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chuckduckling · 2 years ago

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That Teen Vogue article on villain woobification has so much ?????? in its choices, I honestly can't even begin to unpack my thoughts, but the funniest detail — after it directly mentions Scum Villain fandom — is that one line that criticizes how fangirls will "[inflate] real or imagined bad backstories in order to make their favorite character into a tortured soul that just needs a little love to get better."

That's literally SVSSS's plot! Shen Yuan transmigrates into a book and meets his mass-murdering tragic-backstory problematic blorbo and then fixes his tortured soul with his love!! That's the book, that's literally, that's the plot, that's what SVSSS is all about, that's, that's literally the book, I just, that's the b

#there needs to be an article on racist trends in fandom #and the glorification of serial killers #that doesnt devolve into personal fandom gripes that seem more suited to a blog post than a serious article #like just the fact that it conflates people who wanna marry serial killers with villain stans??#with zero surveys or data showing any evidence that there is crossover between these two different groups???#also a popular shen jiu server was spammed with gore by someone who hated that people woobified him #so throwing a big official spotlight on sj standom just feels irresponsible tbh #i hope we can all agree that spamming people with gore and death threats is worse than woobifying fictional baddies #discourse

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