GEEWUN
GEEWUN is a snarky fan term for people who seem to have difficulty tolerating any of the post-G1 incarnations of the Transformers property.
While the 2007 live-action movie was in production, the fandom experienced an ongoing influx of mindlessly angry "Generation Y" males who seemed to regard "Transformers" not as a still-evolving cultural institution and business property, but as a sacred relic of their halcyon Reagan-era childhoods. These bitter young men made their voices heard by preemptively denouncing the movie- not because it would ruin Transformers forever, but because it would "rape their childhoods" by deviating from their rose-colored memories of the first two seasons of the G1 cartoon. The GEEWUNNERS' inexplicable fondness for the term "[so-and-so] RAPED MY CHILDHOOD!!!!!" quickly became one of their more offensive defining traits.
For some reason, many GEEWUNNERS were particularly incensed by the fact that Optimus Prime had flames painted on him, a detail that Michael Bay claims to have received death threats over.
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