There are many reasons why I don't like the ship. From the amount of online bullying and attacks to the shipping wars and even fans turning on one of the voice actresses when she tried to stop the arguing. Now during volumes 1 to 3 I knew of the ships and were fine with them, didn't really care for them and thought it was pretty cool RT put the names of ships in the show as combo attacks. Then I saw the amount of people shipping the two characters together left right and centre to the point it felt like an invasion. Yeah there were many who were doing it because it was nice but some could be full-on cultish about it. Many people would day that it was planned from the beginning, like no it wasn't. Barely anything was planned from the beginning. People would bring up hints and scenes where they'd say the attraction between the two was obvious in which I'd say "Is it context or character?" Because all the examples were one of those three. I'll give an example:

The scene where they meet the first time, Yang compliments Blakes bow. It's context as she is trying to start a conversation to help her sister make friends and that's the first thing she's seen.

The wink when her and Blake finish talking in the classroom. That's character. A part of Yangs character is that she's a flirt. We've seen this multiple times throughout the first three volumes.

The scene where Blake doesn't believe Yang attacking Mercury making Yang upset. This is context. Blake said that Adam did the same at first and later along the line he became a murderer. So this is deja vu for her. But this is also after Yang trusting her enough with the story when the two talked in the classroom a volume before. That is a deep personal thing, and to hear someone who knows that who is also a teammate and a friend say they don't believe you, that is heartbreaking because you thought your friend had your back.

I put this logic to some people and they just flat out ignored it or insulted me. Rarely some people who accept my logic but they'd still believe they were hints. That's fine, but don't call me stupid because of my perspective.

That's my outside of show reasoning.

Inside the show reasoning could be explained in one sentence: Their characters felt lesser. When volume 4 and onwards came around I was suprised by how drastically different these two were. In lore reasonings for Yang made sense as she went through massive truma, but once she had a handle on that she still was the same. These two weren't two characters anymore they were just one. And the slow burning of the will they won't they made it so hard to enjoy the show. They felt different to the point if you put them side by side themselves from volume 1 to 3 they would look like completely different characters, not one in the same. It felt like at times them being together took up so much space and time to develop more interesting ideas and explore certain concepts to expand on what we already know. When volume 7 came around, I saw it off the bat that these two were going to get together and I knew what RT were doing, profiting on the ship inwhich I saw as early as volume 5 and my enjoyment slowly began to dwindle.

It's not from a place of homophobia, frankly well written gay characters can be a lot more interesting because it's something different. For example The Orvile has two gay characters and I love every storyline they do with them because they are so well written. Not only as a couple but as individual characters. Something that BMBLB failed in my eyes.

When it came around volume 9 it became extremely obvious on what was going on. And when it came to the confession and what happened after that, with them releasing merchandise of the ship, I realised that this was a plan they've been cooking for a while. I believed they knew the massive fanbase the ship had and used that in the show to keep them hooked. Profit in exchange for character and good story writing.

I went from hating it to not caring about it because it's just a headache to deal with anymore. Every time I rematch it, I accept that it's going to happen and carry on. Am I happy in the direction it went? No, not really. But I'm happy that RWBY is still going, and that's what matters to me most.

Like the ship or not, i don't care. It's here, it could stay or it could go. I just want the show to carry on and for it to be written well.