lori

@lori

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lori @lori6/6/2023, 2:10 PM

Sorry that I've posted so much discourse shit but this is another one that has grated on me for a while:

Stop applying shit like "anti" and "proship" to everyone. Most people on earth are not involved in weird fandom discourse, which is the only thing these terms apply to. You're lucky I'm even online enough to know what these things mean because most people don't and if you would socialize with people outside of fandom communities you'd understand that. I have actively avoided fandom stuff since I was a teen and saw how much it sucked. I'm not in the same zip code as this weird anti/proship stuff. It does not apply. It has no bearing on my life. I need some of you to realize that this is true for 99% of people. It's so stupid to frame everyone in the world like all social dynamics on earth work the same as the My Hero Academia Tumblr tag or whatever.

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Robert Hutchinson @ertchin6/6/2023, 4:12 PM

"Anti": when "let people enjoy things" takes too long to type

(I'll be honest, I'm still not 100% on what it means, but that's partly because I've seen it used different ways in different fandoms.)

Luisf @Loosf6/6/2023, 7:11 PM

I've yet to see anyone using "pro/anti" terms online earnestly that had anything worth considering

fuck fandom spaces and their weird fuckin tribalism

Lupi @lupi6/6/2023, 7:35 PM

we're to the point where i'm gonna start muting anyone i see who uses the term tbh

Luisf @Loosf6/6/2023, 7:52 PM

Not unwise

14 year olds online or people who act like fandom 14 year olds online are a plague.

Lupi @lupi6/6/2023, 7:57 PM

especially when like, the people getting accused of being "puriteens" or "antis" or "the feelings yakuza" average out to be somethin' like 30 years old and Pepperidge Farms Remember the way things have gone before with other sites.

it's almost funny.

@yumegaze6/6/2023, 7:48 PM

thank you

Kotetsu @Kotetsu6/6/2023, 10:49 PM

honestly the terms "anti" and "proship" feel like they came from a lab experiment, freshly emerged from the vat to deliberately be the least descriptive terms ever used. considering what "proship" usually ends up actually meaning, though, it almost feels deliberately vague.

lori @lori6/6/2023, 11:48 PM

It's one of those things where I'm adjacent enough to occasionally see these words, and I've picked up their usage enough, and yet every time I see them applied I might as well be reading a foreign language because they're just so devoid of meaning to me. It reminds me of a while back when Line Wives became a known quantity on Twitter for a minute and suddenly you're confronted with words like Bucket Bunny and you have no idea what universe you're in anymore.