i think part of the rsn is that majority of fandoms perception of aomine is persistently negative but treated as Harmless Fun, evident in the frequency of ahomine jokes (even though theres little in the text that suggests stupidity - immaturity+naivety yes but those are not synonymous to fandoms mockery of aomine the “basketball idiot”; im also not keen on belittling others based on how they perform academically, another distorted yet widely accepted as Canon Truth fandom readily adopts. we dont even really see aomine in an academic setting, so all these hcs of how he sucks at school and only attends just to play basketball are unnecessary bc EVEN IF WE WERE GIVEN CONCRETE EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT THIS, it shouldn’t even matter???????? his athletic talent+his worth as a person are not connected to his scholastic achievements and the lack of the latter is not grounds to trivialize him)
perhaps fujimakis and fandoms colorist prejudices arent as in-your-face as reos “campiness”; theyre innocuous at face value, but bc fandom extrapolates and blows them up into memes/fandom-wide interpretations, im surprised fandom is still upholding truly baffling, discriminatory impressions theyve had since aomine was first introduced in the manga
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