replying to myself to say that i'm one of the people who took "kinning" to mean "i am a fan & relate to this character" - didn't realize that it's popularly taken to the "i AM this character & not even the original creator knows him like i do because he IS me" level, RIP (though that's not to say we can't "take" a character away from their original creator & write them "better" in our fanworks, lol).
i'm not in the "MCYT/minecraft youtuber" circles, but i read some wild stuff recently about how one of the artists working on some MCYT-related project had a discord server for that project where another member one day suddenly "developed an alter" of that artist (who i'll just call A for Artist because i'm having trouble finding the source of the story) and was posting in the discord "acting like" A, with a display name like A's, et cetera. A obviously was very discomfited by this, and when A expressed discomfort and asked that person to stop (because who would want to be impersonated by someone in their own discord server?), the other people in the server started calling A ableist because "the person with the A alter can't help who they are" and such. this snowballed into an entire receipts-type post calling for A to be removed from the project because "they're just an artist so they're easy to replace, and this ableism shouldn't be tolerated." so, a real social media campaign against an artist for... not wanting to be impersonated? that's not helping anybody.
Yeah, the previous version of this around 2015 used to be "I'm reincarnated/kin of A from a past life and I'm discovering my own memories as A"... And meanwhile A is still alive and well and posting on YT. Somewhat unsurprisingly a not insignificant amount of these were sock accounts coming from people coordinating on KF, who would then contact the person being impersonated and use the spectacle to push rhetoric like 'this is an example of how tans people are delusional'. It was gross. I don't think that's the same thing as what you're describing in this server with a mcyt alter, but it's similar enough for frysquint.gif
Because the current widespread fad of people faking a disorder, in this case DID, happens to be similar and in some cases a direct descendent of kin drama
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(Anonymous) 2023-08-11 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)i'm not in the "MCYT/minecraft youtuber" circles, but i read some wild stuff recently about how one of the artists working on some MCYT-related project had a discord server for that project where another member one day suddenly "developed an alter" of that artist (who i'll just call A for Artist because i'm having trouble finding the source of the story) and was posting in the discord "acting like" A, with a display name like A's, et cetera. A obviously was very discomfited by this, and when A expressed discomfort and asked that person to stop (because who would want to be impersonated by someone in their own discord server?), the other people in the server started calling A ableist because "the person with the A alter can't help who they are" and such. this snowballed into an entire receipts-type post calling for A to be removed from the project because "they're just an artist so they're easy to replace, and this ableism shouldn't be tolerated." so, a real social media campaign against an artist for... not wanting to be impersonated? that's not helping anybody.
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(Anonymous) 2023-08-12 12:30 am (UTC)(link)That isn't how it fucking works, that's how you make people lose respect for legitimate disorders.
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