man i am so freaking sick of WS fans shitting on the rest of the fanbase and blaming us for it not getting picked up. ummm, we don't control a goddamn network and frankly you were all running your mouths about how much support the show had, how insane it's social media presence was, so obvs the fandom did its part. if WS was the huge phenomenon they were insisting it was, it would be airing next year, and it's not the fandom's fault that it's not.
They bring up the 0.6 demo share the WS pilot got like it’s something to brag about. That’s barely better than the season average (0.55) which is only so low because one ep aired on Thanksgiving and 7 or 8 eps were preempted for baseball and basketball in various regions (we lost 3 eps to college basketball in mine alone). It needed to do at least as well or better than the ScoobyNatural ep (0.73) or Baby in S11 (0.81), both of which had the same amount of promotion as WS yet managed to nearly match their season openers in numbers. WS needed to show it could hold/bring the entire SPN audience and it didn’t, in fact, it didn’t even trend in the top 10 on the night it aired (only managed the top 20), but Supernatural did.
And, in the 15 days since the announcement that WS isn’t getting picked up, it’s only trended once and the petition has been stuck in the 70k’s for 6 days.
What it boils down to is WS was not well thought out, it took up too much of SPN, it stepped all over the main characters, it made a lot of fans sick of it before the pilot even aired, and the characters were poorly written. And the WS fans didn’t help their cause by insisting everyone had to give it a chance or they weren’t ‘real SPN fans’ and must hate women.