I don't know if you've heard about this Beni, but some of the fans in the fandom on Twitter are harassing the staffs of MAPPA. Last week was the OST soundtrack, this week was the character designs, CGI, and every minor details. They reply hate tweets under the staffs' tweets, they tagged their accounts on their hate posts. It is infuriating and I am both embarassed and angry at these fans. And it's funny, because whenever I go to their profile to just block them, I found out that they are mostly new accounts (0 following!), troll accounts, which means they created THAT account for the sole purpose of spreading hate and bitching about MAPPA. It's insane how low can these people be! The lowest of the low form. It's okay to talk or post if they're disappointed but for the love of God, tagging and harassing the staffs is just SO disrespectful. I cannot stress enough how infuriated I am seeing them under the staff's accounts posts. They are absolutely an abomination to the fandom. I have to remind every manga readers that the anime IS made for anime audiences. We have the manga, that's our source material. Let the anime fans enjoy theirs. It's okay to give constructive criticisms but if fans are just complaining and whining and hating, one must learn how to shut the hell up.
I don't like aotwitter just because it's so toxic on so many levels, I just open it time to time whenever I want to see some updates to the official accounts. But to hell with these fans. This is why I enjoy Tumblr most especially YOUR community because the fans here are more chill and you don't tolerate if fans are being disrespectful. I absolutely love how you appreciate this new season and just really enjoying it. Maybe if they have the same perspective view as yours, maybe they'll see and appreciate all the MAPPA staffs has been doing.
hello anonie bean, ah yes unfortunately i have been informed about the type of activities that go on within the aotwt community and honestly i’m not surprised, just disappointed. i personally can’t speak for that community itself because it’s not my place, i’m not in it but i guess a little input on how i feel can’t hurt.
coming from someone that edits and has studied years of technological design, graphic design and visual communication to fine arts i understand how long of a process it takes to be proud and happy with your final product. i understand how much work, energy, time and effort is put into the final result. so i understand what kind of weight mappa is carrying upon their shoulders. especially with a deadline and the audience they cater to.
you have to put yourselves into the shoes of the animators. i can’t emphasise this enough. imagine being so excited to start this new project, putting countless hours, an enormous amount of hard work and fine tuning your product and finally being happy with it. only to get backlash on every single little thing you’ve done wrong from people who don’t even know, what it takes to do your job— yet they’re telling you how to do your job. that just doesn’t— no i can’t even, the audacity. imagine what it’s like to be told to go k yourself for animating something wrong, for removing something, for not using the right ost, etc. animators are humans, they’re not perfectly tuned machines. they have feelings just as much as a viewer, i can’t stress this enough. be careful with what you say. words leave marks. how would you feel if your own criticism that you use at them, was targeted at you instead? imagine the amount of stress they’re under, they’re only human just as much as we are.
constructive criticism is fine but i refuse to understand the concept of plain old slander. if you don’t like it— don’t watch it. simple as that. it’s their project, let them play around with it.
every other studio turned down aot but mappa studio didn’t, they chose to pick it up knowing how big this series is. appreciate them for just doing that alone— without them there wouldn’t be a final season. instead of complaining be grateful for what they’re doing and what we have left because one day, there isn’t going to be anymore attack on titan content.
mappa’s doing an amazing job with aot and honestly speaking they absolutely popped off and didn’t have to go off so hard but they did that— from animation to tiny little animation details, promotional art to even drafting concepts— chef’s kisses absolutely love them and their extraordinary team. they’re legends @ mappa you’re doing fking amazing sweetie— don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
the series is coming to an end soon, so instead of all that negativity, let’s just enjoy every second we have left with this spectacular storyline. from wit studio, to mappa studio to the man that created this phenomenal story, isayama himself— without them we wouldn’t be here. let’s make happy memories while we still can and appreciate what we have left 💗
