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[dextixer]

Why is your entire blog centered around one subreddit dedicated to critiquing (shit-talking, let's be so real with ourselves) on an otherwise mid-to-okay show?

Do you find RWBY's existence so offensive that you HAVE to talk about the show and it's (sometimes overzealous) fandom?

I don't know how you have the energy for this crap, it seems like a waste of time.

I talk about RWBY because i like doing it, doesnt really take that much energy either tbh, lets be real, writing on a blog from time to time might be the least energy/time intensive thing.

[dextixer]

Its nice when RWBY Fanatics prove your point for you.

So, a guy comes out and says that toxic positivity doesnt exist, i respond by giving examples of it, and the result of it? Its the guy admiting straight up that yeah, toxic positivity exists by saying that critics "deserved it".

First of all, dont minimize a fucking genocidal march of people to an internet slap-fight, i know that RWBY fanatics have problems distinguishing horrifying shit that happens in reality and fantasy, but you can do better than that, though considering some of you think slurs being used is justified, maybe i expect too much.

RWBY critics were literally banned from r/RWBY, mass banned, and after backlash, 2 years later, the mods quietly banned the most outspoken critics, not for breaking rules, but for "being disruptive", and that "disruption" is always just being critical.

That is what toxic positivity manifests as, its not disagreement, that is fine. Its the reaction to criticism as being inherently bad and disruptive and taking action to remove it all.

Dont bullshit about "many fans have given me examples of you stalking them", because i can guarantee that you have TWO examples. 1 from fucking canonseeker, the cancer in this fandom that he is and people like you defend, and the second is from xelwriter or one of his cronies who are still butthurt that i found out about them trying to manufacture a mass report campaign against me and confronted them over it.

You are a perfect example of someone who is a toxic positive fan who pretends that he isnt, but it took only ONE response for you to fully uncover yourself to be full of shit. Going from "toxic positivity doesnt exist" to "YOU DESERVE IT!!!".

And yeah yeah, i have heard the entire "Hating RWBY is all you have schtick". RWBY fanatics should find some better responses than that, that projection got tiring years ago. I barely engage with RWBY and i could provide you "receits" of my activities in my other hobbies, though i doubt that people like you would care.

So congratulations in failing with your entire controlled opposition bullshit. Dont think that you or your buddies are slick with that one by the way, by doing the entire "We just hate bad critics, we have criticism too, but we conveniently never criticize RWBY and always talk shit about critics" shtick.

You people genuinely need to stop attaching your self worth to a fucking internet show made by a now defunct dudebro company.

[matt0044]

“Toxic Positivity” is a cop out when someone’s negative take on something is challenged.

They go on about how fans “can’t take criticism towards their faves” until the detractor is criticized for their criticism.

Oh sure, the one responding to the criticism might lack a bit of tact to put it generously but that doesn’t mean they might not have a point or that their views shouldn’t be considered.

But the accusation of “Toxic Positivity” to me comes off as, “I am never budging an inch on my stance and you are the problem for trying to.”

[dextixer]

To pretend that toxic positivity does not exist is just as silly as people pretending that toxicity does not exist because a term can be sometimes misused.

Toxic positivity does not just manifest in people being rude, it manifests in various biases that allow people to consider shitty actions to be virtous. Canonseeker is an example of the peak of toxic positivity. But there are others too. The easy acceptance in calling people homophobes/fascists etc, the outright dismissal of people critical of the show as illiterate, pretending that all critics no matter how much they post have no life and are obsessed etc. These are common views in the FNDM that go unchallenged and contribute to an attitude of toxic positivity.

And that is just passive effects in the FNDM, some people actively contribute to the problem, knowing they do so, making discourse worse. Its funny that you tagged Xelwriter in the comments. He is a guy who secretly supports canonseeker, he has conspired behind the scenes to mass report with his friends and get accounts banned based on outright lies, even after WF was proven to be about the racial justice movements in the USA, he still pretenss its about the Irish, knowing he is wrong.

