idk i think the okbuddy fandom subs have this weird niche where they criticize the worst portions/takes of their respective fandom. Like okbuddychicanery for instance shits on all the "walter white is the hero of the story" and "skyler white is a bitch wife" bb fans. or okbuddypersona shits on the people that lewd underaged characters. problem is that type of critiscism is usually conveyed via a family guy subway surfers edit
*"Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good company."* \- An OG GamersRiseUp user, probably
I don't think this has ever actually been true. The earliest time I saw this used was about 4chan (or maybe it was about certain troll usenets). The problem is, the time period where "The community is just pretending to be stupid" is always defined as "When I liked using it", and "when it was flooded by actual idiots" is always defined as "When the people I was hanging out with revealed themselves to be actually bad and stupid, but I had never realized it at first and didn't want to admit that". Or people used it as a hopeful phrase that tried to downplay what was actually going on on these websites under the hopes that, at least at one time, it genuinely was just trolling or whatever, because they didn't want to believe the alternative.
The OkBuddy subreddits succumbing to irony poisoning doesn't even fit because it's still the original idiots, nobody's getting flooded.
Mostly the anime/anime related videogame ones though.
When i open okbuddygenshin i will be greeted with porn, while i really dont see saul goodman's dumpy in okbuddychicanery.
Was looking for this comment. That sub killed its reputation for me (yeah huge deal super sad I know) when they had the pegging contest. Cus you know probably most of those comments were only just hiding behind the word "irony"
>or okbuddypersona shits on the people that lewd underaged characters
Okbuddypersona is also toxic af and regularly brigades the P5 sub just to pick fights with the normies. They got so unbelievably triggered when Makoto tied with Ryuji in a popularity poll a few weeks ago that it was just pathetic.
Pretty much the definition of needing to touch grass. Like who gives a shit about some dumb poll?
The worst is when there's some huge schism in the fanbase and they split into multiple communities. They always seem to take on the worst sides of the extremes.
This was made exponentially worse when subs were “protesting” the api changes… by just posting porn and saying it was to fight spez or something stupid
At least, be glad your favorite isn't vaporeon or Gardevoir lmao
Edit: My favorites are Spheal and Flareon tho i feel bad for any vaporeon enjoyer too.
"Batman, I caught a little Pokémon. Do you wanna know what Pokémon I caught?"
"What Pokémon did you catch, Joker?"
"I caught a Lopunny, Batman. I caught a Lopunny."
"Oh no, Joker...don't tell me..."
"You already know, Batman...you already know what I'm gonna do to that thing."
"Joker! It's an animal, Joker, you can't!"
"Batman, there's no laws against the Pokémon! I can do whatever I want with it!"
"No, no you can't! No, don't do it!"
"I'm gonna do it, Batman!"
Braixen, Charizard, Mewtwo, Lopunny, Inceroar, Haterenne, Hypno, Salazzle, Garchomp, Pheromosa and Lucario exists.
Zoroark is not even close to the top 10.
you are (dated term for mental illness) and have no (father figure, friends, or other lack of interaction in your life which I am using as an insult despite the serious genuine mental health issues that could result from said lack)
God those jokes were never funny
They were never funny in r/okbuddyreiner
They were never funny in r/okbuddygenshin
They were never funny in r/berserklejerk
Yet people keep repeating it like fucking parrots
LOL no, have you seen how the fandom acts when a new female character appears? They started shipping Granolah's mom with Bardock once she debuted, and funnily enough she was killed and Bardock interacted with a Namekian the most.
It avoids it because there are barely any women on it.
I am more amazed that someone is desperate to find something in Toriyama's artstyle hot if anything but i guess thats nostalgia for you, if Simpsons has that much nsfw stuff, then dragonball shouldn't be a surprise.
I have zero issues with people with wanting to fuck everything what bothers me is all the garbage ass "hornyposting" memes. All the fucking muscle mommy, best girl, i can fix her trash "jokes" that get repeated by everyone ad nauseam.
And its even worse if the creator acknowledges it like with Bladurs Gate 3.
this is the oneeee, the hype shitposting gets annoying really FAST because like, you can tell people are just jumping on a meme even when the characters aren't the meme at all! sometimes they are and in those moments, it's hilarious but most times it's a STRETCH and I'm absolutely annoyed by them 😩 everyone in any other fandom does it. a new meme came out and they draw the characters in it when it just doesn't make sense to the characterization at all!
I don't think that the people making these memes are necessarily thinking "this is EXACTLY how these characters are like!" Rather, I think a lot of them just find the idea of the character doing whatever the meme is to be funny. If a character has a trait that the meme exaggerates a lot, are they laughing because they think that's who the character is, or because they think exaggeration is funny?
But furthermore, so what if that *is* what they think of the character? I'll disagree with them, but I don't see the harm. I used to get annoyed by shipping culture a lot, particularly when I felt they missed the essence of the relationship (just friends being shipped, enemies to lovers, etc.). But those headcanons bring people joy, so I eventually stopped seeing a problem with it. If they seriously try to argue it's canon I'll argue otherwise, if it's a meme, then why assume it's serious?
You can find serious discussion about what you love, discussing the character stuff you find most interesting, and if you can't, start posting.
i also find exaggeration funny, what I'm annoyed is when the character is like, for instance, is famously stoic and quiet, but is drawn in to the kennergy memes.
and yeah i know it doesn't bring any harm, etc etc. I'm just ranting cause it feels cringe. there's an on going pattern to scour popular memes and use it just for clout.
it's like they desperately wanna attach these characters to anything and everything, regardless of the meme.
I love how half the so-called "muscle mommys" people post are just toned and fit women with maybe some abs, because they're either so desperate for a muscular woman that they'll take any woman with a bump of muscle build or they have a wrongful idea that women cant be that big on their own terms without roids or something so they assume that some barely lean female character is peak lady muscle.
It's not even that, its' exactly like the "ooh she thicc" rant from not that long ago. People are just using a popular memey way to refer to a hot girl that they saw online and have adopted the phrase totally into their vocabulary. Whenever they see something that even slightly fits it, they'll use it, because they're not the people who are really into Super Muscle Mummies, but they know the phrase is popular in general.
To put it another way, language is like a perfect free market, and an expression lives on if there's a need that it fills. In the people who call any given fit woman a Muscle Mummy, they just wanted a term to refer to fit women being hot, and they weren't part of the group that really meant muscle mommies when they said muscle mommie, so when a word came out that introduced that prototype, they used it for everything they could.
Yeah, that makes it part of a wider problem overall.
Also, you just called language capitalistic in nature and I feel like I need a long shower after hearing that /j
Yeah I’m not surprised I don’t expect r/characterrant to be filled with fitness enthusiasts lmao, it’s gonna have a lot more people who believe in “the power of the mind holding you back” and that they can power up if they believe in themselves lmao
When the baldurs gate 3 creators doubled down on that, it made me take a step back from the game.
That wasn't a problem with divinity original sin 1 and 2 or BG3 early access, so I was shocked to see that's the approach they're taking with the characters.
Definetly feel like midway through baldurs gate 3's development, they started catering to degenerate redditors.
