User blog comment:KiruSama/AoT Story and the Fandom (is trash?) Spoilers for those who have not caught up with the manga/@comment-29958651-20161008135342

Well, let's analyze that (a little bit):

1. Attack on Titan story. You're absolutely right that AoT universe is just fulfilled with plenty of relatable characters. And maybe that's the problem. If you have so many characters, it is hard to kill anyone, without bad fan reception. But if you're writing a post-apocalyptic dark fantasy manga, you just have to kill someone. As for the recent chapters, it was Erwin, but the fan reactions would be similar if Levi would had choosed him instead of Armin (even though Armin's death was expected since he was burnt and fell down from big hight). However, it needs to be said that Isayama isn't killing his (major) characters randomously and each (major) death has got a specific place in the story (Erwin, Mike) or character development (Marco, 1st Special Operations Squad). So (even though the killing rate is quite high in AoT) story is far away from trash.

2. Attack on Titan fanbase. Those fans you are talking about are not real fans. We here, at Wikia, are the real fans, who takes their love for AoT seriously. They are just enthusiastic admirers, whose main interests are shipping, hentai, gossips and fake images. Jean + Eren, Mikasa + Annie, Petra + Levi, anyone + anyone. They are living in their own weird world, where you don't need any evidence or references to support your idea. It's just a waste of time, when you try to persuade them or when you try to negotiate their silly theories. Only thing, you can do, is to ignore them (even that they seriously damage the AoT overal reception, but - as I hope - they will soon discover that FairyTale and Sword Art Online provides FAR more material for their crazy stuff). So yes, these so-called fans are trash, but always remember that there are also communities of true fans like here, at Wikia.