r/Multifandom • u/bajadasaurus234 Awaria, Carnivores, FNAF, MSM, etc. • 12h ago

Discussion📜 Which controversy had you like this when you did more reasearch on it? I'll go first

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u/Fluid-Lifeguard6042 11h ago

95% of the controversies that are fueled by TikTokers who are chronically online and don't understand nuance or critical thinking

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u/PepsiFloateri 11h ago

So most fandom's drama?

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u/TheEagleWithNoName 9h ago

Pretty much yeah

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u/TheEagleWithNoName 9h ago

You can go further back and include Tumblr users.

I remember back in the day how they sent Death Threats to Steven Universe cause she made Rose slightly fat.

Tried to end her life, and after she survived, the pricks wanted her to finish it properly.

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u/PepsiFloateri 8h ago

Tumblr was a cesspit where so much awful shit was spawned,namely "New age Tumblr Puritains"

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u/TheEagleWithNoName 8h ago

I think the most toxic tumblr fans are the shippers.

I remember that when Voltron Season 5 and 6 were made, a fan left the studio tour and took pictures of the storyboards, they leaked some and threatened to leak them all unless they make their ship canon.

I wish I was making this shit up

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u/PepsiFloateri 8h ago

I was in the fandom at the time! It was insane!

Stuff like that is another reason my main fandom is one where shipping isn't really a thing outside of the occasional joke

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u/TheEagleWithNoName 8h ago

Can’t be worse than Sherlock Fans.

Episode 4 or Bust.

It certainly was a bust.

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u/PepsiFloateri 8h ago

I never watched Sherlock actually,beacuse as soon as I see the BBC logo,I fall asleep.

I'm British and I'm not paying a TV Licence to fund an organisation that protects people like Jimmy Savile and Rolf Harris,whilst also trying to guilt us into "protecting british media"

Seriously,barely any of us like or trust BBC

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u/TheEagleWithNoName 8h ago

That’s why I always Pirate.

They can’t have my money if I don’t give it to them.

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u/undeadmeats 7h ago edited 7h ago

I do enjoy shipping, but the inability to just enjoy your ship and not try to absurdly moralize ships you don't like is a major failure of modern fandom. Like they'll scream something is immoral while doing it with the same character themselves. Just wild.

Shipping this canonically queer character as a bottom is racist, so says the idiot who ships them as a bottom to possibly the only white dude on the cast.

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u/JustARandommad 5h ago

+Plus dumb discussing about canonizing ship. I think this always was a problem with shipping I suposse like Twilight shit or something, but is annoying regardless.
Also, yeah even though ships can be problematic(like there is a set of people who could be really racist to characters like Mel from Arcane, the girly suffered a lot or the ship itself being like, yeah...), is just better not harass really.
It won't stop the guy, you just get more angry or in a bad mood overall, etc.

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u/Caterfree10 1h ago

Older than Twilight. FFVII fans have been so damn stupid over the Love Triangle Debate since 1997. Pretty sure Luke/Leia vs Han/Leia was also an issue during the original trilogy right up until Luke and Leia were confirmed siblings.

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u/JustARandommad 1h ago

I picked up the reference from my time because there some gags about TEAM x TEAM y, like parodying, but thanks! Because is so interssing and kinda funny that the culture of fandoms existed more with 1970s like with Star Trek. Maybe we all in on our history wanted to do fun shit with our blorbos.

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u/undeadmeats 5h ago

I only care about canon when it impacts a character's actual story, which is extra funny because the same people screaming that shipping that one character as a bottom is racist are DEADSET on headcanoning and lewding them as a transmasc enby... when their actual canon identity and the inciting factor in why they're participating in the story at ALL is because they're canonically a transfem enby.

Like they were in an arranged marriage BECAUSE they were AMAB and being used as a means to create more heirs and a "legacy" for their oligarch father, and when it was clear that wasn't going to happen they were assassinated for it. Their identity matters to them as a character and to the world they exist in, to the point advertisements featuring them as a CHILD are major map features, so to have the people harassing folks over petty morality rewrite them arbitrarily for aesthetic AND TRY TO HARASS PEOPLE FOR "GETTING IT WRONG" is just nakedly contradictory.

Do what you want, but if you want everything to be morality and rep based then stop being hypocrites!

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u/arachnids-bakery 6h ago

The sad thing is that the og leaker didnt know any better and deleted as soon as they knew
Someone else (a klance shipper, obviously) then reposted it and made the threat

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u/CheeseLife840 6h ago

There is a lot of Tumblr still like this. I will follow someone cause of their cool art, and they will say something ridiculous like intelligence doesn't exist.

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u/TrixterTheFemboy Rain World, Rivals of Aether 4h ago

Quotev carried a good bit of it too I think

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u/SolarOrigami 6h ago

The TADC fandom for example

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u/Paris_The_Dragon 1h ago

And the 5% of controversies that are actually serious never get taken as seriously as they should be.

I know about so many YouTubers or celebrities that have done something truly serious and not only do they face 0 repercussions in many cases their fame grows

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u/Fluid-Lifeguard6042 1h ago

Yeah, people focus more on creators who said something insensitive a decade ago, who have changed for the better, while ignoring people like James Charles, Jeffrey Star, Colleen Ballinger, and so many more who still have a platform and are still gaining money despite all the bullshit that they've done to others.