[ SECRET POST #5116 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5116 ⌋

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Comments

[feotakahari]

“This other content sucks, but you don’t see people calling that out!” is the weakest defense you can give of fiction. It encourages people to find some third work that’s better than both of them.

ETA: I’ve seen callouts of Western romance, too, and the fans defend it by saying “male authors” are also cliche and repetitive.

Not OP

[(Anonymous)]

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Not OP

[(Anonymous)]

... but bring on the third option, because those two aren't doing it for me anymore.

[(Anonymous)]

I think there are a lot of people who are in The Callout Fandom more than they're in a fandom for any particular piece of type of media. Callouts are a form of fanwork to them, and it's the type they're most into. So they'll go wherever they think the most fertile ground for callouts is.

When you point this out, they say "What's so bad about thinking critically??!??" Nothing. But most of these "critics" are not really thinking critically themselves, they're just mindlessly parroting what others have said. And making it your entire personality, and thinking it entitles you to butt in on cultures you don't understand (specifically westerners giving incredibly outdated and stereotyped "critiques" of East Asian media) and judge content you haven't even read/watched/played yourself, makes you kind of a tedious tool.

[(Anonymous)]

SA

I'm only interested in criticism from people who are actually well-read and knowledgeable in the genre they're talking about. From someone operating on a 15-year-old stereotype of what they think "yaoi" is, or someone who read half a bodice-ripper romance once in middle school (or worse, just heard a description of what they're like), nah, sit down.

[(Anonymous)]

+1

[(Anonymous)]

Callouts are the only source of clout for people who can't write or draw well.

[(Anonymous)]

Those who can't do, preach.