Man... Grimdank really hates space king

Kinda disillusioned, spacebros. I've been a 40k fan since highschool and have been slipping away from it for the last few years. The lore feels stagnant, major characters getting zero recognition in the current setting (Perturabo my beloved) and more and more GW has been becoming nothing more than yet another soulless corporation for all the regular reasons (forced DEI, their reigonlocked pricing scheme, becoming a shareholder run company).

Then I watched Space King.

It was like looking at something written back from the days of rogue trader unfolding before my eyes. It's really wonderful, I love the first epsiode and the second and got a hatemonger hoodie preordered. This legally distinct version of 40k has so much more soul than anything GW has put out on their netflix ripoff service so much so that I'm now a patron for Flashgitz's channel.

So, obviously, I was curious to wonder how grimdank, a subreddit i used to lurk in before i made this account, was taking the rise of this new 40k-adjacent IP.

Contempt, ad-hominem and the injection of politics.

In the eyes of a large chunk of that sub, fans of the series are basement dwelling, neckbeard culture warriors who are probably far-right. They call Space King edgy, childish and silly (this is why a lot of us watch it) without so much as recognising that these three traits are what drive away new and old people from modern 40k. While GW continues to embrace "wider audience" levels of worldbuilding, Flashgitz had to the globules to actually stick to a niche and not cowtow to big corporations.

Its just so weird... it almost doesn't make sense.