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I think there's something so funny to me that happens when people fall victim to conspiracy theory. It's where they apply malicious intent to everything about a situation where it really is just incompetence.

The thing is, I am and have been in camp: this is scary but let's see what happens because I trust Watcher who make the creative content I enjoy to protect the creative content I enjoy. I've openly criticize them for being sloppy about things on livestream and in comments on discord in the past and I have left fanspaces where there's someone at the helm who truly just sucks just by virtue of being an apologetic bigot or worse. However, never and not a single time have a felt that there is malicious intent in the stuff they get wrong and it's why I follow them.

This ongoing sentiment that Steven has some kind of unknowable evil hold over Shane is so toxic and reads so flat-earther when the truth of it is that all three of them did not go to business school, have almost zero experience in marketing but one of them had to step away from the creative field and shoulder the brunt of the business-side workflow.

Attitudes like this?

and this

I would be a little less irate about it if it weren't for the outpour of comparisons and the adamant belief that somehow Shane could never be involved. Even the tiktok comments going full body language analysis saying Shane was furious. Like guys, come on. Let's try a little hand at reality.

I love them but have you ever considered that they--all three of them, not just Steven-- just might be bad at admin and marketing?

And in terms of Ryan, the babifying of him; the sheer lack of agency the narrative applies to him is also bad.

Reblog while you still can.

Reblog while you still can.

Yesterday I washed my hair & today I was just playing around with my hair.

Also admiring myself in my own solitude 😌🥰☺️

First day of the Yasugap Week 2023 ⚓🌹