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kerosene-in-a-blender · 1 day ago

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Others have talked, very rightly, about Bells Hells having an extremely Us vs. Them style of morality and one thing I find interesting about all that is many of their most virulent (read: actively nasty towards other fans) defenders are also taking this stance. The party line has become that the segments of the fandom that are disappointed with how this campaign shook out have never been happy with anything Bells Hells did from the beginning and have been actively hating on people who do like it for just as long. Us, the beleaguered Campaign 3 lovers versus Them, the mean c3 haters (who are often characterized as being hung up on the Mighty Nein and simply mad Bells Hells aren't the Nein again).

What's been quite funny for me personally is that I have seen vague posts clearly targeted at myself giving me the above detailed characterization of the c3 hater when I: have never seen Campaign 2 (though I did watch Campaign 1 back in 2019), started watching live with the first EXU, got into the fandom (as a lurker) at the start of Campaign 3, didn't make any of my own posts about it until late 2022 and didn't start really posting in earnest until mid 2023. Practically none of the characteristics applied to the archetypal c3 hater certain fans have created actually apply to me, other than of course thinking Campaign 3 actually isn't very good. So it's been interesting to watch people draw lines in the sand and create an Us vs. Them narrative that I know isn't true based on existing as myself.

#just the complete inability to comprehend someone who started with c3 joining the war against the haters on the side of the haters #because unfortunately the campaign isn't well done #another interesting thing is that one of the reasons i got into writing meta in the first place #was i saw the harassment being targeted at people whose opinions i liked to read and who i often found myself agreeing with #to the point some just stopped writing certain meta #and i decided that i would try my hand at the topics they got harassed over (read: imogen meta and laudna meta)#because i thought laura and marisha as creators deserved to have their work analyzed as their peers do #and i figured that because i was new and had no name in fandom #i wouldn't see the same level of harassment because it wasn't about the takes so much as it was being jealous #that other people had audiences that liked what they had to say (and what was being said disagreed with them openly)#and i was RIGHT about that latter point too #almost two years on and while i have been vagued as said above #and gotten the odd weird anon #it's been NOWHERE near the levels of outright harassment others have gotten #for opinions i share and have very openly expressed #there's just this very real thread of jealousy that's existed in certain corners of this fandom for years #of people who came up in the fandom (as it were) during c2 #and have maintained audiences through c3 #cr discourse

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