#tiktok snapedom

[severus-snaps]

The number of comments on a tiktok post listing passages from Snape's Worst Memory asking "Is this canon? Is this from a fanfic? Is it fanmade? Where is this from?" is just wild to me

Like sure I don't perhaps expect everyone in the world to be able to remember the Snape-centric passages as if they're religious texts but I feel like people only want to query its veracity when it's Snape having a moment that elicits sympathy and explains his more than understandable dislike of the Marauders

[cokeworthcallings]

the tiktok marauders fans opinion on snape completely rocketed snape hate to a new height. as a fan who is on both and has been on tumblr much much longer. I have never seen worse hate, and I used to get death threats over snape here on my old account.

it's genuinely scary to see this part of fandom delve into purity culture and hypocrisy. seeing the lengths people are willing to go to 'redeem' regulus black, evan rosier or any other death eater is surreal. but snape is where the line if drawn, he is the devil.

like I have maybe a solid 10 other editors I know who like snape and nothing else, midst the thousands of marauder fans completely making up nonsensical things about snape to make him the bad guy.

like seeing someone defend alecto carrow then turn around and say that snape frequently called lily a mudblood and list fanon headcanons about him is almost unbelievable. to the point where I will be sitting there going, "this is a joke, this cannot be serious".

being called an abuse apologist, a pedophile, and many many other things for simply liking a character genuinely hurts. it hurts to realize that these people commenting and saying hurtful things somehow don't realize that you are a person with feeling who can be hurt by words.

here at least you can curate you experience, tiktok is the wild west, and hate is well known.

tldr: snape hate has increased due to tiktok and the way the fans interact with fandom

[halfblood-princes-crown]

I have a question…

Snaters like to say we “defend death eaters” but the only one we break back for is Severus…

I’m telling you rn, if you ask me why I like Lucius, I’m not gonna write a 12k essay about how misunderstood he is…imma just say “he’s snarky, fabulous, and fine as hell”

🤷🏽

So wtf are they talking about?💀

[394halfbloodprince]

Severus: if you’re a parent don’t leave your kids near me

Avery: …?!?!??

Bruce: …what?

Wilkes: …um

Severus: STOP! I meant like! I’m gonna teach them bad words! Not- shut up!

[cuntnikida]

"There's a lot to unpack here but lets just throw away the whole suitcase."

unlike snivellous regulus actually got abused by his mother and got casted the crucio curse multiple times to make regulus obey walburag and snivilus isnt even confirmed to have abusiev or neglective parents....sirius almost died because snivellous casted the flipping spell that he made to curse sirius and peter....he also bullies barty and regulus and bullied remus for his dyslexia....thats why the marauders bullied him in the first place. james just used the spell against him in the books for revenge bceuz he used it on pete and sirius on the tree thing when remus and james werent looking...reggie got casted sectumsempra when james was gone and he also bullied nevile and harry... he was so obsessed with lily and lily wanted to die because of it. lily tried to kill herself and she forced herself with snivellus because she believed that snivvy would change...and wdym james was a sexual assaulter???????snivvy literally lifted lily's skirt and forced himself inside her......he was obsessed with lily...and when they broke off he used charity as a coping mechanism....minevra did nothing wrong she was fair unlike snivellous and for all i know severus chocked reggie once and james wanted to kill him thats why he bullied him in the first place. he shouldnt stick his greasy hair and ugly nose in the first place on sirius and remus conversation about the full moon...he should be glad that prongs saved him and regulus treated his scars even though snivellouse tried to kill him. snivellousse stole the marauders map for malicious resons and stalked lily... yu didnt read the books and use fanfics for prof....stop spreading misinformatio

I can't explain how wrong this is. Please tell me this is satire, or I will truly kms.

"Bullied Remus for his dyslexia." I think I have an idea on what fanfiction have you read. Please consider reading the real books and stop using ATYD along with other fanfiction to make this.

And are you on something...?

