I don't know who needs to hear this in the tags I'm tagging, since we're usually the ones on the receiving end of the harassment, BUT
If someone harasses you under your posts/vids/whatever because they hate the ship/characters in it… remember they're bumping up the engagement.
But not only that, they're telling the algorithm they enjoy the very thing they're hating on! And the algorithm brings them more of THE thing.
So they're essentially the ones getting screwed by their actions the most by: 1) promoting your work, 2) asking for more of the same in their recommendations
Once again, for all the hateful antis in the back who feel the need to police people & their creativity & might come across this since they tend to lurk in the ship tags:
🌟 BY HARASSING PEOPLE, YOU'RE BASICALLY PROMOTING THEIR WORK, THEREFORE THE SHIP/CHARACTER YOU'RE HATING ON. 🌟Hope that helps. ;)
And to the normal people: it sucks getting hate, but the haters end up getting the short end of the stick eventually, so there's some comfort in that. I guess hate asks are another thing, but if you're the creator and they interact with your content directly, they're essentially helping you and screwing things up for themselves. You can, of course, always block the haters, but I think it's hilarious to set them up for fuming over the same kind of content they detest by not doing that. Let them get the algorithmic karma. 🙏
But overall I'm just virtually holding hands with everyone who is sick of this shit; let people ship whatever they want. If you don't like something, scroll past it, close the tab, block the tags, create an anti tag and post in it, literally do whatever, but don't come at real people over fictional characters and act holier than thou about it. You'll just come across as unhinged jerk.