b e e s ?

i say this not to be like Young People Bad, but IMO there’s a very specific subset of Weird Internet Creators (mcelroys, neil cicierega, bdg, etc) that tend to have very young-skewing fans who don’t know how to interact with those creators appropriately and think it’s okay to make nsfw jokes or kin jokes or shipping jokes about those people, including saying that stuff TO THOSE CREATORS’ FACES during livestreams, and it’s like. i don’t know if those people just haven’t been in a lot of fanbases in the past or think that someone having a ‘weird’ persona is a justification for making weird kink jokes about them but

I took my nephew and niece to their first event when they were... five and seven? They each picked out a heavy and a rapier fighter to cheer on (we made favors for them to give as part of the Plan to Keep Little Kids Entertained™). They interpreted this to mean that they were to LOOK AFTER these fighters and spent the remainder of the day taking them water and sharing goldfish crackers with them.