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Why has modern fandom developed a sort-of purity culture? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by UminekoEnjoyer@lemmygrad.ml to c/asklemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml

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By "purity culture", I mean this recent idea that if you like [insert character that is villainous or has [insert bad belief] here] that you are secretly a horrible person, agree with their actions, or have the same beliefs as them.

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[–] Orcinus@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'm not talking about successful artists like Rowling. I'm talking about the artists seeking commissions and hopeful entrepreneurs in fandom spaces OP was talking about where the phenomenon OP mentioned is rampant and perpetuated by said artists. I've constantly seen it myself and I was relaying an explanation I heard from a Marxist. Fandomers in LATAM, Vietnam, China, all can vouch for this phenomenon and it actually caused some controversy and conflict when Americans went to Xiaohongshu.

[–] pyromaiden@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's bizarre because I've never seen or experienced this myself. Maybe it depends on the platform in use?

[–] Orcinus@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Probably. It's a Tumblr and Twitter phenomenon with some of it leaking to YouTube. But where it is it's absolutely fierce.

[–] pyromaiden@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Ahhh, that explains it then. I never got into either of those.