It is. I think my defining experience with it was in the Digimon fandom, where everyone in the English side was hating so bad on Davis/Daisuke. There were hate sites. I sort of mindlessly went along with it until one day I looked at one of the hate sites, and looked at it, and I thought, "you know, what the hell did he ever do to deserve this?" Daisuke is now one of my favorite characters, ever.
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Bashing SUUUUUUUCKS.