ribbon · 2mo
as someone who censors I'll add my two cents: if I were famous I'd rather have my fans censor nsfw content they write about me. I'm aware that as a celebrity I'd be sexualised one way or another, but I don't think I would be in the mood to stumble upon such things whenever I search myself up to read opinions about my latest performance. Plus I wouldn't want teams from brands that are considering me to become their ambassador to see stuff like that too when they research me to check if I fit with their brand. That being said, I understand why people don't censor names - for the reasons you mentioned, but also simply against the censorship and puritanism culture that is only growing recently!
yeah like i said i totally get why people censor and i dont go up to them and tell them to stop or block them for doing it or write long tweet threads expressing why i think it's bad or something despite how i feel about it (bc i genuinely dc what someone else is doing). i get it. its a non issue to me atp—i think we should all keep doing what makes us comfortable while also being aware of why it's/we're not perfect.
but the thing is we aren't celebrities and we will never know how skz feel about it. we just have to accept what we're doing is likely something that would make some if not all of them uncomfortable. i am sure with all the confidence in the world jisung would be disgusted with me for what i've written about him. the thing is we can keep doing whatever we want, so we will. and if one day you or i or anyone else decides "this rpf thing is actually weird and my fav would hate me" then we have every bit of ability to stop doing it!
celebrities know what we're doing. brands do too. what rich people feel about anything regarding fandom doesn't bother me or concern me honestly lolol. they think we're all a subset of silly freaks playing in the sandbox together; we don't make up a huge majority, so we likely don't impact much. stray kids are successful despite what is going on on ao3 and twitter and postype—which is something we need to consider too.
and yeah the censorship and puritanism stuff is really getting worse and worse. i see why people feel a certain way about heavy topics and i don't fault them for that but i also don't have to agree with what's going on either because unforch even the most well meaning opinions can lead to fascism and impediment on rights. i block and mute as much as i can, including buzzwords that could potentially show up on my feed just so i don't have to see the discourse. i've stopped talking about it publicly because genuinely no one cares to listen or have a real convo on it and people are going to feel how they're going to feel. but i will continue doing what i like doing and doing what i've been doing here until i'm unhappy.
