There's an interesting overlap here, I think. We have a group of angry people: predominantly white, male, and middle-aged. They're passionately devoted to a thing they love to the point where they feel a certain ownership of it, and they're mad because the people who control that thing appear to be managing it in a way that primarily appeals to a younger, more diverse group of people that haven't put in the decades of love and devotion that these folks have. They feel disenfranchised and left behind. And they fervently believe that, were the founder of this thing still alive, he would definitely be on their side. They feel like the people in charge have abandoned the founder's original intentions, and that it's incumbent upon them to take this thing back so that the founder's original intention for it can be restored and things can be like they were in the good old days.
And sadly, they're being taken advantage of by a con artist who's made a full-time job of stoking their anger and profiting from it.
Insert a few proper nouns, and this scenario matches a lot of different "movements" in our society. Including Axanar.
