No it isn’t, because you’re attempting to police fictional interests, which typically has a worse effect on marginalized fans–like POC and queer people. You’re encouraging censorship, which is directly used as an excuse to harm POC and the queer community, along with many others.
If you want me to stop using fanpol as a descriptor, then stop acting like junior cops.
tl;dr Don’t wanna be called a pig, stop oinking like one
Man, I love it when people expose themselves
“don’t call us [thing] it makes us look ba… it’s a racism? sexism? antisemitism? Yeah, it’s all that!”
Also multiple antis I’ve encountered have been racist, antisemitic, sexist, and especially ableist, so uh… Maybe look inward there, anon
Also they have a habit of reporting fans to THE REAL POLICE, DISTRACTING THEM FROM REAL CRIMES AND PUTTING QUEER PEOPLE OF COLOUR IN LEGITIMATE DANGER so there’s that
Headcanon, mothers in public will often leave their babies in Aziraphales care while they do something else. He gives off such an angelic and trustworthy aura that they don’t even think twice when they hand their bubs over to this fluffy haired stranger.
The curse of modern fandom is that it has allowed fans to get even closer to artists, but they won’t view the artists as people.
Human limits, human mistakes, human feelings, human needs, are never ascribed to artists, and when other fans rightfully point out, “hey, humans are making this, maybe don’t harass them or demand they cater to your personal tastes,” it gets shut down under, “uh, people who make popular mainstream things are automatically Public Figures who are also probably rich, so eat the rich and destroy artists over every perceived minor fault. <3”
Even though there’s, y'know, a really big strike currently going on because those artists are very much not rich or influential or in control of the bullshit.
The more friends I make in the various facets of the entertainment industry, and the more widely my own art gets shared, the more I realize that a lot of y'all genuinely don’t see artists as human beings if they meet some arbitrary standard of Being Known Online.
There is no amount of online fame that makes someone subhuman and a valid target for blatant disrespect and harassment.
Contrary to popular belief, you do not actually own and control a piece of art just because you like it a lot. The artists are not subject to your personal whims and tastes. They owe you nothing.
I cannot put into words how much I Fucking Loathe the fact that when you search something on youtube now it will randomly intersperse blocks of “people also watched” and “for you” into the results. That’s not what I searched for, youtube. I typed in a search query because I wanted to see search results, not random unrelated garbage you have placed in my way apparently to either inconvenience me or force me to scroll further for actual results. I despise your wretched little games and every time I see it I can only instantly close the tab as I am overcome with the urge to burn something down.
“I despise your wretched little games” perfectly conveys how I feel about the entire algorithm/attention economy
They also refuse to actually show the parameters you searched for. If you sort by “upload date,” the first few videos might be more recent ones by upload date, but anything past that you’ll find a video that was uploaded five years ago, then five months ago, then three years ago, etc, which—NO! That’s NOT WHAT I ASKED FOR!! PUT THEM IN ORDER!!!
Also sometimes the “people also watched” bullcrap will not only be entirely unrelated, it will also be videos with violent, sometimes outright triggering thumbnails. I’ve gotten some AWFUL unrelated video thumbnails just when searching for video game music videos.
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