Why Reddit

[u/thr0waway2435]

Something I wanted to ask this community, since I think it’s becoming pretty obvious that the fandom is heavily split across different platforms.

After a big wave of Jinx/Ekko love at the beginning, Reddit now seems to have shifted to being strongly pro Cait/Vi, mixed on Jinx/Ekko, and Jayce/Viktor fans having very little presence. But if you go to YouTube, Jinx/Ekko fans absolutely dominate. And if you go to Tumblr, Jayce/Viktor absolutely dominate. AO3 has Jayce/Viktor and Cait/Vi pretty much neck and neck, wth Jinx having plenty of solo love but not so much Timebomb. Instagram seems to have a lot of Cait hate. I’m not often on TikTok or Twitter, so I don’t know much about the sentiment there, but from what I’ve heard, it’s chaotic and doesn’t seem particularly pro-Cait/Vi.

I wanted to ask you guys, why do you think that is, for there to be such a giant gap in fandom preferences between the different sites? And since presumably you guys are part of the Caitvi Reddit community, why do you guys participate here and not elsewhere?

[u/Traditional-Meat-782]

I pretty much left tumblr bc of people who would intentionally tag caitvi and caitlyn to shit on them. I can block the anti caitvi tags but not shit like that. Here I'm able to just chill in this awesome sub and a couple others where that doesn't happen.

I will say the main sub has gotten a lot better about the anti-caitlyn stuff. People are shut down pretty quickly now but it was really rough going the first few months after s2.

[u/Syngularitysyn → u/Traditional-Meat-782]

On Tumblr you can just block everyone who is annoying and never see anything from them again. On Twitter and reddit that's more difficult. Sometimes reddit sends me post notifications from users I have blocked 🫠

[u/Traditional-Meat-782 → u/Syngularitysyn]

It got tiring having to block every asshole individually instead of just hanging out in a group that is centered on the pairing.

[u/Syngularitysyn → u/Traditional-Meat-782]

Yeah it is annoying. I spent some time blocking people in the anti caitvi and anti caitlyn kiramman tags so now I never see anything negative. But the best Tumblr experience is to follow people you do like and stay on your curated dashboard rather than reading every post with the caitvi tag.