‘oh, but pineapple on pizza isn’t HARMFUL like this nasty thing these fans are doing!’ i hear you cry.
first off, pineapple absolutely is harmful and can even be deadly, if you are allergic to it. does that mean we should ban every food that someone could be allergic to? of course not! there’d be no food left! but we should LABEL foods, so that people with allergies can avoid things that are harmful to them, while the rest of us still enjoy it. and that is what tags on fanfiction and fanart are for! if you have trauma related to pineapple on pizza, you block ‘pineapple on pizza’ and ‘hawaiian pizza’ and you’re good! and if someone doesn’t tag something that could very easily be harmful, then yeah maybe kindly ask them to tag it, and if they don’t, you block them/stop buying their products. it’s that simple.
secondly, ‘but problematic content supports/normalizes/romanticizes/encourages-’ no it doesn’t. if it did, pretty much ALL entertainment media would be banned, due to ‘normalizing’ treating minors as adults, ‘encouraging’ using violence to solve problems, and ‘romanticizing’ breaking the law. only extremely young and/or mentally ill people do not understand that you should not copy everything you see in entertainment media, and these people are cared for by guardians who are responsible for moderating their wards’ media intake, the same way someone with allergies moderates their own food intake.
people who do horrible things are the only ones responsible for the horrible things they do. blaming content creators for ‘inspiring’ a crime is just as bad as blaming victims for ‘inviting’ it.
and it should be obvious, but an artist drawing a picture of fictional characters doing a thing is VERY DIFFERENT from a celeb actually TELLING their audience TO do a thing. if that is not obvious, i recommend asking your parent/guardian to restrict your access to the internet, for your safety as well as others’.
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