#anti b*rchie

[imreallyloveleee]

i want an 8000 word essay about how perpetually defining Betty Cooper as "the girl next door" means she always exists in relation to someone else (next door to whom?), never fully as an independent self

and I want Anne Helen Petersen to write it

#i'm just reading some of her thoughts on tradwifes and naturally my mind drifts to the horror of b*rchie #i mean i have so many thoughts on it #like archie (correctly) never seems to expect this doting wife behavior from veronica #but betty is also fairly straightforward about not wanting this lifestyle and yet he still envisions her that way regardless? #WHAT'S THAT ABOUT ARCHIBALD??? #anyway you probably don't need 8000 words for this the train of thought is fairly self evident and also it's riverdale #but still!!! #anti b*rchie #betty cooper #riverdale #archie comics

[iarasstuffss]

Omg! The full circle moment has come!

#riverdale #anti b*rchie #bughead #LOLLL #karma is a god

[bettydearest]

collect yours!

#truly a feat to celebrate #riverdale negativity #anti b*rchie #anti b*archie

[bettyminicoop]

It's funny that they told and showed the future of literally every character. Betty and Jughead's magazines have names, Veronica's company has a name, Choni's son has a name, we know how Kevin and Clay's life turned out in unnecessary details and scenes.

We know about Fangs and Midge, about Uncle Frank and Keller, Polly, Alice, Julian, Reggie, Nana Rose.

Except Archie. He is married in Modesto, no details. Don't care about him.

#riverdale spoilers #anti b*rchie #anti archie andrews

[bettycooper]

It may sound abnormal, but there are some people who just have this innate attraction to the darker, more taboo side of life.

or the moment it became canon Betty is Bored™ in bed with Archie #WE BEEN KNEW

#riverdale #bughead #bugheadedit #betty x jughead #riverdaleedit #bettycooperedit #jugheadjonesedit #userbbelcher #chewieblog #otpsource #jemmablossom #usersource #userstream #filmtv #dailyriverdale #meowatthemoon #anti b*rchie #betty cooper #jughead jones #jugheadcentrall #bettycoopercentral #[ i have been CACKLING for 2 days straight over this ] #[ Betty girl WE KNOW ] #[ we ALL know ] #[ we have been saying this FOR YEARS & now it's canon?!?! honestly a GIFT of hilarity ] #s6b #6x17 #[ this moment was made for bughead shippers & I'll die on that hill ]

[giibh]

Bughead doesn't just deserve to be endgame, but to get married, after all, these last 3 years we've only suffered. Barchie Stan doesn't deserve shit. So Bughead wedding at the end👰🏼‍♀️💍

#bughead #bughead endgame #bughead wedding #anti b*rchie #anti j*bitha #riverdale negativity #betty x jughead

[bugheadchemistry]

Whenever the b*rchies lose, I consider that a good day. What’s better is that after today I will never have to think about them again.

#anti b*rchie #for possibly the last time 🤞🏻

[thatiranianphantom]

My Favorite B*rchie Moments

You know, it has been said in the past that I'm too negative about B*rchie. The word "hater" has been thrown around. "Anti", if you will. Some have gotten the message that I disapprove of B*rchie.

Well, my dear followers and Melinda, I am nothing if not cognizant of my own flaws. Reflective, you may say. Basically a mirror. So here, as repentence, I offer a small smattering of my very favorite B*rchie moments. Also, special thanks to @thetaoofbetty for her contributions to remembering the love story of the ages.

Them being so in love and not talking for 7 years.

This declaration of love:

3. Archie announcing he was joining the army and Veronica instantly being like "absolutely the fuck not" while Betty was like "well whatever you need to do, boo, try not to die."

4. When Veronica sings Archie's song and she looks at him like "you absolute fucking imbecile how could you be so stupid".

5. When the BAs were told to watch in 1x13, and Betty flat out told Archie that she was glad they'd found the right people they were supposed to be with.

6. The s2 kiss which was immediately met with "we're never going to talk about this again"

7. Archie's general s5 FWB attitude of "yeah the sex is nice but like she really does have a lot of thoughts"

8. The run of 8 or so episodes in s6 where they not only didn't interact, but it was followed up with them deciding whether or not they were actually dating.

9. The s6 premiere wherein Betty got her sperm and then gleefully cosigned sacrificing Archie.

10. That time she shot him in the head on their wedding day then made out with Jughead on his bed.

A love that dare not speak its name, truly. A romance for the ages. Soulmates.

Feel free to add, my dear followers. Spread the B*rchie love!

