I feel like this shouldn't need to be said and I'm probably preaching to the converted in 90% of cases but I don't understand how the people repeatedly crossing boundaries can't see the repercussions of their actions?
Like meet and greets becoming ticketed events and just generally less frequent. Yes, venues were getting bigger but also people were acting weirdly and probably making the SFTH guys uncomfortable.
And then when people abuse the power they have to shout out because "it's an improv show", SFTH go from occasionally addressing it on stage as a joke to making a much more official statement about it in the discord - although I wish they'd done it on a more visible social media.
And now you have things like someone in the patreon comments saying Luke is bi (the posts are floating around on Tumblr if you want proof) which crosses a whole other line. What do people expect to happen from this? Because the more you cross lines, the less likely it is that they will do solo livestreams on the patreon or QnAs at all. Or maybe they will interact with comments less if reading them becomes uncomfortable.
I don't know where I'm going with this really, just trying to encourage people to think more than five minutes into the future when they do something because there are clear things that the guys have done in response to fan behaviour - understandable things, to be clear - and they are just going to keep doing that if they are forced to. The internet can unfortunately be a weird place and as they get more popular it's just basic statistics that they will get more uncomfortable behaviour happening on their public social media. But in the patreon, a semi-private place that is meant to be more chill, more comfortable and just generally more tailored to them, the fact that the weird behaviour is starting to creep in there is so disappointing to see. Like please can people not make it seem like every SFTH fan has never heard of boundaries??
Unfortunately I think being associated with behaviour like that can start to push away people who are just there to enjoy the improv and get worn down by seeing the constant uncomfortable behaviour from other viewers. And in my mind that is how you start to get fandoms that have a bit of a reputation for being super intense, etc. I hope I can speak for a lot of people by saying we don't want that to happen here.
(aware this is a gloomy post lol but trying to vent so I don't become one of those people who stops engaging with SFTH because of the fans rather than because I fall out of love with the content)
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