What you've brought up is essentially what I've come to think of as the anonmeme paradox. I remember running across a person on some anonymous meme complaining about how they hate the anonmeme for ruining such a nice fandom. The response to that comment has always stayed with me, and it was, in short: it's still the same fandom, just anonymous. Suddenly, no one feels as good about themselves anymore.
But I believe I have good reason to think that those requests on the Hetalia kink meme do not represent the majority of the fandom. Someone else here has already pointed out that they are only a handful in something like over 30 pages of requests. The Hetalia fandom is even bigger than this. I don't use the kink meme myself. I personally know other fans, whose words I would take on faith if they told me that they would never exploit history in such a horrible way. It would be ridiculous to give in to some kind of paranoid attitude toward your fellow fans just because the meme is anonymous. I just won't.
The Hetalia fandom acknowledges that those requests are fucked up. The fandom is, in general, pretty intolerant of this kind of behavior, because unsurprisingly, we're pretty much more aware than anyone how controversial this series has the potential to be. We make every effort to separate this kind of behavior from the majority of fandom, and the series itself, which contains none of this volatile material. If you're calling for people to make a stand against the kind of isolated awfulness presented in the secret, I have nothing more to say. But if you're calling for everyone to boycott the Hetalia fandom because hey, any of them could have made a request, I really have to protest.
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But I believe I have good reason to think that those requests on the Hetalia kink meme do not represent the majority of the fandom. Someone else here has already pointed out that they are only a handful in something like over 30 pages of requests. The Hetalia fandom is even bigger than this. I don't use the kink meme myself. I personally know other fans, whose words I would take on faith if they told me that they would never exploit history in such a horrible way. It would be ridiculous to give in to some kind of paranoid attitude toward your fellow fans just because the meme is anonymous. I just won't.
The Hetalia fandom acknowledges that those requests are fucked up. The fandom is, in general, pretty intolerant of this kind of behavior, because unsurprisingly, we're pretty much more aware than anyone how controversial this series has the potential to be. We make every effort to separate this kind of behavior from the majority of fandom, and the series itself, which contains none of this volatile material. If you're calling for people to make a stand against the kind of isolated awfulness presented in the secret, I have nothing more to say. But if you're calling for everyone to boycott the Hetalia fandom because hey, any of them could have made a request, I really have to protest.