The hazbin/vivziepop hate on Twitter can not be real, it HAS to be in my imagination. There's no other way. There's no way people are bullying each other, artists and a creator like that. It's one thing to dislike a show or it's creator, but calling vivzie UGLY and posting real life pictures of her, digging up ancient posts to bully her with AND just MASSES of people calling her a defender or fetishizer for not displaying everything woke enough. Ts can't be real. Yall realize that her shows are made by not only her right? That a lot of people work rlly hard on them, right? And if I'm already being "just honest" as a lot of ppl on Twitter say it, a lot of the "improved" redesigns I've seen by artists who shit on vivizies designs just show why they don't have a show but she does. This was the nicest way I could phrase it. I'm not a fan of her as a person, but I'm also smart enough to see that she was passionate enough about essential things to have it work in her favor.
Also as a person who touches grass and actually talks to people: you are allowed to see her stuff as bad representation, BUT I've had people, NT straight people talk to me about her shows and how much they like it and the dynamics between some of the characters who have something romantic going on who are of the same gender. This might not sound like much, but it does A LOT FOR us. Even if it's in an abusive, silly or unproblematic way it doesn't matter because it gets ppl to normalize queer relationships and that they also come in all forms (yes, good AND awful ones). And ppl online LOVE to say "so we are supposed to be thankful for crumbs???" YES??????????? ABSOLUTELY????????
Maybe I'm not woke enough for all of this but I feel like people who are more online than outside forget how awfuly HATED queer ppl are. How truly terrifying it is out there, and that popular media does affect people in real life and their opinions about real living people.
So SHOUTOUT to all the queer creators who make popular queer media that get shit on by their own community. SHOUTOUT to voice actors who maybe aren't even queer themselves but put their whole passion into voicing queer characters and making them fun and loved. Shoutout to all the storyboard artists, revisionists, background artists, sound artists, composers, writers and everyone else who worked as a team. I see all the effort.