Sorry but I need to rant about this real quick cause Iām genuinely so pissed
Journalists need to stop airing out fan works.
I'm sorry, but it's so fucking weird. Like, first it was that article about that show The Pitt that had an article made by The Cut, and now it's that show Heated Rivalry that had an article made by New York Magazine where they had fanfics from both shows posted in articles, and like, I haven't watched either one of those shows, but it's so weird!!! Like it's such an invasion of privacy!!!
These creators made these works with the intent that those part of those fandoms have access to this content, and to see big-name companies posting and airing it out and now having it revealed to an audience that the creator did not know about is genuinely so fucked up.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I know that some writers who made fanfics took down their accounts entirely because they had their works linked in an article like this and started getting harassed by people who didn't like what they wrote, and that's so messed up.
Like, these journalists need to understand they are not part of fandom, and so they don't understand fandom etiquette, and that one of the rules of fandom etiquette is you don't go blasting shit like that because 1) The author/creator didn't consent. 2) The person who is the subject of this fan work is now aware of this, and now you maybe just made them uncomfortable because now they know this shit is out there and they can't do anything about it, and 3) it's just embarrassing because no one writes fanfic and is like, "Oh man, I hope the person I am writing this shit about reads it." LIKE NO!
And it's not just fanfics, but I remember when this actress, McKenna Grace, who is going to be in the new Hunger Games movie, had it aired out by this interviewer that she made fanwork of Josh Hutcherson/Peeta, who is quite literally HER COWORKER. Not just that, the interviewer TOLD JOSH before they even interviewed McKenna, so they didn't even get her fucking permission!
Like, I'm sorry, but y'all suck at your job because every interview nowadays and a lot of articles for things like movies are just so (dare I say) tiktokified that they're just trying to get clips and viral moments that they're not even doing a good job!
It's so invasive and so disrespectful, and I need these journalists to actually think because they are causing so much damage to fandom as a whole, especially in a time where shit is getting banned.












