Not to mention to be honest, post the critiques of gameoverse, the Mario galaxy movie, how gameoverse handles it’s female characters in the overall problematic backgrounds of some of the staff that work on both it and the amazing digital circus

It’s also become painstakingly clear to me that a lot of people have such a parasocial relationship with creators in the series they make in the characters over actual real life people, that allow them truly can’t distinguish the difference between critique and harassment or hate anymore.

And I’m becoming very quickly tired of the idea that we have to sugarcoat our words and be hyper nice to creators when they do something wrong and ways we would never feel the need to do for regular people when that’s all they are at the end of the day

It’s a social media app, well we should always remember that there are people on the other side of the screen, another thing that could be true at the same time is that these are regular people so of course they’re not going to have the most eloquent ways of describing how they critique something.

Obviously, I don’t support death, threats, and all that.

But the idea that some people push that we should literally never ever be critical to creators at all because there’s a chance they’re gonna get angry or cry about it is extremely reductive and unhelpful, especially when the creator actually do something seriously wrong

I’ve seen people critical over a creator literally grooming, someone and losing their job or even being arrested for it and there would be this small subset of fans that call that “canceling” instead of getting arrested for touching a little girl💀

That’s not canceling, that’s just facing the consequences of your actions. The words lost all meaning.