I See This Take A Lot And I Hate It So Much Because Shipping Discourse Does Affect Real Life. It Affects

I see this take a lot and I hate it so much because shipping discourse does affect real life. It affects real life when people are harassed over what they ship to the point of killing themselves.

It affects real life when people are doxxed and have their private information leaked, when their peers/teachers/friends/family/coworkers/bosses are suddenly being contacted.

It affects real life when antis report fictional content as CSEM, wasting the resources of organizations that are needed by real children being exploited.

It affects real life when people cannot separate fiction from condonation and then fight to get "problematic" books/shows/movies/etc. banned.

It affects real life when CSA, abuse, rape, etc. survivors are harassed with messages of "you deserved it" and "you're just as bad as your abuser" because of fiction.

It affects real life when antis are enabling and even condoning minors reach out to pro shippers to try and out them as closeted pedophiles.

It affects real life when people walk around believing misinformation because of it.

It affects real life in so many ways that we've seen, even more than I've listed here. Acting like it doesn't is an extremely ignorant viewpoint to take.

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I’ve spent a few years in online fandoms now (pre Voltron era) and have found that the following applies to (not all) antis:

They’re largely between 13-19 or early 20 at most

adults older than that make up the smallest amount

Antis’ friend groups are almost entirely online

people with social connections offline are or people with fullfilling jobs are usually not antis (there are of course exceptions)

Almost all antis have intergenerational friendships. This isn’t unusual irl when it affects people who go to school (like HS and college) or neighbors or irl friends, but antis’ friend groups consist of total strangers. Very few only want followers of the same age range

Because of this, minors are easily more radicalized on the internet. Currently I would say Twitter and Threads contribute the most to it because these platforms are rife with hate, disinformation and have a general lack of online safety features

Therefore they may also develop moral scrupulosity ocd, a form of OCD where people are afraid of being “immoral”, therefore they seek for moral purity and find their beliefs echoed in purity culture

which is also why they tend to flock to people who portray themselves as “safe” or who call out “morally corrupt” people (proshippers). Those who call out moral corruption can possibly be no “bad” people

anti rhetoric is strongly based on anti kink/anti sex and “kink critical” radical feminist and conservative rhetoric

the anti phenomena is also largely American. Despite antis being people of many different ethnicities, most anti rhetoric reflects America’s political views on sex/gender, feminism, sex ed, sex in general and the increasing amount of anti science beliefs and anti intellectualism

therefore, antis can only be countered by:

Stopping the spread of disinformation

Instead internet safety should be taught again

social media should employ better moderation (which I get is not possible unless we switch to dedicated fandom forums or something )

make people aware of red flags to look out for (for example online grooming, cults, radicalization)

share facts about queer history and explain why radical feminism is bad for everyone (including cis women)

parents should definitely monitor their kids more often. I don’t mean 24/7 surveillance, I mean teach them where and how to find information safely and age appropriately

bring back places where kids can be kids offline and online (not asking this of common people but as a suggestion for politicians we vote for)

report, block, mute and make people aware of fandom etiquette

Ate and left no crumbs. I may link this at the top of my page.

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