I Totally Agree With This. It’s Okay For Us To Be Excited That Friends Finally Get To Meet, That They

I totally agree with this. It’s okay for us to be excited that friends finally get to meet, that they look at each other fondly because they genuinely enjoy each others company, that they look so happy to be around each other.

But all of this can be enjoyed under a platonic viewpoint. They are good friends. They’ve said it themselves. Leave the real people to be good friends. Be happy for their friendship and that they get to meet. Be squealy over them finally getting to interact in person.

Just don’t force romance on real people. They’ve never spoken out about it, but if the internet learned anything from Jacksepticeye, Markiplier, and their fanship, Septiplier, it’s that we should leave the romance out of how we see them as people.

Ship the characters, not the people.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Can I be honest with you guys for a sec? I feel like this needs to be said. This is coming from someone currently in the middle of writing a 17-chapter, 50k+ word Scarian fanfic, so keep that in mind. The way some of you act around Desert Duo is genuinely just… weird to me. It really hit me during the charity streams. And to clarify, when I say Desert Duo, I’m not talking about their characters—because then I’d be a total hypocrite. I mean the real people.

The way people ship-post about Grian and Scar themselves using clips from livestreams is just super off-putting. They’re close friends, not a couple. Grian is literally married. Seeing the chat constantly flooded with stuff like “omg scarian” or “the way he looked at him”—it’s just… weird, man.

Sorry if this comes off as harsh, but I really think this kind of stuff belongs in fanfics and fanart, not in real-life clips. It crosses a line, and yeah, I know I’ve said that in like five different ways now, but I really need you guys to understand how off it feels. And I get that someone’s gonna say, “Well, they don’t care,” and maybe that’s true. But still—can we not just acknowledge that blurring the lines between the real people and their characters for the sake of shipping is kinda weird?

Like, I clearly enjoy scarian fan content, but this… god, man…