Regardless of framing, tone, or content, the dynamic itself is fundamentally poisoned and encourages people to mirror it in real life. To be clear, this isn’t just about finding these dynamics distasteful it is actively believing they should not exist or be depicted in media. However, in 2016, the term changed to mean someone who was against the depiction of relationship dynamics deemed morally compromising, student/teacher relationships for example. If I don’t want The Arbiter to oh-so-tenderly smooch Master Chief, then I would be a Master Chief/Arbiter anti. “Anti,” in fandom hell, originally referred to people who did not like a specific relationship pairing. Strap in folks: It is time to address anti-shippers and - I hate this - anti-anti-shippers. To answer that question, I will have to regale you with a short history of terrible discourse. And for all of this, many people have been left wondering how the fuck we got here. Middling review scores from some publications, adoration from a large subset of the game’s audience, intense backlash (including harassment and vague threats of violence) from a smaller part of said audience, and the backlash to the backlash throughout the corner of the industry I happen to reside in. The response to Boyfriend Dungeon has been…scattershot to say the least.
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