lezzyharpy:

i truly, genuinely think fandom shit has caused irreparable damage to some of yalls ability to think critically

like i dont think fandom shit is just annoying, i think the fact that so many of u have made consumption of various media franchises the cornerstone for your personalities, your conception of what constitutes activism, your moral framework, your lens through which you view real world events, has really, truly ruined your ability to think

you heard in passing “no ethical consumption under capitalism” and took it and warped it into “any consumption of any kind can be morally justified if its something that i personally enjoy”

you heard “separate the art from the artist” and took it to mean that you can enjoy any piece of media so long as you say publicly that you denounce its creator (which does, what, exactly? what material effect does your denouncement have). that the creators bigotry inevitably seeps into their work is immaterial to you

you say “ill just pirate their work then” but you continue to publicly create fanwork for their media, you continue to promote it, you continue to defend constant widespread engagement with it. you act like the only support that matters is financial support so you can absolve yourself of any guilt when you continue to engage with works that you know are dripping with bigotry from every fucking word

youve internalized these media franchises as core parts of your being to the point where any criticism of them or, even worse, anything saying that this or that franchise is inseparable from the harm it causes is a personal attack on YOU, so you get defensive, you come up with a million flimsy moral justifications for why its imperative that you continue to prop up such and such multimillion dollar media franchise

its genuinely pathetic, and i would feel sorry for you if i wasnt preoccupied being angry and utterly fucking dumbstruck at how fucking deluded you are