I've now reached the age where I'm just done with fandom drama.
"Did you know this character did this bad stuff?"
So it has an antagonist?
"Yeah but they don't get punished for it..."
Ok, there's lots of reasons why that could be you're not turning me off it
"The creator..."
Unless it's JKR level of using the work to cause harm I don't want to know I'm not guilty by association
"The ships are-"
Don't care
"Some fans are problematic-"
Cool I just won't be like that it's actually easy to just not be like that
I will happily discuss themes, characterisation, messages, heck even art style with people ready to engage with even an ounce of media literacy who isn't going to act like the characters are real and isn't aiming to demonise it for being problematic
In a similar way if you unironically make being '{media} critical' part of your personality and tagging system so you can moan about it with other people daily I'm going to block you.
I'm not saying never be critical, you absolutely should, I'm saying it doesn't have to be a whole stance and a constant activity to the point where fandom tags are full of it and you're arguing with fans for not being critical enough for you and hinting that fans must agree with X or Y to still like it.
I promise you that Problematic Show #234578 isn't so crazy offensive you need to spend that much energy on it. You can in fact just go 'I don't like it for these reasons' one time and reblog some other takes a bit and then move on to stuff you do like


















