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luobingmeis · 5 months

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smarter people have already written think-posts abt the death of media literacy and its correlation with the rise in people expecting all media to conform, reflect, and teach morals (and constantly remind you that they do) but my tin-foil hat theory is that the long-lasting internet-fandom method of "your favorite character is the one you relate to and project onto" "your favorite fanfic trope is what you're missing in life" "your favorite ship actually says [X] about you" has had at least minor contributions now to people thinking liking a fictional character = condoning their actions, which in turn causes people to make the most nature-documentary-sounding tweet threads abt why the fans of said character are allowed to like them

#these tweet threads also tend to be so genuine which is what makes them read so much more patronizing in my head #''here's why it's actually okay for people to like this horrible character'' i am almost 25 years old and i do what i want #i will think my silly little thoughts and ship my silly little ships #and think abt bending some characters over a [truck honking]#and then i will close tumblr and twitter dot edu and go on with my life unaffected

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