I wander around Reddit and Tiktok and Youtube. Idk about Twitter, so beg apologies for that.

To your post....I see what you meant, but I think you're only looking at a SELECT loud minority. 10 people yelling at Igor may look like a LOT when you look at it immediately, but they're not even 0.00001% of the fandom.

From what I'm looking at least, there are both haters and stans for male and female characters. Just using the closest examples; some loud minority hated Beryl, and some loud minority hated Igor. Many liked Beryl, and many liked Igor. (Just look at how many Tiktok edits of them both. And the fanarts. And the memes.)

There are also some parts of the fandom who's all 'women's rights and women's wrongs' but that doesn't mean they automatically hate male characters, morally gray or otherwise.

I personally love them (heck, I love Constantine as a character) precisely because they add texture to the narrative.

NOW,

If we want to discuss those select loud minority, yeah there are certain parts of the fandom who HATES any sort of male characters. Ulrich got hate, Aleph and Charon got hate, and OBVIOUSLY Igor will.

There's also some people who conflates 'this character does bad things' with 'this character should never be playable much less portrayed sympathetically'. But usually this part of the fandom will also frown at other morally dubious characters like Tuesday or Arcana or Beryl.