SPN work didn't get him an iota of the love he would have liked.
It used to. I was around for a lot of it. His meta earned him a lot of praise and followers. Unfortunately for him, his master thesis -- that Destiel was planned by the creators and would be made explicitly canon (likely in season 8 or 9) -- has been thoroughly debunked. He was also wrong about a lot of other things, so his "cred" in that fandom is basically shot.
His popularity was also way less about him personally than, say, his DAYD stuff. Part of this I put down to tumblr's interface, which makes it trickier to create the sort of environment Andy's bullshit thrives in.
Re: Leaving Fandom on a Jet Plane
It used to. I was around for a lot of it. His meta earned him a lot of praise and followers. Unfortunately for him, his master thesis -- that Destiel was planned by the creators and would be made explicitly canon (likely in season 8 or 9) -- has been thoroughly debunked. He was also wrong about a lot of other things, so his "cred" in that fandom is basically shot.
His popularity was also way less about him personally than, say, his DAYD stuff. Part of this I put down to tumblr's interface, which makes it trickier to create the sort of environment Andy's bullshit thrives in.