Hi! Have you watched Dylan is in Trouble's video where he only watched the first and last episode of Supernatural? I found it fun to get the perspective of somebody who's going in totally dark.
Pilot. Dylan thinking Supernatural was going to be a fun CW show but within the first minute saying "that baby is so screwed" and realizing it's actually a horror show and getting freaked out by it reminds me of Gilmore Girls fans watching SPN thinking it was a Dean Forrester spin off and kept wondering why so many people were getting killed.
Finale. Dylan is confused. First he thinks Dean is living alone with a dog because he's lonely, and then, "Who's cooking? Does he got a wife? Oh, he's got a brother". Wondering if Dean's new voice was due to second puberty. Asking why the brothers didn't bring a gun to a knife fight. Impressed with the bunker. Wonder why everybody has the same "deep" voice. Asking why heaven being an eternal happiness would be a big deal.
Conclusion, Dylan is confused. He started out watching Supernatural thinking it was going to be a silly, fun CW show and then he thought the series' conclusion was doing to be a standard wrap up of tropes. Mistaking Sam for Dean's wife should have been his first clue lol. In all a very fun watch.
I wish Redditors had never been exposed to the term 'parasocial relationship'.
I keep seeing posts in subreddits of popular YouTubers like Danny Gonzalez and DylanIsInTrouble ranting about how the teenagers are ruining the subreddit by sharing fan edits, talking about how much they love Danny or Dylan, or making jokes about their crushes on them. They're saying that this is creepy and wrong and would make these YouTubers uncomfortable.
It seems like these folks have forgotten that celebrity crushes are a normal thing and have been for a long time. Of course, some of the young fans may go over the top and cross a line, and in that case they need someone to tell them where the line for appropriately expressing admiration is. But trying to pathologize entire fan groups for what is mostly normal fan behaviour feels very unnecessary.
The discomfort thing is a valid concern, but afaik most YouTubers don't check their subreddits often. When making videos about their subreddit they usually filter to top posts in the past month. The vast majority of these posts are general memes and fanart.
I often marvel at the negativity towards fangirls outside of spaces like Tumblr. Given that our userbase here is mostly people who have been here a long time, I wonder what would happen if younger fangirls from Twitter or Tiktok migrated here. But most of all I wonder what would happen if Redditors never heard the term 'parasocial relationship'.
this is (kinda?) tsc related but idk if anybody on here watches dylan is in trouble/ooga booga on yt, but my guy just said he's gonna be making a movie commentary on the mortal instruments movie and i am losing my mind ahhhhh