What if I just chose violence tonight.
The mcyt fandom’s obsession with “boundaries” is a thinly veiled excuse to feel morally superior to and bully other fans by whiteknighting for their Favourite Internet White Guy, and completely misunderstands why we set personal boundaries and how they work.
A boundary is a personal limitation or set of actions communicated and enforced by a person for their own well-being.
What the fandom thinks are boundaries are actually ultimatums. They are the expectation that people adjust or limit their behaviour to make the boundary setter more comfortable, and that this behaviour will be enforced under threat of public duress or harassment for not doing so.
Essentially, if a content creator says “I don’t want to see shipping stuff.” then it is that creator’s responsibility to enforce that boundary for themself by blacklisting tags or avoiding spaces where they may come across that content. They cannot reasonably expect the fandom to stop creating ship content with their character in it, because then they are no longer sharing a personal boundary, but extending an ultimatum to the fandom.
This doesn’t even take into account the sticky nature of mcyt fandom and how a LOT of content creators don’t seem to understand that fandom exists because of their content, but it does not exist for them.
The biggest problem is, every fan wants to be their Favourite Internet White Guy’s special little soldier, and therefore clamour for those peoples’ “boundaries” so that they have an ultimatum to use as an excuse to feel morally superior when they bully fans out of fandom spaces for “boundary breaking”.
Now this. This is commentary. 🤌💋
