Like I hate to break this to you but calling out racism and transphobia and pedophilic and incestuous shipping in your case isn’t a new trend, you’re just weird.
Please show me this new mind-blowing evidence that anime characters are real people that can be abused.
Calling out real racism and transphobia and abuse and everything, yes, I totally understand, call people out when they do bad things, obviously, but I’m not racist or transphobic or abusive, so why am I relevant in this conversation?
Furthermore, I ask again; Why is age gap shipping and shipcest bad, but running people over with your car in GTA is not? Don’t you care that people are dying in that video game every day due to reckless players?
Child molestation is bad because a real child was abused, and incest is usually bad for the same reason, plus it can fuck up healthy family dynamics and whatnot, but underage fiction written and consumed by adults? Who exactly is getting hurt in this situation? Certainly not the characters, who are not real people and cannot, in fact, be harmed in any way. You know. Just like NPCs in GTA you can run over with your car with no real-world repercussions. Can’t wait to campaign in real life for the rights of video game characters who are only programmed to walk in one direction and scream when you hit them. Definitely sounds like a good use of your time. /s
And yes, this is a recent thing. Not in general, people have always had a bee in their bonnet about bad things in fiction. Look no further than Jack Thompson and the Satanic Panic of classic metal bands for proof of this, but in fandom, people used to just ship and let ship. They shipped themselves with war criminals and they shipped age gaps and shipcest just because it was interesting, and people have been using fiction to cope with life since literally the invention of fiction, so why should fanfiction be any different?
Literally nobody had a problem with this until fandom started becoming mainstream and second wave feminists started turning into terfs. What changed? Why are violent video games okay but shipcest isn’t? Nobody has actually answered that question for me.
In conclusion, anon, maybe next time just try shutting the fuck up about abused NPCs, mkay?
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