#I'm trying to do that hard hitting potato polling

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you brought about the self-importance of some shippers and you hit it on the head with that. the amount of times i've seen some boasting their ship is the "biggest" romance in RE and some even using the top ships on A03,petitions, and any polls really trying to get Capcom's attention that this is "what fandom wants". Those numbers and percentages are small potatoes to Capcom, that's not incentive enough to get them to make a ship canon. I'm not against romance but these methods don't work!

resident evil fandom needs to get in touch with final fantasy 7 fandom and ask them how well it worked out for them when tetsuya nomura read a whole lot of fanfiction before and while he wrote advent children.

it's like the horrible sin that all of us old guard carry with us and rarely speak of. why is cloud Like That in AC, the new fans wonder? why is reno reduced to comic relief? why is AC leaning so hard on the Old Man Vincent gag all of a sudden? how did this happen?

and we old folks just look to the side and nervously tug at our collars and try not to make eye contact. we wished on a monkey's paw, and that curse still haunts the series to this day.

take it from us, kids

you do not want game developers reading your fanfiction for ideas for future canon.

YOU DO NOT WANT THIS

I SWEAR TO FUCKING GOD MAN I'M SERIOUS

GODDAMN IT LISTEN TO ME--