God, Teen Wolf fandom was something else. If you were into Sterek, it was probably an utter delight — such a wealth of fic available, and a huge audience for your own fanworks — but if that ship did nothing for you, the fandom was awful.

To make matters worse, I masochistically read all the meta that got aggregated on one of the big meta comms here on Dreamwidth at the time, but misinterpreted what was actually going on. There was one person whose weekly recaps always got included in the meta comm's roundup of 'good quality' posts, and this person hated Scott with a level of vitriol I'd never seen before. So every recap read like 'and Scott abusively did such and such a thing, in an abusive, bullying manner.' I thought the comm was deliberately and constantly pushing this person's recaps as some kind of definitive statement of what Teen Wolf fandom felt about each week's episode, when in fact what was probably happening was the mods of the comm posting a link to recaps written by someone in their circle. Almost all the Teen Wolf meta included in that comm (which was multifannish, not just for Teen Wolf) was written by people who actively hated Scott, but I now realise that it reflected the circles and tastes of the mods, rather than it being a deliberate attempt to shut out alternative viewpoints.