#is the putting of baity negative content in the main fandom tags
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[Image description: tweet from tar-minyatur's court twink @caranthirs that reads:
"sometimes in the privacy of my own mind where it can't hurt anyone i become a hater for a character in a fandom i am not even in simply because their fans annoyed me too much. i find your client guilty only because you as their attorney were being a dipshit in front of me"]
Furthermore this is why tagging things you like and things you dislike with different tags (ie. having containment tags for the things you hate) used to be a common practice and that people who were deliberately searching through a fandom’s hate tags to white knight their favourite thing were generally ridiculed by both people who liked and disliked a thing.
Enjoyment is largely an amoral action. We’re not really shaped by it one way or another. A corollary to this is that dislike is equally neutral, and people can dislike a thing you like without it affecting you at all.
#Speaking as someone who is a deeply annoying fan#who has had things ruined to me through the actions of other deeply annoying fans --#the solution is for us to just leave each other alone about it#block mute and filter#and like NGL one of the things that I TO THIS DAY cannot reconcile#is the putting of baity negative content in the main fandom tags#Like... I think something was lost when we lost 'don't tag your hate'#if a post is in the main tag of a thing I like#and it's CRITICAL and MEAN and TOTALLY WRONG#I could at least assume that it came from a place of love for the thing#b/c like that's what I do mostly#and I thought anyone attacking that post as being in bad faith or whatever#had missed the point#and tbh IDK what we can do to get that back#and I get that that has never been an universal thing in fando#but I still miss it
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