I'm not saying criticism doesn't happen, of course it does, but the simping does too. Look at how some people on here react at the barest hint of criticising certain writers and their work.
Honestly? I've seen plenty of simping for characters, but aside from dedicated appreciation threads I haven't seen anything like what you're talking about. Maybe I'm not looking in the right places, or my brain has been so worn 0down by years of exposure to online drama that I just don't retain the long-term memory of it.
But if I had a Euro for every time someone has said how much they hate the kitsune for being too Japanese or too alienating to us bake gaijins for being outsiders, or Kiyoko specifically for being written for men with dicks first and foremost? I'd have at least a hundred by now. And don't get me started on Brienne.
And I still think the latter is childish regardless.
I dunno, man. Calling it "childish" sounds rather condescending. I'd call it a
human reaction, which is neither simping nor disparaging and simply acknowledges that it's a strong emotional reaction anyone could have after enough needling.
See this is the problem with fan-driven communities like these. If you ask a writer or developer a question you get jobless losers such as yourself jumping to vehemently defend someone you have a parasocial relationship with online, and if you don't know that Savin said Skibidi Toilet this date last year at exactly 2pm in the afternoon EST you all have a massive cortisol spike and start shooting steam out of your ears saying "grrrr he's already spoken about this"
I'm storing this away for the next time you complain about someone not taking you seriously or being uncouth, because it's such a perfect encapsulation of everything you've brought to the thread: rudeness, entitlement, ad hominem insults and massive assumptions about the other people on the thread.
If your remarks weren't so broad and innaccurate, I might even be offended somehow but, no.