And he isnt the only one, how many times have i seen posts existing claiming that criticism outright shouldnt exist? Too many. It is to the point that in the RWBY FNDM criticism has sequestered itself to separate tags and subreddits ao that the FNDM would not have to see them, yet many people in the FNDM still decide to visit those tags/subreddits, even sequestering themselves away did not help critics because toxic positivity people come into those spaces to cause problems.

Also, you bring up that even if someone is rude in shutting down criticism, that does not mean that they dknt have a point. Fair enough, not always, but people who are toxic can have good points. But i have to ask, what is this double standard?

Miles was worshiped for slagging off rude criticism, critics in moderated spaces have to be polite and walk on egshells to not be banned and them being even slightly agressive is seen as something that ruins their entire argument. And yet the same does not apply to toxic positive fans? Weird, that.

So yeah, to summarize, just because some people misuse the term, does not mean that the term has no meaning. Toxic positivity exists, just like regular toxicity. Ignoring toxic positivity, minimizing it, excusing it just further reinforces it.

[grayskyzephyr]

Redacted the usernames and pfp out of respect because two users are prominent in the Rwby community and they get enough harassment as is.

This basically sums up the eventual failure of Rwby as a whole. The only way crwby know how to "market" the show is to use the parasocial relationship they fostered with their fanbase. The parasocial relationship they use to emotionally manipulate their fans to be their sword and shield to deflect criticism of any kind, especially when it was used to downplay work place abuse and bigotry.

I dont think they even care about Rwby anymore. They want to suckle whatever relevance they have left before they fade away to obscurity along with the show itself. And I can't wait for it to happen

[anotherevilenby]

It's always quite funny when someone tries to respond to the valid points about how a lot of hate that RWBY gets is rooted in misogyny, by arguing that the show itself is misogynistic, and then in the process they reveal their own misogynistic biases by purposefully misrepresenting female characters to make their arguments sound better.

[dextixer]

Its always quite funny how one can vaguepost about completely random unkown people whose arguments noone can even see, to have some kind of "own".

Look, if you want to do the whole "Everyone criticizing RWBY is misogynist because i will make sure to make up a reason why every argument ever created is rooted in misoginy", you are a bit late to the party, someone else already did that fake progressive activist schtick before you.

[asm5129]

I was trying to give Fixing RWBY an honest shot just so I could best have my own arguments concerning it, and while I still plan to make my way through it i was using nitter to scroll through his posts on twitter and found out that he has repeatedly targeted @tumblingxelian personally. And not in the sense of discussion or concern like my work on hbomerguy’s video—no, this is mean. Spiteful. You can tell by the posts and the thumbnails alone that this is not about anything but being angry someone makes an effort to regularly praise the parts of RWBY they love.

Any good faith i was attempting to go in with (on principle, and to have the most objective criticisms of the material rather than merely taking common FNDM criticisms as my own) has been lost by this discovery.

To me this is far more damning of his character than a shitty fanfic.

https://nitter.net/Raymond_McNeil/search?f=tweets&q=Xel

[dextixer]

You are mad that he covered and criticized videos of another youtube creator because hes your internet buddy? Really? Talk about thin-skinned. Its especially funny since Xel Writer has run defense and has been involved with people like Canonseeker and Lilith Fairen, both serial harassers in the FNDM and you seemingly didnt care.

You and your buddies are crashing out because one of your (extremelly toxic) buddies got their work covered? Really? You are holding a flame for the guy that pretends to be nice but behind closed doors conspires to get peoples accounts banned with false accusations and report campaigns? Something that Xel organized with Lilith?

You people have no moral high ground if you are stanning someone like Xel.

[asm5129]

Seems like you’re the one “crashing out”, buddy.

Also, these don’t mention any of the things you just accused Xel of. They’re just targeting the positive things they’ve say about RWBY.

As such, you have made no actual argument against what I said.

[dextixer]

What argument am i supposed to make? You made no arguments. All you said is that Celtic covered Xels videos. He has. is there a problem with that? You yourself were apparently going to cover Celtics videos so where exactly is the problem?

