This post was made in relation to Pyroscythe's recent shipping boundaries statements and just the general community around that group of CC's, but honestly its broadly applicable to most streaming SMPs which is why it's pretty vague.
I think that it's fucking weird that MCYT content creators are trying to police fandom shipping. Honestly, I've found the encroachment of CCs into fandom spaces uncomfortable for a while now. If you're going to be creating content, then there has to be a degree of separation between you and the fans. You can't be the creator of the source material and also a member of the fandom. You just can't. It absolutely encourages parasocial relationships. You can't be hanging out with the hundreds or thousands of people who are consuming your content to pay your bills because you guys aren't. friends. This is why I tend to shy away from streaming SMPs. The CCs and fans are just uncomfortably close to each other. It is weird to be preying on your fans like that, ESPECIALLY if you know that a lot of them are younger and don't have a developed sense of boundaries.
This brings us back to the policing shipping. Don't get me wrong, CC's should absolutely create boundaries around shipping and how their characters are portrayed. But a boundary should only affect you and the fan content that you immediately interact with. You can't tell a fandom to just not ship any of your characters because you shouldn't be that closely involved with the fandom in the first place!! And it's weird to try and police people like that. "Don't send me NSFW art of my character and make sure to tag it with my blocked tag" is a completely reasonable boundary to set. "Never create NSFW art of my character because I WILL find it and you will be banned from my community" isn't a reasonable boundary to set. That's bordering on encouraging fandom witch hunts (which are already a big enough problem) and censorship. I'm going to say it -it's parasocial on the CC's end to try to police their fandom like that. If someone has made a reasonable effort to make sure that a CC never sees the fan content they made, then it is none of the CCs fucking business. If a CC makes no effort to avoid or even goes out of their way to find fandom content that violates their boundaries, that is in no way the fan's fault.
Content creators and fandoms should stay separate. Because once a fandom reaches a certain size, it's impossible for a CC to have a relationship with everybody in it. And it's weird to pretend like they can. Because say it with me: you're encouraging your (often times younger) audience to form para social relationships with you.