From what I've seen, there's a very reactionary relationship of hostility between Hypnos fans and Thanatos fans in the internet. The two characters have an extremely troubled relationship in the game, and the game takes a very awkward stance on how they think players are supposed to feel about them, because the game has all the other characters treat Hypnos with very strong levels of disdain that it seems to assume the player will share. According to how the story plays out, everyone hates Hypnos because he's annoying and oblivious, and because he's a lazy worker who doesn't try as hard as everyone else. Nyx, Hades, Zagreus, Dusa, Thanatos and Megaera (and Charon, by implication) all express their dislike for him to varying degrees throughout the game for those reasons.
Hypnos gains approval from those people by trying harder to be better at his job, once Zagreus and Thanatos help him be more organized.
His relationship with Thanatos is consistently presented as being basically one-sided. Hypnos is shown as being helpless and clingy and emotionally needy towards his brother, who seemingly is presented as being, by contrast, completely emotionally stable and having no real desire to spend time with his brother. When Thanatos spends time with Hypnos towards the end of their arc, it still comes across like Thanatos is just punching his timecard, like spending time with Hypnos is a minor annoyance that helps keep Hypnos working hard. The game never gives any indication that Thanatos wants or enjoys his idiot brother's company.
That's their storyline in game.
The problem here is, for people who like Hypnos and wish the storyline didn't treat him as an annoying inconvenience to be overcome, it can feel frustrating that Hypnos is treated like a big loser by his sexy, hard-working perfect twin who gets to be the love interest with lots of friends. The reality is that the game has basically every character get away with being mean to Hypnos, but fans often particularly resent Thanatos especially, either because they see him as a romantic rival for Zagreus' affections, or because they find his rejection of Hypnos to be particularly hurtful because Hypnos loves Thanatos so much.
But as a result, Hypnos fans can often be... vocal about this on the Internet.
And Thanatos fans, in turn, find it frustrating to see their favorite character constantly under fire, as though they're not allowed to like him because the game didn't write him to be sympathetic enough to Hypnos.
An awkward hostility has built up between fans of the two characters which, really, has a lot to do with how frustrating they find the negativity of the other characters' fans.
The reality is that the game presented an awkward storyline, and it puts fans of both characters in a bad spot, either defending a storytelling decision that's not very strong, or dying on a hill of a character's assholery because of a weak storytelling decision that they're stuck with.
I personally recommend people just rejecting canon and envisioning a more satisfying story for both of them, one which doesn't ask you to resent one of the two characters, but fandom doesn't tend to... do that. XD They often want their favorite character to be objectively, canonically worthy.
That's what I think is sort of at the heart of what's going on. SGG wrote a bad relationship between Thanatos and Hypnos, and created an impetus for fans of the two characters to resent each other.
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