Is your argument that Celtic cant make videos that cover Xels? Or is it that you dislike the thumbnails? In which case, if thats all you have, then lol.

[kapustoed]

I think it's just so fucking funny that dude made 4 and even 6 hours long videos about debunking some positive videos about RWBY which are about 9 and 40-50 minutes long.

[dextixer]

If your biggest problem with someones videos is "They are too long", then im afraid you have terminal zoomer brain. You dont have to broadcast that to the world.

[kapustoed]

I didn't say too long is a problem itself. My problem is how did he stretched it from 9 minutes? Like, about hour or two I can understand, but 4 hours for this topic is bizarre.

And since when we regard brevity and laconism as "terminal zoomer brain"?

[dextixer]

Its a livestream, not a video, half of the time they talk about things other than the video they are watching. If you want brevity, more power to you, there are actual well structured videos for you to watch, livestreams are not for that. Brevity and laconism is not "terminal zoomer brain", reacting to any long-form content with "Oh wow, its funny how they talked so long about a topic lul" is. Because these are two different responses.

[asm5129]

I was trying to give Fixing RWBY an honest shot just so I could best have my own arguments concerning it, and while I still plan to make my way through it i was using nitter to scroll through his posts on twitter and found out that he has repeatedly targeted @tumblingxelian personally. And not in the sense of discussion or concern like my work on hbomerguy’s video—no, this is mean. Spiteful. You can tell by the posts and the thumbnails alone that this is not about anything but being angry someone makes an effort to regularly praise the parts of RWBY they love.

Any good faith i was attempting to go in with (on principle, and to have the most objective criticisms of the material rather than merely taking common FNDM criticisms as my own) has been lost by this discovery.

To me this is far more damning of his character than a shitty fanfic.

https://nitter.net/Raymond_McNeil/search?f=tweets&q=Xel

[dextixer]

You are mad that he covered and criticized videos of another youtube creator because hes your internet buddy? Really? Talk about thin-skinned. Its especially funny since Xel Writer has run defense and has been involved with people like Canonseeker and Lilith Fairen, both serial harassers in the FNDM and you seemingly didnt care.

You and your buddies are crashing out because one of your (extremelly toxic) buddies got their work covered? Really? You are holding a flame for the guy that pretends to be nice but behind closed doors conspires to get peoples accounts banned with false accusations and report campaigns? Something that Xel organized with Lilith?

You people have no moral high ground if you are stanning someone like Xel.

[asm5129]

Seems like you’re the one “crashing out”, buddy.

Also, these don’t mention any of the things you just accused Xel of. They’re just targeting the positive things they’ve say about RWBY.

As such, you have made no actual argument against what I said.

[dextixer]

What argument am i supposed to make? You made no arguments. All you said is that Celtic covered Xels videos. He has. is there a problem with that? You yourself were apparently going to cover Celtics videos so where exactly is the problem?

Is your argument that Celtic cant make videos that cover Xels? Or is it that you dislike the thumbnails? In which case, if thats all you have, then lol.

[kapustoed]

I think it's just so fucking funny that dude made 4 and even 6 hours long videos about debunking some positive videos about RWBY which are about 9 and 40-50 minutes long.

[dextixer]

If your biggest problem with someones videos is "They are too long", then im afraid you have terminal zoomer brain. You dont have to broadcast that to the world.

[asm5129]

Aw man. Well, you got us. Hypocrites with Zoomers brains. We are so wrong to suggest a guy with nearly 20,000 subscribers should be using his platform more responsibly.

Let’s pack up and go home everyone, Dex won the argument.

[dextixer]

What the fuck are you talking about? Its 20k subscribers. Hes a dude that makes youtube videos talking about media, and that includes RWBY. How is him covering the nonsense that Xel says "not using his platform responsibly"? Do you people have an actual argument or is it really just you being mad that a buddy of yours was covered by another youtuber?

