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>Why is Nintendo the only fanbase that responds to criticism of the brand or their recent output by insisting it's one person or a "villainous" gang of abstract bogeymen?
Because the bogeymen they're speaking of are ironically the same bogeymen that illustrate the deep rooted criticism they themselves want to criticize nitnendo for. They want them to be the hero they can't be because they have too many nintendo products hanging on their wall to make anti nintendo videos, they cling to them like a martyr hoping their message catches on and Nintendo listens and fizes those critiques they themselves want fixed but are too cowardly to put out.
>Why is this trait exclusive to modern Nintendo loyalists?
The "trait" is exclusive to any groupthink because they think they're too smart to be wrong simple because all the other morons in the group agreed upon it. It's living hell because they have to waste their time having no joy in defending point they know at heart are wrong while the other side has all the fun in the world picking apart a poor little bing bing who has grown from a child afraid of the dark to an adult afraid of the light.