Loren

Congratulations Shiro x Keith

If I might scream into the void for just moment... This is the new bot tactic. The trolls and bots and ragebait tiktoks have figured out that this reliably gets a rise out of our little lolcow corner of the internet, trying to make use feel like it's our own community eating itself when it's really (like it has been for sixty fucking years y'all) just the fucking trolls and scammers again, picking on people for some anonymous profit motive or bullying catharsis. Starve them. Take a deep goddamn breath and laugh as you delete their comment like you're a bond villain whose trap they've fallen into. Fucking ignore them. Do not feed your high-effort responses into this low-effort bullshit. Clock. Mock. Block. Repeat.

Remember the Sheith post-it note saga. The slow discovery that there might be something legible there. The collective of shippers immediatly joining in on the speculation. Just a joint effort to make it in-character and angsty. Nobody was insisting these things were canon. We made a ship week using a quote from the post-it note saga. Fandom was so fun back in the day.

I miss when you could go into the tags of a fandom and find really cool people making shit purely for the love of it, nowadays you join a fandom and it's essential for your sanity to make 2-3 mutuals who get you and then get the fuck outa there as fast as possible or you’ll develop a deep resentment for it

and fandoms have always had a few people who you'd fundamentally disagree with and you could block them and move on with your day, but now there's ai art, fic, and a stream of complaining about how there's not enough of this and that, fanfic writers should do this, or I hate this interpretation and you should die if you have this headcanon, you're playing toys wrong. your fandom is dying? yeah, flowers wilt and die without water and sunlight too, support creators and complain to your mutuals in dms