#I hope I won't regret postung this

[pendulum-sonata]

Okay anon, first things first, I’m gonna have to answer like this because of the words of your ask it could make Tumblr showing them in the tags, sorry but I prefer to not publish these in fandom tags.

Second, I’m gonna give youthe benefit of the doubt and answer you as politely as I can, since you seem nice.

Also this is gonna be under read more, cuz it got kinda long.

So, basically the thing is the harassement began way before vr was even announced, the people who first started with this were all fans from the different series, they were people who the moment they didn’t like the direction the series was taking, rather than take the sensible route and just drop the series or dunno, post actual criticism, were all people who started to hate on everything related to the series, not just inside the series, but seriously anything, the fans, the fanwork (except conveniently the ones that were labeled as fix fics  ¬.¬)  heck, they even started shady rumors about the production team of the series; there was little site where one could disscuss the series without some random person dropping by to remind us that the show was awful and that were dumb for still liking it.

The worse thing is that some of them were what some people may call “Big Name Fans” or just seasoned fans who happen to be either mods or even run entire sites or channels dedicated to the franchise and influenced others to do this too, and in at least one case they encouraged the fandom to copy this behaviour whenever they interacted with the A5 fandom.

Now anon, you could probably be thinking: “But awfulness exists in every fandom right? You just have to learn to avoid them and keep doing your thing.” and normally I would agree because that’s what we as a fandom did, slowly at this constant harassment and the inaction of others who just shruged or turned a blind eye to it, we simply withdrew in out own corner and do out thing.

And what happened? People started to send anon messages, (sometimes not even bothering with anon setting though) even private chats wanting to pull us into some thinly-veiled discussion that was just about trying to convince us a5 was awful, they posted their salty opinions into the main fandom tags, sometimes even vagueing specific users, they constantly hijacked our posts with their unwanted opinions and then got angry when people called them out or blocked them. for the people who write fics, sometimes we got passive-aggresive comments in them, disguised as criticism.

Among some specific incidents I remember are:

A ygo discord group about fanfic that had a channel for each series, in the a5 channel were just disscussing ideas and out of nowhere someone stormed in, saying they “needed badly” a fic that fixed “that shitty ending” 

Someone sending me an anon message about how I was dumb (they said other things too)  for defending a5

In the nak site every disscussion about the new episode turned into a complaining fest not even 24 hrs after it aired.

A BNF calling us a “cancer” in the fandom.

One incident in the private chat where someone I will not name, called me a bunch of awful names because I would give in into their ideas of the series and then posted the entire conversation online to “shame me” then threw a hissy fit when I blocked them.

There are many more, but these are the ones that bothered me the most.

In reality the idea that vr fans were the only ones behaving like that is a illusion created by the fact many of these people took the series as a chance to keep shitting on a5 via comparision, and jumped the bandwagon into it, I bet some of them weren’t even into the series, they just wanted an excuse to continue indulge in this awful behaviour.

And now these people,(even people who just stood there and watched it all happen with a shurg or even with amusement), are posting things about how “we should all get along” and shallow passive aggresive “apologies” that are not apologies at all are calling us elitist because we’re not buying it?

If that’s not fucked up then I don’t what is.