@TeaPerson8@obscure_taco if you can’t separate fiction from reality it’s just skill issue and you can’t consume any form of fiction just to be safe. you didn’t start hitting people with claymore on the streets after you started playing genshin, did you? or what fictional violence works some other way?
if you’ve heard about about the harassment the manga creator of nakamura has faced to the point of deleting their twt acc, i hope you can also help bring attention to the ongoing attacks doyak (author of wet sand) has been facing from a subset of bl readers for the past 3-4 weeks after completing her story.
certain readers have participated in sending her death threats, attempting a review bomb campaign on ridi, doxxing her, and are now spreading puritan ideology in order to morally police her story, one that has always explicitly stated that it’s a noir bl involving gangsters + three characters who end up doing dark things. many of the said readers who are spreading these puritan ideologies have started and continued to read wet sand for the past few years knowing this as well and are only doing this out of spite for not getting the eg they preferred
it got so bad a few weeks ago that the harassment was reported on by a large manga news account (@/mangasbrasil) and in result, the same readers went out of their way to attack the journalist of that account too
while ik that many steered clear of this story and its fandom due to the toxic environment fans have cultivated over the years, i still think readers should help stop others from normalizing this parasocial activity with creators, esp after the conversations had just recently about the damage moral policing can have on the bl community in the long run
it’s a terrible message being spread that if creators’ stories don’t align with the tastes of readers whose ideologies aren’t universal, readers have the “right” to attack them/push for censorship instead of just finding stories they do enjoy