I have an issue with every damn friendship having to be romantic, too. That’s larger than Steven Universe, and I am not trying to extend this to every queer ship, because I am a big ol’ slash fangirl who loves putting any two guys on screen together.I absolutely love that Steven Universe has so much queerness going…
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I’m guessing that the show appeals very heavily to young people who have faced severe bullying without much positive representation in popular media. They latch onto it and then get a little unhinged because they’ve wrapped up too much of their personal identity in a fictional world that would love and accept them the…
Critique and criticism is one thing, but harassing a creator for just seeming to ship one set of characters over another is not fair game at all. It’s just gross. Not to mention, Steven Universe is one of the last shows anyone can criticize for “queer baiting.” It includes very overt homosexual relationships that get…
Nothing should be immune from critique and criticism, even cartoons. Steven Universe is fair game for critiques analyzing how it betrays gender, sexuality, and gender identity. A nuanced look at SU will find stuff that makes the show interesting, not simply “good” or “bad.” However, I think some fans can have a hard…
Another helpful tip: learn to laugh at yourself.
Why is it the darker, the more twisted, the scarier the show, the better and more even tempered the fandom. But the more light, the more happier the show, the more uneven tempered, the more angry the fandom is?
Oh, tumblr. I love that site (I’ve discovered many great artists and bands) but there are so many times I have to walk away because of the purely insane things people say on there. And not “oh, that’s silly” but seriously, “How can you even think that? That is madness. Complete madness.”
Probably the same losers that horde-ambushed the real-life Keystone Motel on Yelp or whatever and tried to ruin a legitimate business!! I don’t see this with Avatar or Korra fandoms, nor with Adventure Time, nor Simpsons, nor Futurama, nor Gravity Falls fandoms. WHAT is it about Steven Universe?
It is not just attacking the people involved with the franchise, it also branches out into attacking anyone who would have a different opinion from their own about said franchise.
*checks Tumblr really quick* Yup!
I’ve never bought the theory that “fan” is short for “fanatic.” Generally when we abbreviate words like that, we pick the stressed syllable — for instance, “refrigerator” becomes “fridge” or “cartoon” becomes “toon.” So “fanatic” would be more likely to get shortened to “nat.”
I don’t think it’s straight popularity. Antisocial people are more inevitable the larger you get, true. But especially in groups that are heavily “identity” based, I find just spare to fare story decisions inevitably cause this. I saw this in BtVS decades ago after S2, S6, and S7. I’ve seen Star Trek go through this…
I wonder what kind of lives they live, these people who seem to be unable to tell the difference between a lived universe and a fantasized one. Do they have so few anchors in reality that they float along, oblivious to human relationships and workaday concerns, food and shelter and family, only laser focused on a…
The funny thing about all those IP’s is, I don’t think the problem is that people had opinions. The problem is the failure to respect the valid opinions of others as being sincere and not the product of something else.
Sadly it’s not just this fandom that’s becoming toxic. Every fandom seems to be getting a group of nutbars who think they need to attack the people involved with their favourite franchise.
THANK you.
Dedicated shippers are the fucking worst.
I thought it was odd they didn’t air this since the commentators were so excited about the win. Yet we got a Phelps countdown clock. The guy is the King and a legend but it would have been nice to give Manuels her due.
as they had seven-hour-old footage of Russians doing gymnastics badly to show you