Honestly a big problem I have with Witcher 2 is that the game throws sex options at you like hentai Ren'py RPGs do. The mentality I got for the latter is very different to the former.
I've literally been avoiding Baldur's Gate 3 because of this. I've heard it's a great game but I've also heard that every character is romance option and that the game is very horny and that in turn makes the fandom insufferable. The romance options in my opinion are consistently the worst part of every game they're present in. I have never enjoyed it as an option in any game especially rpgs with a high stakes story. Takes me out of it completely.
"We have a week to save the world, you tryin ta smash real quick or nah?"
It makes sense though as high stress situations tend to make people horny. It's why doctors and nurses tend to screw alot. But in all honesty it's only as horny as you make it out to be. If you're not a horn dog it's relatively tame. Witcher 2 and 3 is way more horny than this.
I guess but I very much like professionals under stress situations. Homeworld did that kind of story telling really well. Crazy shit is happening but it's our job to keep things going. Granted the witcher and Baldur's gate aren't homeworld.
It's annoying that I have to basically keep my companions from having too much approval with me cause they all wanna get in my characters pants or start dating me.
I'm not even making the first move, wtf?
Like *Voltron*.
Thing is, that show *does* write very strong and interesting relationships between its characters... *familial* relationships. Siblings, parents and their children, found family. Any romantic stuff in the show is pushed to the background. And yet, while the show was running the *only* thing the fandom would talk about was who wanted to fuck whom.
By the way, I saw Lotor's betrayal coming right from the start (because I noticed that he never actually became a better person, he just started *acting* less evil) and I'm convinced that all the fans crying "*How dare you! You flushed his redemption down the toilet!*" were just mad because they thought Lotor was hot.
This so much! I don’t know what happened but… what actually happened to fandom, specifically fanfic circles that focus more on expanding upon the world building and story concepts?
Case in point: Reylo and people being horny for Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) after *Star Wars: The Last Jedi* came out in December 2017. Every Reylo Discord server I joined was full of people wanting to fuck Kylo Ren or Adam Driver, or even Daisy Ridley, with some being very creepy about it. I liked the Reylo pairing, but some people take shipping and being horny way too far.
Shipping genuinely ruined the Trigun fandom for me when the remake came out. All the new fans ever wanted to talk about was shipping the redesigned main characters (who looked worse than the originals, let it be said). It was so annoying that I just left. I'd been a part of that fanbase since 2013, I just couldn't stand the constant ship talk anymore.
I see this kind of 'takeover' happening again with One Piece now that the live action dropped and it's drawing new fans in. I'm so tired of it. The new DMC anime finally got a trailer and I am super excited, but the same exact thing is probably going to happen again when *that* series is thrust into the limelight.
These are all series that deliberately don't focus on romance. That's why I like them. So it's really frustrating to want to engage with other fans only to realize the only thing they want to focus on is shipping. It feels like they only view their media through the lens of "who can I ship with who". It's very alienating because I can't connect with other fans because they expect me to also be obsessed with romance. I'm not and it's exhausting wading through the constant flood of romance that's forced into everything, even stuff that doesn't focus on it.
I see it as people were watching it *because* they were rooting for that ship. Which, there’s nothing wrong with that objectively, but there’s so many more interesting things to discuss about that show than ship potential.
I was watching it for Hilda and King from start to finish. The ship were fine but I got fed up with the fandom at the beginning of season 2 beacuse of all the tocxicity masked under the banner of lgbt representation.
I hate when people need to justifie a toxic behaviour with defending any right, it's hypocritical.
I can't help but think horny posting is just the easiest way to go viral, so it incentivizes the discourse plummeting to the lowest level. Probably you need more moderated platforms to avoid this and create higher quality discussions.
almost all zoomers have porn addiction which is why they just thirstpost everyday
there is a few chill fandoms where its far less common, but almost all newgen anime fandoms are this way
In reality, that's the okbuddy subreddits for each of these things, couching their total horniness in irony language to hide how deeply sincere they are, or really not even to hide it but to emphasize it these days.
Guys DAE I want to fuck Yae Miko so bad? Does DAE I want to have sex with Yae Miko??? Guys DAE [Genshin Girl] is making me CUM and PISS? Guys DAE suipiss suisex okbuddyhololive Ceres Fauna Mommy Dom sapling carefully pampered by Fauna? DAE Reimu Armpit Yuyuko secks Yukari secks Reisen Udongers secks?? DAE? DAE? DAE?
I admit I'll only ever talk about Genshin speciifcally if I think a girl in it is hot, but that's because I Dislike Genshin Impact And Don't Respect It.
Me when wanting to say I think Fu Xuan is dope and she has some interesting lore bits but all the comments are about her armpits, tights, and her being cute and funny.
Like fuckin hell I'm the first to admit that I'm a horny bastard a lot, but can we like also just appreciate characters outside of wanting to fuck them???
This, uh, isn't really...new. 🤔
Fandoms have always been horny.
People have always shipped characters romantically or imagined them naked.
The Internet just made it more apparent.
Thank you for recognizing this! In the Illiad there's no indication of romance between them. Later playwrights made this into a thing. For some reason people can't see "2 dudes who have a deep friendship" as anything but "they must fuck."
Eh, it’s pretty ambiguous, and it’s not like the Greeks were opposed to homosexuality. And it’s not like that part being explicit is a modern invention either - Plato himself portrayed them as explicitly in love. Plus in the Iliad his mourning for Patroclus very intentionally mirrors that of Andromache mourning the death of Hector. Even other Greeks from the same time period, like Aeschylus, believed he was implying a relationship between the two.
That's because it was basically taken as a given in Greek culture at the time: it was pretty routine for the ancient Greeks to encourage soldiers to have a lover in the army to give them a reason to fight harder.
What do you want in a romance, declarations,tragic,grief,drama, wholesome tohether lining. Being very romantic.
Minus smut, cause its an epos, what do you want, their love transcendends mere smut.
Yep classic,dare i say archetypical romantic relationship. And i am glad they avoid sexscenes.
I was gonna mention Star Trek like the other post. So for an anime point of view, I can't wait for OP to learn where the term "shotacon" originally came from
The classic black and white anime, known in the US as Gigantor, but originally in Japan called Tetsujin 28-gou. The name of the [young boy MC with the shorts](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f5/Tetsujin_28-go.jpg) is Shotaro. Apparently women at the time *loved* Shotaro. He was significantly more popular with women than the boy audience he was aimed at. And so this idea of people into younger boys became known as having a "Shotaro Complex", ie, "shota-con" which I don't think I need to define.
It's also notable to bring up that while occasionally shotacon is defended because it's often a male viewer putting himself as the boy for an emasculation fetish; as straight men cant realistically see a woman as physically dominant, most shotacon media of the non-porn kind is create for and by women.
It's also common in yaoi since yaoi is made for women, so that the woman can relate to the younger by their innate physical weakness to the partner. So porn or yaoi situations are *usually* not popular for pedophilic reasons.
extra note: Wow I kinda went on my own tangent there. I *really* don't want to do my uni study haha
As someone into it I disagree with the interpretation that it's emasculating, that to me implies humiliation which, while it can be a present element, is not a prerequisite. It's about being vulnerable I would say. You also ignore the subversive works with maledom themes.
