Crazy Cat Lady in Training

Fandom Problem #14,478:

People who act like a fictional woman wanting kids is an affront to feminism as a whole. Feminism is supposed to be for women being able to choose whether or not they want to be mothers...not convincing everyone that NO ONE should be!

I promise you if game of thrones and all those gothic literature haven't normalized incest — if slasher and horror movies haven't normalized murders or psychological torture, if hot villains haven't normalized manipulation or toxicity by now — then silly fanfiction isn't going to normalize shit.

if someone ever lets fiction affect them enough to the point they think bad things in fiction are good in-real-life because they're portrayed as such, then chances are that, with or without the fiction they consume, they are already troubled and they need help.

there are things you can worry about that are actually worrisome, but what type of fanfiction someone writes or reads is not one of those things.

you can, of course, find some things in fiction unpleasant. you can choose not to engage with fanfics that make you uncomfortable. but you have no right to tell other people what they can or can't create and/or consume. that is not your business.

Fandom Problem #14,443:

*goes to AO3 into the search*

*filters a certain tag that squicks me*

*looks at the fics*

*puts another tag into the filter, that is basically the same as the first filter but with different wording*

*looks at the fics*

*puts yet another tag into the filter, which is again basically the same but with different wording*

*looks at the fics*

*puts one more tag into the filter, which is also basically the same but with different wording*

*looks at the fics*

*clicks on one fic that sounds interesting*

*has the thing that squicks me in there, which did not get fucking tagged*

Fandom Problem #14,456:

Why does every media where the main message is about love and acceptance have the most toxic fanbase?

Actually, I think I know why.

Fandom Problem #15,112:

"Why is there no complex, strong, independent, with lot of character development, lesbian, main character, woman in my man loving other men romance novels? It is sexist that there is no woman main character."

Seriously, why do you think there is no woman main character in a genre about men falling in love with, loving and fucking other men? Really think about it. Just deeply for a second, I think if you really really tried to do that, you would get why a story about men in a genre about men, does not have a woman as its main character or focus point.

Fandom Problem #15,114:

Fandom Problem #15,115:

Tumblr: WE WANT MORE MORALLY COMPLEX CHARACTERS!

Morally complex character: Exists

Fandom Problem #15,125:

"This character (A) is a much kinder person 😇 than this other really awful character (B) 😒"

"Oh, you mean the character who has had a loving family and never had any struggles in their life, compared to the child abuse victim who is suffering from trauma? Oh, yeah, such a struggle for A to be a more kind and trusting person than B has grown up to become. 🙄"

"But you do not understand, if A has had B's upbringing they would still be as kind and loving as they are now, because they are at the core a good person unlike B. 🥰"

None of the signup methods require a password. It only takes email and birthday. Minimizing time on the signin or signup screen makes it harder for people quitting to avoid relapse.

"Characters" on the website will send messages "on their own" (prompted by the site) to try to invite inactive users back after as soon as 1 day of inactivity. This is likely to force FOMO, or make users feel more like they owe the bots a response. Unhealthy attachment stuff.

Account deletion is an essential part of every service that should go smoothly, right? Right? Wrong. It takes 1-2 weeks for a Character AI account deletion to be finalized, and account deletion requests have a high chance to not go through if you're not using the app.

Rephrasing: People leaving Character.AI are pushed to download the app in order to delete their accounts, if they haven't already. This makes it harder for people to quit and stay gone. Failing to quit an addiction makes it harder to quit successfully in the future, so this feels like a feature, not a bug. On top of that, the delete account menu reads like this: