#there are so many hardworking mods and fellow fans who scour various platforms for content to share
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Hate that I have to brace myself whenever I want to venture into the tag. Logically I know that a wall of silence + just blocking is absolutely the only correct response, because the fact that they've explicitly put their hate into the ship tag is all the reason not to feed the trolls, and I do do that,
It's just. So frequent and sustained.
I see one, I block one, yet I feel like I've been blocking at least one hostile intruder into the tag every week at a minimum? Rinse and repeat since late 2023.
And these remarks always manage to hit a bizarre note of sanctimonious insult that exposes a hilariously deep insecurity that other people dare to prefer something else.
I'm so. Tired. Even though I never respond and block them immediately, I've still been forced to see it, and I'm sick of putting up with this when simply trying to seek out a thing that brings me joy.
Saw a comment today about private QRTs on their hatepost and they were like oooo they're biiig mad in private—I don't know how to tell you this but it's your own people QRTing it in agreement. Those private QRTs are your supporters. The people on this side block and ignore, block and ignore, nobody would follow you and give you further attention, and nobody is discussing you in big mad mode because it's literally banned in our server, it's so taboo people don't even acknowledge the existence of the consistent hate directed our way or the single invariable shared characteristic of the haters, it's so prohibited to refer to it that we have to feel sad by ourselves instead of relying on fellow fans.
#meanwhile wall of silence is definitely the unspoken strategy in response#it's so funny#it hangs so thickly in the air#there are so many hardworking mods and fellow fans who scour various platforms for content to share#that i know for sure they cannot have missed the hateful scorn#but nobody ever says ANYTHING#literally keeping calm and carrying on#stiff upper lip#a whole corner of fans who soldier on ignoring the pain like j and who are not allowed to react to open insult like d#i know the point of it is literally to chase us out of the fandom#but having to put up with systemic abuse like we're customer service representatives is really. hmm. in a hobby? a HOBBY?#i don't even put up with any shit in my paying job and i am customer-facing#there's even less courtesy to be found in fellow hobbyists than real life clients demanding services with cold hard cash#potion's periodical
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