#TIP speaks #Riverdale #Anti-B*rchie #Oh god this was fun #Wait did that anti tag give me away? #DRAT

[passionate2020]

I am feeling so incredibly disheartened with #Riverdale at the moment.. it has gone from being my favourite show and something that I use to look forward to watching each week to something that just makes me feel sad and incredibly nostalgic. Also, I know fictional characters are suppose to change, develop, etc but.. I just miss #Bughead so darn freaking much…

Betty and Jughead getting together and their friendship dynamic with Archie/Veronica/Jughead/Betty was the reason why I loved watching the show in the first place…

Additionally, unlike the comic books where two women constantly chasing after a ‘perfect’ red haired stallion who craves female attention; I really liked that Roberto took a different approach. In seasons 1-4 Betty got her own story and actually HAD her own identity outside of Archie Andrews.

Betty didn’t get the ‘love’ she had always fantasised about while growing up, but she did find something greater: the love she actually needed in an unlikely place. Also, Jughead Jones did not hold Betty up to unrealistic standards and he loved Betty for exactly who she was. She never had to pretend or censor herself with Jughead. Ever.

Anyway, sad rant over.

#anti b*rchie #betty x jughead #riverdale negativity #betty and jughead #riverdale season 6 #bughead endgame #bughead #riverdale #betty cooper #jughead #jughead jones

[queeninarmour]

JV

Who else is a Bugvarchie endgame type of person, despises Barchie, finds Jabitha dull but Jeronica...Jeronica just hits different? They’re such a good pairing and should have absolutely been explored back in season 5. Don’t get me wrong, I love Varchie but if they are forcing that Barchie endgame on us I think Jeronica being endgame would be the only silver lining for me.

#riverdale thoughts #jeronica #anti b*rchie #varchie #bugvarchie

[shurawerewolf]

Looking through my old screenshots I came across this old 2018 tweet of a Barchie fan

Bare in mind, this is 2018. Around season 2, more or less.

Not to mention the COUNTLESS asks in the ask boxes of my fellow Bughead blogs here on Tumblr, such as @edgarsabandonedrocketship @stillhidden @i-know-you-can @middleagedresidentofriverdale @bugheadsfangirl and many others that promised us that "ratings and viewers will skyrocket with Barchie".

Mh.

So.

Let's look at the numbers, shall we?

These are the ratings and viewers during the Bughead/Varchie era:

Season 1

Remember that the season was the first one, so nobody knew what the show was or what was the mood or anything. Keeping this in mind, it still did pretty good.

Season 2

This season was objectively the best one, stable at 1 million viewers average, with minor downsides.

Season 3

Objectively this season is the most irregular one, but still did pretty good considering the madness of it, keeping the show between 1 million and 800k viewers (with minor downsides, again).

Season 4

Here too we can see that the decline was relatively normal, if not for two episodes: 4x12 which was a Katy Keen crossover episode (which, spoiler, nobody gave two shits) and the infamous 4x17 which lost 110k viewers in one week (plus the trama was leaked so everybody knew and didn't bother to watch). But everybody definitely hated the Barchie kiss (go check the reviews if you don't believe me. Plus it was another stupid musical so... draw your conclusions)

Season 5

Now... I guess there's no need to describe what you're seeing here right? The show declined again, yes. But in the span of one season it lost 45% of it's viewers. Just look from season 4 première to season 5 première. And remember that 5x04 can be considered another "première", because it was first episode after the time jump, but again the show started hemorraging viewers. With barely more than 300k viewers watching the infamous finale.

Season 6

And now. The famous season 6. The supernatural season. We're again seeing another huge decline. Another 45% decline in viewers. The second in the span of 2 years. That should tell you something. Not to mention that, this time, for the first time, the season finale is the less viewed episode. I wonder if the (already) trifling audience got spoilers beforehand. Mmmm 🤔

So... To summarize. Since Barchie happened, the views and the viewers dropped by 45% two times in two years and now the show that made roughly 1/2 million viewers now can't barely go over 200k anymore.

Thus I wonder... where's the horde of Barchie fans that was promised and who would have saved Riverdale? Where's the "increased ratings" that Barchie fans anticipated back in 2018. I can't see them. Quite the opposite, in fact.

The ship that was thought would have saved Riverdale actually sinked the show.

