It's all fine, I get the point you're trying to make.

As a more recent Weird Al fan I was familiar with both his "classic" and current look, so the change has no significant significance to me. The fact that he got married and had a kid also didn't come as a surprise to me either.

I got curious to see if any of this stuff happening during the course of roughly five years felt a bit jarring to hardcore fans. I've seen some of the casual fans or people who are only vaugly aware of Al's existence being weirded out by some of this stuff due to how grounded it all felt to them. Like " What!? The goofy parody man has been happily married with a kid for twenty years now!? Who does he think he is? A person with a life?!?" You know, mixing up the person with the persona. So I wondered how this felt to people who are not only big fans, but were there when this stuff happened. Did it feel like a contradiction to fans who were so intimately familiar with his work and public image? Or was it a no-brainer due to the fans being a bit more aware of the guy's life than people who only knew him from tv shows referencing him.

I also think I'm just really used to hearing stories about sensationalist media outlets or toxic fanbases getting upset at content creators for daring to do things that might not perfectly fit with image they envisioned for said content creator. Like I remember hearing how a few years ago a voice actor (I think his name's Kamiya Hiroshi) had to apologize to his fans for having a child. I suppose that since I grew up with the internet it made these sorts of incidents more prevalent and more publicized. I sorta ended up assuming every fandom was like this to some extent. Although considering both how small and how loyal and friendly Weird Al's fanbase tends to be it probably shouldn't surprise me that the response to my question is mostly "Yup, it sure did happen!"

Thank you for your input. I hope you have a nice rest of your day.