So, I have to talk about this. I can't keep quiet about this since it's very unacceptable behaviour from the fandom.
Two people I follow on my rp account and my main account had to turn off their asks because of this behaviour, and I don't want to happen to anyone else. I'm going to talk about it.
Tw: Mentions of Pedophilia and child x adult "ships", brief mentions of child sexual abuse and child rape.
If you don't know what's happening, basically messed up people are going to people's inbox and very triggering stuff about Harley Sawyer by believing he is a pedophile without any proof he is pedophile.
These people who had turn off their anon asks had posts about how uncomfortable with Dr. Sawyer x Quinn Navidson (the child orphan who becomes Yarnaby) shippers on their account, and they don't want them interacting with their accounts.
It's very understandable because proshippers/Darkshippers are romanticising/sexualizing pedophilia into this "dark romance or taboo love story" when pedophilia being turned into a "Taboo love story" is already a problem in fictional media (Example: Lolita with filmmakers in Hollywood make this story that was based on the author's real sexual child abuse into a sexy taboo love story. Like look up, Lolita, and you will see these films with very sexual posters for their film or look up Lolita vladimir nabokov and go onto images. You will re-release this book with very sexual covers)
Pedophilia is very triggering topic that needs to be handle with respect and care in stories because it's a real thing that happens everyday in real world, seeing people sexualizing it or romanticising it is very gross and tone-deaf so many people aren't going like see it nor want have proshippers/darkshippers interacting with their account
Instead of you know, seeing this post or reblogs from the post and blocking them. They go onto these people accounts and harass them by saying slurs or triggering things about Dr. Sawyer.
The only "proof" (and say that in quotations because of it isn't real proof) they have is that Sawyer manipulates the children in the orphanage as "proof" he is a pedophile.
While Sawyer manipulates everyone, adults and children. He manipulated Stella in the tape about Stella finding out about BBI/Bigger Bodies Initiative and talking to Leith about it.
Sawyer told Stella (Grown woman who cares about the kids) that Bigger Bodies Initiative is doing good for the children and is going to help so many children when it doesn't. It's all a illegal human experiment for "progress"
Sawyer used Stella's caring nature for the kids against her. It is mostly likely why Sawyer and Playtime Co. uses orphans children for the cruel experiments because they have no parents, so suspicious isn't going to be linked to Poppy Playtime Co or the higher ups (Leith, Eddie, Stella and Sawyer)
I mean Poppy playtime Co is willing to feed their employees under the false security of a gift thing (if I remember correctly) to Boxy Boo if they found out about Bigger Bodies Initiative even feeding dead corpses that was killed by a bigger toy to Boxy Boo to avoid suspicious.
Sawyer is meant to be a mad scientist trope. He is a villain, after all. Just because he manipulates children doesn't mean he is a pedophile!
This situation reminds me so much with William Afton with some parts in the fandom thought he raped the missing children because if I remember this correctly, one of official fnaf artists made a fanfic about at the time Purple Guy raping the missing children before killing them or after killing them and since they were official artist they genuinely thought this was canon. They also thought William was a pedophile from another Fnaf official artist who made a comic (a fan made comic) with a page of William afton looking outside of the window in the pizzeria where there was a there was a little girl character bleeding because she hurt her leg in playground, the girl looks at him and says "Don't you want to eat me?" (or something along those lines) is what to seem to be a very seductive manner because the artist clearly drew it to be like that and William saying "Come to Daddy..." or something like that while licking his lips 🤢 and some fans thought it was canon.
When in game, William is a child murderer that's also a mad scientist with ghosts (i do not know what it is called) to collect remnants that comes from agony from ghosts to cheat death because he is selfish if I remember that correctly.
If you can't respect someone's basic boundaries and have force your disgusting and triggering headcanons onto those people out of spite then you are the problem.
People who are like me who are uncomfortable with proshippers/Darkshippers interact with their account do not owe you to give you a free card to allow you to interact with their account.
I was going to talk about this on my rp account but I didn't want to get those types of gross asks.
So I made this account, and I gave a username to it and gave it a look so people don't think I'm a bot or something like that.
Side edit: This isn't new, Proshippers/Darkshippers do have a disturbing reputation with not respecting boundaries. I saw a whole tumblr post from a proshipper/darkshipper in Poppy Playtime fandom when chapter 4 came out about how horror artists who have Proshippers dni in their bios should accept proshippers onto their account.
I also saw on Twitter when I looked up my account on other account. Two proshippers/darkshippers were talking about proshippers and "Antis" they call people who don't like proshippers and one of them linked a video I made on tiktok that I made back in 2023 when I was a minor explaining about a term they used called "Comshippers/Comship" because I put it on my old dni list (before I updated it since it was quite messy) and had explain what it is back then so i made a video.
BTW these proshippers are ADULTS! This proshipper who shared this video called it gen z brainrot.
I have blocked these disgusting grown adults but I still find it a red flag that they are so obsessed with complete strangers online who are uncomfortable with proshippers/Darkshippers.
They act like it's end of the world if someone doesn't want to have them interacting with their account. They think people owe them to accept them despite the fact they sexualizes/romanticise real life abuse that happens everyday in real life.
Yeah, proshippers/darkshippers are more than "Fandom discouse", they are genuinely dangerous people because no person in a right mindset will break someone's boundaries online or in real life either if they are a stranger online and and the proshippers/darkshippers have this parasocial relationship with people who are uncomfortable with proshippers.
It can be quite dangerous because these proshippers/darkshippers can easily dox people who are uncomfortable with them simply because they don't want these "shippers" to interact with their account. (That's has been doing cases where people online got doxed when the doxxers revealed those people's personal info, including the information about their own family members)