A thing that bothers me now that the hlvrai fandom has kind of gotten into Freeman’s Mind is that, while I completely understand not liking the edgy early-2010s humor that was especially present in the first series, it’s really annoying when people claim that Ross is a bad person for making it. It’s even worse when people forget that he’s playing a character who is a BAD PERSON and assume that he’s like that in real life. Especially since he’s calmed down with the edgier humor in the series now
Honestly yeah people seem to think that ‘asshole character = author’s morality’ when really their beef is with...awful aspects of the show seen through a 2020 lens. I’m not saying to gloss over it but rather to understand that- that’s really kind of how edgy internet humor was at that time. Obviously we know much better now, though I think some people missed the memo.
I’ve stated it before I don’t really trust or endorse Ross or have much of an interest in his other works. I can tell a lot of effort was put into it- I don’t really care what he does as long as he doesn’t repeat gross shit again. Calling him out for 2007 shit is...really fuckin weird lets be real. It’s okay not to like him or fm, making a fuss out of the really old stuff now is a waste of time. Just curate your feed and go
Content warnings for fm are out there its like one of the Main things thats talked about in the tags.
Really all I’m doing is taking his character and doing whatever the hell I want.
hlvrai fandom itself isn’t the problem, though there is a huge issue with overreacting to extreme. That could be said of any fandom, but it’s especially bad there.
God. This hellsite isnt ready for my take on fandom nonsense. That’ll have to be an entire essay for another ask. Or maybe I can make it brief because I really Don’t have the time for bullshit
anyway tl;dr: ‘asshole character =/= author’s morality’ and also its ‘edgy outdated source =/= content creator’s morality’