Growing up my family tried so hard to make me an Auburn fan and eventually attend. My grandparents, mother, uncle, sister, BIL all graduated from there. While they were normal what ultimately drove me away from AU was bad interactions with fans. While it seems silly it’s 100% true. I was taken to a lot of Auburn games growing up and undoubtedly it got to where I disclosed I was a Bama fan. People were absolutely ugly and I was 8-12 years old. It just built this impression in my mind about Auburn. A lot of druggies from high school went to AU as well and that sealed the deal for me, Bama through and through. The degree i was attaining was actually a better degree at AU but I just couldn’t live there for 4 years. Since college the AU folks have further hardened my assumptions. “Fear the thumb” and “got a second?” on top of the cultish “Auburn is just different”.