#fandom centrists

[heartshapedcreaturefromcriptoon]

Ayylmao.tv: Who's in the right? UwU The voice actors or the ai (content farm) channels? UwU

Me, about to go full Irish American Psycho: Haha, don't think that you're not a freaking idiot content farmer too now just for using your own zonked out arse incel voice lad, I so wish that you weren't alive! How 'bout you show us your Silver Play Button TM that you got from monetizing off everyone's misery, hmm? :)

[kanyniablue]

i just fundamentally had a different experience with kim kitsuragi & i think it boils down to the fact that my daddy issues don't manifest as a need for praise and encouragement from an emotionally distant man

[throwawayasoiafaccount]

hotd never fails to disappoint

[ghostly-omens]

The reason I do not post much about HermitCraft is because I would not be able to stop myself from bullying Xisuma. And not in a nice way.

[marsabillions]

franky i don’t pandora gives a fuck about those muggles. her political motivation is science.

[roostertuftart]

Also why r ppl back to trying to convince ppl Kyle is actually a shitty horrible person I thought we were through with that

[jaskierx]

you can recognise that ed and izzy's relationship is mutually toxic and damaging without slapping a 'so they're both as bad as each other and neither of them were abusive' on the end of it btw it's not illegal

[littlemsterious]

ok so, like, the lore of demons and angels? beelzebub and uriel and hierarchy and fallen angles and all that?

where’s that from? is that in the bible? cause i was raised in church and i never got taught any of that.

where do i go for all that?

[kelean]

why am i seeing people discussing if anders and morrigan betrayed the main character in 2024 and why are so many people saying that "well at least one of them didn't do it but i like calling it that way because it fits the 'mage betrayal' trend". like what trend are you talking about then if it consists of s*las only

[heartshapedcreaturefromcriptoon]

Idiot with a keysmash url, absolutely nothing in their bio, and a "Message":

Makes one run on paragraph long post about how "both sides" of the "vivziepop community" Are Bad.

Immediately cites some idiot 15 year old cartoon reviewer who shouldn't even be watching the show(s) as their main reference.

I remain endlessly baffled about how posts of this exact format are always the posts that get close to having at least like 50 fucking notes or something.

I immediately block yet another 'Fandom Centrist' asshole for clogging my fucking tags.

[merl-out]

Man I really just picked up a random fantasy series and stumbled into a whole civil war within a fandom without knowing it but like,,,

I'm seeing the lines drawn in the sand and I don't think I fully agree with any of you. The characterizations are so hot and cold in different books, I can see how people get to a certain point with characters, but then it feels like spite and fan wars have people throwing judgements out further and further and can I just say as a veteran of old Tumblr, someone who made a name for themselves writing fanfiction and engaging in fan culture, someone who has allowed that part of my media engagement to die off because of how heated people get over shit that's literally made up...

This is very entertaining for me. Please keep fighting.

[firstofhername]

There’s nothing wrong with violently opposing down a violent, unjust status quo actually

[stalkish-shellos]

I hate the esc fandom SO MUCH

[slovakbabe]

i may be reading the books. however. i’m so glad i’m not in the ****** fandom. can we quit morally hand-wringing over who’s a better person than the other? i think we’ve established that everyone thinks along the lines of ‘the ends justify the means’ like we don’t need to be all black and white thinking about this.

[secretmellowblog]

People who try to analyze what happened on Tumblr on November 5th, 2020, often really overstate how much it was actually “about” Supernatural. As someone who has never been in the supernatural fandom ever but dID join in on the hysterical destielposting—it was really more about the stress of the pandemic and the 2020 presidential election.

The two biggest Youtubers I’ve seen try to dissect “what happened that November 5th” in video essays both weren’t American—- and I think that explains why they both tried to explain the hysteria primarily via analyzing the Supernatural fandom/the original show, rather than through the lens of the election. And while those videos are cool, valid, informational, and make lots of really well-considered interesting points— I can tell you that me and almost all my mutuals had literally no knowledge or interest in the fact that “oh supernatural had made nods at the ship in the past but the creators were adamant that I wouldn’t be canon” or etc etc etc etc. the first time I learned about any of that context was way later, watching videos where people claimed that fandom history context (that I did not know anything about) was the actual reason for the hysteria.

