ok so. i think the verity series is a really good example of fandomificafion of a series creating a false expectation. i dont know if thats an actual term people use but i do fear that the development of the “verity fandom” and the shipping culture that goes hand in hand with fandom culture sanded the edges of the series as a whole and left an impression that the series is something other than what it was.
fandom has a lot of merit when it comes to keeping series alive, especially in the case of verity where the source is a minecraft channel and doesn’t necessarily have the reach a regular series might, but in some cases i suspect that fandoms artificially inflate due to trending content which leads to people making fan works of and joining the fandom for a series that they may only know from clips or other fan works. this in turn leads to this sort of “false series” being propagated.
the prevalence of shipping in the fandom leads to this false precedence for these “artificial” new fandom members who only now know the series from the ship content they have seen. when the series does not align with the false series people get frustrated and confused even though the series itself didnt do anything wrong.this is rambling but all this to say people should be more responsible about the way they consume media. i think its irresponsible to engage thoughtlessly and then get mad at a problem You made up just because you only care about shipping and didn’t properly engage with the work itself.
it was super blatantly a horror series and inspired by the movie obsession. feels like a bit of a misunderstanding to be disappointed that it had a bleak ending like it did. there’s no way that there would (or even could) be a “happy ending” where mob and verity put aside their differences and ride into the sunset
