#it truly doesn't hold a candle towards the insanity of Miraculous Youtube and Twitter

[okiidokii]

IDK how to explain this well, but the Miraculous fandom seems to have a very weird relationship with criticism and analysis of the show. It’s apparently a very common  joke to call miraculous a ‘dumpster fire’ of a show, but as soon as anyone actually criticizes it, people get weirdly defensive. Not in a way of trying to push back against bad-faith criticism or simply feeling bad that someone dislikes a show you love, but in a weird moralized way.

Some fandom blogs cry about “salters” (which is honestly such a weird thing to call media criticism) like heresy. All ‘Adrien Salters’ are evil people who hate abused children, and anyone who has even the slightest criticsms of Marinette’s behaviour is written of as a misogynist or a racist (even though a lot of criticism of Marinette IS acknowledging the racism and misogyny of her writing).Even some of the ‘salt’ itself reads as a very poor understanding of how characters work and basic media literacy. Perhaps this is just normal fandom behaviour, but it’s very weird.

#rambles #miraculous salt #miraculous fandom salt #I want to believe its just tumblr #but honestly tumblr has some of the most balanced miraculous analysis i've seen online #it truly doesn't hold a candle towards the insanity of Miraculous Youtube and Twitter #also this isn't a dig a people who block miraculous critical blogs by the way #more of people who spend a lot of their internet time going on anon to spout the most absurd reading of their criticisms humanely imaginabl #honestly i don't even want to use the term 'salt'. #it clumps together actual criticism with people who don't know what an antagonist or a character flaw is #you know what #be the change you want to see in the world #miraculous critical #ohh boy here comes a bunch of tags