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whoviandoodler · 2 months ago

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you ever go into a tag for a show or whatever and find several painstakingly created gif sets from interviews with the actors where they're just like. fully mocking fans? talking about them like they're the most despicable thing on this earth kind of bitter mocking. and on the one hand you're like, okay, i get it, fans can really be shit and get overly parasocial and think you owe them something beyond the work you created but on the other it's like. bro this makes me not want to engage with anything you do at all. ever. you don't have to sing your fans praises but you can do them the basic courtesy of professionalism and not ridiculing the entirety of everyone who both engages with your creative work and whose interest ultimately results in your paycheck.

#dan talks #dont expect this to breach containment but just in case locking it up #bcs there are like a million people out there who'll misconstrue what i said in a complaint post #theres just this air sometimes in fandom where actors etc go beyond boundary setting and into fanbase mockery #where ure supposed to nod along and mock as well bcs haha stupid fans but the whole time youre aware it includes u as well #ik this is a complex topic and a lot of stuff leads to creators getting bitter towards their fans #but oscillating between 'we love u give us money <3' and outright mockery just sits rly badly w me #creators i really love have started doing it too the last few months and its excruciating #to be clear i dont rly engage w anyone's private life ever and im lurker extraordinaire #i rarely know the actors' name much less care to watch their interviews and stuff thats meant to like give u a sense of peeking into #their private lives #and i have to assume those interviews are mandated?? so sometimes they provoke reactions not of their own volition and are thus bitter #idk lots of thoughts #i get it i rly do they're people too who get annoyed and do mean jokes about it like everyone else #but it gets a whole dif dimension when those mean jokes are public and get back to people they're said about #who are often not even the ones who did anything #the internet is not the privacy of ur friend group!! rules go both ways #managing your frustrations about being public and keeping to professionalism when you're online is a huge part of that job #you're a person too both means 'gtfo out of my house youre not my friend' and treating your job like it's a job and not a living room #gossip circle #maybe thats the thing??? that the comfort of a certain environment blurs the lines between professional and friend chat #just feel sad for those gif makers bro don't spend care and time on words that explicitly ridicule you #ok that's it for today thank you for tuning into dan central

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