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**** Recently{{when}} over on /m/, with the VOTOMS's appearance in [[Super Robot Wars Z]] 2, alongside [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]] and other Gundam titles, there has been some....rather heated debate. it led to everyone who likes VOTOMS being called "hipsters" who hate anything that is popular, while this in itself led to a lot of trolling, it came full circle when someone pointed out that Gundam fans on the same imageboard are pots calling the kettle black, and routinely complain about [[Gundam Seed]] and [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]] for, you guessed it, being popular and not being like UC Gundam (see above). and it led to THEM being called "hipsters". and now it's sort of a meme now to call everything that gets discussed there "is for hipsters"
** ''[[Gundam]]'' vs ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' - in [[The Nineties]] NGE in manga format and ''[[Gundam Wing]]'' were the only two positions from [[Humongous Mecha]] genre on the market, leading some people to believe that NGE is deep and intelligent while Gundam, all of it, is stupid. While mostly discredited, this stereotype prevails to this day, much to annoyance of Gundam fans.
*** ''Evangelion'' vs the rest of the mecha fandom, period. Most fans of mecha don't like how the ''Evangelion'' fandom is downright ''obsessed'' with scrutinizing every single minute scene for the sake of "decoding" vague, dubiously-present symbolism, instead of just appreciating the wider message the show has to offer. The shipping wars don't help. And to top it off, the tendency of the ''Evangelion'' fandom to call other series that are merely similar "Evangelion clones" (see the RahXephon section below) without even trying to show a smidgen of understanding only fuels the fires even further. It's gotten to the point /m/ regularly ''deletes
* For over the past decade, the most popular shonen series (at present writing) are ''[[One Piece]]'', ''[[Naruto]]'' and ''[[Bleach]]'', generally referred as the [[Fan Nickname|Big 3]]. Since they're all the same genre, they have a similar core story structure, so it's entirely possible to enjoy more than one at the same time. However, ''because'' of that, fans of ''all three'' are at a [[Melee a Trois]], but it's surprisingly evened out - out of 9, 3 like one and dislike two, 3 like two and dislike one, and 3 like all of them equally.
** Occasionally, ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (anime)]]'' would have been added to the mix, with the debate centering on whether it's too different to compare to the other three, and if not, whether it's the best out of the four. Notably, that discussion is far less heated (especially once FMA ended), if only due to FMA fans having their ''own'' Fandom Rivalry ''within their own base'' (e.g. the first anime vs the manga and the second anime, as mentioned earlier).
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