A lot of the media popular to lambast as irredeemable and evil is literally, as objectively as you can state for something as subjective as fiction, just not that. Which is why in practice they seem.unfamiliar with non-populist media, or even populist media that's older than the last decadeĮDIT: Literally sixty seconds later she goes into exactly this lol I don't get the sense that they read a lot, or watch a lot, or generally process a lot of entertainment media outside of the context of having a community that is already into it or is developing a passion for it. This is, of course, a generalization, but it is something that seems to stand out when you scroll through the social media profiles of the sort of people who come out swinging the hardest in these situations. There's a thing that struck me when she was going through the DNI list phenomenon, an impression I've generated of these sorts of people over the years (I'm going to generalize a personality type here, "hyper engaged member of a fan community with an interest in the moral dimension of media engagement"): its not just that they are often driven to moralize about the media their community enjoys, or an oppositional community enjoys, its that they don't seem to engage with media that doesn't have a community otherwise. I can still understand that gut reaction to those things all too well, is all. Of course, aggressively lashing back out at these perceived slights ( especially when you haven't even watched the video it's from, jeez) is absolutely not the solution, and I know I've certainly made a point of keeping that kind of stuff out of my little fandom circles, but just. After a point you start automatically assuming the worst because you've experienced that worst so many times before, so it just seems like another stack on the ever-growing pile. As someone who's seen the awful hate in shipping fandoms first hand, there comes a point where phrases like 'romancing abuse' just gives you shipping war flashbacks to people who've used similar language to viciously trash talk you or your friends because you like enemies to lovers trope or shipped two adult characters with like a 5 year age gap or whatever nonsense. Like tons of people absolutely went inexcusably off the handle at her over her tweets or over that KS video's title-definitely not defending that kind of behavior, but it also felt like she failed to examine where it comes from. One area I feel like she was maybe a little bit lacking in exploring, though, is the perspective of those who have experienced the kind of toxicity and hate shipping fandoms can have for the other side first hand, and how that affects a person's interpretation and reaction to certain things.
There doesn't always need to be a reason or defense behind it. Like, man, it's okay to just simply dislike something, just because. I especially felt the bit about people needing moral reasons to dislike things nowadays - this is such an awful mentality that's really taken over fandom these last handful of years.
Another great video from Sarah Z! I may not agree with every position she takes in this video, but most of them I do and she really tackles a lot of different and interesting angles of the issue.
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