The “basic human empathy” people sure do spend a lot of time fantasizing about murdering everyone they don’t like.

A harsh truth is that you can easily spot where fandom rot began simply by observing peoples' ages listed in bio. Anyone aged 16-20 who spent their days online during covid often have the most insufferable, self-righteous personalities and bad takes.

Fandom culture now is just a bunch of annoying nerds dictating artists on what they can and can't make.

Man, between markiplier getting pounced on for not liking poppy chapter 5, and gooseworks leaving Reddit because fans didn’t like what they said about THEIR OWN SHOW, I’m just at a loss for words. What happened to internet fandoms man.

The way unheroic/morally dubious protagonists used to be the norm in media, only for covid-rotted tumblr teens to threaten and harass writers and creators into silence because they cannot handle "problematic media" and moral ambiguity needs to be studied.

You are everything wrong with modern online fandoms.

Fandom culture most certainly has not come back from 'i put needles in a cookie and gave it to an artist I don't like'

>y'all

Seriously, I think we can have nuance about this sort of thing and realize that both things are horrendous considering the gooseworx shit currently happening, but I know this person is just showing their bias

Comedy has an amazing ability to break echo chambers and cultural boundaries and it shows plenty through fandoms when some have their own culture built on performative empathy and being in an emotional arms race where others just chill and laugh with no emotional stakes.

perfectly encapsulates today's discourse and twitter as a whole

So let me get this straight… If a person with epilepsy accidentally hits me during a seizure I have to be 100% okay with it because of their condition, and if I get mad I’m ableist…? Don’t you know Im the center of my universe, and my suffering is the only thing that matters?

There's actually a scene in the film where he gets seriously assaulted for involuntarily using a slur, so well done: you're the same as the baddies in a film about how hard society is on disabled people.

The modern age can be defined as "Desperately wanting to look good, but choosing to be a massive asshole when it actually matters." Fraudulent empathy.

The Tourette’s discourse makes it seem like there are parts of the left that have memed themselves into thinking there is no possible circumstance where a white guy deserves sympathy That isn’t justice, that fucking sucks

The "tolerance and inclusion" crowd literally turns everything to shit.