When I was younger and new to fandoms as a whole, I was a really big fan of Dragonsheep. She was my favorite youtuber. So, when I saw she had a community post saying she was going to make a dare video, I was really excited.
I submitted one along the lines of, “You should try and guess what people’s OCs look like based on their names,” and then gave an example of mine. Obviously it’s kind of a roundabout way of asking for my OC to be drawn, but, to be fair, it has option and was relatively polite about it.
Anyways, the video finally dropped and I was extremely excited for the possibility of my dare being in the video. I watched the entire thing hopeful that mine would be next. Then, at the very end, she had a section where she put a good majority of the “draw my OC” comments on a pedestal and completely dogged on them for the remainder of the run time. Guess who was featured in the very first screenshot!
Yeah, it was me. My username wasn’t even blocked out. Now, I’m not saying she can’t be annoyed at these comments; she was pretty big at the time and the fandom was full of children without fandom etiquette (I.E. me). What I’m saying is that it definitely could’ve been handled better.
The “S.S No” became an inside joke that went on for a very long time. It even spawned a roleplay discord server. I didn’t know about that at the time, but what I did know, or take away, was that my favorite youtuber thought I was stupid. That was (probably) not the case, obviously, but it felt that way. I still continued to watch her content for awhile after that, but it always felt wrong. Like I wasn’t supposed to.
Thankfully, I was never targeted by a hateful fan, but it definitely was glorified bullying. The comments could’ve been ignored, deleted, replied to directly, anything would’ve been better.
Anyways that’s all I have to say, sorry for yapping.
TL;DR: I was one of the people who indirectly made Dragonsheep make the S.S. No and it felt really bad.
