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LOL. We don't mean to be scary.Homestuck fans are scarier.
Maybe I've just gotten the better half of the Homestuck fandom since a lot of my friends are into it, although I've never been able to get into it myself. (I have seen the crazy ones on Tumblr who think they have Karkat as a "headmate" or whatever, but those people do that with every fandom.)
The thing about Hetalia is I have some friends who are really into history or international relations, as much as I am, who really like it, so I feel like I should give it a chance. But then there are the people who dress up in Nazi regalia and do the "Heil Hitler" salute at Anime Boston. And I don't know, the whole idea sort of rubs me the wrong way, like it's fetishizing this really awful period in history (and not just talking about the Holocaust, the other two Axis Powers were terrible in their own ways - especially Japan - and the Allies were hardly saints) by turning the countries into cute bishies.
But some of the people I know who are into it are just as sensitive about that stuff as I am, some even more so; like one friend who found Inglourious Basterds offensive, while obviously (just look at my profile picture) I loved that movie. So maybe my impression is completely off. It just weirds me out when people are squeeing over some bishie version of Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy.