It’s both amazing (in a non-positive way) and pretty sad what the Kingdom Hearts and YGO fandoms have in common with each other.
There’s one side of both fandoms teeming with homophobes ready to leave hateful comments on gay content of any sort.
This was on an image of a gay pairing. I included the first one since I view it as an unnecessary statement to make, especially when the pairing they bring up hasn’t actually been canonized. The second one does the same thing. The bottom two are not only disgusting for the first portion of what they said, but also because they dare to tack on a compliment. It’s incredibly backhanded. “I find the content horrific, but it’s so pretty lol.” Don’t do things like this. Another common comment is “This ruined my childhood.”
In the KH fandom, where antis commonly lead targeted attacks on LGBT+ shippers, this is an unsurprising sight for some people. Again, people pull out straight pairings that aren’t actually canonized to use against queer content. There’s just an automatic assumption based on little details or writing that isn’t very fleshed out.
These are two examples, but things can be far worse and tiring for individuals with how frequently they happen. It may go without saying that this behavior isn’t exclusive to these two communities.
YGO DM is long since finished, but several viewers have a very skewered version of events in their heads. This comes from stuff like the dub and possibly influence from other people who’ve given their own distorted understandings of the story. The actual story paints an unusual friendship between Kaiba and Atem that’s sadly often considered nothing more than a cold rivalry where Kaiba despises Atem. Despite evidence from canon that shows the exact opposite (such as a scene in DSOD where Yugi demands to duel Aigami for sending a friend- Bakura- to another dimension to which Kaiba allows the duel because he relates to Yugi’s struggle). It’s also been consistently stated that their relationship is hard to define for each character, but there is a bond with genuine care. Speaking of DSOD, it’s gotten and still gets some amount of hate by fans who consider it a waste since the story isn’t exactly what they wanted/expected. It’s fine to not like the movie, but claiming stuff like it’s bad writing just because it’s not what you believed of the story is being childish.
Seeing as how KH is far from over, and Nomura has so many interesting writing methods, the franchise has its own enormous crowd of those snubbing Nomura around every corner. The games carry a staggering amount of plot implications, foreshadowing, and details one has to pay attention across every entry. Countless players despise the complex narrative- which, again, isn’t an inherent problem- and scream that Nomura is incompetent. He’s said himself that he enjoys theories, but many of these same detractors become angry with others who look into the seemingly normal details and tell them they’re wasting their time. It’s not enough to be angry with a frame franchise they’re still closely following, but they have to try to stop others from it. This isn’t even getting into how several higher ups in the franchise’s development team have made it clear time and time again that Riku and Sora are the most important characters. Much to the anguish of some of the detractors who also coincidentally despise Riku.
This may be a minor note depending on how you look at it, but... both fandoms have a number of male fans who project their desires onto the leads and openly fantasize about Sora and Atem going around and sleeping with almost every female character. The number of times I’ve seen this happen with them is just gross to put it plainly.
(Side note: I’ve discussed some of the homophobia and a bit of the plot misunderstandings in this post).
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