whether or not you like/support sha/adin doesn’t matter.
what matters is that despite everything the “bad” ant1s have done; all the harassment, abuse, actual physical violence, death threats to staff, trying to get them fired/ruin their careers, suicide baiting and threatening other fans, defacing artists’ hard work, sending shippers (often young ones, those who are csa survivors, or both) into panic attacks and cheering each other on, you still call yourself an ant1. you still associate with that toxicity. it sucks, but the name “ant1″ is literally synonymous with “the exact thing ruining this fucking fandom”. they terrorize both the fans and the staff and give us a bad reputation as an entire fandom. they take their “dislike” of a ship way too far. they’ve abused innocent people for two fucking years over FICTIONAL CHARACTERS AND YOU STILL CALL YOURSELF ONE OF THEM. THERE ARE NO “GOOD” AND “BAD” ANT1S. THERE ARE ANT1S.
if you simply dislike a ship, that’s fine. you’re allowed. but as soon as you call yourself an ant1, you support them, whether you think you do or not. they think they have a large portion of the fandom at their backs because of people who just call themselves ant1s but don’t actively turn the fandom into a shithole. it sucks, but they’ve tainted the name forever and clinging to it while chanting “not all ant1s” is not helping the matter at all.
I seriously hate that there are decent people lumped in with all of this who just want to dislike ships in peace and not interact with shippers. but as soon as those people call themselves ant1s, they indirectly back the people who sent those death threats. there are other ways to tell people you don’t like a certain ship. they fuel the fire they supposedly don’t support.
