TOP 10 WORST FANDOMS IN ROCK & METAL (yuck!) 

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Classic rock fans, who say "no good music after 19xx" can be pretty annoying too!

Tool fans: This song is so deep. Hits me in the soul. Tool: It's a song about butt sex

Multiple times on this channel this guy has reminded us that young folks (especially young girls) are just innocent kids that are way enthusiastic about bands we don't care about, and we should just leave them be. It's sometimes easy to forget that.

It's true about djent fans. When I saw Meshuggah about ten years ago, some stranger with a rudimentary grasp of the English language turned to me and said "This is fun, We are friends." and hugged me. That pretty much summarized the vibe.

Tool fans are the musical version of Rick and Morty fandom

As a TOOL fan, I agree, we are the worst. Even Maynard hates us.

“What’s your favorite band?” Primus fans: The Red Hot Chili Peppers

I find it odd that you never mentioned the Boomer Soft Rock fandom that almost endlessly love to lecture you on how bands like Toto, Steely Dan, and Eagles are elite musicians and everything else is crap

"If bad posture had a soundtrack..." This is the quality content I subscribe to this channel for 👌🏻

The local bands only fandom. The ones that automatically dismiss any band as “butt rock” that’s had any sort of mild/moderate success outside of their local bar scene.

Refused, Radiohead, At the Drive-In.... not even 2 minutes in and my whole musical taste is attacked... that's how I know it's going to be a great video

I’m a punk/hardcore guy first - but I started getting a lot into Death Metal and Black Metal about 7 years ago. I was apprehensive about going to small venue metal shows by myself, but I actually found the metalheads really welcoming. I was super surprised. The really nerdy Black Metal kids were super friendly. Probably just because I’m in Canada and everyone is just more polite lol

"If bad posture had a soundtrack..." Immediately straighten my back on the chair

I wasn’t expecting to be targeted multiple times during this video.

lets talk about Carly Rae Jepsen's fanbase: a union of 13yr old girls and 28yr old hipster dudes

Putting Radiohead and The Strokes in the same category is outrageous

I was such a prog-snob when I got into dream theater back in high school. What a tool I was lol

That 11 year old dude who listens to Nirvana and rejects his generation is so annoying

U forgot any deathcore fans.. “Lol u call this heavy? This is not even heavy bro. Why don’t u listen to (*insert cringe generic deathcore band name*) now THATS heavy.”

I had a GOOD chuckle at this as a longtime Tool fan because I absolutely used to be one of the, "Tool isn't music; it's an experience" type of people. Now, I just giggle at my old self and listen to it because it's fun.

“Djent” a genre that makes monthly royalty payments to Meshuggah

I feel like it's really important to distinguish between the pretentious, holier than thoug elitist types who look down their noses at people, and the people who have just been so deeply touched by a band's music that they might blabber on passionately encouraging someone else to give it a shot. Very different, even if the latter is somewhat annoying as well lol

You know Finn's a punk fan when he thinks 7 minutes is a really long song.

In college I took a course called "the enjoyment of music" and 3 kids did their final projects on tool

I don’t hate any “fandom” just hate the fans who will hate/demean/look down on you if you don’t love the same stuff they do

Worst fandom of all time? K-Pop fangirls. Ultra cringe. But in rock and metal? Probs the “real metal” fans.

"you didn't write the song you just pressed play on it" a line every gate keeper/elitist needs to hear, from personal experience I have to say that the skatepunk fandom in 2020 is pretty chilled out for the most part and tbf has been since the genre dropped off in 2004/05, yes we know none of the bands we like are doing anything groundbreaking and the scene is essentially jogging in place but we like our fast drum beats and melodic vocals and if we get to see bands playing it in a venue that costs less than the price of a pint to get into so be it, most of us are over the age of 30 and have mortgages and shit anyway so the cheaper the better

I have a somewhat funny “fan girl” story…I’ve always been into the “rock” genre/scene. I used to go to tons of shows, from large scale to local. So when my aunt surprised my much younger cousin with Justin Bieber tickets (back when he was just starting out and still a kid himself), and asked me if I would take her, I bragged in the weeks leading up that I’d get her right up in the front because I was a “pro” at it and in much more aggressive crowds. Guess what, though. Those Justin Bieber fans girls weren’t having it. I didn’t get my cousin anywhere close to that stage lmao.

