#aot critisism

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Hey look!

The Attack on Titan characters are moving on after the Rumbling and living a happy life!

Wonder what Mikasa's doing...

Ah- wait- didn't she just-

Yeah, yeah, she did. Right. So she'll probably be seen happy later-

Oh. Okay. Got it.

[marinaimsure]

sometimes, more often than not, i feel bad that i enjoy aot. but i feel bad bcuz it's not what people think it is. at least, i dont think it is? i feel bad bcuz whenever i mention it there's like, this silence that surrounds me. there's racism in the show, there's genocide and it's not good. but, that's the fucking point. that's the whole point. and im mad at the fans who dont get it, who would defend genocide bcuz the protagonist is responsible so they think he can be excused. no, he cannot be excused. and that's the whole point. what he's doing is wrong. that's what the manga author tried to get across. that this is not right by any means. a series of tragic events lead to that incident but that doesnt excuse it. it's bad. it's not right. we know. the author knows. that's why he wrote that story. that's why he chose that even the protagonist's friends go against him bcuz they know genocide is wrong.

but i also think that most people who havent watched the anime are judging it based on what they've seen online. how they've seen the fans behave and react to specific content. so, i dont blame anyone. it is pretty fucking annoying that so many are defending genocide just because the protagonist is now the villain of the story. it just goes to show how many dumbasses there are in this world. but if you are a decent human being (like i think i am too) and you sit down and you watch the anime, i think you'll understand what i mean. i think you'll understand my point of view and as far as i know, the author's point of view as well. i think you'll see why the anime is not defending genocide, but critisizing the protagonist's actions, showing how bad racism can be.

[afriendlyood2]

Confession of the most arrogant sjw ever, aw shiiii

hello, I have a flow of thoughts about hyperreality, digital instruments, fandoms and anger and arrogancy...

and mental health of course

so basically many influencers before my unpopular and even cancelled ass already noted that we have entered this digital agenda era when gadgets are stealing our attention and overwealm our brain to the point that we forget our own thoughts and real world around us

and that is their very agenda, as digital marketing specialists are batteling for the space on our phone screen and seconds of our attention, and public speakers and polititians are battling to drag us into the discourceTM bc "how can you be out of politics you ignorant jerk the world is on fire" etc etc. many described these mechanisms before so I won't repeat what they have said already, it's out on Youtube and many otehr resources.

and also many said before me how fandom discourse went to shit... well, it was shit even in my youth... we would battle over this problematic bullshit even by that time which was the early social media era of late 00s - early 10s (now it is even more radicalized though, to my horror)

but I as a millenial am horrified of how gen z and gen alpha folk are not yet realizing where it will get them in 10-15 yrs time... it will get them in hell, as I as a 30 yrs old millenial see from my own exeperience. some of them won't even survive mentally and I am even not overstimating the problem, as this is also real.

back in the day we had this cursed AOT fandom. I knew a girl from my city (I was in early 20s she was still a school teen) - an easy imaginable situatuion, as the fandom is mostly made of these age people. notable mention - by that time culture geek culture wasn't open to the self critisism sentiment yet, actually the opposite - geeks were made cool, "brainy is the new sexy" bullshit was sold to you by sherlock bbc or the big bang theory or shit like that, so geeks and especially millenials were HIGHLY arrogant and gatekeeping (i mean uss callister was yet to happen, in the meantime we actually head star trek into darkess coming out tbh). add that to the western way of white saving everyone and pull the discourse from a higher position of somebody morally dominant and 'progressive' and you will get quite a sick mental cocktail to spoil everybody more or less geeky and intellectual stepping into the online fandom game, especially if you faced bulling in school before that or smth... that shit alltogether can make you this arrogant main character with savior complex, fr, and I am horrified to see that in modern fandm teens cause THEY HAVE NO IDEA where it can lead them, yet I sadly do.

well /dark batman music theme/ let me tell you where it can get you you little arrogant social justice dick reading this

back in the day I as I told you I knew a girl who did some AOT fanfiction which you guys as I did by the time would call problematic. because that's what you see online right? a person writing some hateful words in their art online. basically puting a negative emotion of hate and only that emotion, not what stands behind it and creates it - you're to arrogant to see that, so you judge that little hateful teen (the fact that we are making teens feeling negative things 'problematic' is some sick shit to begin with in the first place - they are teens they are SUPPOSED to feel these things, the world is going at them, come on). that fact that I was arrogant to judge her even though we had an attempt at friendly conversation and understading each other... basically it locked her up - if a person judges you, you don't wanna talk to that person, you close from that person right? yep. that's what she did... as somebody who was ACTUALLy bullied by everybody by the time, literally by everybody from her social circle - and she WOULD tell me if she would trust me enough and if I wouldn't judge her, thus I would give her shelter orgs and psychiatrists or smth, I knew some by the time so could help.

thing is the girl - tw here - killed herself. I got to know that stuff from her then-time bf who came in his riddler era to avenge me later in 2020 and for damn sure he hated my arrogant ass as I was an adult who knew his gf and had recouses for giving helo yet not the knowledge of the girl's sutiation, and not to mention we are from the same city btw. bruh my mental image crumbled right before me and in intence karma hit I tried to repeat this girl's fate TWICE since 2020, and second attempt was here in Krk after I escaped Kharkiv in 2022, this year's June. I considered myself not worthy of life and happiness because I didn' see her troubles back then.... ugh.... call that catholic gulit of smth, but I am eating myself to this day. many say - this doesn't help actually and you need to live and help the living, not to crumble over the dead ones. but for damn sure I feel the guilt EVEN THO I am not her abusive classmates or older 'protectors'.

