Haven't been posting on here and this sucks to be what I come back saying but:
It's fine to dislike something, it's not fine to make it your audience's problem.
Yes, this is about the Pyroscythe thing.
This specific incident has already harmed people.
As someone with a partner, I wasn't even that bugged when I saw the original announcement on the discord server. I know damn well if my partner came to me about a fanbase shipping my characters that share both my name and appearance I'd try to find a way to comfort her
BUT IT WOULDN'T BE THREATENING MY AUDIENCE
First things first, shipping is something that comes with fame. If you make characters, people will want to play with them. If you're known within a space, shipping will happen. No matter how comfortable or uncomfortable you/people close to you are about it.
Second, setting a "boundary" and especially with the wording Pyro did, pushes the "actually, we don't want this to happen at all" which, and pardon me, is stupid. It's gonna keep happening, just because you wrote a message and made a stream saying "hey please don't do [thing]" doesn't mean people will stop doing it. They won't.
Third, the only way to enforce what was said is through harassment. I'm sorry, that's just the way things are, you don't place a bomb and act surprised when it blows up and kills someone and severely injures another 20~ people. It doesn't matter how much you try to say "please don't harass or hate on boundary breakers" they will. They will hunt them down for sport and sent hate, threats, and worse. This specific incident has already harmed people, and you can see many examples of it just by looking around enough.
Some kid out there is receiving death threats over this. Someone else is considering deleting their entire internet experience to shield from the overwhelming hatred. You're getting support but at the cost of the lives of people who built this goddamned place. Is this what you want for your community?
Fourth. Saying that (and I quote from the original announcement) "nothing that has already been created has to be hidden/deleted" doesn't do shit. Things that have already been created are being hidden/deleted. Not because the person who made them wants to or wants to support the boundaries, BUT BECAUSE OF SAFETY.
PEOPLE ARE GETTING HARASSED AND SENT THREATS AGAINST THEIR LIVES OVER CHARACTERS
Do you think any of this is okay?
There's more to it but I'm not one for ranting or controversy.
If this somehow reaches Pyroscythe the content creator (which it likely won't) or any of the "boundary defenders": go ahead. Disagree with me. Threaten me. Tell me off. But this is the truth. I still think this can be taken back, and it would be the sensible thing to do before it gets even worse. I'm not against the cc—their content is one of my only safe spaces left, but I can't and won't stand by this shit.
If you wish to, block me. But if you do that I want you to take that as advice for yourself and block whoever's content makes you uncomfortable instead of going/sending people after them.
