hi please don’t rb this!🚫 it took me a while to be brave enough to post it at all. but not to be grouchy the moment I wake up but @ yall demanding an apology or that he should have known better, do you know how many people me a whole mentally ill person has had to convince that he even did something..idek what word to use. bad/wrong/upsetting? even friends who know my circumstances. I have had to explain this as simply as possible and at times back down because people get dismissive, think you’re making a fuss over nothing, being over sensitive. go to any article or large twt about this and they’re full of people not even defending him but just dismissing the entire issue, because they say those things all the time/it’s not a big deal/to them it’s not offensive etc etc. this is why I couldn’t work up the energy to even be disappointed, aside from it being more of a hypocritical fan war than bc people suddenly care. I’m happy to defend him as someone I trust not to have malicious intent. I actually don’t expect him to know better. I live in a country with very raised mental health awareness and I hear these kinds of comments and jokes thrown around every single day, both with malicious intent and just plain ignorantly. I hear them from the professionals who are supposed to be helping me. sometimes even my own mother, my carer, who is with me and my garbage brain every day and dedicates her time to making sure I don’t like, die, slips and says things like this. being mentally ill effects me every single day and he makes me happy every single day. if you really care so much about our actual wellbeing then do something about nd fans being harassed for the way they interact with fandom, stop terrifying people into not sharing (or writing. or even feeling ok /thinking/) harmless concepts that make them feel a bit happier in the world. stop telling mentally ill fans who see things in their idols that their idols are too attractive/healthy/Normal and implying less than perfect mental health is an insult. if you want people to know better and actually improve the lives of mentally ill people there’s literally hundreds of them right here, discussing this issue, that you can educate. attacking him for a few days to get moral purity points isn’t actually gonna do shit for the people you suddenly care so much about🌻