User blog comment:Mirai Ender/Pasta extra: Can fans kill a good story?/@comment-25148755-20150312181431

I think fans certainly can ruin a story...sometimes as things become more popular, the author ends up pandering to the masses rather than doing whatever it was that made the story work in the first place. My issue with a lot of the examples you gave (Jeff, Sonic.exe, etc) is that those stories suck. I mean, there's nothing there for the fan base to ruin. I don't care how crazy their fans are, there's really not much damage that can be done.