#not real analysis because i javent done any of my homework and its 1 am

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I don't have the capacity to read this whole article but I just discovered that for some reason it talks about CUM VILLAIN?!2?!)$! WHY DBWKDNK???

I'm just so baffled on why a. They chose scum villain when we're like . A single droplet in the fandom ocean. We have a fraction of a fraction of the influence of literally our next door most adjacent fandoms. The vast majority of people here are also fully grown adults with academic experience . This is not their first rodeo

b. SHEN JIU??? the guy who . NEVER is in a position to talk directly to the viewer because he fucking DIES BEFORE THE STORY STARTS???? This is especially funny to me because I'm not sure if they read the books at all but they mention Shen Yuan... You know ... Shen Jiu's biggest anti?? The guy who narrates the entire story and hates shen jiu's guts???? The one who is so explicitly clear on how much he hates the guy's child abuse that he literally rewrites a whole universe ??? That's the main plot?! Does. Does the author know that the Shen Qingqiu of scum villain's main story is quite literally an entirely different person than the "scum villain" Shen Qingqiu. This is. This is part of the main summary . You can't miss this. Shen Qingqiu is only ever portrayed as the hero because the one we follow is Shen Yuan.. Shen Jiu is most certainly not. How do you turn "this character had a sympathetic backstory literally 80% into the main story that was only fully elaborated on in the completely optional extras" into the audience eats up his child abuse ?!3)2;

c. WHY SCUM VILLAIN?? like .. the book that specifically forces its readers to think critically by blurring the lines between "villain" and "protagonist", doing everything it can to push people out of their surface level character analysis comfort zone that marks "protag" as "good" and "antag" as "bad"..? That to assign cookie cutter roles to complex characters is reductive and shows an arrogance that can lead you to completely misinterpreting a text?? Did you just pick it because it has villain in the title ?!)3 low hanging fruit???

Idk I didn't read the whole thing so maybe I'm wrong but I just saw this on the tl and thought it was baffling 😭 like why are we always misrepresented in journalism haven't we suffered enough after not having any official content for literally one of the main side characters for 7 entire years LMFAOO