Post-Jibcon Wank Report
So initially, this was supposed to be called the Wank-tacular, full of screencaps and links to the shitty fandom behavior that went down this weekend.
But honestly, we’re all a little burned out on it.
We’ve seen some disgusting behavior, accusations, and downright lies to the point that we would never be able to fit it all in one post. We do have some screencaps/receipts, though, that we’re holding onto for reference. (OK, we included one or two.)
Leading up to Friday, people were doing their normal thing, being excited, wanking over the most recent episode, talking about Jibcon expectations. There was the usual amount of hate being thrown at Destiel and Cockles shippers.
Misha said something distasteful on Twitter, and made it worse by trying to explain himself instead of apologize. That didn’t fly over well on either side of the aisle. But actually comparing him to a serial killer? Too far.
But then it was announced that Jared wasn’t going to be at the con. Wank cranked up to quite possibly unheard of levels, and it got really nasty. There were a handful of Cockles shippers (Like, literally five posts) who expressed their excitement at the possibility of getting some extra Cockles moments. But people were not rejoicing that Jared was ill.
After the early excitement from that small handful of Cockles shippers died down, and they realized not only what they’d said, but also how bad Jared’s situation actually was, they quickly retracted their statements and went into full Support Jared mode.
People who are usually considered ”Anti Jared” because they criticize some of the things he does, came out in full support mode.
But that wasn’t good enough for the haters.
They had to harp about those five whole posts. They had to take things out of context and act like we were all evil, that there were TONS of Cockles/Destiel shippers wishing Jared ill-will, and were glad Jared was sick. (Most of these got shut down by lovely people over the weekend.)
One long anon to Nancy completely twisted everything and tried to claim that people were sending hate to Jared, that Cockes and Destielers were hoping for more Cockles at AHBL (Misha won’t even be there, he’ll be on his Gishwhes trip) and even claimed people wanted Jared to continue to be sick throughout season 11, just for more Destiel.
When asked for proof?
The people who are considered ”Anti Jared” by his supporters got called out for being 2-faced, and hypocritical. REALLY, people? Someone is sick, and these people are showing their support, and you have to rag on them for being SUPPORTIVE? JFC.
It’s like we can do nothing right in their eyes.
But anyway, shippers also got accused of “taking advantage of Jensen” during the con, and supposedly some “gross destiel questions” were asked. All we’ve seen so far is that one question about the preferred word use that was brought up by the show, “deestiel” or “casdean”. His response? “No preference.”
Someone also complained about the 10.22 fight scene question asked, but Jensen answered very thoroughly what he thought, even after saying “That’s a question for Bob.”
There are even reports of Jensen admitting to screwing up for his previous behavior regarding Destiel.
Haters even complained, called it DISGUSTING, when a person got a screencap from the show signed by Jensen and Misha. Really? It’s a screencap. But we’re just going to overlook that someone had this manip image made into a blanket, and signed by the entire cast. (I’d find a link, but I really don’t care to look for it)
Let’s see... Anything else I forgot to mention?
-Mod L
The only thing I have to add is that I saw a few people on twitter mentioning how crappy it felt to watch people get wincest manips signed, while they felt like they couldn’t have their destiel fanart signed because of the crap it’s caused in the past. It’s understandable why people feel hurt by this, but hopefully after Jensen’s comments people won’t feel like they have to be as ashamed of their ship or fanart at cons. It’s a step in the right direction, anyway.
-Mod E
