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- Sep 21, 2016
I agree that the discourse can be exceptional at times because on the surface, it's mostly nerds fighting over what fictional ships they think are the best. I know it seems dumb to use terms like anti, fanpol, or whatever...but in my opinion it does perfectly describe how hypocritical they act in fandoms. How stupid do you have be to proudly call yourself an anti-fujoshi saying that you hate it when straight women sexualize gay men; then create a new term called MLM (Men Loving Men) which is basically the same as yaoi but woke.
You're also right about how the crusaders/pedo hunters don't really accomplish anything in the end because they often ignore the actual predators. None of these crusaders will even go up against them or report them because they're fucking cowards that are often trying to "atone for their problematic past" or desperately trying to hide the fact that they're disgusting degenerates in the end. They also intentionally misinform minors on what pedophiles actually are so that they're easier to groom. Don't believe me? Don't you think it's strange that all these crusader groups have very few adults but have a bunch of minors following them around repeating everything they say? Kind of like a cult?
I can agree with you on the fact that it seems very disingenuous of these people to call themselves 'anti-fujoshi' to seem woke. These women often put 'she/they/he' in their Twitter biography or call themselves a 'gay trans boi uwu' to get away with the fetishization of gay men-- while trying to virtue signal as someone who y'know, would never be a dirty fujoshi or anything like that.
My problem is that the group of people who inherently call ANYONE who opposes them 'antis,' are usually people who are putting their content in a place that minors can get a hold with little to no effort. Unlocked Twitter accounts with one safeguard that absolves them of all guilt--

Anyways, not going to completely derail the thread on ship twitter drama, but I don't think a lot of the 'predator hunters' are adults. I know one of the more prominent loli crusader accounts was a minor herself, but my problem with that whole thing is that these people are willingly exposing themselves to CP to get an account banned. And they're willingly exposing other people to CP without any warnings. And they're muddying up the word 'CP' to mean both shotacon/lolicon, and y'know, kids being raped on camera. Big difference there. While 'predator hunting' can seem like a cult... that's just Twitter cancel culture in general. Anyone feels good by doing some slacktivism, exposing people to real CP, and getting a 0 follower account banned. Rather than submitting an FBI tip and reporting to Twitter formally. Sigh.
I think it's harmful for the minors who throw themselves into it and are willingly traumatizing themselves by looking at this stuff, but I don't think it is making them easier to groom for adults in itself.