I really like the joke that used to go around along the lines of "half the Scaranation migrating to be lyney fans" (or something adjacent) because you look inside the hat we all sit inside of like crabs and it really is just like that.
Theres a large portion of Lyney fans that literally do not get his character at all, yet parade their obsession around confidently. The nuance he has; his self-dehumanisation (this might be more niche), his self-doubt, his lack of identity, his underlying possessiveness, his isolation, his suicidal nature, his selfishness (niche observation too, I think?), even something as basic as why magicianry is so precious to him. All they see him as something to sexualise and simp over, just like how some Scaranationers act. They infantilise him and condense him down to a "gay twink" without a single care in the world. Force him into whatever image fancies their attraction to him. It's like they do it on purpose with how bad it gets.
Truly, when people joked about that, they were doing excellent foreshadowing.
[ *camera pans to lohen* guess who's up next. ]
