“let people enjoy things” but the thing is that cultural writers and even general criticism of something you like doesn’t mean you have to feel any differently about it. not everything is about you. read it or don’t. agree with it or don’t. ignore it or don’t. but taking it personally helps no one, least of all you, and only adds to the weird cultish fandom fervor that leads to people getting doxxed, writing articles anonymously, and leads to making people who even are in the fandom who want to critique things feel or be literally ostracized and othered. and it’s just nastiness and becomes very us vs. them, no, i’m enlightened because i read this piece of media in this way, and you’re wrong, because you interpret it that way. saying that not enjoying something is ruining someone else’s time is just a little pathetic, because anyone else’s enjoyment or criticism or even downright hatred shouldn’t impact you and your own feelings about something.