#separateactorandcharacter

Lets talk about the Noah Schanpp/Will Byers hate!

Can we just stop for a moment and look at what’s happening?

Because the way the internet is acting lately is absolutely insane. You guys are out here hating on an actor — a literal human being — like you’ve never made a single mistake in your entire life.

Like, what the actual fuck?

He’s still young. He said or did something wrong. Okay. Call it out. Educate. Hold people accountable. But this nonstop hate? This obsession with tearing someone down over and over again because you need something to rage about? That’s not justice. That’s just cruelty dressed up as moral superiority.

Meanwhile, there are actual monsters out there.

People who hurt children, who abuse their partners, who kill, who steal, who bully, who traumatize others every single day, who Write disgausting pedophile books, who stalk little kids, who use AI to sexualize people, cyperbullying — and somehow this is your main focus? Don’t you understand that people **** kill themselves because of the bullying and hate that they get because they did some mistake or they are different than other people.

You spend hours on the internet dragging an actor who made one mistake, while ignoring real-world horror that happens every single minute.

It’s like everyone collectively forgot that we’re all human.

You. Me. Them. We’ve all said something dumb. We’ve all done something we regret. Maybe yours didn’t end up on the internet, maybe nobody screenshotted your bad moment. But if someone did — would you survive the kind of hate you’re throwing around so casually?

Because that’s the thing.

It’s so easy to type hate. It’s so easy to cancel. But it’s hard to look in the mirror and admit that you’ve also messed up. And that’s what you should be doing — looking at yourself before you crucify someone else.

You’re not “fixing the world” by sending death threats to a 19-year-old actor. You’re just adding to the noise.

You’re not being morally superior. You’re being cruel.

So maybe instead of flooding tags with hate, you could focus that energy somewhere else.

Learn something. Help someone. Touch grass. Heal. Grow.

Stop acting like you’ve never done anything wrong, because that’s a lie. Everyone has. Every. Single. One.

Maybe you should look into yourself I bet you probably watched pornographic photos or videos on the Internet. You may read smut fanfiction about actors or their fictional roles. You write hate about your classmates. You bully people on the internet, you steal something from someone you beat your partner or your siblings or your friends, you are touching yourself while watching your celebrity crush, you film accidents instead of helping, you trash talk teachers, nurses, and service workers — the literal backbone of society, you cheat on tests but call others lazy, you laugh at people for crying, you ghost people who actually cared, you make entire accounts just to hate on someone, you ignore boundaries because “it’s not that deep”, you shame people for what they eat, you refuse to pick up their trash because “someone else will”, you treat retail workers like they’re not human, you laugh at someone’s breakdown and call it “drama”, you ignore messages when someone’s clearly struggling, you fake disorders for views, you make fun of someone’s weight, appearance, or mental illness, you record people without consent for “funny videos”, you screenshot private conversations just to humiliate someone, you send death threats like it’s a normal Tuesday.

Trust me, i used to be one of the person who liked to criticize people in my mind, but for long time now, i rather see the beauty in people, not their mistakes.

I went through a lot of trauma: I was bullied since kindergarden, i was filmed without my approval, i was humiliated in front of others a million times, i was beaten by classmates, i started to self harm, i was SA-d when i was 10, i have been struggling with depression and OCD since 11, and with severe Anorexia, bulimia since 14. I’m 18 now, and i learned to forgive people, even though my past will hunt me for the rest of my life.

So yeah. Before you join the next hate train, ask yourself:

👉 Would I want the entire internet to treat me the way I’m treating this person?