Casey Aonso - Exploring the World of Toxic Ships.

[theemii]

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"If you've been on the internet you've probably witnessed how intense and devoted some fans can become whether it's on tumblr, tik tok, twitter or instagram, and these can be fans of anything or anyone really, but when it comes to toxic fans in today's video we're focusing on "shippers" who ship singers that they believe are in undercover

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[piratesswoop]

i don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with shipping real people solely because you like their chemistry-like who among us wouldn’t love sandra bullock and keanu reeves to do another movie together?

but people who take it too far, break the fourth wall, share their gross explicit fantasies WITH the people involved, harass their partners and spouses etc are absolutely toxic.

[sandstorm]

It's not something *I* am comfortable with but this is what I subscribe to. Just don't let the folks involved know about it!

[vandthemoon]

This is how I feel. Thinking two people would be a cute/hot couple is fine as long as that’s as far as it goes.

[screamingintune]

now I wanna watch the Lake House!

[sailormood]

Father Karras, the power of Christ loves you!

[palmerraids]

[kary1591]

First fandom I encountered this with was RBD/Rebelde and even just a few years back one of them tweeted about people needing to separate fiction from reality and I was so shocked people were still at it so many years after.

Then again idk why I was shocked if I’ve seen how long ‘Larry Stylinson’ has been thing.

[lalameanslove]

OMG RBD/Rebelde shipping stories, on my ONTD? I was so enthralled by their shippers back in the day mostly because of how fucking MESSY it was.

Case in point you had the telenovela shippers of the couples, which then fed directly into the shipping of the band singers who played those character, but then within the band itself fans would ship random pairings together too because irl they dated!! And not to mention they (the RBD management) realized the shipper's obsessions would make more $$ so they basically forced the singers to pander to them and blurred hella lines (they even made a tv show using the real actors names/personas and having them fall in love with each other haha). LORD. I'm sorry for this long ass comment but I just have too many feelings about the RBD/Rebelde shipping world I could talk about this all daaaaay

[ohmylol]

omg, Roberta/Diego was the first ship i shipped lmao, before knowing what shipping was, i loved them together

[sweetceci505]

RBD was funny because the actors actually dated each other but it was not the "popular ships" I think Anahi dated Chisopher, and then the girl who played Roberta dated the other guy....lol

[a_files06]

As a kid I was totally shipping SMG/David Boreanaz together and was offended when they didnt get married.

I was also a Britney/Justin shipper. But as an adult....not really.

[pciam]

Lol omg I remember sooooo many teens shipped SMG/David

[helyanwe89]

I read Britney/Justin fanfic. It was obviously many years ago and I do not ship real people now.

[magnetic_rose92]

I used to be in bandom when I was a dumb tween and that shit is cringe af. I never really believed any of them were actually together but some fans truly delude themselves.

The truly crazy ones who make an identity out of shipping RPF are so bizarre. I feel like you have to have something really wrong in your personal life to think that Harry and Louis are together and Louis’ baby is a robot doll created for PR. Some of these RPF shipping groups are almost cult-ish in their behavior. Like, the BFNs will ostracize anyone who goes against their theories n shit like. What the fuck.

Fictional shipping can be weird and intense but RPF shippers take it to a whole other level.

[martha_cf]

Aren't fandoms just a new weird sort of cult?

I think the problem with RPF shippers is that there is no "source material", i.e. a story within a book/series, etc.

The people they're projecting exist on the everyday, so project whatever they want from the life of the singer, actor, etc, even from the most banal details they can built and entire narrative around it.

[piratesswoop]

fandoms in general aren't cultish, but segments of them absolutely can be

[magnetic_rose92]

Aren't fandoms just a new weird sort of cult?

I wouldn't say that, no. The only reason I describe certain RPF ships as cultish is because there's definitely a sect of them where older BNFs manipulate gullible and young teens on the internet into believing their off the wall theories. Ex-Larry shippers in particular have spoken out about this.

"I have been brainwashed for a long time and when you’re damaged like that, it’s hard to exist in a completely different part of the fandom other than the larrie side.... This is how badly i’ve been manipulated by the big larries. they are a cult