Y’know what’d make for a good utmv video essay topic that isn’t just a rehashing of the same old “here’s the history and CRAZY fandom incidents of the undertale AU community!” and “I’m an outsider that researched undertale AU’s for a week and here are my thoughts” videos we’ve all seen at least twice?
The sheer amount of bizarre negativity that surrounds Underswap.
Like. Has anyone else realized just how much one of the most recognizable and popular AU’s in history is actively maligned and debated by the modern-day fandom?
The annoying asf fanonswap vs canonswap debates, the way that TS!Underswap and Inverted Fate fans actively talk shit about, belittle, and try to position these AU’s as the modern “replacements” for Underswap, the way that people still lose their shit at people for calling Swap!Sans “Blueberry” and equate it with “bad fanon” when the infantilization of Blue as a character has been a non-issue for several years now, etc, etc.
Like- good lord, does anyone else notice and get exhausted by just how goddamn negative people are about Underswap???
It is genuinely so infuriating that US, an AU that is somewhat designed to be simple, fun, and silly is either treated as inferior or as something that needs to be replaced with a more serious narrative or people will pretend that fanon has somehow strayed from this mystical lost “canon” version of itself that is somehow superior or more refined when it barely existed in the goddamn first place.
Underswap is fun and silly. People these days can’t respect fun and silly.
It’s to the point where hearing people act like “Swap” and “Blue” are two separate characters (when it’s just two interpretations of the same character) genuinely just pisses me off. Because I do not like having to justify myself for having fun and being silly!!!
It’d be nice to see a video talking about this, and not another 45 minute smear campaign on the UTMV fandom.
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