do you know how many times iāve talked to people on discord in ship-specific servers who admit that they donāt ship [x] ship on tumblr because everyoneās so against it? it doesnāt even matter if the fanpol are in the minority. they make their voices LOUD, and so they become the most prevalent and the most toxic group in the fandom. i can literally name two fandoms right now - though i wonāt, for dramaās sake - where the antis run all the big events. where they are essentially in charge of the content that gets shared to the wider fandom.
itās really weird, too, how the āaestheticā side of fandom (e.g. graphic editors & giffers) tend to be antis more than fanfic writers. is it because ff writers value a good story over performative morality? is it because edit/gif makers have the most popular blogs and the most followers? or maybe thatās just my imagination?
iāve been approached by a few people for gif requests because theĀ āpopularā gifmakers wonāt do it; iāve seen gifmakers include a request to not tag a gifset as the ship (even though that doesnāt affect them at all...the post doesnāt belong solely to you anymore once it goes on someone elseās blog), and these voices end up setting a stage for the more vocal and aggressive antis (the actual fanpol) to exclude other people from fandom.
tl;dr: why?
