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{{quote|''"The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood."''|'''Jean Cocteau'''}}
The writer has a vision. They've created [[Complete Monster|a character who represents everything they loathe]], and have placed him in [[Crapsack World|a setting that satirizes everything they hate about modern society]]. Bring on the [[Moral Guardians]] and [[Media Watchdog
Only... it [[Gone Horribly Wrong|doesn't quite work like that]]. Instead of seeing a loathsome, hateful figure, the audience sees a [[The Woobie|Woobie]] who only is the way he is because of his [["Well Done, Son" Guy|daddy issues]], and feel sorry for him instead of hating him... or even [[Draco in Leather Pants|find him cute]]. They take the author's painstaking satire at face value. The [[Crapsack World]] the writer has created is somewhere they think is pretty awesome. They have, in the writer's view, missed the point: ignoring the subtext that the writer had thought was obvious in favor of the ''text''
The work and its creator have acquired a Misaimed Fandom. It's around this point that the writer learns exactly how different they are from their fans... and, often, [[Artist Disillusionment|actively begins to hate them]].
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Sometimes Misaimed Fandom is a matter of [[Values Dissonance|cultural change]]: where a writer [[Society Marches On|has fallen behind social progress]] they may perceive Misaimed Fandom about their work as villains and heroes switch places in the popular mind.
In some cases, the reader may genuinely be seeing something that isn't there, or might not be looking hard enough; if the text isn't read correctly then the interpretation that follows is naturally going to be flawed. The reader might miss some of the more subtle meanings or interpretations. Alternatively, they might read the text too closely, and [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory|find symbolism and meaning that the author never intended]]
Often, however, the fans know full well that their interpretation of the text isn't that of the author, and may acknowledge what the author was trying to do, but [[Applicability|choose their own interpretation anyway]]. They may be aware that the author is satirizing them and their views, but they're good sports and can appreciate a well-done jab in the ribs, especially if it's [[Affectionate Parody|not without affection]].
And sometimes the Misaimed Fandom simply comes from the fact that the author's not that good a writer. If a message is poorly communicated to begin with, then of course there's going to be problems when interpreting it. Some authors go for subtlety when [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped|when they really should have been a bit more obvious]], or try to set up a [[
Other times, the Misaimed Fandom starts out as the target audience, but becomes misaimed when the creators decide to take a series in a different direction. The original fandom often [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|doesn't like this one bit]].
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* [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?]]
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