"Midnight's just around the corner..."

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¹Pretty sure it’s “party rockers.”³

²LMFAO’s “Party Rock Anthem,” Sorry for Party Rocking, 2011

around mid february of this year, abolish was asked a pretty uncomfortable question about a ship on stream, and from then and onto the next stream he made some statements about "updating his boundaries" and what people could and couldnt do with his characters

this obviously was not well received by peeps in tumblr specifically, im ngl i was not around to see the reaction twitter had to it, but sufice to say the discourse in here was pretty much similar to what we're seeing now

the core difference is that a few days after that, abolish came in with THIS wonderful piece of a stream, in which he first of all acknowledged his faults, and that he spoke without knowing the full context of what he was saying, and not only that but basically said we were on our right to be upset at what he had said. he event went over some fandom history and how boundaries as we see mcyts used them today came to be -something else i personally appreciate, is that multiple times he shuts down chatters trying to go "but your boundaries were so clear, why wouldn't they just follow it!". and in the end he goes over his new dni/18+ tag vs a general tag, and what his boundaries are for what should be on each

mcyt fans NEED to learn that it is not normal for the creator of a media to be so enmeshed with the fandom

it is not healthy, and it's not safe, for both the creators and the audience members

"i think newer mcyt fans dont understand creators just interact with the fandom, that's just how it is" IT SHOULDN'T BE. the line between creator and fans should be CLEAR AND BORDERLINE IMPERMEABLE, because if not, that's how an unhealthy parasocial relationship is formed BOTH WAYS

the creators can appreciate the fan creations, they can interact with them in dedicated spaces like meet and greets, they can contact fans to showcase cool fanart in designated spaces (be it lives, and such) BUT THEY SHOULD NOT BE IN SPACES MEANT FOR FANS

not even because of boundaries or shipping or anything, there are people who do NOT want to be perceived, who do not want their headcanons or theories to be seen and talked about by the people making the official version of it. LITERALLY any person coming from other fandoms will tell you how fucking bizarre it is to go into mcyt spaces and see the ccs openling hanging around the fans' spaces giving their 2 cents of everything in there

mcyt ccs are chronically online and THEY need to learn that THEY are not supposed to be welcomed with open hands in all fanspaces

THEY need to learn to put a limit on what THEY look up about THEMSELVES online

He is FAT.

He is HAIRY.

Wild how abusive artists like Micheal Jackson can have biography movies made and not a single mention of accused abuses or the subsequent trials will be mentioned.