AITA for blocking and moving on?I (18M) am in a variety of discord servers, many of which have overlapping members, one of which being who we’ll call Alina (18F). Alina has currently been obsessed with some new franchise that I don’t care about— I watched the movies and I thought they were hot garbage and dumb, but enjoy what you want, I don’t care if you like it even if I hated it. Just don’t show it to me.The thing is… she’s been posting about it EVERYWHERE. Fanart she’s done, posts on Twitter she likes, “Oh I love the ship between the two main characters! They’re so great, don’t you all agree?” I’ve already unfollowed her on Tumblr and I don’t use Twitter, but seeing her post about it all the time has been driving me nuts.I don’t want to tell her I want her to stop posting it everywhere because we share a majority of servers, so I just blocked her on Discord (which hides all messages they send in the servers, I can usually tell which channels she’s talking about it in so I can unclick in others).She found out I had her blocked when she pinged me, asking about my IRL LIFE to see what I felt about the movie series she likes, which creeped me out (she was asking me to go out and take photos of a place for her because she had a mutual who went there for the movie series; she is Western(?) Canadian and I live on the East Coast of America). She asked one of her friends to DM me for her, getting furious about how I blocked her for no reason. I told her that I don’t like seeing stuff for her movie series which is why I blocked her, and she got furious at me, saying I should talk to her (I told her I didn’t want to impose on her fun) and I shouldn’t just go blocking people (I can still see your messages, it’s just opt-in now). AITA for this?
Not only are you NTA, OP, you were following the rules of old-school fandom to a T:
1) YKINMKATO/kink tomato, or I guess in this case we might say “franchise tomato”;
2) don’t stir wank, just move on;
3) don’t harsh someone else’s squee;
4) curate your own experience.
Literally what you did could be a case study in “how to be a good neighbor in fandom.” That this person lost her damn mind over you being courteous is just. Insane. You’re not missing much by dipping.
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