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Response to moral policing on fandoms

    I’ve been seeing this discussion lately across all fandoms & I think there needs to be a serious conversation about fiction vs reality & the fear that imagination = endorsement. In defense of taboo: The myth that media creates monsters, discomfort ≠ endorsement, a thread 🧵
    
    1. I worry that with the rise of the internet, algorithm-driven micro-cultures, and the return of puritanical values, many people are losing the ability to distinguish between fiction and reality. This has serious implications for how we consume and interpret media.
    
    2. If you think fictional depictions of "bad things"—whether romanticized or not—are equivalent to endorsing such behavior, I urge you to reflect. Fiction operates in a moral space SEPARATE from real life. It isn't bound by the same rules of legality or ethics.
    
    3. Ask yourself: Why do you assume that consuming "dark media" promotes or condones real-world harm? Why is your first thought that encountering a taboo topic in fiction will lead to its normalization or practice in reality?
    
    4. The very existence of taboo themes in fiction highlights their recognition as unacceptable in real life. Both creators and consumers understand this distinction. If you cannot make this distinction, you are consuming media that is above your weight, and you are not ready for it.
    
    5. (And before you say: but what about kids! kids could read this! they don’t have the wherewithal to distinguish fact from fiction!
    
        5a. You completely underestimate the ability of a child to consume and decipher media
    
        5b. Warnings, tagging, rating systems, u/CommonSense Media exist
    
        5c. The onus is on parents to monitor their child’s media consumption activities online & in real life—it is NOT the creator’s responsibility to ensure the material stays out of children’s hands nor is it their responsibility to consider potential child consumers when creating it
    
    6. If your immediate reaction to taboo content—kink, violence, or other dark topics—is “This perpetuates harm,” consider this: does your discomfort with such fiction reveal more about your fears or biases than about the media itself?
    
    7. Fiction is a space for exploration, imagination, and sometimes discomfort. But discomfort ≠ danger. If you fear that consuming certain media will lead to real-world harm, perhaps the issue lies not with the media but with how you’re processing it.
    
    8. Research has consistently shown that consuming media about “bad things” doesn’t lead to real-world harm.
        -People who play first-person shooter games don’t become school shooters
        -True crime listeners don’t turn into serial killers
        -Fanfic readers don’t act on taboo scenarios
    
    9. Fiction provides a space to engage with complex ideas and emotions, safely removed from real-world consequences. It’s not a blueprint for behavior, nor should it be treated as such.
    
    10. Blurring the line between fiction and reality undermines the power of storytelling. Creative expression shouldn't be policed based on fears of what‼️might‼️ happen.
    
    11. Instead, we should trust individuals to navigate narratives responsibly. Stories challenge, provoke, and expand our understanding of human experience. Let fiction remain fiction.
    
    12. All of that is to say: scrutinize what you consume, why you consume it and why you enjoy it, but do not conflate consumption with endorsement.
     
    And if all else fails, just remember: if you don’t like it, don’t read it. /end 🧵

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      CONTRAILS? More like CON-FAILS! Anyone with half a BRIAN knows it's the DEMONCRAPS putting the 100th COVID BOOSTER in the air so the 5G TOWERS can MAKE US TRANS. Since when did compressing COLD MOIST AIR with a JET TURBINE make the air become VISIBLE? Since JOE BRANDON took office THAT'S when 

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        The "Please wake up you've been in a coma" copypasta

        This copypasta started from Twitch where viewers would spammed it as a joke. After Twitch introduced anti-spam measures it effectively eradicated most copypastas on the site including this one. Its now used on other platforms such Twitter, Discord or Reddit as a troll or joke.

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        Zyox – MODS FIND HIS LOCATION

          Zy0x MODS FIND HIS LOCATION copypasta

          It came from a Zy0x stream where he goes into detail on how to ruin a chatter’s life for making a joke he didn’t even remember.

          MODS, 🧍‍♀️FIND HIS LOCATION  🫵 THEN- DON'T DOX THEM 😦 DON'T DO THAT ❌ THEN GO THERE 🏃‍♀️ TAKE THEIR PILLOW RIGHT 🛌 REMOVE THE PILLOW CASE😮 PUT ON A NEW ONE THAT'S A BIT LESS COMFY 😨 AND THEN MAKE SURE IT'S WARM 😳 PUT A HEATER UNDER THE PILLOW 🔥INTEGRATED INTO THE PILLOW CASE 🤫 SO THAT THE PILLOW IS ALWAYS WARM ON BOTH SIDES 🥵THEN TAKE THEIR PHONE CHARGER 🪢 TANGLE IT A LITTLE TO WHERE IT ONLY CHARGES AT A SPECIFIC ANGLE 😱THEN PLUG THAT BACK INTO THE WALL IN A LOOSE WAY 🔌WHERE IT'S GONNA FALL OUT WHEN THEY PLUG THEIR PHONE IN 🙍‍♀️AND THEN THEY'RE GONNA HAVE TO BE INCONVENIENCED 😟 BECAUSE THEIR PHONE WON'T ACTUALLY WORK ANYMORE 😤IT WON'T CHARGE 😩 THEY THINK IT'LL CHARGE BUT IT WON'T CHARGE PROPERLY 🤡  SO THEIR ALARM WON'T GO OFF NEXT MORNING ⏰THEY'RE GONNA MISS THEIR FLIGHT ✈️  MISS THEIR RIDE TO WORK 🏇THEIR BOSS IS GONNA BE LIKE 🙎‍♂️"LISTEN HERE, THIS IS THE SIXTH TIME YOU'VE BEEN LATE" 🙅‍♂️ FIRED, LOSE THEIR JOB, 😿ALL BECAUSE- ☝️I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT THEIR MESSAGE WAS 🤓 BUT THEY CHOSE TO MAKE A JOKE.🤬 
          Mods, find his location, then don't dox them, don't do that. Then go there, take their pillow right, remove the pillow case, put on a new one that's a bit less comfy and then make sure it's warm. Put a heater under the pillow integrated into the pillow case, so that the pillow is always warm on both sides. Then take their phone charger, tangle it a little to where it only charges at a specific angle. Then plug that back into the wall in a loose way where it's gonna fall out when they plug their phone in and then they're gonna have to be inconvenienced because their phone won't actually work anymore, it won't charge. They think it'll charge but it won't charge properly, so their alarm won't go off next morning, they're gonna mis their flight, miss their ride to work, their boss is gonna be like "listen here, this is the SIXTH TIME you've been late", fired, lose their job, all because they chose to make a joke. 

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            This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen, equal to that awful Ai of us fighting

              Cynthia Erivo replying to fan edits of the movie poster has became a copypasta

              Its from the Instagram story of Cynthia Erivo (the actor playing the green witch) reacting to fan edits of the Wicked movie poster hiding her eyes.

              This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen, equal to that awful Ai of us fighting, equal to people posing the question “is your ***** dangling” None of this is funny None of it is cute It degrades me It degrades us The original poster is an ILLUSTRATION. I am a real life human being, who chose to to look right down the barrel of the camera to you, the viewer ...because, without words we communicate with our eyes. Our poster is an homage not an imitation, to edit my face and hide my eyes is to erase me. And that is just deeply hurtful.