what’s your ‘thing’ as a friend. i don’t mean like ‘oh im the mom friend’ i mean like what’s the Thing where if one of your friends was looking for a specific interaction they’d message you first. personally i can always be relied upon to get hyped about bugs, literature, and cursed internet images.
Man some of y'all need to get a grip on the fact “media affects real life” is about mass media and how it influences how people view the world not that some teenager’s problematic fan fiction is gonna make people think incest is okay. That’s just not how reality works. I think a lot of you are mostly looking for a socially acceptable way to bully people and have convinced yourselves that if someone writes/draws/ships something problematic you have the moral high ground no matter what hateful shit you spew at them.
Some of y'all need to learn “Don’t like, don’t read.”
There’s a lot of things I find distasteful af. Some squicky, some triggery, but I’m the numskull that clicks it. It’s as simple as hitting the Back button and finding something more to my taste.
Lemme put it this way: Tuna makes me gag. I can’t stand the smell, can’t stand the taste… You get the idea.
Solution: I don’t eat tuna. I don’t go up to someone eating a tuna sandwich and start ranting at them. If I ask for a roast beef sandwich and end up with tuna, then yeah, I’m gonna get mad. But never to the point where I’m issuing death threats.
tl;dr: Don’t be a dick. “Don’t like, don’t read” needs to be re-adopted.
Perfect addition
I think OP hit it perfectly on the head: “a lot of you are mostly looking for a socially acceptable way to bully people.”
No one’s coming after murder mystery writers claiming they’re encouraging people to murder. No one pitched a fit after watching Ocean’s 8 because ‘now people are going to think jewel heists are okay!’ No one’s complaining about superhero movies spreading false expectations because ‘people don’t really have magic powers, this is a toxic misrepresentation of science!’
If you’re capable of making a distinction between fiction and reality some of the time but insist on bullying people about it the rest of the time, then your goal is not to protect anyone, but to harass under the guise of self-righteousness. Just admit that to yourselves so we can block you and move on with our lives.