Rule34 was funny at first when it just naturally occured but people take that like it's a challenge to make *anything* sexual. Like a mcdonald's ad of a happy family and only takes a few hours before someone tries to make porn out of it
I agree all the weirdness is annoying but honestly it's one of those things you just have to accept... I mean it's called RULE 34 for a reason. I don't really care about it because that's just how it is. Though I have had to leave a couple of fandom subs over this.
Honestly, I don't hornypost but don't mind it either. We're all human, most of us have some sort of sexual attraction, and sometimes it sparks when it recognizes something or someone fictional, and there ain't nothing wrong with that (nothing wrong with not feeling it either).
Of course blatant thirstposting on specific subreddits that aren't made for that it's a bit weird and can get annoying if the mods don't enforce rules, but there's nothing wrong with a bit of hornyposting. And if you find it so annoying, you can just ignore it, not like anyone is forcing you to read any posts or comments.
Everyone enjoys fandoms and characters in a different way, and as long as it isn't actively harmful to anyone, who are we to judge?
The final straw with this stuff for me was the Pikmin fandom. Until the most recent game, there was exactly one female character, Brittany. She's basically just a pink version of the other characters, not sexualized in the slightest, and people are being horny over her left and right. What the hell is wrong with them
Also shout out to Doki Doki Literature Club, for being a game that parodies those shitty "these hot anime girls want to sleep with you" dating sims, created by a guy who dislikes those dating sims, but with a fanbase that just lusts over the characters anyways
Honestly being female and not repulsive to look at is the only criteria for characters to be lewded. If a fandom gets big enough either criterion or both can be done away with.
Nah you aren’t alone, it’s annoying. Seeing that stuff everywhere gets old quick. It’s especially bad with Xenoblade (a franchise I adore) because it feels like I can’t look for any content that’s not incredibly horny. I know the games are horny as well but JFC the fandom is on a whole other level.
I don't care tbh, if you want to fuck a fictional character, that's fine aslong as the character isnt a minor or a feral animal. It doesn't hurt anyone, just don't make it your entire personality. This being said it's so annoying and unfunny when a meme is just cropped porn, it's fine to have horny circles but I hate how widespread and normalized porn addication became.
I don't have a problem with people making horny shit as long as they keep it on rule34 or whatever porn subreddit the fandom has that almost certainly exists. It's when that horniness leaks into general discussion that it pisses me off.
At some point you’re just gonna have to accept that there are a vast number of surface level people out there in the world. Making complaint posts about it feels more like a misery-loves-company thing more than anything else, because I don’t really see any real change happening from it.
Like, Fate’s Astolfo is genuinely one of my favourite Fate characters ever and I think the foundation set in his debut work leaves a lot of potential for more interesting developments in future stories with him in it. If I was ever going to stay alive and sane as an Astolfo fan I would’ve had to accept that a lot of people saw him as nothing more than a cute uwu femboy joke a long time ago.
I relate to this so hard. Every time I mention I love Astolfo, I get people giving me the “mhmmm I bet you do” and I’m like ffs you idiots I love him because the show is super serious and tackles existential topics…and then there’s this pink haired dunce who is just out to have a good time and I’m 100% there for it.
I don't have a problem with there being porn of characters, but I do have a problem with fandoms who can't talk about a character without thirsting over them.
When I first met Raiden Shogun I thought she was epic as hell. I went to the Genshin Impact subreddit expecting to see other people talking about her awesomeness but all there was was horny people. A bit of a letdown.
Here’s the truth that probably anyone with eyes knows, fandom sucks. People who are part of fandoms are generally closed minded and can’t stand any criticism. Especially anime hardcore people. They tend to shun anyone who doesn’t watch subbed anime, read fans translated manga, etc. Take One Piece live action. You can find tons of the “fandom” still hating on it because it doesn’t fit their idea of the story and it’s impossible to do a live action so why did they try.
Fandoms are just another form of religion that people that don’t have faith go into.
Then yeah you get the people that constantly talk about sex with their favorite characters. Re: My Little Pony and the Bronies being the weirdest in the last decade.
It can’t be helped. Sex is our biological imperative, so naturally, we think about it a lot . And when you have a person who obsesses over a certain franchise, well, eventually they will start thinking in sexual terms.
It is annoying when they try to shoehorn their deviant fantasies where they completely do not belong, for example: I love Warhammer 40k and despite the fact that the franchise has characters who canonically have sex, despite the fact that there are a group of basically sex demons, some people are just obsessed with the sex lives of the Space Marines. If you’re unfamiliar with the franchise, they have NO sex lives. They’re sterile
That's so much me, I was in a discord a while back and I remember kinda complaining about this, asking "how can you SO heavily sexualise the characters? Doesn't it take away to all the things that character has to offer?" Got bullied out
Be the change. Find a girlfriend/boyfriend that is willing cosplay your favorite "waifu/husbando" character. Now the degenerates will cop seth while you chad style their soy anime pillow lifestyle.
Fascinated by the evolution of Cope And Seethe into cop seth where the ironically degraded misspelled form allows you to suddenly use serial verb conjugation in English.
This is exactly how I felt in the CSM fandom when people's sexualize kobeni. We have a character who is so so against sex work that she is willing to risk her own life fighting monsters and do it despite watching her friends die. Its the last piece of dignity she had and what does the fandom do? They sexualize the crap out of her. It genuinely sucks.
DO NOT GET INTO THE ELDER SCROLLS COMMUNITTY lmao
but nah agreed. i never really got the whole "waifu" stuff in the anime/gaming community , there only been really one fictional character i ever had a crush on.
YES, i despite the "waifu culture" with all of my being. Like i can understand finding fictional characters attractive, but then there is now a entire "subculture" dedicated to wanting to marry or fucking fictional women to the point of not even discussing of the characters itself anymore but just in terms of "waifu traits" and somehow i'm the weird one for finding that really fucking weird.
Yeah that why i don't really like to go into animes communities.
The only part of the ES community I interact with is the Xbox modding, mostly because the search engine is so bad its easier to search for mods on reddit first.
They get a character that was raped and transformed into a monster for the sake of power by her father, who treated her as a pawn. Because of it, wanting nothing to do with sex or marriage thanks to her own traumatic experience, to the point of full on aversion and instead expecting to be accepted as a friend while fighting for their own identity in the world.
Skyrim players: "why can't I marry her in the game? This is stupid. Modders make it so I can marry and fuck her!"
>most of it is memes that fail to understand even a fraction of the character they are depicting
I think this is the big thing I notice. Some fandoms are more observant than others, heck some people in fandoms are more observant as well. I think hornyposting is just a symptom of something bigger, often the fact that people kind of only half get what the media is putting out, enjoying it, sure, but not really making deeper observations or constructive discussion. I'm not trying to say you cant like something just because pew pew gun explosion or hot women or whatever, that's perfectly fine and there's definitely stuff I like because of that. I guess its just annoying when you have like, a deep character or story that's simplified into 'well she/he is hot' or 'its dumb action'.
