It is so fucking exhausting to partake in absolutely ANYTHING on the internet the last 5+ years.
Don't you get tired? Don't you want to be happy? Why must everything be an argument?
The cancel culture and lack of media literacy is the perfect hellstorm for the new-age purity culture.
You can't make one single mistake or you become public enemy no.1 of the week.
Every day people's lives are being dismantled because what?, they didn't refer to a fictional character by the "right" pronouns? Do you realize how insane that sounds? FICTIONAL.
And don't come at me calling me transphobic and shit, I am trans. Which is also insane btw, that I have to out myself to be taken seriously, and even then, that isn't enough for you.
You could spent half as much time as you do attacking strangers online– because you jumped to the conclusion that they are transphobes or misogynists without stopping to even ask if that was their intention or belief– you could spend all that extra energy helping the lgbtq in your REAL LIFE who ACTUALLY MATTER because THEY'RE NOT FICTIONAL.
Back to the purity culture bit, what I mean by that is; You expect everyone to be absolutely perfect by your own standard and you accept nothing less than. Anyone who slips up intentionally or otherwise gets burned at the stake with no chance to redeem themselves.
The internet is a place of witch hunts, the requirements to "be a witch" constantly expanding so you can weed out the most "sneaky" of the "bad people" and torch them before what?, they get you?, before they can explain? This is exactly the same pattern repeating again and again in all genocides that have happened in the world— the expansion of criteria to be vilified, that is.
And so far I've only talked about the real world and real people aspect of this whole topic. I still have more I could say about how you treat a fictional character better than the real human artist who made them. You all could stand to be reminded your goober isn't real and you can't misgender or hate crime them because they don't have feelings and again, aren't fucking real.
Viewers making content of their favourite characters can and will and have always changed innate aspects about the character (such as gender and age) in order to tell their own story. Yet here you stand, "correcting" their "wrong opinion" based on the canon, rather than understanding they are making their own story that they can relate to more.
If you police people on their own creative works rather than inquiring about your suspicions and concerns, I hate you, please block me because I don't ever want to see you in my comments.
So yeah, go perish in your pit of canonical purity culture and hate, you are why I don't make more content or talk about specific fandoms.
Putting on vibrate and shoving up my ass or whatever. Fuck.
