"Buffy: ‘How’s Kennedy?’
Willow: ‘She died.’
[fandom: ‘YAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!’]
Buffy, concerned: ‘Willow!’
Willow: ‘Oh, no, she’s fine! Mystical thing.’
[fandom: ‘……. JOSS IS EVIL!’]"

— Buffy Season Eight graphic novel, with interpolations by me as representative of the fandom; I’m sure there was a Kennedy-loving contingent, but I never met any of them.