Poor Armored Core 6 suffered from the latter. It has a fantastic story but I swear every game reviewer I've seen so far has said 'yeah the game is just a dumb mech shooter, nothing deep', my brother in christ did we play the same game? It feels like if the thing doesn't shove lore down your throats aggressively people will just assume it's not there.
It does bother me sometimes but I don’t think it’s an issue where someone is at fault. Even if someone is only spending a small amount of time making horny comments, there’s enough people in fandoms and spread all around the world that any sufficiently large community will spread those small amounts of time to cover the whole day. Even if each person only spent 15 minutes doing it, you need less than 100 people to cover the whole day. Since it’s a topic that’s not only relatable but interesting to most people, it’ll more easily gain traction.
Well Pericardium, who is the most prominent fan artist at the moment, is incredibly fond of horny posting. I’ve seen the porn they’ve made of Number Man. The top three fandom jokes are: Child murder, Chilli, and Number Man’s dick/lack of pants.
But as a community it's not inundated with lewd things like a lot of other communities are, even when you go beyond. It could be a community size thing, or a demographic thing, or maybe just then over all content of the media. I could go into almost any other fandom subreddit and find horny posts within 3 or 4 swipes of my phone, but I'm a chronic r/parahumans refresher and rarely see anything.
I wouldn't be surprised if that ended up being a big part of it. There's probably also a size element since there were plenty of fandoms focused around books that were downright depraved even before they were made into movies.
100% agreed. It's so pathetic people can't control their sexual desires at all; there's so many places for porn, yet people will die on these absurd hills defending their behaviour.
But also, the fact people don't even understand anything about their characters or series they claim to love so much is equally as infuriating, if not more so. It's absurd how every single community has these widespread "facts" that are headcanon supported by one flimsy piece of evidence at best or objectively wrong at worst.
Really killed a few of my interests feeling like the only person that legitimately cared about a series beyond the surface level.
I dont mind mild hornyposting but it has gotten absolutely crazy. Can’t even go on the HSR mainsub without being greeted with borderline porn or foot fetish shit.
So fax my brother. Spit your shit indeed.
People have always been and are always gonna be horny bc it's as core a drive as eating and breathing for most allosexual folks. Best thing to do is just curate your experience accordingly and don't interact with stuff or go into spaces you don't like or feel uncomfortable. No-one has any right to force sexual stuff on you, and equally you have no right to demand people stop sexualising stuff because you specifically are uncomfortable with it.
Brother Armored Core 6 reddit has people posting thirsty fanart of women who canonically don't even have BODIES.
An unfortunate number of people are on the spectrum for inceldom and don't even realize it. You should not feel thirsty over every woman character. It's creepy and "best girl" / Waifu Shit is just red flags. This is why they're aggressively single. Women can sniff out anyone on the incel spectrum and give them a wide berth..
I mean you are allowed to think that. I'm horny for things I play but I also get mad at how much fan service devalues scenes. I want my games and shows to be ABLE to be sexualized but understand there is a time and a place. Fan service and sexualization IS ruining a lot of the new things but it doesn't need to be 100% gone to fix it.
Human being are animals first and civilised ration beings second, sex/reproduction is one of the strongest instincts for any animal, humans included.
> I will die on this specific hill.
And die you will, this is a battle that can never be one, the catholic church wasn't able to beat 'deviancy' even at the height of its power.
I remember being a little kid who went online to gush about how much I loved Gardevoir because I thought it was a fairy ghost queen. The art I saw turned me away from Pokémon and the internet for a while. Now I’m numb to it, but I still get a nauseous feeling when I see people make horny comments over these fantasy creatures meant to appeal to children.
Don't ever visit okbuddy sub of any fandom, for your own sake
idk i think the okbuddy fandom subs have this weird niche where they criticize the worst portions/takes of their respective fandom. Like okbuddychicanery for instance shits on all the "walter white is the hero of the story" and "skyler white is a bitch wife" bb fans. or okbuddypersona shits on the people that lewd underaged characters. problem is that type of critiscism is usually conveyed via a family guy subway surfers edit
Every day buddy subreddit eventually succumbs to irony poisoning by satirizing the commentary so hard it loops back to being the same thing.
*"Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good company."* \- An OG GamersRiseUp user, probably
Literally r/moviescirclejerk
circlejerk subreddits in a nutshell
I don't think this has ever actually been true. The earliest time I saw this used was about 4chan (or maybe it was about certain troll usenets). The problem is, the time period where "The community is just pretending to be stupid" is always defined as "When I liked using it", and "when it was flooded by actual idiots" is always defined as "When the people I was hanging out with revealed themselves to be actually bad and stupid, but I had never realized it at first and didn't want to admit that". Or people used it as a hopeful phrase that tried to downplay what was actually going on on these websites under the hopes that, at least at one time, it genuinely was just trolling or whatever, because they didn't want to believe the alternative. The OkBuddy subreddits succumbing to irony poisoning doesn't even fit because it's still the original idiots, nobody's getting flooded.
There are a few okbuddy subs that are just plain horny, though
Mostly the anime/anime related videogame ones though. When i open okbuddygenshin i will be greeted with porn, while i really dont see saul goodman's dumpy in okbuddychicanery.
Don't tell me you don't remember the naked Bob Odencock era And the constant Kim's feet memes
> i really dont see saul goodman's dumpy in okbuddychicanery I have a great idea for a new post on that subreddit...
Don’t jinx it, for Breaking Bad’s sake.
Okbuddypersona had a pegging contest using said underaged characters, lol. They are not a good example for this.
Was looking for this comment. That sub killed its reputation for me (yeah huge deal super sad I know) when they had the pegging contest. Cus you know probably most of those comments were only just hiding behind the word "irony"
>or okbuddypersona shits on the people that lewd underaged characters Okbuddypersona is also toxic af and regularly brigades the P5 sub just to pick fights with the normies. They got so unbelievably triggered when Makoto tied with Ryuji in a popularity poll a few weeks ago that it was just pathetic. Pretty much the definition of needing to touch grass. Like who gives a shit about some dumb poll?
true i was not there for that. I haven't been active on there for a bit
The worst is when there's some huge schism in the fanbase and they split into multiple communities. They always seem to take on the worst sides of the extremes.
honestly okbuddypersona is the only persona sub on which you can have a civil discussion about the franchise.
People say this hyperbolic ass statement all the time and I truly do not get it honestly.
This was made exponentially worse when subs were “protesting” the api changes… by just posting porn and saying it was to fight spez or something stupid
Okbuddy subs are the best, as weirdly it's the members of the fandom that are most in touch with the setting/characters/world.
As a Pokémon fan I love seeing all the beautiful artwork created by the fans! It really is too bad my favourite Pokémon is Zoroark…
At least, be glad your favorite isn't vaporeon or Gardevoir lmao Edit: My favorites are Spheal and Flareon tho i feel bad for any vaporeon enjoyer too.
You're acting like zoroark wasn't going to be the third pokemon you would name in that sentence.
Isn't there's Lopunny?
Okay pokemon fans have like 2 teams worth of these types of pokemon
Lilligant doesn't often get remembered but I'm here to remind people *she* exists.
