Stupid enough to be her fans, at least.
I have split feelings about her fans. They aren't out and out stupid, Lily wouldn't tolerate it. They are marginalized folk looking for a salve for their hurt. They find Lily and latch on. Her anger is comfort and a mirror to their own, and upon them seeing beyond Lily's '
state run news' as it were they become zealously protective of her.
These folk are usually but not always autistic. I'm not going to use their autism as an excuse, they can still think critically and have every right to make their own choices, but the reality is it is much harder to convince someone like that when they come with all their baggage and social ineptness, ready to defend a person who makes their hurt feel heard, despite being a disgusting human being who wouldn't piss on you if your hair was on fire.
Lets take one from the crowd. René
Tumblr:
@fatheriimaginedyoutaller
A03:
ReneTheStan
Reddit:
im-not-a-crack-pot
René is a 20 year old trans-masc Argentinian, a typical light skinned Buenos Aries baby teaching Spanish to a private school. They don't have many friends (
a PowerPoint was made) Their autism and OCD leave him
dependent on his parents. These parents are not equipped to handle their child and so they fight, possibly to the point of
getting a divorce. This turbulent background and love of cartoons and children's media has primed him to be taken in by Lily's anger. It's a comfort to him. They have been watching Lily since their early teens. So when people like Britt and other vocal victims of Lily come banging on his door telling him all the stuff about his darling he doesn't want to hear, well you can see where the mind of the zealot forms.

All the evidence in the world isn't going to convince people like this, they have to do it themselves. Slowly. You can't yell at them they will just close rank, it's what they do to keep their comfort and Lily knows this. That's why she's so angry at her fans all the time. She is the smartest one of this lot and wonders daily just how she ended up with this gig of babysitting. All they are to her is useful counter voices who don't think for themselves only repeat what she tells them.
ETA: As if on cue, Rene deleted Britt's comments not wanting to hear it.

These pity posts don't work unless they are there to prop it up. Don't think just sympathize.
René just needs time, better friends and role models, and a new perspective that's all. Or maybe Thatcher should have bombed that place into oblivion.