[sideprince]

I don't know who needs to hear this but I see there are a lot of new Snapedom tumblr accounts (welcome!) and am sensing some vibes so:

Tumblr isn't tiktok or twitter or reddit etc. There's no algorithm here, so there's no popularity contest. If you like a post, hit like or reblog it! If you want to add to a post, go for it! If you don't like a post, just scroll past it! If someone disagrees with you, it's ok! You can ignore them, or you can engage in lively debate! There are no "big" blogs here, just ones that have been around a long time and gathered followers as a result. Some blogs get reblogged more often than others because they have content a lot of people identify with, but tumblr doesn't show follower counts and even small blogs can get a lot of notes on a post if it hits right with people. Note count isn't an indicator of a blog's status, because tumblr doesn't run on the kind of algorithm fuelled popularity contest that most other social media sites do. In fact, you can go into settings and set your feed to "chronological" so that posts show up only in the order they were posted. If a post has notes, it's not because the algorithm is pushing a popular blog, it's because people liked it, plain and simple. So this is your official invite to leave your baggage at the door, and have a good time!

[severussnapeconfessions]

Do you think that if Severus was a standard looking and very handsome character, he would be much more loved by the HP fandom?

I started to reflect on this after seeing people comment that they love Tom Riddle...but he is evil in person! His only good characteristic is be beautiful!

Another point is to see that on the internet people like (romanticize) characters who are jealous, possessive, with childish attitudes, sarcasm and obsession. Severus has these traits, both with Lily and with the students he bullied, but why do some fans (mainly on TikTok) not "defend" Snape as much as they defend other characters with the sames characteristics he has except the physical appearance?

Frankly, I don't share the whole "Snape needs more love" sentiment because the Snapedom has plenty of love to spare. He doesn't need more love from HP fandom.

Tom Riddle fans must also see something else in him other than beauty. I'll leave that one for Riddle fans.

I will steer away from your question now, but it still relates somehow. If anyone really understood the "Harry Potter" series they know that if it weren't for Severus Snape, the whole story would have started and ended differently. What would have happened if Snape hadn't told Voldemort about the prophecy? No boy-who-lived. Just Voldemort taking over the world at an alarming speed.

You don't have to love Snape, simply accept the fact that he had a crucial complex role in the story.

We defend this man with everything we've got. We've been doing it for decades. But we've been doing it when the conversation and the discussion is worth it. Why get riled up when the original post is made with contempt and complete disregard for the canon? Somedays you have to choose your battles.

"Severus made some bad choices and got the Potters killed" - yes - but he is not searching for absolution. He knows that his past acts had consequences.

The beauty of Severus Snape's fans is that we accept his flaws. We know he is a deeply flawed character, but his redemption arc is tremendous evidence of what truly motivates us in this life. Love.

[moonlightdancer26]

A side effect from being in the Snapedom is forgetting that it’s homosapien and not homosnapien.

[sideprince]

I wonder if OP is referring to the kind of analysis found in posts like this one or this one, which identify Snape's characteristics as consistent with that of gothic villains, who were often described as dark, menacing, foreign, and a threat to good Christian heroines. While Snape is very much British, there's definitely a trope Rowling is leaning on in how she writes his character, and given her background in studying literature and preference for 19th century British literature specifically, it makes sense that how Snape is written draws from these tropes. This means that whether or not it was her intention, she's leaning on tropes that have historically racist and anti-semitic undertones, because given the history of British racism, it's a fairly accepted conclusion that the idea of the dark foreigner who poses a threat to Christian innocence does potentially include Jews. There are even certain Gothic works that specifically describe these characters with "aquiline" noses, but none of this information is contained in OP's post and it's presumptuous of them to think anyone reading it will know what they're referencing (I would actually argue that most of the people their post is intended for likely have no idea of any of this background information).

While OP is right to ask others to pause and examine potential internalized biases, they make a lot of assumptions that anyone reading their post has the same frame of reference as they do. Instead of sharing information thoughtfully, they're judging anyone who doesn't understand their perspective or have the information they do, and tbh calling people "pieces of shit" isn't going to motivate anyone to do learning or introspection, but just to dig their heels in and get defensive, because that's how most people's psychological reaction works. The lack of referential information also shifts the tone and I can see why users like @pet-genius would interpret these presumptions as being anti-semitic themselves (and if OP isn't referring to the tropes in the post I linked above then honestly, I have some questions too).

I also haven't seen this kind of content either tbh, but I keep to the Snapedom side of tumblr. I do often get the sense, though, that users who engage in fandom across platforms lose track of the fact that 1. not everyone shares their specific fandom experience and 2. not everyone uses the same platforms they do. I have never had a tiktok and don't plan to, therefore I don't know what goes on there nor do I want to. I have no interest in wading into the messy cage fight that passes for discourse on reddit. So OP's post may not even be for me, but as someone who belongs to several of the categories of people they named, their post makes me uncomfortable and I don't feel represented by it, at least not in any way I feel is palatable to me.