But the reality is that people latched on to the Destiel stuff because it was a piece of big useless inane zero-stakes fandom news in a time when we were desperately waiting for serious high stakes election news. We were latching onto a “positive “ piece of inane stupid fandom news in a time of great stress, with all the desperation of a drowning man who latches onto whatever piece of wood will keep him afloat.

The core of the hysteria was that Americans (who make up a huge chunk of tumblr’s userbase) were currently glued to their laptops watching the live presidential election vote counts come in. These vote counts were taking an extended amount of time due to the pandemic causing high numbers of mail-in ballots, resulting in a constant state of Election Day Stress for multiple days straight.

This was also during the height of the Pandemic. People had predicted Trump’s presidency would be bad; no one had predicted it would be this apocalyptically bad. No one had predicted pandemics and lockdowns and hospitals overflowing with bodybags. remember Trump spreading Covid lies and conspiracies?? There were so many Qanon conspiracies about democrats being Satanic child traffickers who had to be put to death, and coup threats were mounting from the right wing side. It seemed like this election was a choice between ‘centrist democrat’ and “apocalyptic right wing conspiracy theory authoritarianism,” in the midst of pandemic conditions that people feared would never ever improve— and it seemed like a close election.

Another major point was that Trump voters were more likely to be antimaskers/Covid deniers, while Biden voters were more likely to take the pandemic seriously— so Biden voters were more likely to send in mail-in ballots instead of risking the in-person voting crowds, which meant their ballots would take much longer to count. And so, in many state electoral vote counts, it would initially seem like Trump was very far in the lead— only for Biden to slooooowly build up an agonizingly small lead as the mail in ballots came in, and then defeat Trump at the very end.

So you’re just watching these news sites giving live election updates, refreshing the page every 2 minutes to see if you’re going to live under a spineless centrist democrat or a literal Qanon Dictatorship. And then you go on tumblr to distract yourself, and there’s more election posting, and more agonizing over the votes, and more stress and despair—-

And then it’s been days and we’re right at the crucial tipping point where it’s anyone’s game and the next few hours will determine whether Trump will win, so you need to keep your eye on the vote count, because the next hours will determine the future of the pandemic and your country and your plans for your entire life—

And then stupid Destiel becomes canon! And it becomes canon in the silliest way possible!

If Destiel had become canon at any other time, it would have been a big goofy tumblr celebration? But we wouldn’t have gotten the insane explosion of hysterical interaction.

The entire core of it was the contrast between the inane meaningless stupidity of fandom news vs the actual stressful election news you wanted to hear! It really is best conveyed in that meme where Castiel says “I love you” and Dean indifferently responds with a piece of important election news.

It’s about the contrast between the low-stakes inanity of fandom and the massive life-destroying stakes of a terrifying election. There really was no reason it had be Supernatural specifically, except that Supernatural was a thing everyone knew basic things about from dashboard osmosis— it could’ve been any other equally huge silly fandom ship news about a ship everyone *knew of* but might not necessarily be invested in (ex. Stucky becoming canon, Johnlock becoming canon, Kirk/Spock becoming more canon somehow, etc etc etc.)

I think it’s true that people who weren’t paying agonizingly close attention to the American election news got swept up in it, and that non American Supernatural fans also were extremely excited for purely fandom reasons — but the entire reason it blew up to an unprecedented degree was because of that core of stressed out terrified Americans glued to their computers watching election results and suddenly receiving stupid fandom news instead, and deciding to just hysterically parodically hyper-celebrate this absurd useless zero-stakes news.

I think it was also all elevated by the fact that, as I said before, this happened at the crucial “tipping point” of the election where the next few hours would determine the winner. The fact that Biden began to slowly develop a lead in the hours after made it feel, hysterically, as if the hours after Destiel became canon was somehow the turning point where he began to win; so celebrating Destiel felt like celebrating that slow turn towards victory.

The tl,dr is that it’s so important to Remember the Fifth of November …..in preparation the inevitable hysteria that will happen in the presidential election on November 5th of next year. XD. Personally I’m rooting for Johnlock or Frodo/Sam to somehow become canon in the eleventh hour right before the democrats win

[willgrahamsleftear]

if instagram was bad imagine costas having tumblr or tiktok....

oh god 😭😭