[ SECRET POST #6370 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6370 ⌋

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


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05. [SPOILERS for Genshin Impact]

[OP caption: Secret because I normally sympathize with the Fatui!]



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06. [SPOILERS for In Blossom (cdrama)]




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07. [WARNING for discussion of JKR/transphobia]



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08. [WARNING for discussion of childhood sexual abuse]

















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Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages,00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #910.
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Comments

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08. [WARNING for discussion of childhood sexual abuse]
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[(Anonymous)]

I've seen this type of thing very often. My theory is that sometimes, one rando in a fandom will do X, and a BNF will happen to see it and announce, "Y'all need to stop doing X" with a rant that really only applies to that one rando, but so many people will read the BNF's rant and start believing X is something the fandom at large is doing so they'll start ranting about it too, despite never having seen it themselves.

[(Anonymous)]

Not OP
I’ve seen people say a thing isn’t happening in fandom because it isn’t happening on the platform they use. Some fandoms are active on tumblr, discord, and twitter but only some people use all three.

[(Anonymous)]

Could be antis who think that a perfectly normal thing is abusive. Like they think that reading/writing about a short adult having consensual sex is the exact same as a child being sexually abused in real life.

[(Anonymous)]

To me it feels like virtue signaling, that *they* don't do this awful thing and are superior to these nonexistant fans that they're scolding. I remember one fandom I was in had a video game released with a new original female character who could be romanced by canon characters and someone posted a whole thing on Tumblr about how the fandom was already bashing the new character and how the new character is a queen you're all haters. Except the game was only released in Japan so basically no one in the English-speaking fandom had played it (including the person calling the new girl a 'queen') and no one I saw had really talked much about her at all. It was just this one poster who wanted to crow about how they were so superior and supported Badass Ladeez.

[(Anonymous)]

+1, I've seen this a lot. For female characters and for Black characters of all genders, where the supposed fans of the character put them on such a pedestal that nobody can actually write about them without Doing It Wrong. And thus nobody ends up writing about them at all and they can sit back and say ugh, this fandom is soooooo misogynist/racist/both, not like me, having X as my big fave.

[(Anonymous)]

I know people regard search engines as pretty powerful and they are, to a point, but not everything that is on the internet is on any of them. And I'm not talking any sort of dark web or protected site. I'm talking about how not every page on a site is indexed - not every Tumblr entry, not every blog post, not every journal post, not every secret, etc. And if the discussion takes place in the comments of a tangentially related YouTube video or a secret about a different fandom or a general Reddit thread about woobie characters, even looking for it wouldn't necessarily bring it up. I'm not saying that it absolutely does exist, I'm saying the internet is a huge, huge place and I don't think you can definitively prove anything isn't on it (also, people do sometimes talk to each other offline).

[(Anonymous)]

But then it's still relatively obscure/rare and not exactly grounds for the "OMG you people do "thing" ALL THE TIME you need to stop" reaction OP describes.