Most of us are not D1 haters in our lives or something like many people assume lol. We just found a media that we were passionate about in a positive way. Then, we found out something negative about that media, subjectively or objectively. It can be something more minor, like being frustrated with a writing choice, or it can be deeper, like writing perpetuating harmful stereotypes/narratives/etc., and sometimes, it even bleeds into real life, when we find out the creators behind something we liked are… less than stellar people. Perhaps they even partook in bigotry or a harmful act that overshadows their work. Or at the very least is something that should be kept in mind.

And so, that passion gets translated into a different type of passion. A drive to talk about what we wish was different or what bothers us. Some of us might do both, we might talk about the bad things while also still engaging with general fandom content separately because it fulfills certain aspects that canon might not or is just fun to see.

We NEED crit spaces to talk about certain media when we feel mixed or negative on them. And we usually don’t cross tag with the main tag. We vent our frustrations in critical tags because we want a space where people understand where we are coming from, and we also don’t want to bring down people in the main tag (excluding serious issues, which do happen sometimes, but you know what I mean).