When I Say I Hate The 911 Fandom, Things Like This Are What I Mean. These Came Onto My Dash Within 3

When I say I hate the 911 fandom, things like this are what I mean. These came onto my dash within 3 posts of each other and were the first 911 posts I saw when I logged on.

By which I mean:

Has harassment and hate mail ever made you actually change your thoughts on, say, a ship, and made you agree with the other person's statements? (In other words, did you then become an "anti" of that ship, concept, character, fandom, ect.)

Your analogy is flawed though, because the dogs are not raping children like proshippers do

I'd actually be so embarrassed if I sent this. I'm embarrassed for you reading this but like. Honestly. How do you actually sit there, type this out, look at it and go 'yeah I'll send it. That's good. That's good shit right there. That's A Point.'

Come off anon and say it again and I'll respect you at least enough to give it a proper answer ❤

Fandom analysis and "activism" are healthy and indeed important to a point, and will almost always relate to you or your beliefs on a personal level, but if you're at the point where you can no longer objectively approach a discussion or fandom as a whole, or you're at the point where you cannot separate fandom and your real life, you need to take a step back.

If you're at the point where you're spending the majority of your time relating to fandom doing nothing but complaining and getting in arguments and treating fandom spaces like warzones and protests, you need to take a step back.

If you're blatantly making up things that are non-existent in canon just to be angry about it, you need to take a step back.

And just to clarify; taking a step back in okay. Its not a bad thing, and its absolutely not meant to be an insult. Sometimes we just get to caught up in something we need breathing room to be able to readjust ourselves and realign ourselves, and that's a perfectly valid, normal, human thing. We often use fandom spaces as outlets, but if its reached the point where you have an unhealthy obsession with negativity in those spaces, its no longer good for you. Its no longer just an outlet, its a feeding loop of toxicity.

Listen Ian Somerhalder can own my ass for eternity but him using current world issues to plug his bourbon is not the vibe.

Disliking characters who aren't straight, white, cis men isn't inherently/always racism, internal prejudice, misogyny, homophobia, ect and every time I see valid criticism of a character being met with a siren wail of "bigotry!!" I want to physically transform myself into that Benfleck smoking meme.