These days I keep having these thoughts. Lots of thoughts that lead to the same conclusion: fandom is crazy, therefore fandom is cruel.
I happily brows through DeviantArt pretty often and I'm enrapted by the awesomness of lots and lots of fanarts. So you can easily figure out how they lured me, winking at me and poking me to make me take a look at those manga which I haven't read yet. My mind was all "If the fanart is awesome squared*, then the manga itself should be interesting enough, isn't it?".
Well, I was so curious about Katekyo Hitman Reborn that I gave it a try a while ago. I stopped after the first volume because I didn't find the story that interesting; but now I keep stumbling on random awesome fanarts and I can't help asking myself: "what if the story gets really better after the first volume?!" ;_; (which is totally possible; D.Gray-man is the proof of my lingering fear! It keeps getting way better!)
Nobari no Ou is another one. I feel I should give it a try, too. Those cute fanarts and icons out there...
The moral, you may want to know? Fandom is crazy, makes delirious yet wonderful fanarts, I fall in love, then check the original artwork... and I feel so betrayed. Therefore, fandom is cruel. (But I love fandom. Oh, I do, I do.)

* I humbly apologiaze for the embarassingly and out-of-context amount of shoebox_project's quotations. I fell in love with the 99% of what is written there. I'm trying to recover.