I’ve alluded to a topic like this before but I feel as though the amourshipping and or the Serena fandom’s toxicity is massively exaggerated or over blown. Now obviously with these fandoms being larger than most you’re just going to have not only more but louder problematic people and the amourshipping community has had its fare amount of controversies. I think the nuance that often gets ignored is that a lot of these involved smaller but louder people and they aren’t really representatives of how the larger community acts.
I understand why some might feel some level of animosity towards amourshippers because especially during xy’s run amourshipping was an almost inescapable and a lot of people in the amourshipping fandom were very intolerable towards other ships. But as xy has ended and Serena and or amourshipping has become more divisive people have seemingly stripped every ounce of nuance and the main consensus has become amourshippers and Serena fan bad. It’s completely poisoned the well and now unless you are in a specific fandom space for amourshipping you are basically inherently painted in a bad light for just liking a thing.
It’s gets to a point where people push certain narratives or rhetoric about amourshippers that’s just generally not true. Specifically when people insinuate that amourshippers are basically weirdo’s who project themselves on to the characters to try and live out these weird fantasies I guess. A lot of people don’t find issues with this as they probably feel like it’s punching up because amourshipping and Serena are still very popular,but it gets to a point where people are just fine with shitin on others for daring to be positive about Serena or amourshipping.
Like I tend to see a lot of people share there experiences with being basically alienated from certain general groups that talk about the anime. Personally speaking I’ve been dm’d before by random people that felt it was necessary to tell me personally why amourshipping is one sided or that Serena in the anime sucks.
I’m honestly just ranting at this point because it’s become very frustrating trying to talk about shit that you like without some dork in your ear trying to tell you that it’s actually bad and that you’re "delusional"
People just need to chillaxe especially because these are fictional characters and the fact that the anipoke fandom has some people that will call you out your name and then try and pull the whole "well amourshippers are the actual toxic ones" card is wild to me.
Anyway vegitofan out!:)
