Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31417650-20170716142425/@comment-4010415-20170831202304

I think most, if not all, anime fandoms get this crazy in the shipping. Regardless of whether or not RWBY is an anime, it acts like an anime and has attracted a lot of fans who are into anime, and thus, it has gained a fandom that is much like your typical anime fandom.

As for other parts of the fandom hating us... yeah... We can't help that we're more logic-focused. I think one reason we even chose the wiki as our place to congregate is because we're focused more on looking at the show in a way that prioritizes known canon and logic. As such, that is what we prioritize in theory crafting. We have more fun trying to come up with a theory that fully makes sense, is grounded in the show's canon, and is very likely to happen. Once you wander into a more imaginative theory that could maybe happen or that you want to happen but doesn't have a very strong possibility or a solid base of evidence, then we get nervous about believing it.

That, and sometimes people come up with theories like "The masked swordswoman who saved Yang on the train is Ruby from the future who traveled back in time to save Yang and prevent a horrible future from happening! She lost her scythe, and her eyes turned red because of Dust corruption!" It seems a lot of us here would really rather the show not stray into territories like that, which would needlessly complicate the story and make things weird. Remnant has not been presented to us as a world where time travel shenanigans will be part of the story, so for such a thing to pop up out of nowhere and actually be part of the plot would be blegh.