Meet Michele Ivey, Ninja Turtles Superfan 

Thanks! There are a lot of other superfans out there, each of us do share our passion in different ways and help inspire those around us.

@IveyAngelo your right I have my own page called pizza power 😀

It's always fun to share our passion :)

Thanks! I'm just a loud fan ([;{-) The best thing is getting out there to meet fellow TMNT fans.

Could you yap for any longer

Just confirming that @IveyAngelo is one of my accounts.

Always happy to make new friends. I spend most of my time on Instagram these days.

I think he means the characters in-universe

Ninja turtles aren't near as popular as they uses to in the 80s tho

I agree with @hanakosan4404 it would mean towards the characters as a whole. Which was something a lot of the superfans hooked onto back in the day, the ones that remained fans after the TMNT started to die out of the media... outcasts often related so much to the Turtles, where we just wanted to live our lives but was attacked and picked by others for being ourselves. Many people I know are so scared even to this day to just be themselves, because they worry what other people think of them. TMNT was a show about outcasts that helped inspire people that they could still be themselves... we understood their problems. And in the 90's, from like 1994 to 1999 people were mocked for still liking TMNT... so at that point you were not really accepted for still being a TMNT fan... so many different levels to that.

I was a bit older than the normal TMNT fans back in the day, it was seen as a kid thing... so I was made fun of for liking TMNT. Though the bullying started long before TMNT for me, it was never Turtles that made it so I was an outcast... but the kids would find anything they could to attack me. They thought calling me "Turtle Girl" was an insult, but I laughed cause the first kids that called me "Turtle Girl" were friends, so I never was troubled that the others didn't understand me.

So... how young are you to think that the 80's was that safe for kids? More than some "teasing" at school... wow... I'm sorry... but you're so blind to the 80's and what was going on there... esp in the Detroit area, that you really don't have room to talk about. The bullying in the 80's was not just "teasing" it was being thrown in front of cars on busy roads, 15 to 30 kids ganging up at a time, the teachers standing by and not doing anything to protect the students.... police breaking up the fights only for the kids to say "I did it because my friends did it"... being hit into a pole to need stitches across the head. And the court shows response to bullying back then was "Kids will be Kids" basically saying that these bullies were allowed to get away with it. And you think things were not locked up at stores in the 80's??? Again, we're talking the Detroit area... near 8 mile road. Where people will come out of Detroit and shoot at the traffic at 8 mile road 3pm in the afternoon without ever being caught... killing people... bullet scrapped my forehead when I was 7... this was the 80's.... Yeah... the 80's were SO SAFE! You don't know the life that people go through, to walk in and just judge them... because you think you know, is wrong. And I know you don't know, because of your entire view of the 80's. Being an out cast was hard, was deadly.... not saying it's not deadly now, while some areas are being fixed like adults caring about the full bully thing, court shows turning punishment towards the bullies instead of dismissing the cases, other things have gotten worse like school shootings. No matter what part in time, while some areas might have it nice, others are going through a different struggle. And unless you live through those struggles, judging is a blind way of learning. The 80's for me... couldn't walk around the block without a fight, could not go to the local party store without being attacked, could not walk home from school without the police breaking up a fight, was not allowed to go out for recess because of the other students that was happening, was kept inside the school doing art projects for the school or sitting in a class alone waiting for class to start back up. Once I started Karate lessons, the fights stopped... but the bullying of others my age never did. They would attack from a far. Not saying this is how it was around the world, but it is how it was in the Detroit area.

Clearly has a problem? Not sure what the problem is to be a super fan.. as long as you take care of family, bills, friends and pets above the fandom. At that point, it's not the problem of the person with the fandom... the problem is that of those who judge them for sharing their passion.