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⌈ Secret Post #3994 ⌋

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Antis who tag their hate. I don't care what they are anti- against. When they tag their hate and harass creators, they are the worst.

This.

But, alternatively, somebody who flips out because my mostly-positive episode review also contains critique as well and HDU PUT THIS IN THE TAG WHERE I HAD TO LOOK AT IT AND GET UPSET!

The drama and wank of course.

And the crazy fans who make the rest of us look bad.

there is a particular phenomenon in One Piece fandom that bugs the absolute shit out of me: attempting to "accurately" predict what's going to happen in the story based on a single chapter, and one-upping other fans by being more right about it.

fan theories run rampant in any ongoing series, I know. but OP seems to be particularly...idk stupid? about trying to extrapolate what's going to happen and theories change literally week to week. some of them are absurd to a surrealist degree. I don't know what about this series inspires such rabid speculation but it keeps me from interacting with the fandom on the regular.

The political aspect of it. I'm liberal AF, but I'm really not comfortable with the way SJ culture is commanding what people should enjoy in fandom and how they should enjoy it. There's a lot of moral jugdments being passed on what canon someone likes, what ships they ship, what fanfic tropes they'll give a kudos.

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Yes, exactly.

Anyone acting like they have superiority and/or moral high grounds over anyone else. Especially if it's over fanon.

Right now there's a crop of rapefic and hardcore whump turning up in the AO3 feed of my favourite fandom. Am absolutely not telling creators what to write/not write. One man's meat etc. etc.

Just, it's really not my thing.

Would like some fluff I haven't written myself. :-(

Moral crusades. There was an incident several months ago where a fanartist was given a cookie that turned out to have a needle in it. I saw an alarming number of commenters redirecting to how her fanart was terrible and she shouldn't be drawing it. I would think attempted murder is a higher priority than what kind of fanart she draws. http://eclaire-de-lune.tumblr.com/post/160699469137/how-about-we-dont-hurt-real-people-over-fictional

Doesn't help that, IME, most of the crusaders do this to delegitimize any and all rival ships.

What the fuckity? Didn't something similar happen in the Voltron fandom recently too?

The fans who insist that their personal opinion on something is objective fact and that fans who disagree are wrong.

Also character bashing when it shows up in fics.

Probably fans who feel that their love of something, or the fact that they grew up with it, or that it helped them through a rough time or they used to watch it with their dad and then he died... gives their opinion more weight than those of any other fan, including fans who also grew up with it/got through a rough time with it/watched it with their dead dad (it's like it doesn't occur to them that anybody else could feel that way). They make pronouncements like they are the final word on something they didn't create, can't tolerate people discussing other opinions or even any kind of jokes or silliness they deem inappropriate. I've seen this at cons, where you'd think face-to-face interaction would temper people a bit, but nope.

Right now, antis and purity culture.

Creators who mock or trash fans of their work, whether in their work itself, or in interviews. I get that some fans are creepy and cross boundaries, but you can’t lump those people in with fans who are just super enthusiastic, or who voice valid criticism without being rude.or insulting

The virtue signalling is pretty annoying these days. "Character A is an AMAB agender polyamorous pansexual in a relationship with Character B, who is AFAB transgender poly-romantic demisexual and Character C, who is AFAB demi-gender poly-romantic asexual. Also they're all Muslim and I headcanon them as East Indian and various flavors of neurodivergent. If you write/view them any other way, then you're nothing but a big, stinky piece of problematic, pedophilic trash and should delete yourself, uwu uwu ooooowooooo."

I guess it's an improvement of the "eeeeew, gay ppl, that's grody" and "why couldn't you have written this about (het pairing) instead of disgusting femmeslash, kill yourself lesbo" reviews I used to see/get on f/f and m/m fic back in the early 2000s, though. And y'know, I still see people speak fondly of Godawful Fanfiction, but I remember a thread someone made there entitled "DISCWORLD! FOULED! FEMMESLASH! ARGH!" in which they had a tantrum about a couple of people daring to write G-rated Nanny/Granny and non-explicit Susan/Angua. Both fics were well-written, but everyone who replied to the thread went on and on about how disrespectful and awful these fics were and how disgusting femmeslash was, and they all left multiple flame reviews on these fics and tried to drive the authors out of fandom.

I guess it shows that the "dogpile on fans who write the wrong pairing/have a bad headcanon" trend is nothing new in internet fandom, though the definition of "wrong pairing/bad headcanon" has changed. Either way, it's annoying as fuck.

Edited 2017-12-11 06:12 (UTC)

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