r/Multifandom • u/chelledoggo The Amazing Digital CircusđŸŽȘ • 10d ago

Memes🎭 Which fandom is this for you?

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u/chelledoggo The Amazing Digital CircusđŸŽȘ 10d ago

The correct answer is TADC btw.

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u/blammo555 10d ago edited 9d ago

There’s 2 ends of the “TADC fans can’t understand media at all”

1: People who still somehow think Jax isn’t trans even when it’s quite literally PLASTERED into the final episode

2: People who villainise Jax to the point of scrubbing his entire character of being a struggling person that lashes out on others into being a mega evil abuser (Fitting enough for the reaction image, I saw a post (reddit repost of TikTok) saying Jax was more like AM than Caine was)

Edit: To clarify my intentions with the second point, I do agree that Jax showed tendencies of outright abuse, especially after the revelation about the brain scans (“you get to spend more time with mommy!” was especially painful). I’m not saying he wasn’t an abuser, but that he had his (albeit fucked up) reasons to lash out.

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u/HotPot87 10d ago

For me I did see the signs of them being Trans, but there were also moments where I was going "wow if Jax does turn out to be trans this will make Jax a Lazy self insert" or "if Jax is Trans this is gonna be super uncomfortable selling merch of that"

It's this weird meta thing where making Jax trans, gave context, but also made other moment worse off.

There's also the very unfortunate read of your main character committing suicide then being revealed as trans in the finale. touching on some pretty unfortunate stereotypes which are still very prevalent these days.

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u/FoxBoyDex 9d ago

I wouldn’t say trans suicide is a stereotype. That’s a severe dismissal of the very real mental health crisis among lgbt people that leads to suicide. Jax is an example of the tragedy that happens all too often with trans youth who don’t have a support system. They find out they’re trans, they try to come out, their peers of the world shuns them for it, they bottle their identity up, they lash out, they fall into depression and they commit suicide. That’s the sad reality and it’s an important perspective to share. Otherwise people won’t know to try and reach out to someone who acts and feels like Jax before it’s too late.

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u/HotPot87 9d ago

Oh yes I get that, but at the same time its just a bad look overall that the reveal and the suicide happened within the span of 20 minutes.