The phrase "in shambles" needs a time-out.

[kane_magus]

If I had a dollar for every time over the past few years that I've seen some fluff piece on some "fandom news" website (video games or otherwise) use the phrase "in shambles" to describe the state of any given fandom after some dumb, silly thing happened in/to/around whatever thing said fandom was a fandom of (or perhaps in/to/around the fandom itself), I'd probably have at least $20 or $30 by this point. And while it'd be great to have an extra $30 out of the blue for nothing at all, I'd really rather have not seen "in shambles" being used so much, especially if the "shambles" that these fans were supposedly "in" happened to be "complete" or "utter" or "absolute."

Shit like this (only ever so slightly exaggerated): "This One Character Kissed This Other Character In Current-Flavor-Of-The-Month-Anime And All Fans Everywhere Are Just In Complete, Utter, Absolute, Total, Literal Shambles Over It!!!"