Yep, that kind of thing makes the fandom look pretty bad....and of course people will sign that kind of thing for fun. It's in the nature of sheeple to do that for perceived lulz.
It just ended up making everyone look bad, and people not into DMC thinking that the fans are nuts.
That's exactly what I was thinking in mind, Loopy! Being sheep doesn't necessarily mean blindly conforming to the latest trends; it is also following what other people, no matter what size of a league the person who started some trend is on be it major or minor, big or small, and the like, think and take it
blindly as
truth/fact.
It's like that Facebook "Your FB account will be deactivated in x days if you don't follow these steps" app sham or in DeviantArt on "Hacker On the Loose" journal copy-paste spread. How could I, a DMC fan since day one who enjoys BOTH DMC and DmC, be so gullible to fall for some things that will do nothing more but to conspire fear into the hearts of men?!?! I thought they were real and legit; but they were nothing more but to create a conspiracy of fear!
-starts banging my head against a wall for being such an ignorant, gullible sheep instead of facepalming-