People are nuts! Proceed with caution.
allow yourself to form your own opinions on the characters before joining a fandom space!! otherwise others opinions may affect your consumation of the media
To save your blood pressure when comment discussions are going on: if things being talked about are making you feel angry or even passionate (especially if they're mischaracterizing or hating on one of your favs) and you feel like you want to jump in and argue, JUST SCROLL. It's really not worth it to argue with strangers about fictional characters and worlds when they've already decided to misunderstand or whatever and don't want to hear your view on it. I have kept myself very happy by reading some of people's arguments saying "yikes" to myself and just scrolling right on by
what kind of advice would you give to those who are new to fandoms may it be anime, manga,manhwa,webtoon, manhua and novels?