I've been thinking about the meaning of words in fandom and fandom culture in general recently and how the defenitions of terms have changed.
Couple of examples:
🌈🍖/ gay meat is a term for "pro-shippers", which to my memory used to only be reserved for people who supported actually illegal and disgusting ships like legit incest or pedophilia. Not just ppl who ship toxic relationships. Or whatever ppl define as "problematic" these days.
🚢The term shipping in general actually means pairing characters who aren't canonically together. So shipping eleven and mike for example isn't shipping because they're in an actual relationship.
And am I alone in thinking tiktok is to blame? In older fandom spaces like ao3 or tumblr I barely see these new uses of the terms or like extra sensitivity in general. Don't know what about tiktok is doing this but it is. Like we had these established rules and terms and now these kids come and change them?