It ended up into a rivalry because Hinata's fans aggressive bashing of Sakura. You cannot deny that.
Few simply says Hinata is gonna end up with Naruto instead of Sakura. It was mostly saying Hinata has the better personality, so is the better character and deserves Naruto. Then Sakura fans respond with her feats, and Hinata fans end up bringing up Hinata's feats.
Well to hyuga fans she is the better character than Sakura what's wrong in saying that. I don't see anything aggressive about that. Your response itself proves Sakura fans's insecurity. Besides Sakura is dislike and bashed by many people and they are not hyuga fans. For example Naruto fans bash her, even Sasuke fans bash her and many other. I don't see Sakura fans target favs of those fanbases. Why do they only target Hinata?
The answer is simple as I've already stated in my fist post on Hinata vs Sakura, Sakura fans are insecure at least most of them. They think they could win in a debate against Hinata so they specifically target her. Hinata fans had no need to compare her with Sakura. They already liked her even as a side character and with the last Naruto movie onwards they are more than happy where she ended up.
So its quite obvious who started it first.
NOT THEIR ACTIONS. Their claim that they'd overtake a government was OBJECTIVELY correct if they did so. You're excusing Hinata fans bashing of Sakura simply because they were right about the pairing(completely unrelated). That's like me excusing countless deaths by terrorists because they were right about taking over a government(unrelated). Stop making me repeat this to further your argument, this was the third or so timed I reminded you what I said.
Those terrorists are in denial then just like Sakura fans :lol
And I've already explained that Hinata fans had no reasons to bash Sakura. Its just that Sakura fans's insecurity made them see things that weren't there and start bashing Hinata and comparing with Hinata to make themselves feel better.
This is exactly where you changed your stance.
You cannot deny this. You suddenly dropped the whole false rivalry as a sign of insecurity when Hinata fans were faulted.
That was my first response to you so in what sense did I change my stance lol. If there was any rivalry then it most definitely was started by Sakura fans.