[ SECRET POST #5743 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5743 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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02.
[What We Do In The Shadows]


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[RPGs in general]


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[We are Lady Parts]


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05.
[Usada Pekora]


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06.
[Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]


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07.
[Cheers]


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[The Princess Bride]


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[Overwatch]













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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It definitely predates the pandemic, although everybody being way more online post-pandemic definitely kicked it up a notch.

If I was trying to trace it way back, I would say it started c. 2009, when fandom had its first big reckoning with racism in fandom. Which was good thing, don't get me wrong! But it also demonstrated to non-conservative fans that claiming certain stories/pairings were harmful for Good Moral Reasons was something they could do too, it wasn't just limited to crazy Christians who hate gays, and misogynist men! It also worked if you claimed you were doing it for good leftist reasons! So it took like zero time after that for people to adopt it from the good-faith antiracists as a method for bullying, silence and abuse.

It's been building in prominence since then, though, and the rise of social media platforms where it's much, much easier to bully strangers, and the just plain larger *numbers* of young teens openly active in fandom, have made it a lot more prominent.

But Anti(shipper)s as a named group with recognizable tactics goes back at least to c. 2016 when I first encountered it.

[scissorsevered]

I don't know much about earlier antiship-esque activity, but I do know that weird far-right nonsense in fandom has been happening since the early 2000s and probably even a bit earlier (reminds me of the doubleca5t video about the Ms.Scribe saga with the anti-slash Christians in the Harry Potter fandom).

I notice that people in fandom keep bouncing between topics they fight over. First it was homophobia, then it was racism, now it's incest/pedophilia/other taboo sex things. Makes me wonder what's next.