Insane cartoon people fan

The Progress/Philadelphia Flag is another instance in which symbology knowledge would have created a better product than throwing colors at the board.

Because, as you mentioned, the new colors do have good meanings... But the way they were incorporated makes it look like a haphazard means of shouting 'Inclusivity!'

Saying that kinks are a "white person thing" is a common tactic to appeal to the masses of fandomite worms who's only understanding of racial politics is some harebrained oversimplification of usamerican racial politics and will obey like stupid dogs when you arbitrary assign something to whiteness. There is a very insidious flipside of these kinds of statements that participating in kink means you cannot be racialized (which does get employed in practice when these demons accuse people of being white for ???).

Fan participation in men of all ages is praised and normalized, and at worst ignored, but never really shamed (with some exceptions like adult men into mlp), but for women being allowed in fan culture at all cuts off around mid 30s or so to these people. It’s ultimately that men get viscerally upset over women enjoying and enriching their lives for themselves rather than having kids/marrying, because in their minds that is the sole purpose of a woman of that age and her doing anything else with her life is borderline criminal in their heads. That’s why you only see this exclusion applied to women, why the same tweens saying this will turn around and foam at the mouth for 30+ y/o male gaming YouTubers and the like. These internalized and normalized sentiments are being parroted

Depending on the fandom, men who participated were nerdy, obsessive basement-dwelling weirdos at best and pedophiles/sexual predators at worst. Not to mention, women in fandom are by in large attacked by teens and other women whereas men in fandoms just tend to stay in their own lane and leave each other alone minus a mutual shit-throwing contest.

When it comes to how people foam at the mouth for guys like Markiplier or dudes who do Minecraft and other similar games, they aren’t looked at as fandom participants. They’re looked at as accessible, minor celebrities. There is an intense parasocial relationship there between them and their young(er) audience. Not to mention, it’s helped by the fact that the gaming YouTubers are in some way attractive or if they’re faceless, their fans fantasize about how attractive they are combined with the fact that they’re making content for the audience.

Whereas with fanart, fanfiction, etc. the parasocial relationship is lacking. They’ve been gaslit into thinking that fiction, fandoms, etc. are some form of political activism that you need to do “right” because of people who prey on teenage rebellion and desire for justice but not lacking the wisdom to know where evil originates from. It’s why they call people any kind of x-phobic over ships, fiction, etc.

And because the parasocial relationship of idol or celebrity status is missing, they target them thinking that they’re doing some moral good in the world. Not to mention, older people in fandom tend to make the content they, themselves, want to see and not what these tweens and teenagers want to see. Because they aren’t making content for tweens and teenagers, they’re deserving of criticism because they aren’t as accessible as the 30-year-old gaming YouTuber who makes content for them. They’re old enough to know what they want, but not wise enough to navigate the fact that not everything revolves around them and their personal tastes.

Factor in the fact that it’s usually other women participating in these attacks too and well it isn’t as simple as thinking women should only be having children. In my experience and casual observation, most men in fandom tend to just stay in their own lane. Of course, you have those who attack women for just participating because they’re misogynistic, but their attacks are distinctly different from it being pedophilic, x-phobic, fetishizing, etc. They just go straight for and stick to the misogyny. There are very few if any moral or social justifications behind it like “protecting MLM” or “protecting children”, etc.

When it comes to how people foam at the mouth for guys like Markiplier or dudes who do Minecraft and other similar games, they aren’t looked at as fandom participants.

In short, the 30-year-old gaming youtubers get a “pass” because they’re not looked at as fandom participants.

like genuinely, I'm not even joking. There's an airport named after them.

And yet somehow this does not affect her life or mine in literally any single way. that's like how in the James Bond Jr. cartoon he's a secret agent because "his uncle James Bond was one" lmao

Fandom Problem #6976:

Liking a male character for crying is one thing.

Acting like Every. Modern. Male. Character. Who. Cries. Is the first ever is just annoying.

Plenty of male characters have done so in the past, on numerous occasions.

Especially when male characters in the past have been mocked and made fun for crying (e.g., Anakin Skywalker, Tobey Maguire Spider-Man, etc.), yet acting like it never happened before is seen as some kind of smart thing to do.

In addition to acting like they were never mocked before, when they were, and its sad how many act so surprised they were. Open up the conversation more.

It's also sad how boxed in this is. "We need to show young boys it's okay to cry!" Like that's the one and only issue they face.

Need to figure out some kind of exchange program where we swap people like this with sane people from Afghanistan or somewhere like that.