>>48399116That's because this entire bullshit of identifying people as fans of one specific series started during SM. Before that it was just "fans of the anime". There were no "XYfags" that shat on everything that wasn't XY or "DPfags" that shat on everything that wasn't DP, there were just "animefags", and for the most part they liked XY and DP and disliked BW. "XYfag" was always just a boogieman term invented by SMfags that operated on "I only like SM and thinks the other series are shit, so these people that dislike SM but seem to praise XY probably think all the non-XY series are shit" logic.