#anti call out culture

[silvermoon424]

This is a prime example of how social media and internet clout-seeking has absolutely DESTROYED some people's sense of empathy. A famous TikToker had her newborn baby die of SIDS, and for some fucking reason people decided it would be a great time to cancel her for problematic stuff she'd said in the past. Someone crashed the baby's funeral to vlog it and shit on the mother.

I will say that I think some of the mother's past behavior warrants an apology, but I can't get over how ghoulish it is to drag someone whose baby just died. And how much of an actual fucking freak you'd have to be to vlog and try to get clout off of a baby's funeral. I'm the furthest thing from a luddite, but Jesus, social media has really set us back as a species.

[multifandomhellhole]

I rarely say my takes unprompted but I genuinely can't stand modern fandom and need to scream into the void over it to thug it out.

it genuinely feels like fandom is in its gen alpha age of regression. I've noticed this heavily with other fandoms, for me I've seen it most in resident evil but now I'm seeing it in arcane too of ship wars being taken WAAAAY to seriously and just everything in general being surrounded by weird purity culture. Not to mention someone always trying to find some deep controversial reason into why you don't like a popular character or treating it like it's a direct attack. That weird portion can be left in 2020 with kinnies and IRL character shit.

What really pisses me off is that people especially on twitter, scream for fandom culture to be back, but the slightest mary sue, terrible animatic, out of character x reader, large age gap, weird fanfic, horrible but fun take, insensitive joke about a well loved character, and/or rare pair art gets crucified there. And y'all wonder why fandom is dead. Genuinely who wants to provide any material for an ungrateful bible thumping community and a hostile one at that? Or one that's so obsessed with canon.

Fandom etiquette is absolutely dead on any other website minus this one and even then I'm seeing some popular tweets that erase the fun of it here on Tumblr for some reason. Since I'm focused on arcane right now I'll be using that as an example. So what if people want to think jinx and Jayce would be friends? That doesn't mean they didn't understand the show or are less superior watchers to you. That means they don't have a stick up their ass. Who cares If someone makes a Viktor coughing joke? He does in fact cough a lot and it's placement can be funny. You are not morally ascended cause you didn't laugh at pixels fictional lung cancer. In fact you are morally shity for telling someone to kill themselves for joking about it.

Who cares if someone ships cait and Maddie over vi or vi with maddie. Or cait with ambessa or Viktor with sky or Viktor with silco. Literally the world kept spinning. Genuinely who gives a fuck it's an animated show about league not a real time war documentary 💀 Creepypasta literally turned a bunch of murders into a found family let's not forget how being delusional makes fandom more fun.

Like I said, Unfortunately since Im in an arcane place of focus this post will be using arcane examples but this does apply to every fandom.

[myobsessionsspace]

You can’t reason with crazy

I don’t go here, never gone here. But anyone who knows anything about real person shipping has heard of larrys. People who ship ex One Direction members Louis Tomlinson and Harry Styles.

One Direction went on permanent hiatus in 2016 and towards the end of their active period the two who once had a close friendship drifted apart, Louis mentioning that shipping played in the awkwardness that developed between them.

Even after publicly shutting larrys down

Larrys still exist… They. Still. Exist.

After Louis publicly shut down rumours & conspiracies several times online, in print, on tv interviews etc.

After ARGUING with Louis on twitter, Louis having a child and several girlfriends, Harry having several girlfriends and them openly

Meanwhile Louis & Harry:

Say something, don’t say something. Spend time together publicly or don’t speak to each other for years. Have a family, public relationships, live in different continents.

Louis & Harry live their lives with how they want with who they want not who Larrys want

Ignore or acknowledge them.

Larrys still exist.

