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All of my fandoms:

•Marvel

•Buzzfeed Unsolved/Watcher

•Disney

•Try Guys

•Thomas Sanders

•Supernatural

•Starkid/Tin Can Bros/Shipwrecked Comedy

•Taylor Swift

•Merlin

•Critical Role

•Smosh Games

•Winters Tales

•Dimension 20

•Percy Jackson

•Bards of New York

And probably others lol

This cop show in particular has direct ties to the LAPD. Plenty has been said before about the way the show attempts to rehabilitate the image of policing through the "a few bad eggs" narrative.

Just some context for you. As I said, I think you're correct that people are massively overreacting. But people's disappointment isn't totally baseless either.

what i've heard is there's a cop show involved, and people are upset that sam is "supporting cops"?

no pressure to answer, since you're already getting hate anons over this (???), but i'm just a little lost and not finding good answers.

thank you!!

Hiya!

Yknow I think I’m a little lost as well, but I think I can point you in the right direction.

The main article people are referring to is the recent Variety article, I’ve linked it at the bottom of this post.

From my understanding of the general situation, ABC’s show The Rookie is crossing over with Game Changer for an episode coming out relatively soon. The Rookie is apparently funded by the LAPD, which I didn’t know but makes sense. This is actually not the first time this tv show has done an internet crossover, there was one with Ryan and Shane from Watcher (and I don’t believe I ever encountered this volume of hate when that episode aired which is interesting to me). There was some unfortunate timing as they just sold out of merch that featured Brennans “laws are threats” speech from Fantasy High.

This along with general understandings of Dropout and Sam Reich’s political standings has led to a massive out cry from a pretty large section of the fanbase. Honestly, everything from hypocrisy to money grabbing to abandoning fans for mainstream to not having trans femme representation has been called out, it’s all very varied and I have my personal thoughts on the matter which I expressed some of on a post earlier today.

I truly understand people are upset, but I think it is misplaced anger, and people are now placing that anger in my inboxes, but honestly I think it’s funny that people respond to something they don’t agree with like that, so I’m all chill over here.

Hope that helps!

Before I say anything, none of you have seen the episode, so you have no idea what it’s about or how they include either show into their respective lores, this could very well be a game changer bit I wouldn’t put it past Sam

But maybe I missed the part where everyone in the world decided cop shows are inherently evil and any interaction with them makes the person automatically disgraced, and everyone starts declaring “I never liked them anyway” and “why would they do this to us”. If that’s the battle you want to wage, I feel like it’s possible to put that energy towards the multiple other mainstream cop shows rather than a relatively smaller media company still trying to get their name in that same mainstream

I fear there’s a sense of nuance that is missing and the performative shit coming from a section of the fan base especially on here is concerning me. I hate to say this in this political climate but not everything (SPECIFICALLY RELATED TO THIS SITUATION) is an attack on you. Sam Reich doesn’t know you or your preferences, he’s gonna make content that makes him money first cause Dropout is a company first. A good company yes, we like them a lot, but if you all are just now coming to the realization that the company Dropout isn’t your best friend that caters to you and your ideals only, then there are some parasocial tendencies you might want to address.