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[ SECRET POST #5464 ]

⌈ Secret Post #5464 ⌋

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AYRT

OR maybe realize that once adults are adults, there are levels of friendship that you can't socially regulate. It's not all about generations. At all. The older you get, the wider your range of friendship bonding can be. The ten year age difference between an 18-year-old and a 28-year-old is a real big deal - but that same gap is completely meaningless between a 28-year-old and a 38-year-old. The older you get, the less the numbers matter. and this is a GOOD thing.

I agree, but where is the line, when it comes to "who is and isn't allowed to interact with my public tweets/fanart about a video game character", or "who is and isn't allowed to be in the same discord stream while we're watching the new pixar film". To give a real life example: when I was 25 I became friends with a 23 year old in a fandom. A small age difference, so it's not a problem, right? I joined their discord, where we frequently streamed movies, chatted about our fandoms, and sometimes played online games together. The 23 year old was friends with a 20 year old, who participated in our streams and online games. Again, 23 and 20, not a large age difference. One day, the 20 year old invited their 17 year old fandom friend, who eventually invited their 16 year old boyfriend, who invited his 14 year old fandom friend. So I eventually found myself sharing daily streams with several teenagers, one of whom was 14. I wasn't particularly happy or interested in interacting with these kids, but I valued my friendship with the 23 year old, who valued their friendship with the 20 year old, and so on and so forth, and it's not like it would be pleasant of me to pointedly refuse to engage in any kind of banter and interaction with the younger people during our streams. So the result is that - now for years - I've had daily fandom interactions with very young kids, I've seen some of them grow up. So it's really not so simple to divide fandom friendships into two groups of under 18 and over 18, because your slightly younger fandom friends are also going to have fandom friends slightly younger than them, and you can't really force them to choose between interacting with you and with their younger friends, if you want to still have friends at the end of the day.

OK, this has now devolved into you talking about some weird personal problem that we are not qualified to unpack. There is nothing whatsoever wrong with 23/25, that is as bog-standard normal as it gets.

When I started to read about all these teenagers getting involved, I have to say, YOU are in fact the creepy one if you didn't say no to this. YOU are the person who's obsessed with teen streamer fandoms, aren't you? YOU are the one who's obsessed with underage RPF. YOU ARE FUCKING CREEPY

I did try to say no to this at first, but I was ignored, and even called out on it. So I gave up, because again - I value my adult fandom friends. All of whom know where the line between a casual fandom interaction and a creepy overly close interaction lies. Maybe you should learn it someday too?

I have learned this...? I've been blocking minors under 18 for years now, and I recommend you do the same. All my fandom friends are adults, by definition.

I do this on my NSFW alt account, but can't really block the friends of my friends on my friends' discord or gaming group, without causing a lot of drama. You need a certain number of people to play certain online party games, so you can't really be picky about who is invited when you lack two players to start the game. This is even harder if you're in a streamer circle, where a lot of viewers overlap. You can't always be picky about your collabs, and you can't really ban underage viewers from watching your streams, without losing a lot of revenue.

You clearly have not learned this with your wild accusations and judgments against AYRT for no reason.

WTF?

IKR? They went from 0 to “You’re a creep!” in a millisecond. And for no reason.

If it is the same streamer-fandom anon, not necessarily for no reason, but yeah def out of place in this conversation

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