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What really annoys me is that I love Voltron but the fucking fandom is so fucking toxic. Like, people who ship one ship would start shit with people who ship another. I seriously don't understand why people are acting like this, some of these people are in their teens and are acting like fucking five year-old. And that's an insult to five year-olds cause I work with them and they are nothing like that. I literally don't mind what ships other people ship, it's not going to harm me when they say who they bloody ship together, they can express who they ship and don't ship.

If you don't like that ship then you can kindly tell them instead of making a massive thing over it like it's the end of the fucking world. Just because the character you ship with is in the same ship as theirs. I saw a post on Instagram where someone received a DM from this person shipping Sheith. Telling them that Klance will never happen and that it's not canon king, and never will be. I don't know if I misheard but didn't Shiro say Keith was like a brother to him in the recent season?

I understand that people will ship those two together still and I encourage it but why the need to going into a Klance shipper's DM and harrass them over their ship? I'm actually asking why some shipper's need to act in such a manner just because some people ship two characters together that they don't ship.

Sorry for my rant but thanks for reading.

Has anyone noticed how ungodly toxic fandom is lately? Especially on TikTok. Why is the TikTok Sonic community becoming the toxic Voltron’s Legendary Defender fan base 2.0.. I literally saw a video shitting on metamy specifically because it wasn’t canon. Like isn’t the whole point of fandom to have fun? Shipping doesn’t need to be logical, it’s supposed to be fun (obviously with boundaries). It’s genuinely disappointing to see a fan base that I love so dearly fighting over simple, cute ships like that. I promise you it is NOT that deep. Looking at the comments was kind of heartbreaking as well because everyone was just shitting on ships that they didn’t like specifically because they weren’t canon or they were being absolute assholes to people who were defending the purpose of fandom itself. Don’t get me wrong, it is COMPLETELY fine to dislike a ship, but if it isn’t hurtful then you really shouldn’t say anything. If you don’t like a ship respect the other persons opinion and move on. It’s not hurting anyone. The freedom to have fun and do what you want is so important and it feels as if people have completely forgotten that is what fandom is about. It’s genuinely so sad to see how far it’s fallen atp I think the only completely non toxic communities I’ve found is the Ori franchise, niche genetics, and the majority of the Brandon Sanderson series. I’m so confused as to where and when fandom fell apart because what the hell is going on. What happened to human empathy? I have so many more examples of toxicity than just this, but literally all of it is from effing TikTok. I think we need to chill.

Who do you think is worse? Arick/Burnie Burns or the Unhinged OTM Girls Fan

Both are guys who are self-proclaimed fans of their respective idols, but are just some unreasonable dickheads who think they’re entitled to them to the point of trying to outright kill them just to get attention.

Arick (Burnie) Burns is from Helluva Boss, which belongs to Vivienne “Vivziepop” Medrano

And the Unhinged OTM Girls fan is from Aggretsuko, which belongs to Sanrio and Netflix