we're not mutuals but i hope i can drop my two cents..

i agree W this statement honestly cus it can be harmful to drive yourself to harassing others js cus they share the same f/o as you. a good block button never hurt nobody! but i'm js gonna say that it's not always delusion.. ik alot of yumes that are only non-sharing cus their f/o comes from a special interest or a very emotionally attached media. imo that's a completely understandable reason to be non-sharing for

i enjoy the selfshipping/yume community growing but a lot of trendhoppers are giving it a reeaally bad rep cus they'll call themselves soulbond/riakos just for competition or attention and then they'll send death threats to literally anyone

selfshipping has existed for ages and a lot of people have been doing it for a WHILE whether they've interacted w the community or not. but now it's like. the new discord kinnie shit. i'm lowkey js waiting til the big boom dies down so i can return to yumeing in peace

we arent mutuals but i feel like i should give my own opinion on this so here i go! Hi aiden

you're right about that being the "era but reborn", but also not quite. i used to have genuinely horrible psychotic episodes where i believed wholeheartedly i was certain characters, which caused me to do things that i regret til this day. however, i've recovered from that. temporarily. i, in turn, became crazy towards my boyfriends [f/os] which i'm trying to work on, but i sometimes feel like they exist out there. as an example, i used to be really fucking crazy and i mean crazy over zenos yae galvus, my current biggest beloved for whom i actually harbor romantic feelings for, to the point where i'd cry at school over his death. he is fictional, so it shouldn't have affected me that way. the way this correlates to the entire thing is: people similar to me tend to latch onto characters, whether it be when their sense of identity is disturbed or when they feel like they need something to rely on because everything else has failed them. it truly is interesting how the human brain works sometimes. <- btw i had to get reality checked by a friend to actually snap out of it because i'd be like "oh i miss zenos" all the time 24/7. it [the episode where i believe he's real] is still there sometimes, as stupid as that sounds

either way, i said 'also not quite' because sometimes these people just have a sheep mentality, following what everyone is doing. it's not exactly the same as 'giving' oneself psychosis - it's something of an issue where people don't have their own brain. it's similar to people trendhopping and then calling people cringe when they get out of it but others stay