[friendofyourboyfriend]

Hi! My name is Arrow! I noticed you're a fan of the Boyfriend's Webtoon (Dw, I'm not here to be hostile, I'm simply curious) Could you explain why people think it's problematic? I didn't enjoy it that much while reading it, mainly due to the grammar and the weird stereotypes, but I'm curious to what your opinion is!

hiya arrow! a lot of people are waaaay more eloquent than I am. I know its not for everyone and I don't want people to feel obligated to like something that just isn't a good fit. however, I'll do a lil overview of all the shit refrainbow's been accused of. warning, will make you want to slam your head into a wall!

drawing porn of a bts member when Ray was 17 and the BTS member was also 17 (I think it was Jungkook). while Real Person NSFW art seriously icks me out on a personal level, I need to say that there are currently 61,508 EXPLICIT FICS of the BTS boys on ao3. the culture of sexualizing them is really fuckin weird and I'm not touching it with a ten foot poll, but odds are if you're a specific age, you or a person close to you has been somewhat guilty of this sin.

Using the N word in a tweet over a decade ago.

there's no real defense for this except the fact that while a lot of people are making fun of him in the comments of this tweet, there is a majority of black fans commenting about how they forgive him and how they're eye-rolling at all the non-black fans who are clutching their pearls about this. also, he is not a native english speaker and would have been about 14 in the post...

Drew Venti in a sexual-ish way

Venti is a 2,000 year old loli situation who honestly looks anywhere between 13 to 21 depending on the artist, and you really need to get into his lore to figure out what he is. whether or not sexualizing him is okay is a masterclass in it of itself...anyway, refrain apologized

"Anti semitism"

I am jewish so this one feels particularly stupid. in simple terms, a hate group in indonesia was trying to ban pokemon go because they thought it was a part of a jewish conspiracy. in an old tweet, Refrainbow was making fun of this thought process, but his tone might've seemed a little flippant. he apologized. this was dumb.

apparently as a joke in a deleted tweet nerd was said to be a pro-shipper? I cannot find the tweet and I'm currently of the opinion its just a rumor? refrainbow has never reblogged or made art of anything bizarrely "problematic" to the best of my knowledge, and the original tweet is often referred to as being a poorly received joke. idk what to tell you, I don't think its currently canon if its been deleted, or if it ever was. refrainbow's media opinions are vanilla as can be.

"having an all white cast" - no they aren't

"being a white woman projecting fantasies for fujos to get off on-"

THIS IS A TRANSGENDER QUEER MUSLIM ASIAN MAN FROM INDONESIA, A COUNTRY NOTORIOUS FOR BEING SHITTY TO GAY PEOPLE. LEAVE HIM THE FUCK ALONE

ahem anyway

the boyfriends webtoon is NOT problematic, it never WAS problematic, and it's probably never going to get the chance to be problematic because the internet successfully cancelled it!

if the stereotypes are a problem, tbh I'd reccommend skimming the first season and then getting into the second with fresh eyes. the characters do have a few subtle traits that go outside their basic personalities, but those get fleshed out more in the 2nd. and sometimes something isn't for everything -- doesn't mean you gotta be an ass about it tho!

whenever I see hate for this comic, I take a moment to look at the pictures of refrainbow that he sometimes posts on his twitter, and think that's a person who is being emotionally impacted by actions on the internet. that's not anonymous, that's a guy.

[neurodivergentshiftingcultureis]

Neurodivergent shifting culture is spending days researching for every bit of information possible to a dr, in all the wikis, in every bit of media ever released about said dr, and then having to make a coherent timeline with the information that contradicts each other, to finally feel ready to shift.

That’s me. I just did that.

Neurodivergent Shifting Culture is…

[zhengzi]

seeing the kpop black appropriation discourse going around again and I don't think people are ready for the added nuance of the American military presence in south korea and the south korean state being in service to american imperial interests

[thebellekeys]

Well, I'm just saying you can try, but I doubt people will actually listen. People are gonna support who they support regardless. Why would you even be following people who stan people you don't like anyway? You could just unfollow and block those people, you know.

I'm not following any celebrity stan accounts or any people whose blogs are part of celebrity stan culture. My posts are not related to who my mutuals follow.

And I don't particularly care if "people are gonna support who they support regardless". Doesn't make it cool or necessarily right. Criticizing the cult of celebrity is always valid.

[ladyloveandjustice]

i'm not one of those 'media literacy is dead and our youth is wrong' people but the tags on that atla poll are. making me want to say it.

