Yeah, I mean, do you guys remember waves of wank meta accusing posts about negative opinions of being 'pissing in people's cheerios'? I mean, not even comments or replies, or 'if you post it in the main tag' or 'if you post it in the main comm', but just like... posting about something you hate in your own journal is still considered offensive by some people.
And I THINK those people are in a minority! But I also think we all know about them which is why people tend to be more hesitant about coming out with their negative reactions lest their motives be mistaken for "just to make people sad".
That said, I do see negative reactions in general in people's posts about things that they've watched and read and things in fandoms, even specific characters. They just usually wind up with extra disclaimers and a cut tag to spare people's feelings.
And of course when we talk about people who 'get in the way of a ship', as you put it in your post, they have historically been the recipients of a lot of vitriol within fandom, both het and slash, and easily within living memory, so it's easy to see why many people tend to be suspicious that someone writing about how they hate that character is just projecting their shipping desires onto them.
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Date: 27/1/19 20:59 (UTC)wankmeta accusing posts about negative opinions of being 'pissing in people's cheerios'? I mean, not even comments or replies, or 'if you post it in the main tag' or 'if you post it in the main comm', but just like... posting about something you hate in your own journal is still considered offensive by some people.And I THINK those people are in a minority! But I also think we all know about them which is why people tend to be more hesitant about coming out with their negative reactions lest their motives be mistaken for "just to make people sad".
That said, I do see negative reactions in general in people's posts about things that they've watched and read and things in fandoms, even specific characters. They just usually wind up with extra disclaimers and a cut tag to spare people's feelings.
And of course when we talk about people who 'get in the way of a ship', as you put it in your post, they have historically been the recipients of a lot of vitriol within fandom, both het and slash, and easily within living memory, so it's easy to see why many people tend to be suspicious that someone writing about how they hate that character is just projecting their shipping desires onto them.