You cannot produce fiction, art, or any kind of media and make it public unless you are prepared for it to gain a fandom, and unless you are prepared for what it having a fandom will mean.
When you make your creations public, you are opening them up to public reaction.
You cannot control the reaction your audience has to your art.
When you share your work with the world you have to be ready to lose the completeness of your ownership of it.
People will always create fandoms for media they enjoy.
That means if you are a creator and you share your creations publicly on a wide scale you need to be prepared for:
- critical reactions,
- harsh and negative reviews,
- fanfiction,
- fanart,
- horny fanfiction,
- horny fanart,
- and for people to wildly misunderstand your intentions with your work.
fair enough but clowns feeling like ass and I think we can stop being openly horny about the puppets
Clown is free to stop being a public media creator if they don’t want to have a fandom. 🤷‍♀️
I’m a fellow creator, and I’m sympathetic to having your creation get bigger than you intended but when you make work public you have given it to the public to react to.
again, Fair enough but as part of the public I think people should stop being actively horny about welcome home bc it’s having really bad effects on clowns mental health
If transformative works that Clown is seeing are impacting Clown’s mental health then they should block and filter those works.
Their work is public. They don’t get to demand how other people react to it. They can maintain their boundaries by not associating with those people and works.
If it were not NSFW art and fic that was apparently having a negative effect on Clown, but rather any and all fic and art, would you feel the same way?
It is unreasonable to demand that a fandom cater to what makes the creator comfortable or uncomfortable.
I think you have some fair points. I really don’t think he’s “demanding” anything, people can still make horny art of the characters he’s just saying he doesn’t want people to do that right now, which doesn’t seem like a big deal.
If they had a blanket statement on not wanting any fanwork I’d be bummed because I like it but I’d just not post any.
“If it were not NSFW art and fic that was apparently having a negative effect on Clown, but rather any and all fic and art, would you feel the same way?”
also like what do you mean apparently T-T you make it sound like this is some sort of manipulation tactic lol
No I’m serious, I’m not trying to be manipulative, I’m trying to get you to look at the issue from a different perspective.
If the creator were asking people not to make fanfiction or fanart in order to protect their mental health, instead of not to make a specific type of fanfiction or fanart, would you feel that was an appropriate and reasonable request?