Tool: *plays one note* Fans: *OMG that’s deeeep*

If you look up ”elitist” in a dictionary, there should be a picture of black metal bands and fans.

My girlfriend just dead ass looked at me, while you were referencing the djent Fandom and said, 'awe, they're djentle!'"

"Deftones fans will not stop gushing about Deftones." I have never been so upset by something I completely agree with.

“To be fair you need a high IQ to understand the music Tool produces”- 90% of Tool fans.

"Basketball jersey branch of the hard-core scene." lol

Me: Looks down at my Sunny Day Real Estate shirt and feels personally attacked

As a big babymetal fan, the fandom is very.. weird😅 I had an instagram page where i posted mostly babymetal pictures and stuff like that. One day someone dm'ed me and asked if i wanted to talk about babymetal and i of course said yes, bad idea😀 A few days passed and he had already given me weird vibes, he would say how much he loved them. Especially moa-metal. Then one day we were talking like normal and suddenly he asked me if i wanted pictures of HER FEET🙃

I feel like pretentious Tool fans would hate Coheed.

Shout out to the strain of Pantera fans who shit on anything that came out in the 30 years since Vulgar. "Let's bring back 'real' metal". Finn swinging for the fences by name checking Thr*ce in this one. Stay safe man.

Hi, it’s me! I’m the one un-ironic Limp Bizkit fan! Wes Borland is a really talented guitarist and song writer! John Otto is very underrated as a percussionist. I do not own a red hat. I’m a teacher in Iowa.

I love dream theater but when I went to see them live I felt so awkward, felt like I was at an insurance conference, but I blocked it out and still can enjoy the music 😂

as a Circa Survive fan, I can 100% say that I have no chill when it comes to talking about Circa.

Speaking as a Tool fan, the thing that chaps my ass the most about the fanatics is their obsessive focus on Maynard. Last I checked there were 3 other guys in the band too.

As a HUGE Blink-182 fan, I can admit that no one hates Blink-182 more than Blink-182 fans

When it came to the “I’m too smart” group, I’m really truly shocked that you didn’t mention The Mars Volta… I loved them so much back in the day, but their HARDcore fans were truly unfreakingbearable lol.

17 minutes of worst fandom and no word about straight edge movement? You have any idea how many people I've pissed off by buying a beer at a Youth of Today show?

I am a bit shocked to see Juggalos not on this list.

“They love meth and guns.... in that order” 😂😂

Whenever a fandom is criticized or classified as "bad" I feel bad for them, even if I hate that fandom myself lol

The “I was born in the wrong generation” 80’s hair band kids

The worst with Tool fans is that... they tend to ignore the bands Tool themselves consider major: King Crimson, Rush, the Melvins, etc. If you want to pretend you're the smartest around because you listen to Tool, at least be as open-minded as the band you worship.

"NPR rap" really nails it. It's almost a guarantee that those fans would talk about the "flow" of those rappers completely unprompted.

I use to work a lot of security gigs in the early 2000s for concert venues and Ive been to a fair amount of shows myself and I would say the nicest yet still kind of obsessed fandom is definitely symphonic metal fans. They are really passionate about their bands and they for the most part I think with Nightwish being the main band in the stable are just like absolutely ecstatic for new people discovering their music.

A new video from Finn = A great day

Me, a rush fan: *sweating nervously*

"the basketball jersey branch of the hardcore family tree." well said.

What the Rick and Morty fandom is to pop culture, the Tool fandom is to metal.

"you didn't write the song, you just pressed play on it" Just earned my sub

You forgot the "I listen to everything...except (lists a bunch of genres)" like no dude, you listen to one genre. Great video lmao fr

Dude, Dave mustaine fans... In their minds mustaine wrote all of Mozart's music.

I've never met a Coheed fan that thought they were smarter than everyone else.

