My Only Complaint Is That The Paws Appear When You Boop Someone And Not When Someone Boops You. I Want

my only complaint is that the paws appear when you boop someone and not when someone boops you. I want to be scrolling and minding my own business and suddenly get whapped by a cat paw

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Fandom, fans, and content creators

It’s funny. Lately, wherever I go to consume fancontent - whichever website and whichever type of fancontent - I keep seeing the same shit again and again. Just so many entitled “fans” complaining about the content they consume.

It’s 2019. Two-thousand-fucking-nineteen. I have, naively, thought we were past “character XX is a seme, he would never bottom, why would you make him an uke.” Terms like seme and uke are apparently Not Cool Anymore And Too Fujoshi And Fujoshi Is Bad™ now, but it’s literally the same thing.

But oh no, it doesn’t stop there. “I hate XX/YY, I’d really appreciate it if you did more XX/ZZ instead of XX/YY, I love your work but I hate XX/YY, thanks.” “Why do you draw XX like that, they are not like that.” “I hope that’s not shippy because XX belongs to ZZ, YY can never be more than a friend.”

I’m honestly sick of it.

Content creators do not cater to you. They graciously share what they create with you, for free, and ask for nothing back. (Though the likes, comments, reblogs, whatever are more than nice.) Content creators are people. Real humans who do all this for fun and to get better and to do what they love, whith the characters they love, with the ships they love, concepts they love.

They can do whatever the fuck they want. The make their fandom experience just as you make yours.

Want to read more coffee shop AUs? Look for them. Don’t want to read any omegaverse? Don’t read it. It’s your ship but the dynamic is not to your liking? Don’t read it or leave the fic. Don’t like the artist’s character design or artstyle? Don’t look at their art. Don’t like the ship? Block the tag and don’t open it if it’s clearely tagged with that ship. Do whatever you need to make your own experience better.

If you don’t like it, nobody, NOBODY, is forcing you to consume the content.

Imagine spending hours and hours and hours creating something you poured everything into, struggling with yourself all the while because it’s just not perfect enough. Then you finally finish, uncertain with the result but you allow yourself to be a little proud because it’s done and mabye it’s not perfect but it’s something you gave your all and you made you happy. Wouldn’t it be amazing if it made someone else happy, too?

Then you get and email or notification. It’s a comment. You’re all giddy and nervous. What are they going to say?? Did they like it??

“Why is XX a bottom tho :/”

And you can only go “oh.”

It breaks my heart when I see comments like this. Since when do content creators not have the right to have their own preferences, their own likes and dislikes, the right to try new things, ship what they want and however they want, their own style.

It is NOT the content creators’ responsibility to moderate your fandom experience. It’s yours.

Content creators should not and do not cater to you.

if i ever interacted with you and it was awkward just know im sorry and painfully aware that sometimes i come off like a person who is having the first conversation of their life

Last Week Tonight, March 16, 2022