So I wandered over this little gem today.
Will put my thorough dragging of bronlies, especially the Kelloggs club, behind a cut to not wank up dashboards.
I didn’t realize how terrible things had gotten for Sam fans, and Jared Padalecki in general.
I don’t like Sam all that much (though, kudos to the writers for making me agree, and laugh with a character I prefer much less to others), but this is insane. Sam (plus TFW) fans should be able to enjoy it without getting harassed by K and her cronies.
As usual your posts helped clear things up for me. Oh, and this is MxScarredFacade just so you know, and aren’t freaked out by the familiarity I’m expressing here 🙂
(hi btw! *waves*)
that’s the funny thing. if you actually show any love towards sam/jared, whether he’s your favorite or not, they’ll either talk amongst themselves about how you’re totally just faking it or just straight up call you a liar and that you actually hate him. i’ve had it to me WAY too many times. both on here and on twitter. it literally happened just two nights ago.
tenoko gets asks and curious cats with a variation of this same question: “why do you hate sam?”
my sam!girl friend that runs changing channels has it happened to her constantly, too.
i’m at the point that i’ve been involved in fandom, whether as a lurker or engaged, for so long that i’ve lost my will to give a flying fuck.
hey this got long again, sorry
but as i mentioned in a reblog of this post, others are still nervous to enjoy sam, enjoy jared, even want and enjoy good things about the bro bond because these good things get soiled and tainted by k and co. and i and another friend spent all day the other trying to coax them out of hiding and assure them it’s ok to enjoy and want these things and to not let these assholes ruin it.
they’re not even a whole percentage point of the fandom and somehow they managed to rewire the thinking of 99% of the fandom because people don’t want to be associated with hate, delusions, and triggering ships.
i wish i could just tell people to give bronlies the middle finger and do what they want anyway and they just do it, but that’s not how it works. it’s like a pavlovian response now. you see bro content, j2 content, solo jared content, and you immediately recoil. it’s become safer to follow certain types of shippers and tfw fans because at least you know for sure that chances are highly in your favor that they’re not hateful/gross/deluded assholes.