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It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia S12E05

I remember that too, and it’s why I got out of the tags early in the season. I have certain people get information and reblog things for me/my dash now. I’m so beyond done.

I think the problem is, as mentioned before, these people don’t watch the show but Watch The Show. They insert what they want to see with their hashtag discourse. They have it in their minds that Charlie is trans and/or ace, so they look for things that prove it. They have it in their minds Dee is a lesbian, so they look for things that prove that. They think that Dennis is bi and in love with Mac, so they look for things that prove that. They twist any look between real life friends or actors or trust each other in that moment or some type of look of admiration or waiting to see where the bit of improv goes as A Look It’s Proof They’re Boyfriends <3 <3 <3 Confirmation bias is a real and potentially dangerous thing (see: the current America political climate). The same can be said for any shows. I’ve been having discussions with a few people in the last week involving Supernatural, Harry Potter, Sherlock, Glee, and a few other shows I can’t remember….none of which I was ever a fan of (sorry, internet & the world at large) but the types of fans and Fandom involved. Even things I have been involved in that involved real people but people treated like characters (the band Keane, the improv TV show Whose Line is it Anyway). I get that media is escapism and theorizing and wanting certain things to happen is part of being a fan and part of the experience, but it really easily can go too far.

In the months leading up to the premiere there were theories and people spreading crap and acting like they had all the answers. And so that became the accepted inevitable and real facts.

you make a HUGE DEAL of the fact people enjoy the possibility of macdennis when it’s not a big deal at all. just because you think macdennis is impossible (when they have specifically done things they said they would never do no matter what like make the waitress and charlie have sex) doesn’t mean people who disagree with you are stupid teenagers who should stop consuming the show because you don’t personally agree with them. people are allowed to enjoy the show however they want. why is this so hard to understand? why do you keep writing 20 paragraph posts about how it is LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE that lgbtq headcanons could never ever ever be canon no matter what and that people who think so are expecting too much? lots of people thought mac would never come out as gay (including the writers themselves) but look what happened? if this season shows anything, it shows that the writers are willing to allow character growth to some degree. saying that people enjoying lgbtq headcanons and thinking it could become canon is “dangerous” is fucking absurd. surely you can recognize that?

people are allowed to make theories and talk about what could have been. a small minority takes it too far and harasses the cast, but that’s their fault, and we have no control over that. obviously harassing the cast is a shitty thing to do and can’t be condoned. when it does happen, it’s not just ~lol tumblr fangirls~, it’s all sorts of fans, including reddit bros who are mad that rcg are a bunch of liberal cucks, because they’ve missed the point of the show entirely.