My hot controversial fandom take is that I couldn't give one fuck about respecting fandom culture, I couldn't give two fucks about respecting fandom etiquette, and I couldn't give three fucks about the opinions of those, who build their entire online presence around fandom and discourse surrounding it and yet they never speak about the real issues. They never talk about the racism and the misogyny that are DEEPLY engraved in fandom as a whole, but somehow they always have time to write a 25 post long twitter thread on the "uprising of purity culture in fandom" every time they see a random 14 year old call their favorite incest fic yucky
And don't get me wrong, I do block and move on! I do follow the "don't like - don't read" rule. I'm not enough of a masochist to put myself through the displeasure of arguing with people who start talking like Yagami Light on Tumblr prose cocaine every time you dare to vaguely criticize their activity (the abuse of words and phrases such as "sweet summer child", "puritan", "censorship" etc is necessary, trust)
But you couldn't PAY me to kiss the asses of the AO3 creators as much as those white millennials with a superiority complex do on a daily basis
I know my place and I stay away from spaces that I find uncomfortable, but GODDD fandom dickriders are the most annoying pieces of shit ever. It's exhausting