I'm sorry that the fandom you loved had to be ruined for you! When this kind of thing happens and creators/actors/etc. turn out to be bad people, and I see all the suffering -- not just the direct victims, but the fans of the thing whose lives were changed/improved because of the thing they loved -- I get angry. Then, some fans will turn on others and attack in vicious ways instead of showing compassion, and it adds to the count of those who have been hurt.
It's ironic: I've been in fandom a long time, from before fanfic was mainstream. In those days (YMMV, depending on fandom), we hid it from creators/actors/etc. It was subversive, illegal, underground. Maybe if a creator's evilness had come out in those days, everyone would have considered the act of participating in transformative fandom an act of rebellion and the best way to say screw you! to the person who created it. I like that way of looking at it. People are using their creation, but they aren't getting a dime from it.
Long-winded way of saying everyone needs to decide for themselves how little or how much to engage with a fandom when something like that happens. And in the ironic words of Good Omens: Be kind to each other.
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Date: 2025-01-27 06:15 am (UTC)It's ironic: I've been in fandom a long time, from before fanfic was mainstream. In those days (YMMV, depending on fandom), we hid it from creators/actors/etc. It was subversive, illegal, underground. Maybe if a creator's evilness had come out in those days, everyone would have considered the act of participating in transformative fandom an act of rebellion and the best way to say screw you! to the person who created it. I like that way of looking at it. People are using their creation, but they aren't getting a dime from it.
Long-winded way of saying everyone needs to decide for themselves how little or how much to engage with a fandom when something like that happens. And in the ironic words of Good Omens: Be kind to each other.