>>109595117i can get behind this. in considering lewders vs. shippers, shippers are far worse from a creator's perspective.
lewders know it's a game and just want to rub one out. yeah maybe it makes some creators feel funny but whatever, no one takes it seriously and it's now so ubiquitous that it's an acknowledged price of doing business. possibly even an alt marketing strategy now, to make lewdable characters.
but ships are by their nature emotional, so shippers become deeply emotionally invested. and it only takes a few extremists to lose themselves in a degree of investment that warps into a religious, dogmatic subservience, leading them to shit up the entire fanbase and endlessly harass creators to canonize their ship.
but even worse than simple harassment? ships have deep STORY implications. no one cares who fucks who, canon or not, especially as we are entering an era of peak sexual freedom. but ask any screenwriter -- even seemingly superficial stories at their core are all about relationships.
so it's a toxic combination. emotional, pseudo-religious fanatics now with direct access to show runners via social media, screeching and threatening for canonical validation of their fantasies, with no consideration for how that would completely fuck up the stories that those creators are trying to tell, and ruin the show for 99.9% of the audience.
tl;dr shipping is true cancer, no exaggeration.