In general I tend to be really uncomfortable with posts that have an attitude of telling others what's what - they're not open to alternative perspectives even if they're in the same realm of thought and are more about expressing frustration through a patronizing attitude than spreading awareness. And it's not that we don't all have these moments of frustration, we do, but when you vent it on a public blog you're inviting arguments and conflict because your'e already starting by being on the offensive (which will just make others defensive). If that's your goal, be prepared for arguments and further frustration, not to mention for being misunderstood if you're not willing to present sources or any kind of basis for your perspective. If it's not, please buy a journal or open a new note on your phone and put it down there where it doesn't affect others.

(And I'm not going to get into the whole mudblood thing again because I've already talked about it, but OP is boiling a complex and misdirected discussion down far too simplistically in a way that targets fandom, not the author who implemented a nuanced and sensitive subject in an insensitive and uninformed way.)

I've said it once i'll say it again

Making fun of Severus for his skin color, nose, hair, eyes, childhood trauma and defending the marauders for everything they did is not "haha relatable quirky funny"

It's anti-semetic and promotes bullying! You pieces of shit❤

(ALSO. Him calling lily a mudblood was him being defensive after literally being s3xually harassed and ALSO he gets a pass to say that word because HE'S A HALFBLOOD. Give that HUMAN BEING a goddamn break.)

[casasupernovas]

Malaki4vn on TikTok's amazing Snape and Sirius analysis:

1. both grew up in abusive households

2. both have one person they love and trust above anyone else - lily and james

3. both are responsible to a certain degree for lily and james deaths - snape told voldemort the prophecy, and sirius convinced james to switch the secret keeper from being him to peter pettigrew because who would believe a wimpy man like him?

4. mirrored narrative arcs - both feel responsible for the deaths of lily and james and live a life filled with guilt so they're both stuck, forever 21 which speaks to both of their immaturity.

5. neither got to live a proper life post halloween 1982 - sirius is physically and mentally locked in a prison of azkaban and his worst thoughts, snape is also locked into mental anguish through his guilt, indebeted to dumbledore and voldemort as a double agent and made to live is guilt over and over

6. they both have the same motive in PoA - to find the traitor.

7. sirius is a stand in for james for harry. james and sirius are very similar - even lupin says that harry is destined to hate snape because he 'inherited an old prejudice' from james and sirius. both of their images are tainted at the exact same time in 'snape's worst memory'.

8. most interesting take - sirius acts as a james stand as a selfless father figure', and snape as lily - guarding him from a distance and ultimately shielding harry and being a sacrifice. a silent guardian if you will.

9. snape and lily have the same patronus. it is not coincidence that when harry sees snape properly, he sees his mother properly.

10. like james, sirius dies first, trying to impulsively protect harry

11. snape lasts longer and is able to protect harry more effectively.

12. anape and lily in their last acts perform something that will ultimately empower Harry to defeat Voldemort.

an amazing analysis in my opinion!

[severus-snaps]

just saw another "snape was too busy holding lily's lifeless body to comfort baby harry!!!" in the wild

but like. it's occurred to me that even if Snape HAD actually been there, and even if he HAD picked up baby Harry and attempted to comfort him, people who don't like snape would probably find something to complain about that too

like, "how creepy to pick up your dead crush's baby!!! snape was a creepy obsessive stalker and lily wanted nothing to do with him how dare he touch her child without a guardian's permission!!" or something, or that snape would only make baby Harry feel worse (fair, I don't get the impression that Snape was a naturally comforting, paternal, or cuddly young man), or that he was about to, like, kidnap harry or something and grow another lily in lab conditions 😂

[zealouspickleeggdragon]

@reigret @alwyssnpe @slyther-bi @sn4pe @half-blood-slytherpuff @half-a-bloody-hufflepuff @professorspet @avalonmoonshinesstuff

[malakian]

i’ve just seen someone on tiktok using the “this is the hill i’ll die on” meme to state that boring discourse that snape would be voldemort’s right-hand man if lily hadn’t died and i’m like

girl, considering he betrayed voldemort and committed his life to dumbledore’s service around one year before she died.,.... i’d say your hill is pretty flat

[deepperplexity]

Made a TikTok for Snapetober with Alan's voice 👀🦇🎃🍁

[sliceofbroccoli]

Please I can’t stop laughing at this