The worst part about all of this is that Dream had people he could learn from. Plenty of people from CallMeCarson's friend group had obsessive stans, later denounced them, and ended up better off because of it. Less porn got drawn, less fanfiction made, less retarded teenage girls badgering them about their sexualities'. It's still fucked up that it's being made at all, but at the very least there's less of it. But Dream, of course, decided that condoning the behavior of his severely mentally-ill audience was a good idea. So as a result, now he's got mountains of porn, even more fanfics, and creepy people who want his limbs chopped off. All because he was a little bitch baby who couldn't say "no,"
Sorry, I know the conversation's mostly moved on to the cheating aspect of the drama, but I find it really fascinating. It's not like he was going into this blind and didn't know how bad stans could be, and it's not like he didn't have connections to people who have loudly stated their distaste for stan culture? The simple truth of the matter is that he's a coward. Instead of trying to better his fanbase and clean up his image, he let his rabid fans create his own image. One of obsession, frequent cancellation, and mob mentality. A creator who's lost control of their fanbase is one who has willingly lost control of their fanbase.
I wouldn't say Dream deserves it, no one does, but he sure as hell shouldn't be surprised.