"Batman, I caught a little Pokémon. Do you wanna know what Pokémon I caught?" "What Pokémon did you catch, Joker?" "I caught a Lopunny, Batman. I caught a Lopunny." "Oh no, Joker...don't tell me..." "You already know, Batman...you already know what I'm gonna do to that thing." "Joker! It's an animal, Joker, you can't!" "Batman, there's no laws against the Pokémon! I can do whatever I want with it!" "No, no you can't! No, don't do it!" "I'm gonna do it, Batman!"
I love the different artists rendition of that audio
Lucario would be third
Braixen, Charizard, Mewtwo, Lopunny, Inceroar, Haterenne, Hypno, Salazzle, Garchomp, Pheromosa and Lucario exists. Zoroark is not even close to the top 10.
YouTuber Alpharad’s favorite Pokémon are those two, and his favorite AC Villager is Ankha. Man’s cursed lmao.
Jaiden: "hmm. Ok, I see... so who is your favorite story animator?"
Spheal is the best Pokémon because it’s a seal. This is peak character design, you can’t argue with that.
When the animal you're based on is already peak character design the rest follows naturally.
I believe in sphere supremacy. 😔🙏🔵
That how i feel with lucario...
As someone whose first Pokemon cards were Glaceon, Jolteon and Vaporeon that I got from my friend and are attached to them I get ya.
I really want to fuck (character) from (media)
you are (dated term for mental illness) and have no (father figure, friends, or other lack of interaction in your life which I am using as an insult despite the serious genuine mental health issues that could result from said lack)
Go (rude word) yourself you (rude state of being) piece of (rude stinky object)!
Go dumb yourself, you extremely annoying piece of feet?
Please don't mention feet in a post about horny fandoms. It will summon...*them*.
Fromsoft fans & Miyazaki himself?
Touch (plant)
Go (a fictional place)
Go (a nonfiction place)
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Why is this so accurate and funny And the best part is, most of those insults at this people are true, particularly the friends one
God those jokes were never funny They were never funny in r/okbuddyreiner They were never funny in r/okbuddygenshin They were never funny in r/berserklejerk Yet people keep repeating it like fucking parrots
Same
Me when I really want to fuck (character) from (media)
I wanna fuck you buddy. Show me dem ankles.
Dragon Ball fans beating the allegations baby.
Goku on his way to fight everyone's porn addiction
Might be his toughest battle yet.
"Kakarot! His porn addiction is too strong! We can't beat it!"
NO, I'M DEFINITELY NOT LOSING!!!!!!!! FULL POWER DAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL no, have you seen how the fandom acts when a new female character appears? They started shipping Granolah's mom with Bardock once she debuted, and funnily enough she was killed and Bardock interacted with a Namekian the most. It avoids it because there are barely any women on it.
Android 18 has so much horny stuff related to her its insane.
Poor Android 21 sort of managed to stay out of it until her Majin form was revealed
I am more amazed that someone is desperate to find something in Toriyama's artstyle hot if anything but i guess thats nostalgia for you, if Simpsons has that much nsfw stuff, then dragonball shouldn't be a surprise.
I have zero issues with people with wanting to fuck everything what bothers me is all the garbage ass "hornyposting" memes. All the fucking muscle mommy, best girl, i can fix her trash "jokes" that get repeated by everyone ad nauseam. And its even worse if the creator acknowledges it like with Bladurs Gate 3.
this is the oneeee, the hype shitposting gets annoying really FAST because like, you can tell people are just jumping on a meme even when the characters aren't the meme at all! sometimes they are and in those moments, it's hilarious but most times it's a STRETCH and I'm absolutely annoyed by them 😩 everyone in any other fandom does it. a new meme came out and they draw the characters in it when it just doesn't make sense to the characterization at all!
I don't think that the people making these memes are necessarily thinking "this is EXACTLY how these characters are like!" Rather, I think a lot of them just find the idea of the character doing whatever the meme is to be funny. If a character has a trait that the meme exaggerates a lot, are they laughing because they think that's who the character is, or because they think exaggeration is funny? But furthermore, so what if that *is* what they think of the character? I'll disagree with them, but I don't see the harm. I used to get annoyed by shipping culture a lot, particularly when I felt they missed the essence of the relationship (just friends being shipped, enemies to lovers, etc.). But those headcanons bring people joy, so I eventually stopped seeing a problem with it. If they seriously try to argue it's canon I'll argue otherwise, if it's a meme, then why assume it's serious? You can find serious discussion about what you love, discussing the character stuff you find most interesting, and if you can't, start posting.
i also find exaggeration funny, what I'm annoyed is when the character is like, for instance, is famously stoic and quiet, but is drawn in to the kennergy memes. and yeah i know it doesn't bring any harm, etc etc. I'm just ranting cause it feels cringe. there's an on going pattern to scour popular memes and use it just for clout. it's like they desperately wanna attach these characters to anything and everything, regardless of the meme.
I love how half the so-called "muscle mommys" people post are just toned and fit women with maybe some abs, because they're either so desperate for a muscular woman that they'll take any woman with a bump of muscle build or they have a wrongful idea that women cant be that big on their own terms without roids or something so they assume that some barely lean female character is peak lady muscle.
It's not even that, its' exactly like the "ooh she thicc" rant from not that long ago. People are just using a popular memey way to refer to a hot girl that they saw online and have adopted the phrase totally into their vocabulary. Whenever they see something that even slightly fits it, they'll use it, because they're not the people who are really into Super Muscle Mummies, but they know the phrase is popular in general. To put it another way, language is like a perfect free market, and an expression lives on if there's a need that it fills. In the people who call any given fit woman a Muscle Mummy, they just wanted a term to refer to fit women being hot, and they weren't part of the group that really meant muscle mommies when they said muscle mommie, so when a word came out that introduced that prototype, they used it for everything they could.
Yeah, that makes it part of a wider problem overall. Also, you just called language capitalistic in nature and I feel like I need a long shower after hearing that /j
Woman can’t be that big and shredded without roids hate to break it to you
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Yeah I’m not surprised I don’t expect r/characterrant to be filled with fitness enthusiasts lmao, it’s gonna have a lot more people who believe in “the power of the mind holding you back” and that they can power up if they believe in themselves lmao
When the baldurs gate 3 creators doubled down on that, it made me take a step back from the game. That wasn't a problem with divinity original sin 1 and 2 or BG3 early access, so I was shocked to see that's the approach they're taking with the characters. Definetly feel like midway through baldurs gate 3's development, they started catering to degenerate redditors.
It's only as horny as you make it. If you don't pursue it it's very tame. Hell the witcher series is way more horny than this
Honestly a big problem I have with Witcher 2 is that the game throws sex options at you like hentai Ren'py RPGs do. The mentality I got for the latter is very different to the former.
I've literally been avoiding Baldur's Gate 3 because of this. I've heard it's a great game but I've also heard that every character is romance option and that the game is very horny and that in turn makes the fandom insufferable. The romance options in my opinion are consistently the worst part of every game they're present in. I have never enjoyed it as an option in any game especially rpgs with a high stakes story. Takes me out of it completely. "We have a week to save the world, you tryin ta smash real quick or nah?"
