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for anyone who hasn't seen erics post yet....👀👀

so I could do a post mortem on the show and discuss what kind of ending I would write that gives its characters actual agency or I could just release the Forbidden Post that's been sitting in my drafts since like a week after I made this blog

#kfam #polls are open put in your votes now!

it's the posting the notes app apology on his personal twitter for me

#kfam

to the 75 thousand people that have messaged or @'ed me yes I heard the news just give me a sec here okay

#the one goddamn day I'm not online #kfam #I choose today of all days to move how dare kyle be so inconsiderate

ronbegleyformayor

no long post about this but wrt to the subreddit thread I find it genuinely frustrating seeing all the fans of the show blindly defending its creator. do y’all not understand that people are complex and capable of creating something you really like while also kind of being dicks online

strangestarlightmusics

How often will Kyle call fans entitled? We should start a counter at this point

ronbegleyformayor

I won’t speculate on the reasons behind his thin skin when it comes to king falls am, but I do think that the following built up around the writers is an interesting case study regarding how fandom spaces can become one-sided and toxic

what bothers me about that thread is not that kyle was so reactionary, willfully ignorant to the actual criticisms in the comment, and unnecessarily mean to some stranger on the internet, but specifically the sheer number of fans of the show jumping to his defense at a moment’s notice

werehamburglar

i didn’t understand what y'all were talking about before, but i do now! jfc

ronbegleyformayor

for the sake of anyone who doesn’t know how reddit works (like me) here is the original post and kyle’s comment

#real classy kyle

*deep sigh* kyle shut the fuck up challenge. god if i as a creator start acting like that, i hope that somebody calls me on my shit because it ain’t ok. legit. he could have just said, sorry the pandemic has been very stressful so writing has been tough, we may or may not be continuing the show, sorry that you feel that way about the last episodes. that’s it that’s all he had to say. hell he didn’t even have to reply to it! christ all mighty- also i also work and have school and have personal duties but like, i’ve still had time to write?? obviously it hasn’t been consistent but like, taking time for hobbies isn’t unreasonable? especially when that hobby effects income of you and others?? idk, it just seems like a bullshit excuse to treat his fans like shit...🌲

I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again: my issue is not with the writers taking a hiatus because of coronavirus, and if that is anyone’s issue, I think maybe that indicates a misunderstanding of one’s own priorities. I get frustrated when I see people say “well I’m able to work and create at the same time so why can’t they?”. that’s not a fair argument to take. this global health crisis is an unprecedented event in the lives of most people on earth, and it’s important to understand that it has impacted different people differently. asking those kinds of questions 1. gives writers and diehard fans of the creators an excuse not to focus on relevant criticisms being raised, and 2. misses the point of why kyle’s behavior was shitty in the first place.

my issue specifically is that kyle is misrepresenting the person’s argument, and he does so by claiming that they have issue with the fact that the show is on hiatus, which is flatly not the case. they don’t even mention the hiatus in their original post. while I understand that the op of the reddit thread had also apparently voiced their opinions about the writers (but they edited them out, so I can’t speak to their content), it’s not really an excuse for kyle to not address any of the relevant criticisms op brought up. I mean, if he wasn’t planning on addressing them in the first place, he could have just not commented. instead he chose to behave like a child, and that really disappoints me.

finally, and I think most importantly, if (by kyle’s own argument) writers and artists don’t owe anything to the people that consume their content, then the same is true in reverse. fans don’t owe the creators of their show blind adoration, and they are allowed (and should be encouraged) to think critically about the content they’re consuming.

#kfam #I'm begging us all to have nuance here please #also op i'm not picking on you I've been asked these types of questions on multiple occasions

ronbegleyformayor

no long post about this but wrt to the subreddit thread I find it genuinely frustrating seeing all the fans of the show blindly defending its creator. do y’all not understand that people are complex and capable of creating something you really like while also kind of being dicks online

strangestarlightmusics

How often will Kyle call fans entitled? We should start a counter at this point

ronbegleyformayor

I won’t speculate on the reasons behind his thin skin when it comes to king falls am, but I do think that the following built up around the writers is an interesting case study regarding how fandom spaces can become one-sided and toxic

what bothers me about that thread is not that kyle was so reactionary, willfully ignorant to the actual criticisms in the comment, and unnecessarily mean to some stranger on the internet, but specifically the sheer number of fans of the show jumping to his defense at a moment’s notice

#hm as a disclaimer I don't know the content of the deleted portion of the comment they reference #if someone knows/has a screencap of what was said hmu 👀👀

no long post about this but wrt to the subreddit thread I find it genuinely frustrating seeing all the fans of the show blindly defending its creator. do y’all not understand that people are complex and capable of creating something you really like while also kind of being dicks online

#don't get the weird cult of personality!!#kfam #also just so no one twists my words it is also entirely possible to be on the whole a good person #while displaying dickish behavior online

kfam-tea

Drama on the subreddit lol with Kyle commenting a scathing response

Ah. Yes. I just checked and oh boy. I’m gonna make a full post on this when I get time but here is a link for everyone interested in the drama and a link to Kyle’s specific response.

And to add my own thoughts: while I haven’t read every single comment yet, I agree with Kyle’s sentiment... But holy **** did he go about that in the most condescending, ego-stroking way. -RBPS

#kyle log off the internet challenge #never seen an adult man with thinner skin before #op of the thread makes a good point about walt I've had a half finished post in my drafts about that for several months now #maybe I'll finish it..someday

artistictea

Real footage of Sammy do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do Stevens giving some advice to Ben on ep 26 :o)

#op this is one of the best posts about king falls am I've seen in my life

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#these are so cool !!#pete in his heeled boots is really sending me

they can’t really actually give us a bury your gays ending at this point right?? right???? please for the love of god tell me that after a year of waiting we won’t get a bad ending for ‘shock value’ please🌲

okay 1:

and 2:

dude I don’t know how to say this to you but we’re going to be lucky at this point if we get an ending at all

#kfam #your question really freaked me out btw I had to check their twitter feeds to make sure they hadn't made an announcement #or have they? am I missing something?

daysincetheindefinatehiatus

You've doing this for a while. Are you ok?

No. I’ve been sustaining myself on only fanfiction for over a year and while all of the lovely fanfiction authors provide me with content that is often better than the show, I NEED A CANNON ENDING AND IT BETTER BE A HAPPY ONE.

#I vibe too hard with this one lads