As my old friend Jughead would say

#riverdale #anti barchie #anti b*rchie #riverdale negativity #riverdale ratings #riverdale season 6 #riverdale season 5 #riverdale season 4 #riverdale season 3 #riverdale season 2 #riverdale season 1

[imreallyloveleee]

Where do you think it all went wrong with Riverdale?

honestly, part of me is like, the show's over and nothing but fandom matters. so who cares?

the other part of me loves to complain about Riverdale and will continue to do so until the day I die in the parking lot of Michael's Diner in Montgomeryville, PA at the age of 86. so, long-winded answer under the cut

I'm tempted to say it's the s4 b*rchie kiss. It was so wildly out of character for both Betty and Archie that it's laughable. You know how you can tell when something is just blatantly OOC with no justification? They...don't justify it. They find ways to dance around any interaction that might offer clarification. They mute the reactions of the characters who should be devastated by it. And then they jump ahead 7 years so it's easier to just handwave it away as something that happened a long time ago.

but the thing is, I did keep watching after that. I thought: okay, at least we should get an exes-to-lovers arc out of this, which is one of my favorite tropes. there is no way they would spend 4 seasons developing Bughead as this loving, supportive, communicative, sexy, and almost-unbelievably-compatible couple just to tear them apart and never do anything with that dynamic again. maybe it'll be even sweeter seeing them come back together after so much hurt and longing.

boy was i wrong!!!!!!!!!

so, the episode that actually made me stop watching for good, with the exception of some standalones like The Jughead Paradox and the finale, was the s5 musical. that was when i realized that this team of writers was 100% willing, maybe even eager, to completely drop storylines they themselves had been building over the course of a season - do a 180 with all of the characterization and relationships - and then act as though the buildup they wrote never even happened.

in this case, i'm specifically talking about the Bughead reunion storyline they dropped in s5. i'm not going to pretend like it was a GREAT buildup - and it was mostly on Jughead's side, Betty's character in s5 was basically an emotionless misery bot that had sex sometimes - but it was there. Jughead told Tabitha he had unresolved feelings around Betty. that's followed by an entire episode that lays out Betty & Jug's time jump relationship, and how Jughead still believes she's the one who saves him from himself. they work on a case together, they start opening up to one another. Jughead's so worried about her he can't eat.

and then...you know what happens.

(i'll also note here that there was random bts stuff that strongly indicated the musical ep storyline had a drastic last-minute rewrite: lili tweeted a blue dress, suggesting the song with that line was meant for her character; RAS said cole had to do last-minute recording sessions; supposedly crew members have confirmed this was the case, too. since none of it's 100% confirmed you can take it all with a grain of salt, but i believe it.)

it was so fucking insulting as a viewer to give my time and attention to a show made by people who would not only randomly drop the threads they set up, but torpedo them altogether, and then behave like the fans are the ones somehow at fault for expecting a story that actually follows through on its own emotional and plot beats. we're just shippers, so our opinions are dumb and biased! it's just a tv show, so who cares! get over it!

so, i stopped watching, because i knew they would continue to write without any thought or respect for their characters or their audience, and therefore inevitably write themselves into another corner. and, shocker, i was right. they did it again, whisking everyone away to the 1950s because actually resolving any of the scenarios they set up was ToO hArD. why bother when you could just make every single character Righteously Angry and Incurably Horny all the time, lecture the audience about social issues that have already been mainstream progressive for the last several decades, and call it a "love letter" to your fans?

#WHEW ok anon idk if this was what you were looking for but it's what you got #hopefully this has fully exorcised my need to Go Off against the creators of this show but you never know!! #my capacity for bitter resentment is apparently endless when it comes to this show #rd negativity #riverdale #anti b*rchie #anti j*bitha #just in case #anon

[iarasstuffss]

Someone said this on twitter and it's true!

Archie would sacrifice everything, including Betty, to save the universe.

Jughead sacrificed the universe to save Betty.

that should tell you everything you need to know

#riverdale #bughead #anti b*rchie #riverdale spoilers

[bettyminicoop]

I think I figured out Betty's storyline in s7.

It was officially established by canon in s6 that Archie is vanilla in sex. And probably Betty was so sexually frustrated that now in the 50s her only thought is sexual satisfaction. Poor Betty. When you get back to the real timeline, buy yourself a vibrator. Or two.

#anti archie andrews #anti b*rchie #poor betty cooper #riverdale negativity

[bettycooper]

5 times Betty Cooper was Not Here For™ even the idea of the love of her life with anyone else + 1 time she was like "please someone else make out with my current boyfriend"

#one of these things is not like the other  

#riverdale #bughead #bugheadedit #betty x jughead #riverdaleedit #bettycooperedit #userbbelcher #chewieblog #otpsource #jemmablossom #usersource #userstream #filmtv #dailyriverdale #meowatthemoon #riverdaleladiesdaily #bettycoopercentral #cwladiesdaily #betty cooper #anti b*rchie #anti barchie

[giibh]

Betty having sex with Reggie and not Archie is so funny, the Barchie Stans swore they were going to have a first time like Bughead

#anti b*rchie #beggie #riverdale spoliers #riverdale