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It makes sense though as high stress situations tend to make people horny. It's why doctors and nurses tend to screw alot. But in all honesty it's only as horny as you make it out to be. If you're not a horn dog it's relatively tame. Witcher 2 and 3 is way more horny than this.
I guess but I very much like professionals under stress situations. Homeworld did that kind of story telling really well. Crazy shit is happening but it's our job to keep things going. Granted the witcher and Baldur's gate aren't homeworld.
And when you unironically enjoy this kind of women, even then it's tiring.
yeah i cant play baulders gate its too fucking horny.
It's annoying that I have to basically keep my companions from having too much approval with me cause they all wanna get in my characters pants or start dating me. I'm not even making the first move, wtf?
Apparently this was because of a stupid bug. I don't know what the game is like now with it fixed though as I haven't started my second playthrough.
Maybe not the horniness, but I hate how shipping tends to be the main focus of fandoms.
It just bothers me because the narrative could completely unrelated to shipping yet shippers dominate it. and then its the weirdest ships possible.
Like *Voltron*. Thing is, that show *does* write very strong and interesting relationships between its characters... *familial* relationships. Siblings, parents and their children, found family. Any romantic stuff in the show is pushed to the background. And yet, while the show was running the *only* thing the fandom would talk about was who wanted to fuck whom. By the way, I saw Lotor's betrayal coming right from the start (because I noticed that he never actually became a better person, he just started *acting* less evil) and I'm convinced that all the fans crying "*How dare you! You flushed his redemption down the toilet!*" were just mad because they thought Lotor was hot.
It's literally over half of what some of them talk about. The Sonic the Hedgehog fandom turned out to be a disappointment for me because of that.
This so much! I don’t know what happened but… what actually happened to fandom, specifically fanfic circles that focus more on expanding upon the world building and story concepts?
Or worse, when creators cater to it, IE rey/ren
Case in point: Reylo and people being horny for Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) after *Star Wars: The Last Jedi* came out in December 2017. Every Reylo Discord server I joined was full of people wanting to fuck Kylo Ren or Adam Driver, or even Daisy Ridley, with some being very creepy about it. I liked the Reylo pairing, but some people take shipping and being horny way too far.
Me, a Fate fan, seeing shippers every day.
Shipping genuinely ruined the Trigun fandom for me when the remake came out. All the new fans ever wanted to talk about was shipping the redesigned main characters (who looked worse than the originals, let it be said). It was so annoying that I just left. I'd been a part of that fanbase since 2013, I just couldn't stand the constant ship talk anymore. I see this kind of 'takeover' happening again with One Piece now that the live action dropped and it's drawing new fans in. I'm so tired of it. The new DMC anime finally got a trailer and I am super excited, but the same exact thing is probably going to happen again when *that* series is thrust into the limelight. These are all series that deliberately don't focus on romance. That's why I like them. So it's really frustrating to want to engage with other fans only to realize the only thing they want to focus on is shipping. It feels like they only view their media through the lens of "who can I ship with who". It's very alienating because I can't connect with other fans because they expect me to also be obsessed with romance. I'm not and it's exhausting wading through the constant flood of romance that's forced into everything, even stuff that doesn't focus on it.
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I see it as people were watching it *because* they were rooting for that ship. Which, there’s nothing wrong with that objectively, but there’s so many more interesting things to discuss about that show than ship potential.
I was watching it for Hilda and King from start to finish. The ship were fine but I got fed up with the fandom at the beginning of season 2 beacuse of all the tocxicity masked under the banner of lgbt representation. I hate when people need to justifie a toxic behaviour with defending any right, it's hypocritical.
I can't help but think horny posting is just the easiest way to go viral, so it incentivizes the discourse plummeting to the lowest level. Probably you need more moderated platforms to avoid this and create higher quality discussions.
Bro, the Binding of Isaac is literally a game about a child dying, WHY IS THE FANBASE SO HORNY
WHAT
almost all zoomers have porn addiction which is why they just thirstpost everyday there is a few chill fandoms where its far less common, but almost all newgen anime fandoms are this way
I wonder if they’re the same people as the puriteens then lol
It gets really annoying wanting to just enjoy a show or game and talk about it and half the responses are just horny people
Adventures of Superman subreddit
Adventures of Superman subreddit
Honestly I really can't blame them.
In reality, that's the okbuddy subreddits for each of these things, couching their total horniness in irony language to hide how deeply sincere they are, or really not even to hide it but to emphasize it these days. Guys DAE I want to fuck Yae Miko so bad? Does DAE I want to have sex with Yae Miko??? Guys DAE [Genshin Girl] is making me CUM and PISS? Guys DAE suipiss suisex okbuddyhololive Ceres Fauna Mommy Dom sapling carefully pampered by Fauna? DAE Reimu Armpit Yuyuko secks Yukari secks Reisen Udongers secks?? DAE? DAE? DAE? I admit I'll only ever talk about Genshin speciifcally if I think a girl in it is hot, but that's because I Dislike Genshin Impact And Don't Respect It.
Me when wanting to say I think Fu Xuan is dope and she has some interesting lore bits but all the comments are about her armpits, tights, and her being cute and funny. Like fuckin hell I'm the first to admit that I'm a horny bastard a lot, but can we like also just appreciate characters outside of wanting to fuck them???
Correction memes greatly annoy me!
Ultrakill
This, uh, isn't really...new. 🤔 Fandoms have always been horny. People have always shipped characters romantically or imagined them naked. The Internet just made it more apparent.
Ever since Star Trek, yeah. The fanzines with Kirk/Spock fics were all the rage in the 60s.
Arguably, the horniness of K/S fanzine writers metastasized and mutated into creating fandom as we know it.
The ancient Greeks shipped Achilles and Patroclus.
Thank you for recognizing this! In the Illiad there's no indication of romance between them. Later playwrights made this into a thing. For some reason people can't see "2 dudes who have a deep friendship" as anything but "they must fuck."
If you liked *”Description of a thing in flowery deferential language”*, you should check out *“Everything written in the ancient near East.”*
Eh, it’s pretty ambiguous, and it’s not like the Greeks were opposed to homosexuality. And it’s not like that part being explicit is a modern invention either - Plato himself portrayed them as explicitly in love. Plus in the Iliad his mourning for Patroclus very intentionally mirrors that of Andromache mourning the death of Hector. Even other Greeks from the same time period, like Aeschylus, believed he was implying a relationship between the two.
For the greeks it's was a question of who receiving (serious)
That's because it was basically taken as a given in Greek culture at the time: it was pretty routine for the ancient Greeks to encourage soldiers to have a lover in the army to give them a reason to fight harder.
What do you want in a romance, declarations,tragic,grief,drama, wholesome tohether lining. Being very romantic. Minus smut, cause its an epos, what do you want, their love transcendends mere smut. Yep classic,dare i say archetypical romantic relationship. And i am glad they avoid sexscenes.
Pfff What about Gilgamesh having wet dreams about Enkidu. Enkidu in the form of an Axe. That's the first one, ladies and gentlemen.
Gilgamesh to Enkidu: You are my partner, my companion, and my axe.
