The best thing about Willmack is the fact that those mfs are Gen Z because Gen Z boys don’t give two fucks about shipping actually. At my school the boys were all over each other and were very proud about being shipped by some girls, they grew up seeing it online so it didn’t faze them. I don’t want Will or Mack to see anything because that’s not fair to them but as two young handsome and talented public figures I know for a fact that they knew going into their careers that people will talk about them like that. My cousin works with the New Jersey Devils and literally they get briefed on shipping and how to navigate or respond to it if they want to. Teams have a way of shutting down what they don’t like, I don’t know how Mack and Will feel about it all but if they were that mad it would be stomped down by now rather than hyped by the media and even their team. Do I think they encourage it? Probably not, but they for sure are somewhere between amused by it or ignoring it, otherwise the whole thing would be stomped down by Sharks PR. I don’t know if people realize how much control the league and the teams have over their players reputations and what is said online. But I have heard enough stories from my cousin to know that modern shipping is either used or pushed away by teams. This isn’t like Louis Tomlinson and Harry Styles in 2012 where no one was prepared for how huge the ship got, Willmack have an entire public relations team that would have been prepared for shipping and briefed them on it. I’m not saying that makes bringing everything to X okay, just that rpfing isn’t the heinous crime everyone makes it out to be, especially when it’s on the privacy of Tumblr
been gatekeeping this ask
thank you nonnie (and your cousin) for sharing all this info 😙