[shadelorde]

Kataang shippers point out the actual misogyny and colonialism in popular Zutara shipping without saying they’re “delusional” for their ship not being canon challenge (failed)

[princessgemma12]

On Disabled Antis

It confuses me so fucking much how so many disabled antis there are.

It's like. You support people with NPD? Oh, you're chill with personality disorders? People with violent intrusive thoughts? You're supportive of trauma survivors? Oh cool, me too!

Oh you... you're an anti and think they should keep those things lock up inside they're head instead of processing that shit? Great. Greatgreatgreatgreat.

Fuck you dude

[aishabellasbigblogofeverything]

Wish I could have Halle Bailey as Ariel without that anti-Black bitch and her atrocious excuse for a rap. 🤦🏿‍♀️

[neurodivergentshiftingcultureis]

adhd shifting culture is trying to do a guided meditation but then daydream about your desired reality and not paying attention to the guided meditation and then coming up with new scenarios to write down and trying to figure out where it all fits in the timeline all while the meditation is still playing in the background-

you start it over to focus to listen but the cycle continues

Neurodivergent Shifting Culture is…

[slowlyshamelesscolor]

I am neither pro- nor anti-ship; I am neutralship.

So, basically, this antishipper created a meme on TikTok stating that they were planning to harass and make death threats to proshippers. I replied that harassment and death threats are unlawful, and they continued to be total jerk, so I told them to act this way towards me, and then they asked for my discord, and they threatened to say horrible things to me. I was going to explain why it's incorrect, but I decided to give the bee movie script instead because they were going to utter stupid nonsense like that. I assumed they were kid but they weren't since they stated I was four years younger than them.

Later on, they convinced a friend to add me to a group so they could both harass me. I asked why they had their buddy do that, and they urged me to kill myself. They also claimed they were going to show me how to tie a knot so I could kill myself.

I asked why they were saying horrible things to me and bothering me, and they told me I supported pedos, which I don't.

I'm at school and can't submit any more images because Discord doesn't work here; nevertheless, I will release the remaining screenshots.

Keep in mind, I'm not proship or antiship I'm peacefic and neutralship now

Also, check the reblogs if you want more proof.

I’m blue

I was 16 when they said this shit to me I'm now 18

The user who’s harassing me is red

Tw death threats, tw racism, tw suibaiting, tw ableism, tw incest mention,

[jewishbarbies]

She has also since August be seen wearing in pretty much all of her outings some kind of protection jewelry things. This big ass crystal around her neck, evil eye necklace and rings...it's all to keep negative energies away and if you think she looks exhausted now...last month she was looking worse. Even her fandom noticed, but now they say she has never been happier etc etc

what do you know, cultural appropriation does nothing good for you.

[mariatesstruther]

ugh get away from him jennifer aniston get AWAY

[touchlikethesun]

one of the slogans i see often from antis, and especially since getting into danmei and back into BL generally, is the phrase "get help" being applied to people that are into harder kinks or "toxic"/"problematic" dynamics, and this bothers me quite a bit because... like why do you think those people are into that? whether consciously or not, most people are seeking comfort and catharsis thru media, and the excessive media consumption common in bl spaces especially belies a form of self soothing. while it's not a perfect solution, a lot of people in bl/danmei fandom spaces are trying to help themselves cope with trauma, and just because person A copes by reading thousands of pages of brief hand touches and lingering gazes and purple prose about capital 'D' Devotion, and person B copes by reading about taboos power imbalances and intense sexual acts and dangerous emotions (funnily enough i've found devotion is common to both 'sides' as it were), does not mean that person A and person B aren't engaging in the same fundamental behaviour

i do think there can be an issue if people are to forceful trying to push their taste on to others (altho i will say this goes both ways), and the moment you start being weird towards real people in real life then that is definitely a problem, but the condescending and dismissive "get help" towards people that are just expressing their tastes in fiction in spaces dedicated to just that i feel is unhelpful, unnecessary and frankly ignorant to the complexities of our fellow humans' inner lives