Social justice is sometimes arrogant and blind and it SHOULD NOT BE goddammit, stop and reflect on yourselves - are you really that morally right?

Also dear gen z and gen alpha

Those who have an ok social circle of family and friends - pls drop ya phone and get to them RIGHT NOW. For those who escape to the digital world from abusive surroundings - bruh some of us out there are arrogant as shit, but please tell your pains and seek for help I beg ya, and seek for shelter in REALITY, cause YOUR REALITY is abusive in the first place and just running into the virtual world sadly won't save ya, you need a safe space irl as well fr.

That's my message of this awful Batman Daredevil and oh my god Lenny Bellardo kinnie I am in my 30s. It is not told in calm voice, I am screaming here to ya. Shit will get fucked fr. Take care of these things pls.

P.S. as tho my arrogancy in that interaction was real - these folks, oh the irony, used my guilt to put not just her death on me (even tho it's on her abusers), but also the mess in the workplace of my ex boss - not to mention she later put the death of an ex colleague on me (jeez she died because of being overwelmed by activism she did during the war so this is ON OUR ATTACKERS DAMMIT) cause it was so suitable to force me into guilt for something I am not responsible for, so she and these folks became as ugly in social justice as I am LOL. Such an irony of things turning back at them right? All these people are Ukr refugees like me btw. We all have to learn fron this.

[lottovalentino]

god help me

[terrorpyjamas]

"Would you be the saviour of the broken, the beaten and the damned?"

[navramanan]

Tumblr is so full of self righteous people critisizing other groups of people by trying to appear woke themselves. Don't you get tired. Are you the ethics police. Do you think everyone else is very stupid and you're too smart for this earth. Go touch some dirt maybe your brain will start functioning normally again.

[violence-as-a-love-language]

“I don’t know enough on the situation to talk about it but I will accuse other people of not knowing the situation they’re speaking on in a multiple paragraph post where I speak directly about the same subject I just said I wasn’t informed of and also will accuse a random user of telling me to kill myself” okay !

I'm getting a lot of these (shocking, really) so I'm just going to answer this one. All others are getting blocked and deleted.

I wrote a post and pointed out that people are writing posts with misinformation. That is not an accusation, that is just what is happening. As I said before, the difference between 'the staff blocked a blog for saying a staff member liked harry potter' and 'the staff blocked a user for saying a staff member liked harry potter and aot and they directly correlated that to why they do nothing about terfs and nazis' are two very different statements. The latter contains all the information, the former leads readers to the assumption that the staff member highly over reacted to being called a harry potter fan. While ridiculous and nonsensical, the more its spread around, the more people will believe it without looking into the original incident.

And you're right. I did comment on the situation when I said I wouldn't. That's fair. My opinions on the incident don't matter when it comes to what I'm bringing up above. Misinformation is a problem regardless. However, it becomes difficult not to say anything about the issue when I try to correct misinformation and get called names, told to kill myself, and yelled at in various ways because people are assuming that, since I am critisizing the lack of full information, I am somehow now fully supporting the staff and defining what is harassment. Because even when someone is being impartial, this idea that everything must be black and white (either you're against what staff does or you support them!) is what continues to push this need to be reactionary. And thus you end up with everyone attacking anyone who dare say otherwise.

Lastly, yes, I did recieve a message telling me to kill myself. Thats that. I'm not trying to prove anything there because there really is no point. That is just what happened. Take it or leave it.

Also gotta say, this was by far one of the tamest asks i've recieved cause of this. A lot of just people screaming accusations at me that don't really make sense.

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Mikasa's Obssesion With Eren Wasn't Handled Well

(Spoilers for all of AoT, including the manga).

I'm pretty sure no one is gonna argue that Mikasa's entire arc and personality is centered around Eren, and that's the point. This isn't rocket science. But here's why I still don't like it:

1. Sometimes it feels like the only reason Mikasa thinks her obssesion with Eren is unhealthy because he commited mass genocide. I have no problem with that being her "wake up" moment, but it seems like she never understood that it was a problem to begin with.

2. At the end of arcs like this Mikasa should have a strong sense of self, be her own person and live her own life. So how did the writer choose to conclude Mikasa's arc?

Damn it! I know Mikasa has a great life now with I have no idea who, but why should the concludion of her arc should be in an extra?

+ I have to seriously doubt the conclusion is all that great.

Still all we see is visiting Eren, we should see her on her own. I don't want Mikasa to get a spin off all about her life, I'm saying that in the panels in which we do see her, we should see what her life is like after Eren, since it's her arc.

3. The pacing is terrible. Her arc only kicks in 4 seasons in. Which means, there are 3 whole seasons of Mikasa solely obssesing over Eren.

Mikasa spends 3 seasons having her character centered around Eren, never actually realized that it was unhealthy all this time, only for all of her appearances after the end of her arc to be only about Eren. She never fully gains a self.