not always but many times i see mcyt discourse going on and i cant help but notice that it would all be fixed if the creators realized that they dont Have To be privy and Control to everything their audience does in fan spaces
it's one thing to check what resonates with your audience, and in this era of social media, engagement and immediate reactions are good data yes.... but there are fanspaces that are supposed to be By Fans, For Fans, and in many of those cases there was never intended to be a permeable membrane for information to go from our side to theirs. shaping your content from fan reactions only is only ever going to get you so far, and WILL cause you to feel resentment to that content with time.
mind you, this also goes to younger and newer fans. for decades fan content, AND ESPECIALLY SHIPPING CONTENT, has been made For Fans, NOT FOR THE CREATORS. the women that shipped kirk and spock 60 years ago did so for themselves and their own enjoyment, not to send their hand-written fanzines to gene roddenberry in hopes for the story to be shaped into what they liked.
and i feel insane, because we have had this talk SO. MANY. TIMES. in the fandom spheres. supernatural, sherlock, voltron. im sure there's more but those are specific examples i SAW, and one of them i was literally part of the fandom while it all happened. we've seen non-minecraft youtubers distance themselves because fans push the shipping too much, and they may play into it for a while but then they get tired and lash out and condemn the shipping so the fandom-in-fighting happens and then the youtubers no longer interact and it becomes a "SEE, SHIPPERS CAUSED THIS" and i cant believe im seeing it AGAIN, on a new font
