[ SECRET POST #5819 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5819 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

There's a fundamental difference between the two. Boycotting is literally NOT consuming.

Boycotting is basically blocking. When you're selling stuff, it hurts. But when you're doing free fanworks, who cares? Block away.

Consumer activism is designed to get people to consume MORE stuff by telling the consumers that if they're not horrible people, they ONLY buy stuff that fits a certain criteria. And what do you know, the stuff we're selling fits that criteria! They then bring that criteria into all parts of their lives and transitively using it to find Bad People.

And we're used to doing that. That's why kids get bullied for not wearing the "in" brand. But now people are bringing it into fandom, an inherently anti-consumer place. It's all for free. But now we get people harassing authors for ONLY writing M/M, or D/s, or enemies to lovers. You're not matching the criteria, so I'm going to yell at you for not being a Good Content Creator. You must be a Bad Person. Don't you know that Good People TM create things that match the Good Criteria?

They're not just blocking or hitting the back button anymore, which is a fundamentally boycotting activity. They're being active in their consumer activism, which is a horrible change because regardless of what corporations say consumerism is inherently NOT activism.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I found myself nodding to most of this, but I would point out that, as a fanfiction writer, backbuttoning does not strike me as analogous to boycotting or blocking at all. What I needed out of my story, I got by writing it. I want people to feel free to read or not read, for any reason. As much or as little as they feel like.