Depending on what ska scene you're looking at, you can find yourself in the best or worst fandoms. lemme tell you how annoying it is to have a bunch of 45 year old white dudes in fred perrys gatekeep you on not knowing "real ska"

My Chemical Romance has one of the nicest, most supportive fans I’ve ever spoken to! I think they’re pretty great

I pat myself on the back with Olive Garden breadsticks

I can’t believe a video about fandoms doesn’t dedicate a huge amount of time to Juggalos. I’m not a Juggalo, but I respect them so much.

"am I saying Radiohead is the Olive Garden of music? Yes that is exactly what I'm saying" LOL dying

My oldest brother's favorite band is Dance Gavin Dance, he even has a sealed vinyl copy of one of their newer albums. We don't own a vinyl player

I’ve never met awful Coheed fans lol. This is news to me

Funny story when I was in high school a A classmate was talking about a perfect circle and how much of a tool fan he was and I made a simple joke" what about a perfect square"( I was in high school so so yes lame jokes) And he threatened to kick my ass if I made fun of him again lol

“If bad posture had a soundtrack” Okay man, just fucking wreck me like that.

Man, Finn's been killing it lately! NPR Rap was the category I'd been struggling to name for the longest time, and your boy nailed it

I've always hated the 'Everything after Downward Spiral sucks' NIN fans.

Click baited to pick on my wife for being a fangirl for the strokes and got accurately bodied by the Aesop Rock fan base comment. 5/5 funny as hell

Every fandom is the worst in someone's eyes.

Don’t forget Death Grips fans! Sincerely, a Death Grips fan

“if bad posture had a sound” hit me in the FACE

I wonder how much the perception of My Chemical Romance fans has changed with the extent to which so many of us are older and not as fangirl-y. I wasn't particularly an MCR fangirl, but I was very much a Motley Crue fangirl in middle school (this was 2008, mind you - I was the teenage girl screaming out their names in a nosebleed seat while surrounding by grown adults.) It's an interesting situation where teenagers still discover My Chemical Romance, but a lot of us are just grown adults who love the band and may look like we stepped out of a Hot Topic store circa 2005 when seeing them live.

I think I’m the worst cause I’m a fan of Deftones, glassjaw, dgd and Midwest emo. Damn I need to re-evaluate my life decisions lol

It's weird how your description of black metal fans is literally just Varg.

I’d argue that Run The Jewels is the success story of two hip hop figures who know the hip hop world very well and unlike rock, the support up and coming artists. Both El-P and Killer Mike were huge figures in theirlocal scenes but struggled greatly to break out their cities for most of their careers. Killer Mike is a true representative of the dirty south, and ElP created the indie rap scene They got success when they united. Now with that success, Killer Mike has used his star power and money to help young rappers. He advocated for 21 Savage’s release when he was jailed by immigration. I can’t see Imagine Dragons doing that for a young indie rocker

The "npr" Fandom isn't 30 yr olds 💀 they're just a bunch of white teenagers like 15 - 19 that post album rankings of Kanye West on tik tok

I’m a coheed and Cambria fan. Yes, we are extremely annoying.

I think Dave Matthews Band fans definitely belong on this list. They are definitely Dad rock, but good God are those fans die hard...

I love Deftones, but my god the people that just ramble on and on about having sex to Deftones or orgasming every time Chino speaks are so cringe. Edit : Also people that ramble on about passed away band members (The rev, Chi Cheng, Cliff Burton etc.) I don’t have a problem with the band members, I don’t have a problem with paying respects, I’d have more of a problem if someone didn’t but my god people that don’t shut up about them and make every single conversation about a band about this member or how much better the band was before are seriously annoying.

