People generally phase out of it, but there are some that get really possessive and aggressive about the actors and the show.

A fan is when they can established the difference between REAL and REEL and can criticise about the show or actors and ofcourse like/love the show..

A fanatic Can not .. they believe that their off-screen persona is the same as what they are shown on telly and believe ASR is real and KHUSHI is real..and can not find any faults!! Or if they start stalking or attacking if they work/talk with other people..And attack other people if one claims to love more than the other and actually start praying to them..

Reminds me of friends when joey had a stalked and believed he was a doctor when he was just an actor..aha..

Sorry if this makes no sense..:) good topic!!

Edited by .._sonii_.. - 11 years ago

Girl, I love your threads and keep posting!

 

You know what? It doesn't matter if you are a fan or fanatic, we must understand the priorities in our lives and keep everything under control and stay within our limits. Hurting and abusing people just because of a fictional character is just out of order and very disturbing. We must learn how to respect other opinions even if you disagree with them! It is upsetting how some members cannot even take a little bit of criticism against the show or characters and they just have a go at you. Well hmm they need to get a LIFE, that's all I can say tbh.

 

Great response, loved reading all them. :)

Edited by zeeba* - 11 years ago

Ahhh the age old debate about fans and fanatics...I like it!

Well first things first, anyone who had enough spare time to google IPK, find a forum full of other people around the world in the same boat as them, sign up and become a member to take part in discussions is a fan...i.e. every single one of us here.

We all have some sort of attachment to the show, either because of the interesting storyline, the PH's previous serials or because they are ardent fans of the actors, which is fair enough..whatever floats your boat. But fans are those who can hold their hands up and admit when the storyline is weak, perhaps the PH isn't up to it's usual standard or heck even the actors themselves are lacking in some area, and either hope for the best or leave and find another show.

Fanatics are those who refuse to see anything wrong with anything related to the show, and instead of making valid counter-arguments start spewing a whole load of crazy. My personal favourite is when members begin personal jibes on other members and their views just to protect the honour of actors who have no idea they even exist. Strange, but true.

70% of the time I'm here purely to have fun and discuss IPK, 30% of the time it's for these fanatics. Let's face it. Sometimes they can give us more entertainment than an IPK episode.




Edited by .Euphoria. - 11 years ago