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In that case, what were you trying to accomplish by telling an entire fanbase, some of whom are thread regulars, to stick a tire iron up their collective ***es? It couldn't have been to curry favor.I'm half asleep and running mostly off the fumes of watching a bunch of stuck up people say a bunch of stuck up things. I'm saying a lot of regrettable things in a tone that is very much uncalled for and I'm probably going to lose even more sleep off of it.
But maybe Pokemon Sun and Moon's leadup had a lot of schoolyard chanting regarding the starters that hit a little too close to home for someone who had to outright stop following a fandom due to the emotional damage just watching discourse surrounding it was causing, and maybe the thread I just read hammered in a little too hard that all the people that did that schoolyard chanting never stopped having that attitude. Maybe I'm just tired of one fictional character being used as an excuse to tell people they're wrong for liking another fictional character, maybe I'm tired of people going "anyone who likes this character is a pathetic subhuman moron because this other character exists," maybe I'm tired of people drawing a line in the sand and saying one thing is a sacred cow and another thing is a punching bag and may the line never be crossed.
Maybe I'm just tired of the image certain characters come to represent in my head, because people like to wave them around like banners for nothing but the worst reasons. Decidueye, Samus Aran, King K. Rool, none of them deserve this except purely lore wise maybe the last one, but there's just something. . .consistently wrong with people to the point that it starts to become difficult to parse the characters from the way certain people act. If you say that about Daisy over literally just Memoryman half the internet would smile and nod. But hundreds of people act out with the implicit approval by inaction of the rest of their fandoms you're a delusional *******.
Maybe I just get bitter and lash out because people act in ways that make me feel like dirt for liking things so the only thing I have left is to wonkily return it in kind, in a gesture that will never land because those responsible have no concept of empathy and I'm too cowardly to actually do it to their faces in the first place.
You said yourself that these people make you associate a character with their actions. And you, in turn, make that a blanket reaction to anyone who likes that character. But here, you aren't associating yourself with a character. Here, you're being a bitter, self-righteous, holier-than-thou jerk.
But because there's not a character involved, should we associate that with you? After all, I'd assume it would be fair if you effectively do the same.
Don't go around shooting rubber bands at people and then expect them to sympathize when one of the bands snaps back at you.