I definitely remember the Jack/Julia vs. Jack/Carly wars. There was pure vitriol on both sides towards the characters (and sometimes, actresses).

Was it MM?

Who else?! EB and PB doesn't give a care what one says on a message boards...do they even know those things exist. And MS is to stealthy for that kind of obvious behavior.

Have we mentioned "Crassiebella" yet? I hate to mention this without reading all the posts first, but...

One fan of Danny and Michelle (GUIDING LIGHT) was so upset about Danny's pairing with Cassie (Laura Wright) that he/she/forget who created a Big Bird-like voodoo doll that was supposed to represent Cassie/LW. According to one, much-talked-about story, Paul Anthony Stewart, who portrayed Danny, was shown the doll at a fan event and was, understandably, horrified.

And can you believe, too, the bitch who made that doll had the nerve to go on the Internet and brag about it?

For me, though, no "war" ever got uglier than that between Sonny/Brenda and Jax/Brenda fans (GH). As I've said numerous times, scores of message boards remained stained with the blood spilled over that jihad.

ETA: Did I really type "Sonny/Jax"? OMG, I did.

Edited January 10, 201312 yr by Khan

I can't believe I almost forgot to mention the Sabine Singh/Rebecca Budig debacle. The "real Greenlee" crap is in a category all its own.

I think I know who you are talking about. That attention seeker is a mess.

The biggest attention whore who ever prostituted themselves for attention.

Michael Muhney occasionally seems crazier and more melodramatic than any fangirl on Twitter. I have no idea who lets him get away with that.

I would welcome a "Muhney's Greatest Tweets" collection, anyone.

Edited January 10, 201312 yr by Vee

You don't think constantly smacking gum is sexy? I guess Grease was wrong

It's about as sexy as sticking your tongue between your teeth and lower lip. (Remember when Nancy St. Alban used to do that on an almost daily basis? Good Lord.)

I thought that crap brought out the absolute worst in both fanbases. There were some vile comments about two beautiful woman. It was mind-boggling to watch from as far away as I could get. Then of course, it turned on the Jared/Nat fans a few years later - I could have sworn the Jolie ass cake actually came about when Jared and Natalie were paired up in lieu of Jolie.

Honestly, they were equal opportunity insanity to me. A perfect storm of race and weight [!@#$%^&*]. I had opted out of Jolie before those wars really got heated, but I got very tired of being called a racist every six days because TWOP didn't think Evangeline hung the moon or that every male actor on the show had a hard-on for her, er, Renee, and I got even more tired of hearing about how David Fumero and Cristian were unacceptable love interests for her because he was not a first-tier leading man - it was that kind of casual disrespect for him and for Tim Stickney that always ground my gears, even though Renee herself seemed to be most pleased with the pairing with Cris, and seemed to be trying to steer her inter-warring fanbases towards it in print. Regardless of my opinion of her character and what I thought were just so-so acting skills, I always liked REG as a person. She was lovely and a sweetheart, and unlike her fanbase she often said when her character was being a hypocrite, including during the initial debacle with R.J. and John. (She also should have come back to make trouble for Layla and Cris, but oh well. I thought it was a waste to kill her off.)

There is some truth behind the comments about TJS and DF. Neither were leads on the show. And every fan wants airtime and story for their fave. While it does come off as a knock on TJS and DF and for some, it may have been. I think that the underlying issue is that it was not in her best interest as far as airtime and SL goes to be paired with Christian or RJ...And this from a die hard RJ fan. Shucks, even TJS complained about the Vegas getting story that was originally slated for Gannons and how they were more acceptable. So eh...

Who else?! EB and PB doesn't give a care what one says on a message boards...do they even know those things exist. And MS is to stealthy for that kind of obvious behavior.

Have you seen his twitter handle(the one that goes before his name), Sexual Chocolate gag me with a pitchfork :gag:

Edited January 10, 201312 yr by dragonflies

Michael Muhney occasionally seems crazier and more melodramatic than any fangirl on Twitter. I have no idea who lets him get away with that.

I would welcome a "Muhney's Greatest Tweets" collection, anyone.

I have often felt a deep and abiding sympathy for his wife. She has to live with that.

Oh, I hated Richard Winslow and Bradley Cole's fans. Those people were nuts on a whole different level.

yes yes YES!

There is some truth behind the comments about TJS and DF. Neither were leads on the show. And every fan wants airtime and story for their fave. While it does come off as a knock on TJS and DF and for some, it may have been. I think that the underlying issue is that it was not in her best interest as far as airtime and SL goes to be paired with Christian or RJ...

That's really not the point. The point was it was a weird fanbase strategy designed solely to keep her posted with every possible leading man regardless of story, chemistry or whether it made any sense. It was like their cracked-out version of fantasy football. And at that time, DF/Cristian was considered a leading man on the show. He just wasn't as "big" as Michael Easton, so the nuttier Van fans turned on him like Donald Sutherland at the end of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I mean, if you're her agent, great, but how does that help a character looking for a real identity on the show to just throw her at any guy based solely on his episode count?

In the end, IMO, that fan intra-warring was at least a small part of what cost Evangeline her place on the show. The fanbases were so split and divided, warring amongst themselves, and the show kept reacting too much to all the discordant feedback; they had no throughline for her character and no clue where to go. REG, to her credit, seemed to realize she had a good pairing that was being tossed away, but she didn't have a hand in the creative process. I think part of it is that they'd never truly developed Evangeline as anyone beyond a stock heroine and Dena Higley's avatar, IMO - she was all things to all people, perfect, and whenever Renee would speak up and suggest more layers and shadings to the character, that never materialized onscreen. I always thought she was a lot better when she had something a little spicy to play. But she almost never did after her first year or so on the show. I was beyond thrilled when that role was announced in 2003 and I thought she could do all sorts of things, but the character just never clicked into place for me.

And it's Timothy D. Stickney.

Edited January 10, 201312 yr by Vee

I think that had to do with the fact that:

1. the triangle was the last great and balanced one that GH ever had

2. no matter which man one thought was the best for Brenda, there's always been a level of respect for the other - a rarity these days

Really? I'm not disputing what you're saying, VH, but that was not my impression at all. From what I saw, it seemed as if Sonny/Brenda fans saw Jax as some uber-slick Eurotrash interloper (which is strange, since Jax is, you know, Australian?) coming between "their girl" and the only man who could ever truly understand her, while Jax/Brenda fans adored Jax's perceived sophistication and felt Sonny was little more than a low-level hood who'd bring Brenda only sorrow and gunshot wounds. (This was, of course, was before Sonny shot Carly in the head.)

Then again, maybe I was looking in the wrong places.

Have you seen his twitter handle(the one that goes before his name), Sexual Chocolate gag me with a pitchfork :gag:

How long has that been his name on twitter (that hasn't always been that has it?)...so I had to go look and haven't in a long while...what is up with him and all this rap stuff about Tupac and the movie Coming to America...is he trying to steal DG's thunder with the black female fans or something (Not saying that he can't or shouldn't like those things because I think that every person in the world between the ages of 32 and 50 regardless of nationality or race have affection for Tupac but because it is him, I find it suspect)...

You have no idea. There were people who claimed REG got pregnant on purpose so that the show would be forced to write John as the father then when she miscarried in her FIFTH month they said that was proof that God was a Jolie. I know that the people who wrote that stuff aren't the norm for Jolie or any fanbase but I have to admit that I'll never forget those comments because they changed the way I felt about OLTL and soaps in general.

Wow! That's unbelievable and truly heinous!