There’s a reason it’s more widespread now.

It’s the same reason that calling ships “problematic” and morality policing is more widespread now.

People want a reason to feel justified in telling other people not to ship a pairing that they don’t like.

People used to call these pairings “cringe” “lame” “stupid” etc, but the push-back against cringe culture and the push-back against harassing people for harmless weirdness has backfired.

The push-back against cringe culture has not resulted in less harassment.

It has resulted in the people who want to harass others changing their language and making up reasons why the things they don’t like are morally wrong.

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