The Ben 10 Memelord Archive

Across fandoms it's real common honestly to see white characters being babied by the fandom and for characters of color to face disproportionate hate. And before you list all of Kai's flaws in indignation I'm not telling you she doesn't have any flaws.

I'm saying that Kai is picked and prodded for every flaw canonical, imagined or interpreted from perceived subtext. And that looks sus next to Ben who gets to have fan theories and headcanons that minimize and justify all of his problematic behavior. With Benkai- Ben doesn't hold any blame. It's all on Kai. Because Kai is brown, female and snarky. And that makes her an ample target to carry the blame for the combined toxicity of two people that don't like each other.

In this fandom it's fine to relate to Ben- flaws and all. But even saying that Kai is remotely positive at all is met with derision. Even if the person saying it is DJW. I feel like I have to preface any positive content about her with an acknowledgement that she's not perfect and it's ridiculous.

Disclaimer: Ben is my all time favorite character in fiction. No, I don't hate him, I just don't like how some (not all) Ben stans treat him like he's this perfect angel.

Am I upset that people call Ben a sociopath, a narcissist, and a psycho?? U M Y E A H. It's straight up ableist and going way too far. But dare somebody say, "I don't like how Ben acted in this episode" y'all then proceed to call them Ben Haters and (omfg I hate this word) delusional.

Mfs will fight tooth and nail to defend him when he's clearly in the wrong like...he's not gonna jump out the screen and thank you 😭 let Ben fuck up loll

basically certain Ben stans were complaining about Sarcastic Chorus' video on BenxJulie when it first came out, and then saying that Julie was toxic and Ben was perfect, and anybody who doesn't say Ben is perfect are delusional and bla bla bla...

And it only got worse when the BenKai vid came out.

It gets especially frustrating since there is no excuse for Ben’s regression back to being the 10 year old smartass he was in AF and UA.

True, teenagers do dumb shit. I was a teenager and I did do dumb shit. All of us were teenagers and we did do dumb shit. However, at the end of the day, you have to own up to your mistakes and make it up to the other person. With Ben? With a rare exceptions here and there, he really didn’t own up to the dumb shit he did in his relationship with Julie.