User blog comment:Paul.rea/Teen Wolf News 090514/@comment-70.180.106.136-20140907205445

Teen Wolf has always been a show that's drawn a lot of non-traditional viewing methods. Since its start, livestreams, iTunes, torrents, and online viewing has been popular. These viewing methods aren't a 2014 phenomenon. Giving that the majority 'credit' for falling ratings is being overgenerous.

Outgrowing the show doesn't account for much because the casual viewership should've made up for that. TW has been heavily marketing to their younger fanbase with Liam and Malia. Yet it hasn't made up for the loss of the older, more involved fans.

You're attempting to discredit the 'fandom influence' because you have an agenda to push. You're attempting to sideline dissenting opinion by calling it hate and mental illness. On the one hand, everyone screams about Sterek fans being the majority and having too much influence, yet on the other everyone sneers down at them saying 'you're not that important'. Well which is it?

Because I think the loss of that part of the fanbase IS influencing the ratings more than you credit. I follow ~700 blogs. Used to be on Mondays my dash was FULL of livestream comments. Now, about 4 people livestream comment regularly. The lack of activity means that new fans aren't going to see as much 'free advertising' for Teen Wolf as they used to. And what they do see is people mentioning how disappointing the new season is and how much they miss the way the show used to be. Not exactly a formula for drawing in new viewers.

I personally don't watch anymore not because of the lack of Sterek interactions  (by which I mean them sharing a scene, not romantic Sterek), but because of two reasons.

First: I was told to not watch. By whom? By the star and by the creator. The powers that be have made it abundantly clear that they do not value my viewership. The mocking of fanfiction at SDCC was the last straw. At this point, you couldn't PAY me to watch TW.

But secondly, I stopped watching because the influx of new characters doesn't interest me. The plot of s4 as it was promoted didn't interest me. I'm not interested in watching the Stalia and Draeden show. All this 'you're gonna love Malia' bs was sickening. The character doesn't make any sense. If they'd done her right, made her a properly feral child and given her realistic reintegration problems, she could've been great. But Jeff saying at a con "we were hoping you wouldn't notice" that she should be mentally about 8, well that just says that he's a sloppy and careless writer who doesn't have any f**ks to give, so why should I?

The online Teen Wolf fandom that existed for s1-s3b has, for the most part, abandoned canon TW. The loss of that viewership has caused the ratings drop because of not only their loss but the loss of the free advertisment that brought in new viewers.

You asked your question and you got the answer. You just didn't like what you heard so you're ignoring it and skewing your data to fit your pre-conceived hypothesis.