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Writers deciding to write Will having a crush on Mike is the point of no return of the show's doom. Because they wanted to explore a young boy's sexuality through crush, but they underestimated how fujoshis move. How obsessed they can get, how mean they can become to the female characters, to everyone who doesn't agree with them, how much they can take your show from you, twist it into something it's not, how angry they can get, and what they can do in that situation. How many of them are there. How much they don't even care about representation, because if they do, they wouldn't be writing femicide fics with Mike killing El.

(I think they should've dealt with Will’s sexuality by making him have a crush on someone else. Write a new character in, it's what st loves best anyway. Fans could've had Will's love story that they wanted that much.)

But yeah, they really didn't know that from that point onward, the loudest online comments regarding the show won't be about the show, about all the plots they wrote, all the characters. They will take that show and twist it into something it's not. They will make you question how to write season five of YOUR show as YOU want, to end it all properly. Season five was bad for so many reasons, and one of them IS those shippers. They sidelined the main couple, kept them apart. They tried to “gentle parent” their way into telling them it's not going to happen by giving their boy powers, making him the main character, spelling it out for them that Mike is his Tammy, and that even Will moved on. And it still wasn't enough.

From the moment they decided to make Will like Mike romantically, the show stopped being sci-fi, action mystery to their shippers, it stopped being sold as what it is. Instead of focusing on the small town having supernatural things messing with everyday life, it became this coming of age, friends to lovers, yaoi love story. Even though it's literally not what it is. But it doesn't matter, posts that rewrite the show, that sidelines every other character and plot, receive the most engagement, tens of thousands of likes, and that's how the show is taken away from its writers. From the fans that love the show for what it is. It doesn't matter if it's all lies, all misinterpretations, more often than not, purposeful. Like I said to my oomf, they can come and say that the sky is green, and since there are so many of them online, that post can get 50k likes. And they will come and bully anyone who knows that's not the truth. The facts are not on their side, but numbers are, and that's all that matters with social media.