Fanboys:
By this, I mean the fans of anything. I know that sounds incredibly hypocritical, but fanboys (or girls) tend to irritate me due to the fact that they will, ultimately, believe their ideas of something to be completely correct. Especially irritating is when one group of fans decides to battle other groups of fans over certain issues that really don't need to be fought over. The problem is that there are always these fan groups, no matter which fandom. Hell, there are obvious groups within the Fosters fandom, and the constant whining of one group is what basically drove me from the fandom for awhile. I know people, of course, will always have differing opinions, but I don't think they need to act as volatile as they due over something as absurd as a fictional fandom, whether it be the series itself or the characters they idolize.
People Who Are Unable to Understand that their Subjective Opinion does not Affect the Objective Quality of a Work of Art:
Being a major in literary studies, this is something that hideously bothers me. People are entitled to their opinions, but their opinions as to whether or not they like something does not change the objective quality of something. You can like something that's utter trash, while hating something that's a work of art. There's nothing to be ashamed of, per se; it's simply that you like something that does not, necessarily, add up very well to the critical guidelines of a work of art; and let's be honest: we all like SOME things that others would consider (and are) crap.
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