Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5598112-20160825030830/@comment-1609742-20160905194442

For everyone involved in the Blake/Brundage example, please realize that it simply isn't worth your time.

HallsiKallsi, I, and most of us on this site, agree with you that it's funny that the Blake Vogt fandom ate crow when he was eliminated. We're dealing with people who were right one time about Blake "shocking America", reveled in that feeling, and then kept pushing the point because they thought it validated them. They got worse when people were disagreeing with them, and they don't seem to have a much of a concept of respecting that others may have differing opinions. I get you, but you have to understand that you just won't get to these folks. It's not worth your time, and although this aspect of the fandom is excessively annoying, it's ultimate harmless if it doesn't reach the point of harassment.

Xboy971 and DangerTiime, get over yourselves. Yes, you were right about Blake moving on past the Judge Cuts against all odds and editing. We were really impressed that you called this. But the more you cried "Blake Vogt Will Shock America" when he didn't even come close to it, the more that impressed feeling became disdain. Blake failed to shock America. His Judge Cuts round was up to the standard of the best close-up magicians on AGT. His Quarterfinals round was a repeat of the average mentalist tricks. His Semifinals round was borderline awful. None of us care how many tricks he created for top-tier magicians; this was barely even mentioned on the show. What we saw was a performer that became progressively less creative. Stop mistaking us trashing Blake's performances for attacking you. For people that love to judge people by calling them "magician haters" or telling them that they're wrong (even though you all have been wrong plenty of times), it's amazing how you can't take people claiming to "know" you as well.

Basically, I want to encourage people here that can't respect other opinions no matter how immature or "wrong" they are, to swallow their pride and let those be. If something really personally offends you, take it to a private chat of some sort. The board does not thrive when a small group of users push their opinions on everyone else, or when people expressing bold predictions are shut down every time they give them.