How The Characters Are Being Treated By The Fandom (and The Writers)

How the characters are being treated by the fandom (and the writers)

First, the ones that don’t get treated badly: Stiles Stilinski, Jackson Whittemore, Peter Hale

Now the ones that do and how they do:

Derek Hale : not getting treated that badly except the fandom objectifying him

Liam Dunba: not really the character as much as the actor, but gets objectified and sexualized even tho he is underage (this has happened from age 15-now)

Lydia Martin: Doesn’t really get treated that badly except the fandom reducing her only to a love interest and some even slut shaming her, the writers always writing her in situations where the villains hurt her (physically and emotionally) example: Peter manipulating her, Jackson abusing her (he’s not a villain kinda but still), the nogitsune kidnapping her, Jennifer Blake aka the darach kidnapping and almost killing her, the kalaveras (idk if that’s how u spell it) and now theo and the dread doctors.

Jordan Parrish: The fandom hating him and even Ryan Kelley (I admit, Ryan is problematic) but the fandom sends him death threats (he has confirmed this)

Allison Argent: getting slut shamed by the fandom, fandom hating on Crystal Reed, fandom being misogynistic toward her, the fandom even made killallison trend but when she died they all suddenly loved her etc. etc.

Malia Tate: Gets a lot of hate from the fandom only because she’s dating Stiles ex. Slut shaming her, saying she’s only a love interest etc. Fandom being misogynistic toward her They hate Malia so much that some have even gone as far as sending death threats to Shelley Hennig and Malia/Stalia Stans, the only way how the writers are treating her badly is giving her little screen time/lines (she had only like 3 lines in lost frequencies) the fandom constantly pitting her against other females of the show.

Kira Yukimura: (oh boy, this is gonna be a long list), the fandom hating/being racist towards her and Arden Cho even some cast mates (*cough* Ian Bohen *cough*), people slut shaming her, calling her “Allison’s replacement” always pitting her against Allison/Crystal, fandom being misogynistic toward her, the writers giving her little screen time (she wasn’t in 2 episodes of s4 AND s5A even tho she’s a main) the writers throwing away her plotlines ex. the fox aura thing this season, they just wrote it like she left to figure it out and didn’t even show us anything about that, the writers and the fandom basically ignoring her existant all together, the fandom whitewashing Arden/Kira in icons, gifset/other edits all the time, Teen Wolf didn’t give any promotion for Kira in s5 at all (before it started).

Scott McCall: the fandom being racist towards Scott/Tyler, the fandom constantly saying that Stiles is the lead and the most important character even though Scott is the lead, people (including the writers) giving Stiles/Dylan more attention for being on the show and saying that teen wolf wouldn’t be teen wolf without Stiles etc basically ignoring that Tyler/Scott is the lead. The writers have given Stiles more backstory than Scott the shows lead!!! The fandom whitewashing him in gifts/icons/other edits, people (sterek shippers) hating on Tyler for not shipping sterek & BC he said that the show doesn’t revolve around ships, the fandom giving him hate and calling him fake after he confirmed having depression (especially after his moms death) and telling him that he doesn’t know anything about pain/depression etc!!

I’ll add to the list when i remeber more or when u guys tell me more and I only did this for the mains, there are other secondary characters they treat badly ex. Braeden, Jennifer etc.

Whew chile, the tea, the ACCURACY

The difference between Romione and Dramione.

The difference between Jily and snily.

LUDI LIN 1883 Magazine — Evaan Kheraj (2021)

tbh i’m kind of laughing like stiles has turned into the damon salvatore of teen wolf with one plot line that never goes anywhere. damon got 6 seasons of moping over being rejected, and stiles gets 5 seasons of prolonged flashbacks to his mother’s death ten years ago. 

meanwhile scott’s death is reduced to a few fast paced pieces of dialogue. 

incredible. 

