I love fandom. But sometimes I really hate it too. Did you hear that now antis are claiming that it was a Jonsa that hacked the other jonsas on twitter to try and make the anti/j0nerys fandom look bad? As if we need to do fake shit like that for them to look bad? Iām sure there are loads of nice people in their fandom, but quite a few of them donāt seem to be able to separate fictional characters from real people. Iām sick of it. I just want to love Jonsa in peace.
yes I heard that and Iām really quite angry about it. Not only is it accusing a REAL person of an illegal act (and only sort of ācensoringā their url), but it is also incredibly far-fetched. I mean it is quite an act to hack twitter accounts and to think that anybody would go to that length just so they can play the victim? How? Reason anybody?
A Jonsa Anti hacks Twitter accounts (someone who calls himself Jonsa moron is clearly a Jonsa anti), and real people are upset, are invaded in their privacy⦠What would be the natural reaction? The natural reaction would be:
OMG, this is so bad! I really hope it was not one of us and if it was I feel second-hand embarassment and I wish they were not part of our fandom.
What happened? Nobody said anything. Now, letās just assume that some of them live in their happy bubble and did not realise something happenedā¦. The only thing I am aware of was an anon GLOATING about the hack and the answer they got was just āI donāt really know how I feel about this.ā How can you not know how you feel about this?
But apparently some (again trying not to generalise here) had their narrative ready. Since it is the Jonsa fandom that is so ātoxicā as everybody knows, it could not have been a real Anti. It must have been someone from the Jonsa fandom who did this so we could play the victim. Just makes sense. Because if something does not fit into the narrative you made for yourself that something clearly is fakeĀ news? (Disregarding the fact that there is proof,Ā @undeadmanbun posted the proof).
This is classic victim-blaming, and Iām really, really angry about this.
I would @ the person who indulged in this by answersing to that ask if I had not seen that they have no awareness whatsoever that they did something really shitty judging by how they reacted then someone alerted them to the fact that there is proof that the hack was real.
Again, if you get an ask like that: Did you know that so and so (url censored) hacked twitter accounts so they could blame our side of the fandom, your answer should be:
How did you get that far-fetched idea anon? Is there any proof for that?
Instead that person turned around and joined in the victimblamingā¦. Instead of just admitting that like every fandom theirs has also shitty people. It is statistics, Vanessa, Susan or whatever your name. Any fandom bigger than say 100 has shitty people. We have as well, but most of us call others out for cross-tagging etc. - Honestly I would not realise if people send anons or jump on posts because I have Jonā¬rys blacklisted, I guess it happens, but hacking twitters or slandering real people is some next-level shit.
When I ask for receipts I never get an answer and some have the audacity to claim that you should just browse the Anti-dany tag for receipts, when D is a fictional character. And even if people outright hate D they do not hurt any real people by that.
And honestly, some of them really, really have a problem seperating their fictional favs from the actors, and Iām not talking about shipping real people like K1milias do - yikes - but also about the fact that the whole twitter disaster started because a D stan was angry that Sophie was doing promo, and Emilia not. Hello? Anybody there in that brain of yours?
When D&D go out with Emilia and have a nice dinner, this is somehow proof that D canāt die in season 8, because Emilia would never forgive D&D for killing off D? That is how some of them mush up fictional characters and the actorsā¦.
You know Iām sure there must be some nice shippers, and I even had the odd civil talk with some of them, but somehow Iām very close to conclude that these must be the exceptions that prove the rule.
And yes, I would like to love Jonsa in peace as well. But we are not going to get it. As I see it there are three possibilities:
Jonsa becomes canon in season 8. Then they will tell us. Donāt be bad winners. Donāt you dare be happy about this. You were just lucky you got canon because D&D love Sansa, because you paid money to HBO or you made a lucky guess based on your shipper goggles. And anyway the BOOOKS WILL BE DIFFERENT.
Jonsa is still only a possibiltiy after season 8, or Jonsa is just political, not romantic: Nothing will change, we will stay delusional teenage soccer moms without a job. .
Jonsa does not become canon: Why do you still ship it? You delusional teenage soccer momsā¦.
They dynamic of hating Jonsa (assuming the worst without receipts, condoning behaviour from the Jonā¬rys side of the fandom like fake blogs, hate blogs - whose sole purpose is to crosstag - and even invading personal spaces and illegal acts, and calling out Jonsas for daring to do things like posting in the Jon Snow tag or the Arya tag) is so set by now, that it is like a train. The Antis wonāt change track, whatever happens. It is sad.
All we can do is not to generalise however great the temptation, block the assholes, blacklist and produce positive content for our ship. And honestly, probably just donāt interact with the people who have no self-awareness whatsoever.
Some people stan a character who has no self-awareness or any remorse and it shows.
And Iām writing this with gritted teeth tbh, because Iām mad.