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