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[ SECRET POST #4417 ]

⌈ Secret Post #4417 ⌋

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I don't think it's getting butthurt that someone else is happy, more like getting sick of constantly seeing something you don't care for. Sometimes it's easy to avoid but if it's a popular character/ship within one fandom then it can get frustrating to sift through.

If you haven't experienced it, then it's hard to explain. Imagine trying to talk about one thing but everyone only wants to talk about something else. You can tolerate it in small doses, but after a point it feels like you're screaming into the void.

Some times you just want one fucking day where the world cares about what you want, you know?

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There's some outlets that I read for other stuff that insist on running an Avengers story every 48 hours. And half of them are not even news, they're just picking apart some half-baked theory that trended on twitter for an hour. Or Star Wars. No I don't need my RSS feeds packed with a story a day about the rumored movie title and a second story about how there's no movie title yet.

I have experienced it (I ship a minor pairing in a fandom overrun by a juggernaut pairing) and I still don't get it. Why should I be mad about other people having fun and enjoying what they like? Yeah, I would love some more fic for my pairing, but that doesn't mean I need to shit all over everyone else's fun in the process. I wouldn't want them to be Bitter Bettys if it were the other way around and I liked the popular pairing, so why would I do that to them?

This is a great summary of my life in fandom. I’m salty as the Dead Sea that everyone’s loving stuff I have no interest in and having so much fun chatting and squeeing together. Trying to sell the stuff I like to other people is an uphill battle and I’m like, you know what? I’m done. I’m tired. I’m gonna stay in my corner from now on and do my damned best to have a fucking great time by myself.

Mm, yeah... I've got one fandom where my NoTP is most people's OTP, to the degree that you can go on the discord's channel SPECIFIC to A/B, and A/C will come up in conversation, sometimes as part of an OT3 situation but sometimes just as a separate thing.

I don't want to harsh anyone's squee, or be a bad sport, but it wears on me by degrees to have no corner of the fandom without it.

Pretty much this. If you've never encountered an evangelical fandom, I envy you. It's not that they enjoy whatever- there are a lot of things I don't like that other people do, and vice versa- It's that they're convinced if they green-eggs-and-ham you long enough you too will love it. And if you don't, you just need to consume it until you do. Some fandoms actually find doing this entertaining, and go out of their way to troll non-fans.

Teal deer, people don't hate evangelicals because they believe, they hate them because they keep interrupting dinner.

I agree with the underlying point but not the concept and phrase of "butt hurt"

I don't get it, either. I've seen people complain about movies they haven't seen, have no intentions to see, and in some cases, haven't even been made yet. Sometimes the idea that other people are looking forward to something they don't like is enough to set them off on a whiny tangent.

I mean, being annoyed by seeing something you don't enjoy all over the place is not a feeling you can turn off? It's how you deal with it, that's the difference.
I'm not a fan of Harry Potter, but I don't mind other fans (still) loving it. I'm however annoyed by all the HP AUs or constantly sorting characters from all the franchises ever into the Hogwarts houses. I can't turn that off. I however don't mention it to the fans or send someone mean messages...

"But people are allooooooooooooooooooooowed to be annoyed!!!"

They are, though.

It's to small for me to make out. Transcript from someone with better eyes?

I think this secret is pretty damn clever to look at, Anon. :D

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WARNING: Do not use as lubricant. For external use only. Getting butthurt does not make your argument valid. Product does not actually make you correct, or smarter.

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Warning: Do not use as a lubricant. For external use only. Getting butthurt does not make your argument valid. Product does not actually make you correct, or smarter.

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I agree.
Excellent choice of artwork, OP.
Totally LOLarious.

Oh nooo, someone doesn't love what I love! I can't sleep at night knowing that someone doesn't like what I like!

Oh, nooo. someone somewhere posted a criticism of my precious!

My happiness counts!

I know it's irrational, but goddammit, I seethe when I see people fawn over ships I hate when they should be fawning over my OTPs, dag nabit!

Here here !

Yeah, I really don't get the butthurt. Maybe it's because I'm a Fandom Old and remember the days when there just wasn't much content. I'm hardly going to waste my precious time on feeling bad about someone else's content that I don't care about. I've got thousands of fics to read about things I do like!

But then, there's plenty of butthurt Fandom Olds, so maybe I'm just making it up.

I don't understand people who get upset that people like things that they think are bad. Some other kind of objection... that can get weird too as we see here often but at least there's some kind of reason. But just "It's bad and people shouldn't like it." Well, you don't have to watch or read it so why do you even care? It's not like it's some new thing that there is bad media that people like.

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part of it is they feel left out. it's like if you love thing Y but everyone else loves thing X and they're all talking about Thing X and having fun together and you really wish you could join in the fun but you've tried thing X and it just doesn't do it for you. so you're just kind of left on the outside looking in. people don't like feeling shut out even if it's not intentional.

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I'm with you OP.

So. Fing. True

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