I think at the end of the day “stolitz” is a product. It’s a carefully crafted mass appeal product. And a toy. They aren’t two characters with a deep love story, tear jerking kindness, and strong bond, they’re two dolls playing games with a lonely audience wearing blinders. The young queer audience starving for Disney content: but gay. That’s why their tolerance level is so high and their denial so high. It’s sad. But it just shows when people are starving they’ll eat anything. Even rot.
Stolitz is something that you are supposed to draw art of and then post online, write erotica about, project your own relationship fantasies onto, and insert any trope you can think of, “height difference” “class difference” “water element x fire element” “tsundere” “enemies to lovers” etc. And most importantly, buy from its mountain of merchandise.
Insert the two into all your other favourite stories: Rapunzel, Frozen, Hercules, Shrek. It’s designed between two different personalities and both are so shallow, they can be warped into any pair of characters and any ooc change can just be called “development.”
Vivienne medrano loves the fantasy of the two characters being in love, meant to be, happy, perfect for each other. Her stubborn pretense that she’s actually written a love story here, not horrific glorified rape and deep layers of toxicity and abuse, gives her self esteem. It owns the haters. Which is such a shame. She had a platform for an impactful story and message, and chose the most unchallenging, pro establishment anti-progress plot possible. If there weren’t millions of shippers, the story would never have become this.
This is all absolutely correct. Great analysis!
I want to expand a bit. I recently read an article about streaming services and the rise of passive content, or content you’re not supposed to watch. This is stuff designed to play because you forgot to turn off your TV after you finished watching what you actually wanted to watch. It’s content for the sake of content.
In this way, Vivziepop’s shows are a perfect reflection of this phenomenon. They are designed to create content: discussion, outrage, fan art, merchandise. It’s stuff whose primary purpose is to make more itself. It’s not meant to be consumed on its own or even consumed carefully.
I remember an early Hazbin Hotel trailer for Amazon had some title that read “From Viral Creator Vivienne Medrano” and I thought that was so insulting to her. But maybe that is the ultimate compliment.
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