This is what youtubers do. If you want to defend Xel, just say that you dislike how your friend got criticized instead of pretending that this is some kind of "higher cause" about how "youtubers should use their platforms more responsibly".

Fandom activity is not activism, get over it.

[asm5129]

awww. That’s such a deeply oversimplified view of everything. It’s almost cute.

Okay i'll give you some evidence of the tone of the posts and thumbnails being the same as the livestream.

an hour and 42 minutes into this livestream about Xel's video on Cinder's intelligence and they've barely gotten past the first 30 seconds of the eleven minute video.

Their arguments in this livestream react are half-baked, long-winded, and poorly (if at all) sourced.

They complain about Xel generalizing RWDE and then do the same thing with the FNDM.

The entire stream is them laughing at Xel. Not just responding--laughing at them. There is no interest in meaningful discussion. There is no mention of any of the accusations you initially responded to my post that tried to justify them doing this.

the title is literally "Xel Writer is as smart as Cinder Fall" with the implication within the video made that Cinder is very stupid.

Oh yeah also they constantly misgender Xel. That's fun.

also it'd be great if any of them could explain to me how one of these girls looks young enough to be at beacon and the other looks too old, cuz whether Beacon is "high school coded" is something they spend a lot of time on.

Also, i have barely over 700 subscribers and even i try to be responsible with my platform. I have the right to expect the same of others.

[dextixer]

Okay, so they made fun of Xel. And? And yes, they yap a lot and spent the first hour of the stream not even talking about the video at all, thats how livestreams go, its not a well constructed video, its a livestream.

They also did have discussions and made responses, which you would know if you watched the live-stream instead of pretending to have watched it.

Also, again, stop with the "responsible with muh platform", you are not an activist, this has nothing to do with responsibility, you just dont like that your internet friend got made fun of, which is fine, but dont pretend that you are representing some "higher cause" here.

Also, i never said that the accusations i made were mentioned by them, i mentioned the toxicity that Xel has caused in the FNDM as a way to counter your point that you and your buddies are against negativity and toxicity, you aint, you are friend with Xel, the guy who has spread toxicity in the FNDM.

The reason you are mad is not because of toxicity but because Xel is your internet friend.

[asm5129]

I was trying to give Fixing RWBY an honest shot just so I could best have my own arguments concerning it, and while I still plan to make my way through it i was using nitter to scroll through his posts on twitter and found out that he has repeatedly targeted @tumblingxelian personally. And not in the sense of discussion or concern like my work on hbomerguy’s video—no, this is mean. Spiteful. You can tell by the posts and the thumbnails alone that this is not about anything but being angry someone makes an effort to regularly praise the parts of RWBY they love.

Any good faith i was attempting to go in with (on principle, and to have the most objective criticisms of the material rather than merely taking common FNDM criticisms as my own) has been lost by this discovery.

To me this is far more damning of his character than a shitty fanfic.

https://nitter.net/Raymond_McNeil/search?f=tweets&q=Xel

[dextixer]

You are mad that he covered and criticized videos of another youtube creator because hes your internet buddy? Really? Talk about thin-skinned. Its especially funny since Xel Writer has run defense and has been involved with people like Canonseeker and Lilith Fairen, both serial harassers in the FNDM and you seemingly didnt care.

You and your buddies are crashing out because one of your (extremelly toxic) buddies got their work covered? Really? You are holding a flame for the guy that pretends to be nice but behind closed doors conspires to get peoples accounts banned with false accusations and report campaigns? Something that Xel organized with Lilith?

You people have no moral high ground if you are stanning someone like Xel.

[asm5129]

Seems like you’re the one “crashing out”, buddy.

Also, these don’t mention any of the things you just accused Xel of. They’re just targeting the positive things they’ve say about RWBY.

As such, you have made no actual argument against what I said.

[dextixer]

What argument am i supposed to make? You made no arguments. All you said is that Celtic covered Xels videos. He has. is there a problem with that? You yourself were apparently going to cover Celtics videos so where exactly is the problem?

Is your argument that Celtic cant make videos that cover Xels? Or is it that you dislike the thumbnails? In which case, if thats all you have, then lol.

