Well that sucks. No, seriously. Being a super fan of something is like being a thirsty tick. You latch on to whatever you're eating, and you won't let go until it causes severe organ failure. At the slightest bit of adversity, you bite in harder and bury your head under the skin. If it sounds parasitic, that's because it is.
Super fans are generally the worst kind of person. This spreads far and wide to the reaches of places like reddit, Quora, X, image boards, Discord, and pretty much everywhere else. You've definitely spoken to one before. You're casually playing a game that you love and have played for thousands of hours, and you comment on the lore just to have some idiot try to correct you. Despite the fact that this idiot is only that; an idiot; it still bothers you that somebody would be so volatile over something so trivial.
But then you get the "weLL ackshuallY" of the banshee. Some loser who's spent far too long overanalyzing something into their own personal fanfiction stops you and argues as if you're incorrect to fit in with their perceived reality. You've probably played a game like "The Last of Us." That game, and the mega fans of, are just a generic copy of another fanbase: "The Walking Dead." But you would be hard pressed to convince anybody of that. Forget the fact that TTG's Walking Dead came out two years earlier and TLOU outright stole plot points from that. Forget the fact that you can replace the walkers with the evil mushroom creatures and they are literally the same thing. Forget the fact that the game launched at the height of TWDs popularity as a cheap attempt to cash in on emotional bondage. The fans of TLOU will assure you constantly that its original and beautiful and unique. Apparently, close-shave plagiarizing another franchise makes it art for some reason.
Or on a completely different end of the spectrum; Fans of television shows. You know the ones. Those people who are completely normal until they self-identify with one of the thousands of generic Hollywood plot device characters. It doesn't take them long to take on a poorly constructed representation of whatever character they're trying to embody. Imagine being so boring that you have to mimic the personality of a fictional character. We've all met our fair share of Sheldon wannabes and anime protagonist types.
But then there's the objective worst group of superfans. The ones who believe their ideas are better than the ideas of the creator who captured the attention of thousands of eyes. The idiot who wants to re-write Harry Potter without Ron, or the douchebag who swears that one of the most well-balanced games ever is a completely unbalanced mess. These armchair sweatbeards spend ninety percent of their time on reddit complaining about a thing that they're obsessed with, and the other %10 fiending for another fix of that thing they love to hate. You can always tell them apart. They're the person who complains when every single update drops, or when a season of something makes a minute change to the appearance of a character. They're the kind of person whose narcissism is so self-lauding in grandeur that they are incapable of hearing or seeing just how stupid they sound.
Dealing with super fans on issues is annoying, but ignorable. Dealing with super users is an unavoidable reality that all internet users face at some point or another. You've likely met plenty of them. You have Linux users who swear all Windows users are sheep to be data-harvested (as if Microsoft actually cares about our individual lives enough to harvest our data). You have Windows users who claim that all other operating systems are bad and featureless and underdeveloped (despite many of them dating back for decades). You've got Vim and Emacs users that argue about the efficiency v/ customization of each editor. You've got social media denizens who "only use twitter" or "only use instagram" as if life is a one-dimensional social construct.
But it is unavoidable. If you ask an iPhone carrier to recommend a good android, they'll always tell you to buy an iPhone. Same in reverse. You can never trust a super user to give you a real opinion on something that goes against their super usage. In a world where so many people are super users, you're almost never guaranteed to get a real opinion. I'll use a few of my examples here in tandem with real experience examples:
Twitter users have a fondness for talking about how horrible and toxic Twitter is. From my personal experience, that's really only true for a fraction of my use-time. The other time is spent saying things that nobody actually gives a shit about. The real level of toxicity on Twitter depends on how toxic you are to other people. If you're constantly shitting on others, then you can expect others to constantly shit on you. If you never shit on anybody, you can expect to get shit on by the outliers who believe that everybody everywhere has to be toxic or they're weak. It's a smaller overall margin in comparison. I mean, sure; if you piss off everybody then maybe twitter is a toxic wasteland.
Console vs console vs PC. Time old tale. Gamers can't just be satisfied with playing a good game. They need more pixels that they can barely see, or extra imperceivable frames because they (illogically) believe that more FPS means lower latency. Console users will tell you that a PC does all of this shit that they don't want. PC users will tell you that console users are just using the least efficient method. I'm a fan of the idea that they all have benefits. Consoles are more convenient than PC, but PC is more expandable than console. You can do more with a PC, but in what world does that relate to just playing a video game?
Unity/Unreal/Godot/GM devs will always tell you %100 of the time that their particular engine of choice is the definitive method for making video games. Along that chain of idiocy, they often forget that somebody else built and coded those engines. They forget that real programmers actually develop software. They're so accustomed to the visual editors and interfaces of engine environments that they never actually learn to code, or they learn how to write specific code without ever learning what it does. It's not optimal, but you can program games with just notepad and the command line if you want to. Engine super users are engine super users because they didn't believe in learning any programming beyond their rudimentary understanding. What, did you think it was impossible to make that thing happen with that engine? Maybe it's because you can't write code probably.
Windows/Linux is better than the other. What a weird string of logic. I've used too many linux distros to count, and I've had windows forever. The real effective difference? Not much, honestly. Some linux distros can be hard to set up, and there is the reality that Linux is modular and more customizable. But how exactly does that appeal to the common end user? It really doesn't. They don't want overcomplexity for minor improvements that they won't use and don't understand. They just want a machine that works. A good Linux Mint laptop will do the same stuff that a windows notebook will do. A mac will do nothing because apple is garbage. There's no real divide between operating systems aside from what you want to use it for, and how much you want to change about it. Even here where I insult macintosh; there's still the argument to be made that the parts that work are no different than any other OS.
Just enjoy stuff, because even if you're %100 correct about something; some super fan or super user will still try to correct you. That's just what they do. That's how their unhealthy obsession works. They don't actually care about being right or wrong or whatever. They only care about making you look wrong to make themselves look smarter. They probably need a win because their lives are probably horrible. Let's be real; if life was going good for them, they wouldn't have to be obsessed with trivial nonsense. That doesn't necessarily mean poor or in a bad position. People with exceptional lives are more likely to be easily upset at their situations due to their higher and often unrealistic expectations for comfort. Some people are just naturally unhappy at everything because their chemical makeup doesn't allow for satisfaction of any kind. Some people only find joy in the misery of others, and they feel exceptional misery and being unable to inflict that.
People are strange and diverse creatures.