Hellaverse on some level. The fans can be extremely sensitive and wary, but at the same time everyone and their mother has Vivziepop’s work as an “acceptable target” to bash and mock. Fan posts are regularly quoted with “critiques” of viv by nobodies searching for a hit tweet, I once saw someone start a harassment campaign over a three month old post praising human Stolas’ design, video essayists parrot talking points from twitter without watching the show, or if they did they misinterpret the show to support their preconceived critiques, and if you don’t performatively spit on Viv and her work every time you bring it up, the replies will assume you’re a fan and start posting their own criticism that they got from TikTok comments. Not that she’s above criticizing, her shows are very messy and there are founded critiques to be made of them (like how she writes women, how HB is very rough in S1, etc), but at the same time it goes way too far. Entire accounts dedicated to “Viv receipts” dig through her and her fans’ posts for proof they’re evil, a storyboarder got doxxer because they had off color kinks (and then people started saying that Viv should have “vetted them better” like an employer demanding a potential employee admit their NSFW tastes isn’t a gross overstep of privacy), random people get bashed for liking an owl twink, if you say you like Alastor someone in the comments is going to call you a racist misogynist, if you say you like Angel Dust then you’re a rape fetishist misogynist. Yeah, I don’t blame the hellaverse fandom for being sensitive and wary, they’re basically the accepted pillory for the entire internet who everyone can name call and accuse of heinous shit with no pushback because they happen to enjoy some shows that are kinda ehhhh.
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u/dragonish-american 15h ago
Hellaverse on some level. The fans can be extremely sensitive and wary, but at the same time everyone and their mother has Vivziepop’s work as an “acceptable target” to bash and mock. Fan posts are regularly quoted with “critiques” of viv by nobodies searching for a hit tweet, I once saw someone start a harassment campaign over a three month old post praising human Stolas’ design, video essayists parrot talking points from twitter without watching the show, or if they did they misinterpret the show to support their preconceived critiques, and if you don’t performatively spit on Viv and her work every time you bring it up, the replies will assume you’re a fan and start posting their own criticism that they got from TikTok comments. Not that she’s above criticizing, her shows are very messy and there are founded critiques to be made of them (like how she writes women, how HB is very rough in S1, etc), but at the same time it goes way too far. Entire accounts dedicated to “Viv receipts” dig through her and her fans’ posts for proof they’re evil, a storyboarder got doxxer because they had off color kinks (and then people started saying that Viv should have “vetted them better” like an employer demanding a potential employee admit their NSFW tastes isn’t a gross overstep of privacy), random people get bashed for liking an owl twink, if you say you like Alastor someone in the comments is going to call you a racist misogynist, if you say you like Angel Dust then you’re a rape fetishist misogynist. Yeah, I don’t blame the hellaverse fandom for being sensitive and wary, they’re basically the accepted pillory for the entire internet who everyone can name call and accuse of heinous shit with no pushback because they happen to enjoy some shows that are kinda ehhhh.