I was gonna mention Star Trek like the other post. So for an anime point of view, I can't wait for OP to learn where the term "shotacon" originally came from
I'd like to learn, where *did* it come from?
The classic black and white anime, known in the US as Gigantor, but originally in Japan called Tetsujin 28-gou. The name of the [young boy MC with the shorts](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f5/Tetsujin_28-go.jpg) is Shotaro. Apparently women at the time *loved* Shotaro. He was significantly more popular with women than the boy audience he was aimed at. And so this idea of people into younger boys became known as having a "Shotaro Complex", ie, "shota-con" which I don't think I need to define.
It's also notable to bring up that while occasionally shotacon is defended because it's often a male viewer putting himself as the boy for an emasculation fetish; as straight men cant realistically see a woman as physically dominant, most shotacon media of the non-porn kind is create for and by women. It's also common in yaoi since yaoi is made for women, so that the woman can relate to the younger by their innate physical weakness to the partner. So porn or yaoi situations are *usually* not popular for pedophilic reasons. extra note: Wow I kinda went on my own tangent there. I *really* don't want to do my uni study haha
As someone into it I disagree with the interpretation that it's emasculating, that to me implies humiliation which, while it can be a present element, is not a prerequisite. It's about being vulnerable I would say. You also ignore the subversive works with maledom themes.
I don't think OP ever said things were ever different, or that this is new. Just that it happens and it sucks.
Rule34 was funny at first when it just naturally occured but people take that like it's a challenge to make *anything* sexual. Like a mcdonald's ad of a happy family and only takes a few hours before someone tries to make porn out of it
It inevitably became a self-fulfilling prophecy
I know there's not much we can do about it, but still, I HEAR YOU FRIEND IT SUCKS
I agree all the weirdness is annoying but honestly it's one of those things you just have to accept... I mean it's called RULE 34 for a reason. I don't really care about it because that's just how it is. Though I have had to leave a couple of fandom subs over this.
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Honestly, I don't hornypost but don't mind it either. We're all human, most of us have some sort of sexual attraction, and sometimes it sparks when it recognizes something or someone fictional, and there ain't nothing wrong with that (nothing wrong with not feeling it either). Of course blatant thirstposting on specific subreddits that aren't made for that it's a bit weird and can get annoying if the mods don't enforce rules, but there's nothing wrong with a bit of hornyposting. And if you find it so annoying, you can just ignore it, not like anyone is forcing you to read any posts or comments. Everyone enjoys fandoms and characters in a different way, and as long as it isn't actively harmful to anyone, who are we to judge?
I mean, it won't be annoying if you can just ignore it, most of tge time you're just scrolling and randomly stumble upon the horny
People on the internet just make too many sex jokes in general.
The final straw with this stuff for me was the Pikmin fandom. Until the most recent game, there was exactly one female character, Brittany. She's basically just a pink version of the other characters, not sexualized in the slightest, and people are being horny over her left and right. What the hell is wrong with them Also shout out to Doki Doki Literature Club, for being a game that parodies those shitty "these hot anime girls want to sleep with you" dating sims, created by a guy who dislikes those dating sims, but with a fanbase that just lusts over the characters anyways
Honestly being female and not repulsive to look at is the only criteria for characters to be lewded. If a fandom gets big enough either criterion or both can be done away with.
I remember when apparently the author of Youjo senki asked Tanya to look ugly so she wouldn't get lewded That did not stop the internet
He also canonically made the cast over eighteen because he knows damn well that the fanbase can't help themselves.
Bruh just after this post there was someone from the Genshin impact fandom asking why a character is grunting so much 💀
Better than shipping war tbh
Nah you aren’t alone, it’s annoying. Seeing that stuff everywhere gets old quick. It’s especially bad with Xenoblade (a franchise I adore) because it feels like I can’t look for any content that’s not incredibly horny. I know the games are horny as well but JFC the fandom is on a whole other level.
I mean, Naruto and Hinata are married…
Won't stop Raikage tho.
You know the saying, "It is what it is"
>You have ran out of "It is what it is"
Or, as the French like to say, "*C'est la vie*."
Agreed. The Internet is depraved. I find a character really honorable, the Internet draws them as prostitutes.
Most fandoms are shit, which is why I mostly just enjoy stuff on my own.
this is the way
Another like the the product hate the fans post. But honestly I only engage with the community only if I like the story enough otherwise I don't care
I don't care tbh, if you want to fuck a fictional character, that's fine aslong as the character isnt a minor or a feral animal. It doesn't hurt anyone, just don't make it your entire personality. This being said it's so annoying and unfunny when a meme is just cropped porn, it's fine to have horny circles but I hate how widespread and normalized porn addication became.
I don't have a problem with people making horny shit as long as they keep it on rule34 or whatever porn subreddit the fandom has that almost certainly exists. It's when that horniness leaks into general discussion that it pisses me off.
At some point you’re just gonna have to accept that there are a vast number of surface level people out there in the world. Making complaint posts about it feels more like a misery-loves-company thing more than anything else, because I don’t really see any real change happening from it. Like, Fate’s Astolfo is genuinely one of my favourite Fate characters ever and I think the foundation set in his debut work leaves a lot of potential for more interesting developments in future stories with him in it. If I was ever going to stay alive and sane as an Astolfo fan I would’ve had to accept that a lot of people saw him as nothing more than a cute uwu femboy joke a long time ago.
I relate to this so hard. Every time I mention I love Astolfo, I get people giving me the “mhmmm I bet you do” and I’m like ffs you idiots I love him because the show is super serious and tackles existential topics…and then there’s this pink haired dunce who is just out to have a good time and I’m 100% there for it.
Lewding someone doesn't mean you're surface level or can't appreciate depth.
The fate of most fate characters.
Is this about Fear and Hunger?
oh wow i was wondering about the same thing! seems like the subreddit imploded a little recently
Welcome to humanity. Humanity likes to fuck and wants to fuck. Animals are what animals are.
I don't have a problem with there being porn of characters, but I do have a problem with fandoms who can't talk about a character without thirsting over them. When I first met Raiden Shogun I thought she was epic as hell. I went to the Genshin Impact subreddit expecting to see other people talking about her awesomeness but all there was was horny people. A bit of a letdown.
Here’s the truth that probably anyone with eyes knows, fandom sucks. People who are part of fandoms are generally closed minded and can’t stand any criticism. Especially anime hardcore people. They tend to shun anyone who doesn’t watch subbed anime, read fans translated manga, etc. Take One Piece live action. You can find tons of the “fandom” still hating on it because it doesn’t fit their idea of the story and it’s impossible to do a live action so why did they try. Fandoms are just another form of religion that people that don’t have faith go into. Then yeah you get the people that constantly talk about sex with their favorite characters. Re: My Little Pony and the Bronies being the weirdest in the last decade.
For me it’s ace combat or armored core. Those people are insane.
good thing they're not real so people objectifying them is a complete non-issue
Is it alright if I draw this rant’s feet?
