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What is it about OUAT that somehow unleashed all the trolls?First : The Showrunners and cast did not put this fandom in its place back when that shipping thing started getting out of hand and actors were getting tons of disrespectful comments and tweets from entitle fans who think they know everything up down right left and in between therefore must express what ever they want when they want no matter how rude or crude. Second: Hope and Happy Endings and True Love, fantasy blended with reality. And this show became a beacon that if their faves can get a happy ending with that significant other then by darnit they can get this fanatical happy ending as well. (I am guilty of that but for different reasons. Neal’s death hurt me because I wanted to know second chances were a true thing, that despite hardships in the end you can have joy and happiness with family and friends and it would all work out because during that time I was experiencing familial tragedy and hardships that I look to this show for a positive and uplifting message that second chances can occur, that despite suffering in life a happy ending awaited all. And honestly the brutal truth at least for me was that this was not the show to look for those concepts or that message.) Third: Shipping it got out of hand it took over the show the fandom the writing everything. This is my take on it. I am probably more wrong than right. But that is just my thoughts on the subject.
Agree, I never saw writers, cast and crew so afraid of the fans like OUAT one, i have to say that there are bad apples in every part of this fandom, i know @wickedregal will say SQ fans are the biggest bullies, bc of Sean stuff, but i can say this and is not just bc im a MRJ fan, every part of OUAT fandom has reasons to complain about CS fans and is without a doubt that the part of the fandom where there are more bad apples exist and the one that everyone involved in the show has most afraid, is not surprising that Cs stuff are pure fan service, that they are the only ship that is happy.
Actually I agree with this sentiment…Nearly half of the SQ are petty, rude, and downright disrespectful to not only the show’s fans but the cast itself….However, there are definetly more than just half in the CS Fandom. And in spite of my own opinion of the SQ Fandom, a part of me definetly feels they are in someway entitled to their wrath because without a doubt does this show bait them, I mean they literally dangle SwanQueen in front of their face just to keep them watching, So with Adam and Eddy’s constant baiting, I do think SQ should be pissed, but they take it out on the wrong people, aka Sean, Colin, and few times in the past MRJ. Their anger and bitterness should solely be placed on Adam, Eddy, & ABC Network.
On the other hand with CS…I’ve got no sympathy. They have gotten literally everything they ever wanted, and still complain for more, more, & more! There are few, and I do mean few Hookers/CS, who are absolute sweethearts, but the majority in that fandom are as toxic as they come. There’s even a war now between OutlawQueen & CaptainSwan over everything that’s happened, including their constant harassment to Sean Maguire who only liked a tweet, and their insane hatred for Lana Parrilla.
But at the end of the day, when you combine every part of this fandom and separate the good from the bad…it’d at least come out to 65% Bad Apples & 35% Good Apples, so it’s toxic all around in the OUAT Fandom as a whole. But I agree with everything @Ranisha, @Rainbow, & @Slurpeez posted! In the end, unless you’re a fan of guyliner and doe-eyed savior, it’s like Cruella said, the game is most definetly rigged!
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