#opm fandom

Now, I am one of those people who loves seeing art as it's made, and I don't mind keeping track of different storylines and appreciate what the author and artist are wrangling with, but it does create a 'wait and see' attitude among readers. You want to see if the chapters will stick before digging in...and that's before we come to people who get confused and frustrated over having to revisit a part of the story, only different.

• I'm Zei. I'm tmasc, aroace, and go by he/it. I love Saitama, and OPM has been my hyperfixation for years. I'm far left. I'm an artist too

• I mainly draw and post about Saitama, like theories or analysis. I also have a yumeship that I won't post on this account. I'm open to doodle requests, and my commissions are open. I'm way way more active on Insta.

• DNI : Saitatsu / fubusai shippers. Weird shippers (adult x child...). AI users. Zionists, xenophobes, homophobes, islamophobes, racists, fascists, MAGA, and anyone that is agains't human rights.

Link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbxG_IYLfrI

he said it was "only to speed up the process" but then he shows some season 3 scenes he re-animated with Grok, and he said grok chose the facial expression, pose and everything.. i feel like people should just let this go at this point and not ruin it for everybody, idk, i really dont want to see an AI version of OPM it doesn't deserve THAT.

From what he says it really seems like AI is indeed taking over all the creative parts that he seemingly says it's not.

This is pretty much Bandai's problem, they are the production studio, if they just allocated their resources better, paid the animators more or even just gave them more time and did not overwork them, we wouldn't have this problem? The animation would be fine, fans wouldn't be angry and try to ruin OPM with ai. Idk, maybe i am overreacting at this point lol, let me know your thoughts. I for one just feel sad and frustrated. Because many of the comments in the video are very supportive and I just don't agree ig. I mean the guy is asking for $5000 to 'quit his job' and start working full time on it.. which just seems to comprise of typing prompts into an ai generator (this is a screenshot from the video that shows us which ones he's using)

Idk, even if he says it's just for "in between frames" i really don't trust anyone who even touches that shit, how do we know he's not lying and generating the whole thing. He also seems pretty sus in that he says his pal Alan is good at animating (and shows some of the work he did) while the video creator himself is "decent at everything else". What is everything else, exactly??

WARNING THIS WILL BE VERY RANTY

Sorry this took a bit to answer haha, I was thinking about these ones for a little bit and I wanted to be able to type it out on my laptop because this may be long(and my laptop is slow). This will be a pretty heavy one.

So lets start with 14 -sigh-

TW rac*sm, h*m*phobia, ped*philia, r*pe, inc*st.

I'm sure this isn't unpopular, but my opinion about the fandom is it's pretty bad. Of course I love most of the users on here and have overall been very pleasant to interact with, but the issues are very overwhelming and become more apparent on the Reddit. You can say, it's just the Reddit, but I've seen these issues on Instagram, Twitter, and pretty much everywhere else. Some of the major issues are homophobia, racism, and the very concerning amount of pedophilia jokes/normalization.

So let's start with the homophobia portion.

As I'm sure everyone has experienced sometime in the fandom, there is an overwhelming amount of homophobia within the fandom. Let's take GenoSai for an instant. Whether like the ship or not, there is definitely a double standard among the fandom. Art where the ship is Genoko(Genos genderbend) x Saitama, it is perfectly fine and little heads are turned, but as soon as you mention Genos x Saitama, everyone goes batshit. They like to say it's because "ships don't belong in the fandom" but then turn around and ship Saitama and Tatsumaki or Saitama and Fubuki. They even go as far as to say "making them gay is disrespectful to the character or it ruins them". I'm sorry but if you're that delusional, I don't even know what to say honestly. Certain users got up and arms about the Batarou ship as of late after the reveal of Kiro in 170. Many users were sent unprovoked abhorrent asks or comments all because they ship them. Some have also downplayed the fact that bisexuality exists as well because of this, just stating "Garou isn't gay" or "Garou doesn't like men". There have been some that have written amazing essays on it so I won't go too deep into it here. Another thing is the downplay of LGBT voices in the fandom. They constantly harass LGBT users for having gay ships or other LGBT ships, when all we literally want is representation. It angers me when they say "well you have Puri Prisoner" and I'm sorry, but fuck that. I literally hate the character. They have no right to speak over us and preach what an acceptable character to represent the community is. No right at all...

Anyways... back to double standards, lesbian ships are more accepted because they are fetishizing them. Some of the most popular are Psykos x Fubuki, Fubuki x Do-S, and...ugh...Fubuki x Lily. So they ignore a literal 14 year old and 23 year old and think it's okay but somehow two consenting male adults in a relationship is worse??? Same thing with incestual relationships such as Fubuki x Tatsumaki.

A smaller section is the way they excuse Darkshine. I understand the intention may not have meant to be racist, but at the end of the day we can't keep excusing it. I feel awful when I remember his backstory because he's not a bad character, in the sense that he's a good guy.

Ah the pedophilia jokes and the normalization. I can't tell you how many times I've seen really disgusting jokes about the child characters in sexual situations. The thing is, they aren't even funny. As mentioned before, they already normalize the relationship between a 14 year old and someone she looks up to, who is 23. Well, let's dive into their favorite thing, One Hurricane. There is a volume of this lovely series , I say sarcastically, in which Child Emperor( a 10 year old) is raped by Fubuki (yet again, a 23 year old) and I sadly laid my eyes on a panel. Fubuki is sexually assaulted by Saitama multiple times throughout the series as well as Do-s in one volume. They still celebrate the series as "so good" when it literally excuses rape ad pedophilia. It pisses me off so bad. There are many users who draw or post incest, pedophilia, rape and are celebrated. It's sad I can think of so many off the top of my head, BY NAME.

I have some other things I want to talk about but the post is getting long...

I'll do a briefing of things I don't like about the manga itself. I don't like the way Kama is treated, she's way too beautiful to be presented the way she is. Especially in the webcomic when her name was "Slicing Shemale". I understand that there is apparently some translation issues, but sometimes I wonder.

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