The whole anglo anti/purity culture in fandom is so outright regressive because back when I was in high school many of us teens literally wanted to see (even create) spicy/dark contents of our favorite FICTIONAL 2D characters & made effort to stay invisible if we come across any.

lmao we were even younger than said characters (teen & adult) & fully understood divorcing fiction from reality (that was the point). We simply wanted to celebrate doujin artists who drew/wrote our favorites cuz in advent of internet fandom, fanworks were just rare in general.

now it& #39;s as if people intentionally want to blur the lines of or cannot distinguish fiction from reality. Accusing & #39;problematic& #39; content creation/consumption as being akin to committing the actual crime is WAY more harmful than the content itself.

literally for a high school assignment I wrote an essay on how gun violence is not correlated to violent video games because Fiction ≠ Reality...and that was early-mid 00& #39;s, so like, the current fandom climate has completely gone decades backwards.

came across this and thought this was a very important thread esp from the perspective of an ex-anti (the whole account is https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👌" title="Ok hand" aria-label="Emoji: Ok hand"> tbh) https://twitter.com/skyshaymins/status/1288738565233364992?s=20">https://twitter.com/skyshaymi...