Homie I'm a gamer. But my love is fighting games. My first fighting game was SF2 champion edition on Sega. Since then I have played almost every fighting game you can imagine. All MKs, Street fighter, MVC, Virtua fighter, Fighters destiny, clay fighter, soul caliber, Mace: The dark age, DOA, guilty gear, tekken and probably more I'm forgetting. If you look at my posts you should realize I'm not disputing that you get less hatemail/t bagging in other fighters. You definitely get more in MK. What I am saying is MK has become a more popular franchise over the years. It's easy to pick up nature and fatality culture has attracted lots of people and MK for the most part is some gamer's first ever fighting game.
I guess my question for y'all is have you played any other games that aren't fighters? Bc if you did you would realize that MK isn't as bad as others. There are far worse. For example I would get the same amount of hatemail on UFC games. They are easy to get into and started to get popular. And like the others said before, a game like FIFA alot of people play, which includes assholes in that group of people.
So again I'm saying it's not just an MK thing. The game is very popular and with that comes alot of people who are salty and love to send hatemail.