OP, look, I don't expect to convince you. I've seen how many comments are up there. People have been telling you the reasons why they dislike the character, and the reasons haven't been "I can't quite put my finger on it, but I just don't like the look of him."
You have your opinion. That's okay. I, too, dislike it when people don't like what I like.
But there are... 110.354 fics in the Teen Wolf tag, and 937 in the bad friend tag. That's 0,85 percent. That is a tiny, tiny, tiny percentage.
There are, going by tag search, 1818 fics using a freeform tag "not team cap friendly". (A freefrom tag can't be filtered on, and there are several tags with the same meaning that have not been merged.) Despite not actually suing the words "Bad Friend, I assure you, this tag has the same meaning, only directed at not only one character, but one character and his followers. There are 340088 fics in total in the MCU tag, but the MCU also includes a wagon-load of standalone movies that don't include Steve Rogers and ensemble movies that predate Civil War, so if I exclude anything pre-Civil War (May 6 2016) and without Steve Rogers, I'm at 90338 fics. 90338 fics, 1818 in a freeform tag that equates to Bad Friend Steve Rogers, and we are at 2,01 percent of fics tagged to let people know this here fic is not fond of Cap and that a fan of him should not read it lest it upsets them.
And these tags are a good thing. We used to have plenty of character bashing back in the days, but before AO3, there was no coherent system to warn for it. You just had to hope the summary and author notes gave you enough information to know which fics not to read. The Bad Friend Scott McCall tag is a commodity. Fans didn't use it because they are being mean, they use to be nice and give people like you the chance to avoid content you know you won't like. They are giving you the power to curate your own fandom experience, something that previous generations of fans did not have. Stop trying to use it against them.
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You have your opinion. That's okay. I, too, dislike it when people don't like what I like.
But there are... 110.354 fics in the Teen Wolf tag, and 937 in the bad friend tag. That's 0,85 percent. That is a tiny, tiny, tiny percentage.
There are, going by tag search, 1818 fics using a freeform tag "not team cap friendly". (A freefrom tag can't be filtered on, and there are several tags with the same meaning that have not been merged.) Despite not actually suing the words "Bad Friend, I assure you, this tag has the same meaning, only directed at not only one character, but one character and his followers. There are 340088 fics in total in the MCU tag, but the MCU also includes a wagon-load of standalone movies that don't include Steve Rogers and ensemble movies that predate Civil War, so if I exclude anything pre-Civil War (May 6 2016) and without Steve Rogers, I'm at 90338 fics. 90338 fics, 1818 in a freeform tag that equates to Bad Friend Steve Rogers, and we are at 2,01 percent of fics tagged to let people know this here fic is not fond of Cap and that a fan of him should not read it lest it upsets them.
And these tags are a good thing. We used to have plenty of character bashing back in the days, but before AO3, there was no coherent system to warn for it. You just had to hope the summary and author notes gave you enough information to know which fics not to read. The Bad Friend Scott McCall tag is a commodity. Fans didn't use it because they are being mean, they use to be nice and give people like you the chance to avoid content you know you won't like. They are giving you the power to curate your own fandom experience, something that previous generations of fans did not have. Stop trying to use it against them.