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It’s rooted in gnostic thinking, they alone have the gnosis of things, so what they think and feel is all what matters
Snobs: Nobody finds that kind of a story/idea interesting, sorry.
Me: *points* there's people clamoring for this, so there is a potential audience.
Snobs: Those are wrong people, they are too stupid and crazy to know what good storytelling is. They should just go consume (approved thing)
Fandom and Literary Woes: The Arrogance of The Information Age and Literary Intellectuals
One thing I've noticed with the RWBY fandom and pretty much modern pop-culture and literary intellectuals is this nasty habit of locking concepts and tropes down into theories and formulas and try to completely rationalize what is "interesting" and what's "boring" and ruling everything else as corruptions or worthless little parasites upon what's the supposed "objective reality" and the end-all-be-all of a concept.
My first experience with this was with the "literary experts" coming out to rule out what's the end-all-be-all of concepts like Jaune and Pyrrha and Arkos in epic fantasy/sci-fi after the RWBY Volume 3 Finale
Baically
"Arkos ended tragically worked, ergo all couples and characters in epic stories like Jaune and Pyrrha(the dork knight and the warrior woman isolated by society) especially if they are directly inspired by them must also end that way to raise steaks and consequences, and they only way they can have a happy ending is in a sitcom/romcom. Doesn't matter what the epic story is about, what happens, their roles, or why, or why it makes audiences happy, if they don't end up dead in an epic, it means nothing."
Any anyone who actively disagreed either was exiled to RWBY Chibi, or been implied
"Okay, do your thing(AU/OG Work), but keep in mind, it ultimately means nothing, it contributes nothing, its nothing but a worthless little parasite upon the glorious meaningful tragedy that is Arkos and same can be said what you plan to do with the rest of RWBY.
You have no objectively good reason what makes you happy unlike us who have every objectively good reason in the cosmos for our satisfaction and contentment."
with and underlying gnostic attitude of
"Because we, the experts, know what things truly are, what they can ever be, and in what specific ways and genres and you don't."
and much like Andrew Ketterley, they are often arrogant and hypocritical and are not bound by the rules of logic like everyone else.
"Men like me, who possess hidden wisdom, are freed from common rules just as we are cut off from common pleasures. Ours, my boy, is a high and lonely destiny.”-Andrew Ketterley, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician's Nephew
When snobs consider your work or what you enjoy a bad because its only enjoyed by a smaller audience which then they pride themselves on they liking something thats enjoyed by the masses "it speaks to the human condition"
Then if you like something thats resonates by a larger audience, they flip it to "enjoyed by the unwashed masses" which then these prigs boast like something thats niche its because "we enlightened few understand something deeper and higher."
When it was the reverse logic 5 minutes ago
Cliche, niche, broad, what makes money, and tampering around with concepts in dissent and distaste is "bad" unless "the right people" like it and get what they want
Because they alone are the alchemists who can turn lead in to gold
Which is why they say its "interesting" to make evil superman out spite for superheroes like that in The Boys but a sexy magical girl Captain Marvel with her own set os sailor scouts like in Kamen America, especially made out of dissatisfaction and distaste how the inspiration was handled is "derivative" because the "experts" supposedly know what's the objective end-all-be-all reality of a concept and we don't.
They know, with a capital "G" and we don't.
And because they have "The Gnosis" and perfectly rooted in "objective reality" logic is fluid to whatever makes their way right.
They hav exclusive dominion over these concepts and tropes
Because again, they have "The Gnosis" and we don't.
Because it’s the Information Age and we have so much info, those who are oh-so objective and intelligent can use said information to find what’s the apex of a concept or a trope rule out everything else.
All as they judge, shame, and lecture us peons high up in their ivory towers hundreds of yards away on social media now to supposedly stay “objective” and not catch the disease of “subjective feelings” which they never elaborate
And like RetroBlasting said in his doing nothing video it’s no longer the analogue world and they know better than anyone else so they see our stuff on their feed and stop and jump in and lecture us
And and the critics often the resort to greedy reductionism(aka “Nothing Buttery”) to reduce our stuff to whatever makes it sound stupid/immoral which then they proceed to gloss over, ignore, and label the details
Someone: *Makes a reimagined RWBY AU, especially out of dissatisfaction and disappointment*
FNDM:
I which I could stop caring what other people think and be confident in my opinion and just take the chip off my shoulder
But I fear I’m just gotta get trampled, kicked, beaten and spat on again
It feels like it’s better to be a pile of broken glass that broke from fragility than toughen up because it feels like you’re toughening up into a punching bag for everyone to abuse
The Steps of being a RWBY Stan
Engaging with a dissident of RWBY wanting your words to come out of their mouths
Gloss over or outright ignore the dissidents thoughts and feelings and the reasons for their satisfaction and dissatisfaction
Reduce their arguments to whatever component makes them sound stupid, especially feelings, and label their arguments accordingly without elaborating
Tell dissidents to consume alternative you approve of, even if it doesn't have what they're looking for
Imply these people are not entitled to anything nor allowed to have a personal anything, and expect them to surrender every aspect of their autonomy to you, the "experts”
If they take matters into their own hands with either fanfiction or original works that recycles ideas and concepts, passive aggressively or patronizingly imply they're ultimately nothing and contribute nothing and these dissidents have no good reason for what makes them happy
Tell others to "curate" their consumption of media and interaction online, but never practice what you preach yourself, because you supposedly know better and need to correct and educate everyone
Inspired by this video
RWBY Stan: You don't like the dark turn in RWBY V3 nor Pyrrha and Arkos being tragic among the other tragic things because your not ultimately hopeful while being aware of the horrors of reality like I am. You need to go outside and touch grass and go watch sitcoms instead.
Me:(lost two people in high school in the same year, one in a car accident) Or you can do that and not judge me and try to force me into a neat little box.
They think it’s “hopepunk" because they say so.
Literary Intellectuals have become so arrogant in their judgement that they think they can just say things and make something true, untrue, or something else.

“The truth, is what I make it.”
RWBY Stan: You don't like the dark turn in RWBY V3 nor Pyrrha and Arkos being tragic among the other tragic things because your not ultimately hopeful while being aware of the horrors of reality like I am. You need to go outside and touch grass and go watch sitcoms instead.
Me:(lost two people in high school in the same year, one in a car accident) Or you can do that and not judge me and try to force me into a neat little box.
If you think having “good taste in fiction” is more important than being a decent human being to those who disagree with you to the point you turn a blind eye to abusive fandom behavior,
Then you really gotta step back, look in the mirror, and reevaluate your moral value judgement and priorities.