#and also character drama! like there's a LOT to latch onto here especially since they're letting you see it firsthand instead of only notes

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Incoming rant but I feel it’s ironic when people get upset over people liking a FICTIONAL character. Like when the Batman movie came out, nobody batted an eye over the Riddler simps.

Same with The Joker, and he’s worse than Riddler imo. He SA’ed Barbara Gordon (aka Batwoman) in Batman: The Killing Joke, he’s abusive to Harley Quinn, etc. but nobody makes a big deal about Joker simps.

Hell, nobody even goes after Patrick Bateman from American Psycho simps (unless they’re the “sigma” accounts) and he’s the most insufferable, misogynistic POS around.

Also don’t get me started about the horror simps. Like Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Freddy Krouger, Michael Myers, etc.

I feel it’s trendy all of a sudden to hate Billy because of the recent TikTok’s that’ve came about. It should subside eventually (hopefully).

At the end of the day, a lot of people tend to gravitate towards controversial characters. That doesn’t mean anyone agrees or condone with what they do, and if so they should seek therapy immediately. Fuck sake, it’s not that deep.

It's absolutely ridiculous. I've watched all the Batman movies since the late 80's (I own Batman Returns on dvd), and I don't recall ever seeing such reckless hate towards any of the Batman villains, than what this fandom has shown towards Billy.

I have American Psycho on dvd as well and while I think that movie's hilarious because it is really fucking ridiculous and over-the-top, Patrick Bateman still is a misogynistic piece of shit who loves to cut up people into tiny pieces. But since that movie has been turned into a funny meme, now 'everybody loves it' and don't think too much of it. Which is how it should be. It's a fucking movie; Patrick Bateman is a fictional villain. Nothing more.

And speaking of other popular villains: I've "stanned" Freddie Krueger since my teens. One of my first female villain crushes ever was Callisto from Xena (still love her), and she's absolutely crazy. I thought Lucius Malfoy from Harry Potter was kinda hot. :D I also had a crush on Christopher Walken in Batman Returns, where his character is a rich, pompous, misogynistic piece of shit. During my first gameplay of Horizon Zero Dawn, I thought Helis (the main villain) was hot, and guess what? He's a religious bigot and a mass murderer. I also latched onto Nil in the very same game, and he's basically a serial killer who tracks down bandits and murders them without an inch of guilt or remorse in his heart (I also ship him with Aloy, the protagonist, and that relationship would be like so normal and so healthy ommgggg).

Not to mention all the other problematic ships that I've shipped way before Harringrove. D: Like these antis are getting so worked up over Billy and Harringrove when they're both pretty vanilla compared to the other stuff that I've stanned / shipped before. It baffles me so much because they're seriously not even in the top ten of my problematic faves list, and yet I have gotten anon hate over them and Billy's tag is full of anti shit. XD like what the fuck

But on the other hand, just like you said, it has definitely become trendy to hate Billy. I've seen bigger blogs here refusing to have anything to do with him because he's 'racist'. And yeah, from what I've heard, TikTok sounds toxic as fuck, I don't want to have anything to do with it. I even left Twitter because I got tired of drama - as if there isn't enough of it here already. Especially in this fandom.

Also... I think Stranger Things is largely toxic right now because the fanbase is still pretty young. The majority of Batman fans - at least the ones I know besides myself - are generally older, long-time fans. The generation that actually understands the complexity of fictional villains and treats them as such, too. Fictional, not real. And that's how it should be.

#replies #anon