I know it's a losing battle to even post this but I still find it weird and sad that Steven Universe became thought of as "cringe" or "embarrassing" to admit that you enjoy.
I don't even follow fandom discourse, it just somehow finds me sometimes.
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in reply to @kylelabriola's post:
I remember talking to a fellow student in 2016 who seemed like they would like Steven Universe but they were like "No, I don't want to watch Steven Universe, the fandom is too toxic." That was so wild to me I guess because my friends and I watching it were not Online like that.
It's so wild and makes me so sad. Same for how people avoid Undertale.
Wait maybe ten years and the nostalgia will bring them all back for the live action revival that no one will like but will make a lot of people re-appreciate the show again as adults.
More seriously, I think the fandom had/has a strange relationship with the show, not even counting the extremely toxic fans. The awful scheduling, the breathless hype before every episode, the somewhat rushed last season... I think all those factors worked together to sour the memory of the show even though the show itself was fine.
I'm very very curious to see if it has a similar nostalgia cycle to something like Teen Titans or Avatar: The Last Airbender. In one way, I almost think...it won't. Because a lot of those shows and the ones preceding it benefitted from airing on [traditional] TV and before the era of social media. So I feel like the discourse wasn't quite as pervasive.
mybesties who loved hazbin hotel still tellin me steven universe is bad . . . iwill destroy every thing . . . steven universe is freaking awesome as hell. and da ending aint even that bad ❗❗❗
As someone who enjoyed Steven Universe, RWBY, and Sword Art Online, the number of times someone would respond to seeing a wallpaper, or shirt, or keychain with "Oh I also like [ X ] " then immediate follow with some caveat is so exhausting I just began not talking about or showing things I enjoy. It's too exhausting.
No, my Halo wallpaper does not mean you need to explain to me in detail that you used to love Halo back when Bungie made it and now the series is ruined forever. I've had this conversation at least 50 times, I will evaporate. I will enter the water cycle. I end up as cave water. Save me please
I watched it casually growing up and while I wasn't involved in fandom activities, that show was very formative for me. It really taught me about topics like consent and the importance of expressing how you feel. I feel embarassed mentioning how much I like it to others: online, it had became trendy to dunk on it for a while, and offline I risk being seen as childish. Still, it's a good show, and I hope that one day it can be talked about as such divorced from it's online context.
Yeah me too. and I agree there's this pressure like you can't bring it up anywhere, online or offline, for the reasons you said. It's bizarre to me because I can't think of this type of reputation for most other cartoons (maybe My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is the only other exception.) People love talking about Powerpuff Girls or Hey Arnold and stuff like that.
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