[kapustoed]

I think it's just so fucking funny that dude made 4 and even 6 hours long videos about debunking some positive videos about RWBY which are about 9 and 40-50 minutes long.

[dextixer]

If your biggest problem with someones videos is "They are too long", then im afraid you have terminal zoomer brain. You dont have to broadcast that to the world.

[asm5129]

Aw man. Well, you got us. Hypocrites with Zoomers brains. We are so wrong to suggest a guy with nearly 20,000 subscribers should be using his platform more responsibly.

Let’s pack up and go home everyone, Dex won the argument.

[dextixer]

What the fuck are you talking about? Its 20k subscribers. Hes a dude that makes youtube videos talking about media, and that includes RWBY. How is him covering the nonsense that Xel says "not using his platform responsibly"? Do you people have an actual argument or is it really just you being mad that a buddy of yours was covered by another youtuber?

This is what youtubers do. If you want to defend Xel, just say that you dislike how your friend got criticized instead of pretending that this is some kind of "higher cause" about how "youtubers should use their platforms more responsibly".

Fandom activity is not activism, get over it.

[asm5129]

I was trying to give Fixing RWBY an honest shot just so I could best have my own arguments concerning it, and while I still plan to make my way through it i was using nitter to scroll through his posts on twitter and found out that he has repeatedly targeted @tumblingxelian personally. And not in the sense of discussion or concern like my work on hbomerguy’s video—no, this is mean. Spiteful. You can tell by the posts and the thumbnails alone that this is not about anything but being angry someone makes an effort to regularly praise the parts of RWBY they love.

Any good faith i was attempting to go in with (on principle, and to have the most objective criticisms of the material rather than merely taking common FNDM criticisms as my own) has been lost by this discovery.

To me this is far more damning of his character than a shitty fanfic.

https://nitter.net/Raymond_McNeil/search?f=tweets&q=Xel

[dextixer]

You are mad that he covered and criticized videos of another youtube creator because hes your internet buddy? Really? Talk about thin-skinned. Its especially funny since Xel Writer has run defense and has been involved with people like Canonseeker and Lilith Fairen, both serial harassers in the FNDM and you seemingly didnt care.

You and your buddies are crashing out because one of your (extremelly toxic) buddies got their work covered? Really? You are holding a flame for the guy that pretends to be nice but behind closed doors conspires to get peoples accounts banned with false accusations and report campaigns? Something that Xel organized with Lilith?

You people have no moral high ground if you are stanning someone like Xel.

[asm5129]

Seems like you’re the one “crashing out”, buddy.

Also, these don’t mention any of the things you just accused Xel of. They’re just targeting the positive things they’ve say about RWBY.

As such, you have made no actual argument against what I said.

[dextixer]

What argument am i supposed to make? You made no arguments. All you said is that Celtic covered Xels videos. He has. is there a problem with that? You yourself were apparently going to cover Celtics videos so where exactly is the problem?

Is your argument that Celtic cant make videos that cover Xels? Or is it that you dislike the thumbnails? In which case, if thats all you have, then lol.

[kapustoed]

I think it's just so fucking funny that dude made 4 and even 6 hours long videos about debunking some positive videos about RWBY which are about 9 and 40-50 minutes long.

[dextixer]

If your biggest problem with someones videos is "They are too long", then im afraid you have terminal zoomer brain. You dont have to broadcast that to the world.

[dextixer]

Still being a pathetic loser huh, Dex?

If i am to be frank, the only pathetic people are the ones hiding behind anonymous messages.

[asm5129]

I was trying to give Fixing RWBY an honest shot just so I could best have my own arguments concerning it, and while I still plan to make my way through it i was using nitter to scroll through his posts on twitter and found out that he has repeatedly targeted @tumblingxelian personally. And not in the sense of discussion or concern like my work on hbomerguy’s video—no, this is mean. Spiteful. You can tell by the posts and the thumbnails alone that this is not about anything but being angry someone makes an effort to regularly praise the parts of RWBY they love.

