#911twt

When we referred to this show as the gay firefighter show, we didn't ACTUALLY mean to make the show all about Buddie.

Back in the early 2000s, you stanned an actor because they played a role that made you feel something—not because their worldview matched yours perfectly. You saw them on a red carpet, maybe a cute interview clip, and that was it. You weren’t dissecting their personal life like it was your moral duty.

Now it’s like… the second someone reveals a bad opinion, it becomes a performance of outrage. Everyone races to unfollow them loudly, scream “I always knew!!!” and turn it into a moral referendum. When most of the time, it’s just a guy who says dumb shit online because he’s never had to think critically about anything in his life.

And listen—it’s completely valid if someone saw that post and decided they don’t want to support him anymore. That’s a personal boundary, and people are allowed to have them. But there’s a difference between stepping away and turning it into a public hate train. We spend so much time pointing fingers at how hateful the right is, but when someone disappoints us, fandom becomes a beast. The cruelty, the dogpiling, the “block me if you still follow him” energy—it’s all just another form of control dressed up as righteousness.

Doesn’t mean you excuse it. Doesn’t mean you pretend it didn’t happen. It just means you don’t have to perform heartbreak over someone who was never that deep to begin with. I liked the character. I liked the work. I never needed the man behind it to be my activist king.

about to be a normal one, folks