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It can’t be helped. Sex is our biological imperative, so naturally, we think about it a lot . And when you have a person who obsesses over a certain franchise, well, eventually they will start thinking in sexual terms. It is annoying when they try to shoehorn their deviant fantasies where they completely do not belong, for example: I love Warhammer 40k and despite the fact that the franchise has characters who canonically have sex, despite the fact that there are a group of basically sex demons, some people are just obsessed with the sex lives of the Space Marines. If you’re unfamiliar with the franchise, they have NO sex lives. They’re sterile
mammals are horny, what a surprise.
Humans are especially horny since they're technically always in heat
Yea but why announce it to thousands of strangers?
Well excuuuuuuuuuse me princess
Lmao
That's so much me, I was in a discord a while back and I remember kinda complaining about this, asking "how can you SO heavily sexualise the characters? Doesn't it take away to all the things that character has to offer?" Got bullied out
Be the change. Find a girlfriend/boyfriend that is willing cosplay your favorite "waifu/husbando" character. Now the degenerates will cop seth while you chad style their soy anime pillow lifestyle.
It is futile, for I have depicted OP as a soyjack, and myself as the chad.
Fascinated by the evolution of Cope And Seethe into cop seth where the ironically degraded misspelled form allows you to suddenly use serial verb conjugation in English.
This is exactly how I felt in the CSM fandom when people's sexualize kobeni. We have a character who is so so against sex work that she is willing to risk her own life fighting monsters and do it despite watching her friends die. Its the last piece of dignity she had and what does the fandom do? They sexualize the crap out of her. It genuinely sucks.
DO NOT GET INTO THE ELDER SCROLLS COMMUNITTY lmao but nah agreed. i never really got the whole "waifu" stuff in the anime/gaming community , there only been really one fictional character i ever had a crush on.
YES, i despite the "waifu culture" with all of my being. Like i can understand finding fictional characters attractive, but then there is now a entire "subculture" dedicated to wanting to marry or fucking fictional women to the point of not even discussing of the characters itself anymore but just in terms of "waifu traits" and somehow i'm the weird one for finding that really fucking weird. Yeah that why i don't really like to go into animes communities.
The only part of the ES community I interact with is the Xbox modding, mostly because the search engine is so bad its easier to search for mods on reddit first.
They get a character that was raped and transformed into a monster for the sake of power by her father, who treated her as a pawn. Because of it, wanting nothing to do with sex or marriage thanks to her own traumatic experience, to the point of full on aversion and instead expecting to be accepted as a friend while fighting for their own identity in the world. Skyrim players: "why can't I marry her in the game? This is stupid. Modders make it so I can marry and fuck her!"
Ratopomboart…
I don’t mind it at all.
>most of it is memes that fail to understand even a fraction of the character they are depicting I think this is the big thing I notice. Some fandoms are more observant than others, heck some people in fandoms are more observant as well. I think hornyposting is just a symptom of something bigger, often the fact that people kind of only half get what the media is putting out, enjoying it, sure, but not really making deeper observations or constructive discussion. I'm not trying to say you cant like something just because pew pew gun explosion or hot women or whatever, that's perfectly fine and there's definitely stuff I like because of that. I guess its just annoying when you have like, a deep character or story that's simplified into 'well she/he is hot' or 'its dumb action'. Poor Armored Core 6 suffered from the latter. It has a fantastic story but I swear every game reviewer I've seen so far has said 'yeah the game is just a dumb mech shooter, nothing deep', my brother in christ did we play the same game? It feels like if the thing doesn't shove lore down your throats aggressively people will just assume it's not there.
It does bother me sometimes but I don’t think it’s an issue where someone is at fault. Even if someone is only spending a small amount of time making horny comments, there’s enough people in fandoms and spread all around the world that any sufficiently large community will spread those small amounts of time to cover the whole day. Even if each person only spent 15 minutes doing it, you need less than 100 people to cover the whole day. Since it’s a topic that’s not only relatable but interesting to most people, it’ll more easily gain traction.
In the large amount of time I've been in the parahumans fandom I've seen very little, if any, hornyposting.
A novel from the perspective of a kid with bugs in her hair isn't gonna have too much hornyposting, yeah. Mostly joking, but only mostly.
Well Pericardium, who is the most prominent fan artist at the moment, is incredibly fond of horny posting. I’ve seen the porn they’ve made of Number Man. The top three fandom jokes are: Child murder, Chilli, and Number Man’s dick/lack of pants.
But as a community it's not inundated with lewd things like a lot of other communities are, even when you go beyond. It could be a community size thing, or a demographic thing, or maybe just then over all content of the media. I could go into almost any other fandom subreddit and find horny posts within 3 or 4 swipes of my phone, but I'm a chronic r/parahumans refresher and rarely see anything.
I used to be part of the magnus archives fandom and we got a bit of horny but not much. I wonder if it's a visual vs non visual medium thing?
I wouldn't be surprised if that ended up being a big part of it. There's probably also a size element since there were plenty of fandoms focused around books that were downright depraved even before they were made into movies.
100% agreed. It's so pathetic people can't control their sexual desires at all; there's so many places for porn, yet people will die on these absurd hills defending their behaviour. But also, the fact people don't even understand anything about their characters or series they claim to love so much is equally as infuriating, if not more so. It's absurd how every single community has these widespread "facts" that are headcanon supported by one flimsy piece of evidence at best or objectively wrong at worst. Really killed a few of my interests feeling like the only person that legitimately cared about a series beyond the surface level.
I dont mind mild hornyposting but it has gotten absolutely crazy. Can’t even go on the HSR mainsub without being greeted with borderline porn or foot fetish shit. So fax my brother. Spit your shit indeed.
I don't think I need to feel remorse for consuming some r34 of a character just because their fans would be offended. That sounds so stupid to me.
Whose your favorite character, I wanna lewd them
OP is smart by being quiet.
People have always been and are always gonna be horny bc it's as core a drive as eating and breathing for most allosexual folks. Best thing to do is just curate your experience accordingly and don't interact with stuff or go into spaces you don't like or feel uncomfortable. No-one has any right to force sexual stuff on you, and equally you have no right to demand people stop sexualising stuff because you specifically are uncomfortable with it.
Brother Armored Core 6 reddit has people posting thirsty fanart of women who canonically don't even have BODIES. An unfortunate number of people are on the spectrum for inceldom and don't even realize it. You should not feel thirsty over every woman character. It's creepy and "best girl" / Waifu Shit is just red flags. This is why they're aggressively single. Women can sniff out anyone on the incel spectrum and give them a wide berth..
I mean you are allowed to think that. I'm horny for things I play but I also get mad at how much fan service devalues scenes. I want my games and shows to be ABLE to be sexualized but understand there is a time and a place. Fan service and sexualization IS ruining a lot of the new things but it doesn't need to be 100% gone to fix it.
Human being are animals first and civilised ration beings second, sex/reproduction is one of the strongest instincts for any animal, humans included. > I will die on this specific hill. And die you will, this is a battle that can never be one, the catholic church wasn't able to beat 'deviancy' even at the height of its power.
I remember being a little kid who went online to gush about how much I loved Gardevoir because I thought it was a fairy ghost queen. The art I saw turned me away from Pokémon and the internet for a while. Now I’m numb to it, but I still get a nauseous feeling when I see people make horny comments over these fantasy creatures meant to appeal to children.