Any good faith i was attempting to go in with (on principle, and to have the most objective criticisms of the material rather than merely taking common FNDM criticisms as my own) has been lost by this discovery.

To me this is far more damning of his character than a shitty fanfic.

https://nitter.net/Raymond_McNeil/search?f=tweets&q=Xel

[dextixer]

You are mad that he covered and criticized videos of another youtube creator because hes your internet buddy? Really? Talk about thin-skinned. Its especially funny since Xel Writer has run defense and has been involved with people like Canonseeker and Lilith Fairen, both serial harassers in the FNDM and you seemingly didnt care.

You and your buddies are crashing out because one of your (extremelly toxic) buddies got their work covered? Really? You are holding a flame for the guy that pretends to be nice but behind closed doors conspires to get peoples accounts banned with false accusations and report campaigns? Something that Xel organized with Lilith?

You people have no moral high ground if you are stanning someone like Xel.

[asm5129]

Seems like you’re the one “crashing out”, buddy.

Also, these don’t mention any of the things you just accused Xel of. They’re just targeting the positive things they’ve say about RWBY.

As such, you have made no actual argument against what I said.

[dextixer]

What argument am i supposed to make? You made no arguments. All you said is that Celtic covered Xels videos. He has. is there a problem with that? You yourself were apparently going to cover Celtics videos so where exactly is the problem?

Is your argument that Celtic cant make videos that cover Xels? Or is it that you dislike the thumbnails? In which case, if thats all you have, then lol.

Also, weird how you just ignored what Xel himself has done and how he has and is still contributing to toxicity in the fandom by supporting Canonseeker behind the scenes. For people who claim to be so worried about toxicity, you seem very blind to it coming from the people you like.

[asm5129]

I was trying to give Fixing RWBY an honest shot just so I could best have my own arguments concerning it, and while I still plan to make my way through it i was using nitter to scroll through his posts on twitter and found out that he has repeatedly targeted @tumblingxelian personally. And not in the sense of discussion or concern like my work on hbomerguy’s video—no, this is mean. Spiteful. You can tell by the posts and the thumbnails alone that this is not about anything but being angry someone makes an effort to regularly praise the parts of RWBY they love.

Any good faith i was attempting to go in with (on principle, and to have the most objective criticisms of the material rather than merely taking common FNDM criticisms as my own) has been lost by this discovery.

To me this is far more damning of his character than a shitty fanfic.

https://nitter.net/Raymond_McNeil/search?f=tweets&q=Xel

[dextixer]

You are mad that he covered and criticized videos of another youtube creator because hes your internet buddy? Really? Talk about thin-skinned. Its especially funny since Xel Writer has run defense and has been involved with people like Canonseeker and Lilith Fairen, both serial harassers in the FNDM and you seemingly didnt care.

You and your buddies are crashing out because one of your (extremelly toxic) buddies got their work covered? Really? You are holding a flame for the guy that pretends to be nice but behind closed doors conspires to get peoples accounts banned with false accusations and report campaigns? Something that Xel organized with Lilith?

You people have no moral high ground if you are stanning someone like Xel.

[psyga315]

Every time I see a post praising RWBY reactors, I always think of the time one of them got bullied into not watching it anymore because they disliked Bumblebee.

[dextixer]

It never ceases to amaze me how despite people denying it so often, the RWBY FNDM is so cult-like.

They reveal that they are dependent on reinforcement and lovebombing. If a RWBY reactor watches the show and agrees with the FNDM (They dont mention that they influence and try to influence the reactor) then they are beloved symbols in the community who will see at least an initial burst of support which will eventually shrink.

They reveal that they think that people who criticize the show should be "punished", but not just punished in any way, no, they should be specifically punished in a way that cults punish their own, through social ostracization and by showing them how "happy" the cult is without them.

Whats worse is that on twitter these people target mentally ill teenagers too, specifically targeting people that are easier to influence.

And yeah, Alicia is an example of what happens if the creator does not just blindly agree with the FNDM.

