I've slowly become a NaruSaku shipper while reading the manga and looking through yours and other older NaruSaku shippers' meta. I started an account about Sakura a few years ago. At first, I was a multi-shipper (I'm that way for every fandom). I’m someone who’s like, “ship, let ship.” I have never felt possessive over my favorite characters or any character shipped with my favorite to the point of getting offended or upset seeing fanart of a ship I don’t like. I followed a bunch of other big Sakura accounts to get my feed to start showing Sakura/Naruto-related stuff. A lot of, if not all, are S/S shippers. Some of them are really cruel towards N/S, and some of them only ship NaruSaku as just another harem ship for Sakura. I feel like I will be harassed if I even like a post about NaruSaku. I’m afraid of getting rape or death threats from some dudebros on there. It’s not even that I hate S/S or N/H; a lot of N/S people have blocked me anyway (understandable since I started the account as a multi-shipper and followed some S/S shippers). I think I’ll just silently ship NaruSaku. :,,,))
All I can say is you do you. The fandom spaces nowadays are very different than what it used to be.
Generally, the NaruSaku fandom was and is (from my knowledge, at least), very welcoming of multishippers. However, with the latest developments in fandom culture, things have become a lot more difficult and different and sadly... radicalized.
As for getting death threats... you do realize these are just words from people who just want to use you as an outlet for their frustrations, right? But in essence, those words only have any type of effect over you if you let it?
I've gotten my fair share of death threats and not only over the course of the years. Did something happen to me because some rando stranger wished me dead? Nah. Here I am, still alive, still kicking. You know why? Because I learned that these people have zero power over me, only if I let them.
And I don't let them. Because if I think logically, there's nothing a rando dude or dudette on the internet can do to me, realistically speaking.
So really, you be you, unapologetically. Just have your heart and conscience clean, and that's it. The rest is history.
I used to be a multishipper too, once upon a time. But with the manga's development I stayed NaruSaku only. I got a lot of hate because of that, but yet, still I am, doing my own thing.
So really, don't be ashamed or scared of liking them, and others as well. You live your own experience and don't let anyone dictate how you should enjoy things.
Like I like to say: do no harm, but take no sh*t.
Anyway, NaruSaku is beautiful.
Continue to enjoy it however you want. Unapologetically.
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