Nintemper Tantrum

A form of adult temper tantrum specific to overzealous fans of a videogame media company, generally in response to some form of perceived slight against said company or one of their intellectual properties.

While the term is originally based on a phenomenon common to adherents of the multinational videogame company Nintendo, console fandoms on the whole are widely known for their cantankerous nature and thus the term Nintemper Tantrum could be considered applicable within any of said fandoms.

"Did you hear about that reviewer who gave Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild a 7/10 instead of a 10/10?"
"Yeah, apparently Nintendo fans threw quite the Nintemper Tantrum: freaked out, sent him endless amounts of rage spam and death threats, DDOS'd his website, and are still mad about it now years later."

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