[psyga315]

Funny for him to say that because...

He got banned for being toxic positive.

[dextixer]

Something that i will touch upon is that Zam is quite full of shit. The problem with forums and biased moderation is that if a fanbase, or certain parts of it learn to play "within the rules" (with a helping of moderator bias), they are allowed way more leeway to insult others.

This bias has and still exists in most RWBY FNDM spaces. A RWBY fan will either outright say (rare) or just go around the edges implying that you are either a nazi/fascist/homophobe etc. They will mostly avoid saying it directly but be very general, for example "If you believe x you are y". Or they will be passive aggressive, imply that you are stupid or illiterate for basic disagreements. They will be polite of course.

If you respond in the same tone, and are known to be critical of the show, you will instantly get clipped by the moderators. If you get attacked and even ganged up upon in the comments, those attacking you will not get punished, but you will if you defend yourself and god forbid, lose your patience.

Lets say there is a rule to not generalize the fndm. Moderators will make sure to enforce it when talking about the positive FNDM, but bringing up and generalizing RWDE for example? Thats free game.

The fact that someone is critical of the show is seen as inherently "disruptive". While this applies to all RWBY FNDM spaces, r/RWBY was the perfect example of that. They directly admitted to me after the banning of all r/RWBYcritic users that the reason they did it was not because of the bigotry accusations (those were made up), its because they did not want to moderate the subreddit and because the fans could not behave. Because if someone was critical of the show, the fans would eventually turn every conversation hostile.

But moderators of FNDM spaces do not see the fans being hostile as a problem, they see that the existence of criticism is what is causing such a response, and thus they will target the critics while thinking that they are "fair".

Toxic positivity is not just about aggressive fans being so into their show that they start attacking those that do not like it as much, it also manifests in more subtle ways, like for example the belief that anyone critical is inherently disruptive and thus has to be moderated more strongly, which eventually results in the making of a echo chamber by the removal of anything perceived as negative.

If you are hostile as a fan, it is seen as a "good" behaviour by moderators, you can get away with things that would be considered rule breakages, but it will be ignored. But if you are critical of the show? You will be under a microscope for even the most minor infraction.

The goal, of course, is to remove anyone critical of the show, because the fans of the show are not critical, and i wont accept any "No, we have criticisms, actually good ones unlike you" bullshit, because thats all it is, bullshit said by fans of anything.

Because if you press these fans on anything they are "critical" you will find out that the criticism is barely skin deep or that they dont even believe it, and its just a talking point, an excuse. Zam is a perfect example of that, because to THIS DAY he is still pushing the "WF is actually about the IRA" bullshit when the creators of the show said its about civil rights.

[dextixer]

https://www.tumblr.com/sheenaduquette/807212260695097344/httpswwwtumblrcomsheenaduquette8069355734231?source=share

I have no words

There is little else to add besides just simply noting a fact. Remember that all of the people who defend RT, a mismanaged and now defunct company. Remember, that when they praise Monty, when they say that they dont want his name to be used to criticize anyone involved in the show and the like, that they are just simply pretending.

RT managed to create such a massive parasocial relationship that these people will literally use Monty as a cudgel to defend the company. These are the people who pretend to care about corporate abuses but will diminish and ignore any kind of complaints from workers.

RT managed to create a genuine cult that will completely ignore all of the values that they espouse if it means defending the corporation.

They will pretend that RT was indie after V3. They will pretend that all of the worker abuses were lies. They will pretend that Shane lied about everything. And now that Sheena has come out and pretty much confirmed Shanes words, they will tar and demonize her, the wife of the shows creator whose name they use to defend a souless corporation. The wife that was involved in the creation process.

There is no reasoning with RT fanatics, and by extension RWBY fanatics. Let them live in their delusional land, because that delusion is the only thing they have left.

[rwby-confess]

Confession #1565

[whiteknight-week]

Good day everyone, we now have the prompts for WK Week.

Two prompts for each day. Have fun, be creative, and see you in May.