I am really done with the TW fandom. I mean, this post isn't about ALL fans of Teen Wolf but the majority have just ruined my experience in this fandom. Keep in mind that these are my opinions which I'm sharing and not a personal attack on anyone. So here's why I'm fed up with both the fandom and even the show to an extent:

1) The hatred towards Scott McCall is just appalling. I genuinely can't think of a reason why anyone would hate this precious ray of sunshine who is always trying to protect everyone. Like is a 16 year old and doesn't know everything about being a werewolf the second he was bitten? *Lol, he's so 'dumb'.* Doesn't immediately trust Derek because he has no reason to? *Poor Derek Scott is such a 'meanie'* Doesn't abandon Allison the moment Derek tells him to because the latter is a stranger and Allison doesn't even know about her family being hunters? *Everything is Scott's 'fault'.* Makes a masterplan to defeat Gerard and save everyone? *Fandom shrugs and continues to make everything about Stiles* His ex girlfriend dies in his arms ?*Fandom cries a tear and moves on to fawn on Void! Stiles *Saves everyone in the show, becomes the true alpha from the merit of his character *Fandom closes its eyes and fawns over one liners that Stiles threw* Literally dies and is attacked by his best friend for not saving his father when he was DEAD? *Poor Stiles, Scott is such a bad friend. Why can't he just do everything according to how Stiles wants him to? Who cares that even Stiles himself trusted Theo and confided in him only about having to kill Donovan and never clarifies to Scott that he did it in self defense.* Like I can go on and on about how much of Scott's trauma and pain are shrugged off because of fandom's obsession with Stiles and even the show makes it appear as if it was Scott's fault somehow that he died and couldn't save Stiles' father. I'm so tired. Tyler Posey was so good at playing Scott and his performance is ignored by 99.99% of the fandom.

2) KIRA YUKIMURA DESERVED BETTER! She was treated so badly by both the fandom AND the show! People were continually comparing her and Allison even though Allison was okay with Scott moving on and even teamed up with Kira in 'De- Void' episode. And why can't Scott move on? Allison wouldn't have wanted Scott to mope over her forever. And Kira's story and character development are thrown in trash and she isn't even mentioned in season 6! Like, I'm not mad that she chose herself over Scott because it's okay but they could have spent AT LEAST five minutes to talk about Kira and where she was and how she was doing. And the fandom's unwarranted dislike of her even though the show had made it clear that she isn't Allison's 'replacement' or whatever reasons people use to justify their hatred of her. Like she is a sweetheart, her relationship with Scott was cute and healthy and she doesn't deserve any hate thrown towards her. Arden Cho portrayed her so well and I hate that she was treated like this by both fandom and writers of the show.

3) Malia Tate is treated so badly by the fandom that even I was surprised by the venom hurled towards her. Malia spent eight years as a coyote, so obviously she doesn't know how to handle complex human emotions that even teenagers struggle with. And she does better than expected . She is not an 'unsupportive', 'abusive' girlfriend that toxic Stydia (i.e. not ALL stydia shippers, only the toxic ones) shippers make her out to be. She even figured out that Stiles had killed Donovan in self defense and said she didn't judge him for it. And what did she get in return? She was ditched by her boyfriend for her efforts. And no, it's not toxic that she was jealous of Lydia and Stiles because she was just dumped and wasn't given closure over it, so obviously she isn't going to be okay that her boyfriend was moving on so quickly. Like it's not ideal but it's not the worst thing. And even if you don't ship stalia, you have no reason to hate on her. Just ship your ship and leave others who don't agree with your personal opinion alone.

I haven't even scratched the tip of the iceberg but these were the only ones that came to my mind. The blatant sexism and racism from the fans really saddens me and I wouldn't be so mad if actors like Tyler Posey, Arden Cho, Shelley Hennig etc.. weren't hated on for doing their literal jobs. Like, I'm not telling you to hate Stiles or Derek (which is impossible as it is when it comes to TW fandom) or tell you to stop shipping Sterek and Stydia (There's nothing wrong with the ships inherently but I wish its stans weren't so hell bent on making everything in TW about their ship). Only that you stop hating poc, female characters for no valid reasons and stop excusing your white faves' problematic actions because they cried about it once or whatever. Like no wonder why white men are able to get away with the worst shit while poc and women suffer for no fault of theirs and hated on for things they can't control; like their race or gender.