michifugu

I think people need to learn to accept that sometimes, a subset of groups they don’t like might enjoy or latch onto their favorite series. Instead of doing mental gymnastics like "Uwaah, why are chuds liking this series despite it being woke?"—it would be better to just not care about it.

If homophobic people can still enjoy BL and yuri, what makes you think that just because a series is "woke/queer/progressive," chuds won’t latch onto it if it happens to appeal to their tastes? I've seen plenty of right-wingers enjoying Disco Elysium, for example.

Not to mention, there are also leftists who enjoy works created by conservative authors or works that clearly have pro-right-wing ideologies. People need to understand that sometimes, others can enjoy certain media even if its message or creator’s views oppose their own. It's normal & very common to a lot of people.

And trust me, that doesn’t mean they’re ontologically evil or secretly support the ideology present in those fictional works or being bigot. If a piece of media is good and appeals to someone’s tastes, they’ll like it regardless of the political ideology behind it or the beliefs of its author.

I’m also not a fan of the whole "this work is woke/conservative, so there’s no way chuds/wokies will like it" argument because, most of the time, it’s not even sincere. People just want to "own" the side they’re against in the culture war rather than actually caring about the media itself.

I see this a lot: the woke side tries to justify their favorite media as "woke and gay," only for it to have a pro-imperialism ideology and being a straight because they dislike that chuds like their favorite media. Meanwhile, the chud side tries to justify their favorite media as "based and redpilled," even though it promotes anti-capitalism and anarcho-socialist ideas because they also hate that wokies liking their favorite media.

Honestly, it just comes off as so damn annoying. Just enjoy the series within your own circles/terms and stop caring about which opposite side is latching onto it. You don’t need to make convoluted reasons why the series aligns with your ideology (it doesn't). I promise you'd be much better off mentally if you stopped giving a shit & it's not healthy, man.

Like, literally just block people and also learn to accept that you can enjoy media that doesn’t align with your values/ideology—and that’s fine. You’re not ontologically evil, I promise. Instead of trying to justify why *insert work/media* aligns with your views, just enjoy it for what it is.

The last part is more of a vent because I’m so tired of seeing people call certain games "communist" when you literally play as a freaking imperialist meritocracy emperor. *cough* FE3H *cough*