The best thing about Willmack is the fact that those mfs are Gen Z because Gen Z boys donāt give two fucks about shipping actually. At my school the boys were all over each other and were very proud about being shipped by some girls, they grew up seeing it online so it didnāt faze them. I donāt want Will or Mack to see anything because thatās not fair to them but as two young handsome and talented public figures I know for a fact that they knew going into their careers that people will talk about them like that. My cousin works with the New Jersey Devils and literally they get briefed on shipping and how to navigate or respond to it if they want to. Teams have a way of shutting down what they donāt like, I donāt know how Mack and Will feel about it all but if they were that mad it would be stomped down by now rather than hyped by the media and even their team. Do I think they encourage it? Probably not, but they for sure are somewhere between amused by it or ignoring it, otherwise the whole thing would be stomped down by Sharks PR. I donāt know if people realize how much control the league and the teams have over their players reputations and what is said online. But I have heard enough stories from my cousin to know that modern shipping is either used or pushed away by teams. This isnāt like Louis Tomlinson and Harry Styles in 2012 where no one was prepared for how huge the ship got, Willmack have an entire public relations team that would have been prepared for shipping and briefed them on it. Iām not saying that makes bringing everything to X okay, just that rpfing isnāt the heinous crime everyone makes it out to be, especially when itās on the privacy of Tumblr
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thank you nonnie (and your cousin) for sharing all this info š









