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[janiedean]

Hi. I don’t know if you’re aware that J*hn B*yega posted a video on his instagram account showing him fighting against several offensive tweets (with the twitter handles being shown clearly). Apparently some of the tweets came from reylos. As a result, many reylos considered this act as an aggressive move, even equating it to doxxing. However, some film critics opined that John has the right to respond to the attacks, and that actors shouldn’t feel obliged to accept abuse. (1/2)

I’m kind of in the middle. Though I agree that no one should just accept the abuse thrown at them, maybe it’d be better if people stay away from social media during tumultuous times. What do you think? (2/2)

first: guys I love you but pls if it’s this discourse don’t send the asks with the entire names I don’t wanna end up in the dude’s mobile tag thanks XD

that said: I already stated my position on the topic here and it hasn’t changed whatsoever from those basics. 

secondly: j/ohn really needs to quit instagram because that shit isn’t fighting back - most of those tweets aren’t even offensive, at least one of those handles from what I heard is someone underage and sorry but whatever it is that they told him... he has millions of followers and he’s a famous actor. these people are literally no one and by posting their handles in full he’s basically welcomed people to harass them. like. sorry but that doesn’t fly, especially because this specific shitstorm isn’t because of the people who actually tweeted at him racist stuff in the past, it’s at ppl shipping r/eylo.

now: ppl shipping r/eylo have mostly supported him/finn as far as I’ve seen, are mostly women and a lot of them aren’t white/are lgbt. they were pissed a that rey comment and he made it about r/eylo vs finn/rey or whatever and that already was a shit move, and criticizing someone for having expressed a rather crude opinion on a public platform where people could see him is not abuse gdi, especially since most of that criticism was fairly polite in the beginning and it was directed at someone these people actually liked.

now, as I stated in that post: no one should talk online abuse and tbqh I’m a very strong perpetrator of the idea that if actors/content creators and so on receive abuse/death threats/the likes they should go and immediately press charges against that person and be backed up by the studio because it’s not like just because you can’t lose audience then you have to stand social media abuse. I’m 100% for it. but you don’t put anyone on a public platform like that when you are famous and they aren’t, because 99,9% of the cases people will pile on that person. in this case it’s not even racists and the fact that people are falling for it is imvho 1984-like shit, but like... let’s say that he did that with racist people on facebook with name and surname. let’s say those people have children and/or relatives with children who aren’t themselves racist or who aren’t at fault if their parent is a dickhead but people find out idk where their kids go to school and send them death threats or smth because they could. like, one thing is directly pressing charges against the single person harassing you, another is doing something that can damage their relatives or family or whatever and it doesn’t matter how vile a person is, you can’t know if their relatives and whatnot are as vile as them. this is already a bad climate, no one should fuel the fire and send people on even more dogpiling. this is enabling assholes and j/ohn is really not coming out great here. also: I don’t think you should avoid SM because of idiots, but again, if you’re rich and famous you can a) block them, b) press charges, c) ask the studio to back you up. if you’re not, you can’t. and if you’re rich and famous you have the responsibility to not fuel fandom wars, period.

and the fact that john came up with that idiotic vid just after poor joonas tagged him to do the ben s/olo challenge for charity is just... not making him look good.

but tldr: giving your fans the blessing to go after other fans who are in 90% of the cases are a) women, b) nonstraight, c) nonwhite, d) a combination of two or all of these and who have d) been harassed nonstop since 2015 for shipping the canon movies ship is just idiotic and not kingly nor anything we should cheer for. I said what I said.