Dude - just discovered this channel... grew up in the punk/hardcore/metal scene in the 80s/90s and this video straight up nails all the sub groups 😂

The most anti semitism I’ve ever received is from black metal fans 😬

*Mentions Deftones*.. *Me* “Oh shit man I love Deftones” anyone like deftones?

how can he mention the "omg im so 4000 iq because i listen to x" and NOT bring up dream theater?

honestly as a former fangirl type person i can definitely agree that it be like that. you didn't discuss it much but as an insider it wasn't JUST idol worship happening in those fan groups. i distinctly remember the twenty one pilots fandom in about 2016 being downright toxic at points. Regional at best (possibly their second worst album now bc of scaled and icy) was worshipped like it was somehow the best album in existence despite the fact that one of the songs on it to this day creeps me out lyrically due to the context and about half of the tracks have aged like fine piss (both in terms of lyrics and production). there was also the reading festival situation, where tyler (the frontman) decided to crowdsurf as he usually does and the crowd started ripping his top off and i believe one of his shoes got stolen by someone also i can't talk about how weird 2016 emo fandoms were without mentioning the trinity but in particular my chem for this one. MCR's music is pretty good on my opinion but holy SHIT the fandom was bad. usually, i can ignore shipping in these kinds of fandoms simply because it's younger teen girls who don't really understand much about the world. but holy fuck it was bad in MCR's fandom because frank and gerard were seen as stirring the pot a little bit in the mid 2000s AND because there were actual siblings in the band. add onto that how much the band has been doing weird ass merch lately (not rammstein collector's edition weird, releasing funko pops and those stupid ass blindbox figures that haunt me and a collab with lootcrate weird) and it just feels a bit icky. i think the shipping situation has calmed down a bit but the merch situation definitely hasn't unfortunately.

I know this is late, but just had to comment that "hardcore kids" always were the biggest assholes at pretty much every show I've ever been to. You may have had a different experience because of the way you look but as someone who has always looked pretty goth and would get called an emo kid because of it, they were always the worst kinds of people. They're literally just an alt version of dude bros at parties that try and fight everyone, but with camo shorts on.

The second you said the bands who fans make you afraid for your safety, I immediately mouthed Hatebreed and was not disappointed.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but stop basing your entire personality on the fact that you listen to Tool. Sincerely, - A life-long Tool fan who just wants to enjoy the music without feeling guilty.

Lol I'm both a recent Tool fan and a black metal fan. I especially think it's sad that black metal is so elitist because I think it's a genuinely brilliant genre and holy shit I've found some music within it that has blown me away this year. Recently discovered Nargaroth and I have lost count just how many times I have listened to the song "spectral visions of mental warfare". Omg. What a fantastic song. The lyrics are so beautiful and the structure of the song makes me float away everytime I listen to it. Especially love the throat singing segment. Wish more people did that in metal in general. But yeah. Haven't really been able to find anyone to talk to about black metal because either I run into elitists who mock me for not knowing a lot about the genre or I run into people who don't care about black metal and/or aren't interested in talking about it. So frustrating xD but yeah. People should really chill with the elitism. It's not a pretty look and it hurts the genre or band you claim to love. As for Tool, I had zero idea that their fans were obnoxious. My close colleague turned me into a Tool fan this year and we listen to them regularly when we work on projects. It's pretty chill :D the other day we had a moment where we watched an 11 minute video where you see the drummer play Pneuma. That was very enjoyable! Generally the drumming in Tool is so frigging cool :D for me it's on the same level of cool that I feel for Tomas Haake and Joey Jordison when he was in Slipknot. Very enjoyable :D

As a KPop and Rock fan myself I have to agree that atleast the KPop fans are insane , I didn't know Babymetal fans were that way , I'm a Babymetal fan myself and I would hope people would say I'm chill about them and it doesn't surprise me that they used to lipsync

I was going to be insulted by the Tool fandom comments, but then I remembered all the "lectures" I got from the dudes who introduced me to them years ago. I wasn't allowed to just think the music and lyrics were dope, I had to understand the mathematical underpinnings blah blah blah. The key to good art that people forget is there is no right or wrong way to engage with it, if you like to dig into the deeper themes that's great but just enjoying the music because it makes your ears happy is equally valid.

Can’t believe ICP didn’t make this list.

Those things you said about djent fans at the end made me feel really nice. -Sincerely, a mechanical engineer djent fan who is watching this video at work .

Huge Deftones fan here and this was so accurate 😂😂. I can’t help but gush about them.

I'm with ya on most MBA but Radiohead is a quantum leap from the strokes bro

My Spotify is full of a wide range of hardcore/metal/punk....and Run The Jewels 👀 **Self introspection increases**