There's this thing that is being majorly hyped up, and everyone who's anyone is a fan - that is a "fad" ladies and gentlemen. Now, fads seam to affect people one of two ways; they will either decide to join the "crowed" so they are part of what's "in" - or they will publicly refuse to even look at it, simply because it's a "fad" and they don't want to look like they are just "following the crowed" as I said earlier.

However, I don't let either get to me - I simply become fans of things because I like them. I don't care if they've got a massive fan following or not, plus if something I like does have a fan following, my opinions will not change if and when the fan following begins to die down - for example I still kind of like Pokemon (the anime) and it was admittedly a "fad" when I first got into it, but I discovered it purely by accident (it was on the TV when I turned it on, simple as that) - now Pokemon is in no way the "cool" thing to be a fan of, but it's something I like - so if I'm in the mood I will watch the show.

Now, I know a lot of people don't like High School Musical mainly because it was over-hyped by Disney (like practically everything Disney gets its hands on these days) I simply chose to watch it, because I thought one of its songs sounded good, so I bought it and not only did I like the other songs, I thought the storyline and messages were actually pretty well written, but these things get over looked by the fact that it quickly decided to cash in with a below-par sequel (this is purely my opinion, but I found absolutely no storyline structure in the sequel, and first film kind of seamed like an "ending"). By the time I got HSM the fad had begun to die down, and the fact the sequel seamed to spawn overnight did very little to help.

Of course things can work in an opposite way too - some of the things I like have absolutely no fan following, I however like these things, and consider them to be "underrated gems" which I watch simply because I like them.

So to sum up, if you see me expressing my love for something that already has a massive fan following - it's not because I'm another crowed following fanboy - I'm simply just another fan.