it pisses me off so much that people nowadays just watch a show and can’t form a single thought outside of the plot. like if something isn’t cannon compliant they immediately call you stupid.
“it’s not cannon” WHERE IS YOUR WHIMSY? WHERE IS YOUR ORIGINAL THOUGHT PROCESS? like damn, i’m sorry that i made a HEADcannon YOU SEE THE WORD HEAD ITS BECAUSE ITS IN MY MIND ITS NOT REAL ITS FOR ME!!!
and don’t even get me started on the ships. if you ship anything that’s not required on the show they treat you like you committed a crime. they can’t comprehend anything other than what is spoonfed to them.
like the members of general audiences that now have started to interact more with content made by fans just don’t understand not only the idea of crackships or rarepairs but of shipping something “unrequited”.
and don’t get me wrong i’m not saying that cannon ships can’t be good, i’m just saying that some people refuse to to acknowledge they’re bad. and believe it or not i’m not talking about the people who love that cannon ship for their own reasons.
i’m talking about the ones new to fandoms, which okay i get that not everyone has been in fandom spaces before but they act so immaturely. what do you get by commenting on a post SOMEONE ELSE made about something THAT YOU DONT CARE ABOUT? like “i hate [insert ship]” OKAY? THEN DONT INTERACT?
and the bullshit going on with the new wave of ao3 users, who have started commenting hateful stuff under fanfics THAT HAVE THE CORRECT TAGS. “it’s too slow i don’t like it” IT. IS. SLOW. BURN. not everything is FOR YOU, not everything needs an algorithm, and you don’t have to interact with everything.
this kinda descended into a “i hate how new people in fandoms tend to act like” rant. and disclaimer, i don’t mean all new people of course, im sure there are tons of good ones but if the shoe fits for you… and these are also behaviors that a lot of old fans tend to show.
i’m also not referring to ship wars, i actually think they can be kinda productive in a way if both parties actually are invested and present actual reasons for preferring their ships rather than them being cannon
TL;DR new people to fandom should stop caring so much about cannon and start embracing the creative sides of fandoms and also people should stop interacting with something if it’s not for them.
