Nonny it ain’t two halves it’s pretty much the whole fandom of positivity and inclusiveness, a large number of Destiel shippers, stans on all sides on the periphery and a handful of nasty Bronlies. Don’t let any of their angry vitriolic yelling lead you to believe they’re half the fandom cos that they definitely ain’t.
Pretty sure if they were even remotely close to half the fandom, the ratings wouldn’t be going UP every time they noisily boycotted and proved they weren’t watching (like 13×6 #mysupernatural boycott [13×6 went up more than 10%] or S8 Silent Majority protests [which recovered raw demo visibly even beyond the industry curve; just… raw number].)
Not even remotely close to half. Not even a pie cut. It’s that crumble off the crust that nobody wants cuz it’s kinda burnt anyway.
out of curiosity (because i’m making a “bronly edit” of s13 and had to check what episodes they boycotted), i counted the tweets in that hashtag. it came to a little over 600 from 24 hours before and 72 hours after. which sounds like a lot except at some point, people from the inclusive end, including myself and @intelligentshipper, started trying to use the hashtag for good. so iirc, about 100 needs to be subtracted from that number.
never mind that i shouldn’t even be able to count nor remember approximately what the number of tweets in a tag is.
also of note, i used hashtagify to gauge it’s popularity and plugged in #mysupernatural and lookie what i got
THERE’S LITERALLY NOT ENOUGH DATA FOR IT TO CALCULATE IT’S POPULARITY
here’s the link. plug it in and try for yourself.
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