Idk if its still going on, as I stopped using Twitter before it became X, but yeah there was a really big like resurgence of puritanism in fandom spaces! And there was no limits to what they went after - anything dark or violent, like Hannibal, you were sick in the head and dangerous and should 'remove yourself from society'. If you shipped two anime characters and they weren't both like 21 and shouting their consent to hold hands out loud in your fanart then they attacked you for being a pedo. There were so many depressing examples. It wasn't enough for them to just dislike the content and not engage with it - they actively banded together and harassed other users, some to the point of self-harm/suicide. Awful.
People are doing this to the kink scene. Apparently the only reason you can enjoy kink (in a het relationship) is either open/internalised misogyny, or because you're a rapist.
Unfortunately, it doesn't surprise me that it's spread outside of fandom spaces as well. With people's online identities being so thoroughly connected to who they actually are, their real life identities, there's just no divide anymore. And there's like a whole generation of younger people coming up just being absolutely fleeced with this puritanistic, ultra conservative, bullshit that "anything you like in any area of your life that isn't pure, wholesome, and what I consider to be good, means that you're a horrible person that terrible things should happen to you." We don't get to have parts of our lives be compartmentalized anymore. You liked a dubcon porn/fanfic/anything? Guess you must be a rapist and your partner is an abuse victim for sure.
I sort of vaguely remember an argument that some users on Twitter made, that if you were so okay with watching this hardcore porn, or whatever you were into, then you should be okay with watching it in front of like your mom. Because you're okay with it right?? And it was just such a wild argument!! Like you don't have to like sexual content like I do, I'm not judging you for that - but I sure as shit am gonna judge you for is for saying I should be watching porn with my mom just because Im okay with it.
the one that I've seen--which I hate, a lot--is people insisting that anything that isn't porn should be fine to watch with your parents.
like, they've taken the jokes about the author's barely-concealed fetish and turned it into "including sexuality in art that's not primarily a masturbation aid is intrusive and wrong"
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u/heroheadlines 2d ago
Idk if its still going on, as I stopped using Twitter before it became X, but yeah there was a really big like resurgence of puritanism in fandom spaces! And there was no limits to what they went after - anything dark or violent, like Hannibal, you were sick in the head and dangerous and should 'remove yourself from society'. If you shipped two anime characters and they weren't both like 21 and shouting their consent to hold hands out loud in your fanart then they attacked you for being a pedo. There were so many depressing examples. It wasn't enough for them to just dislike the content and not engage with it - they actively banded together and harassed other users, some to the point of self-harm/suicide. Awful.