Um, wow. Someone who I didn’t know even slightly, with whom I had never once spoken, contacted me...

Um, wow. Someone who I didn’t know even slightly, with whom I had never once spoken, contacted me today to insist that I start watching a show that I’ve honestly been deliberately avoiding, though I’m sure it’s very good. I just don’t need a new fandom. They stated that the main relationship in it was a canonically romantic relationship. I asked a simple follow-up inquiring whether it was overtly canon, or just left open to the imagination/not denied outright. Someone else commented on the ask post saying that it was not, in fact, overtly canon, but rather the second thing (easily read in/not overtly denied). I thanked that person, then went away and did other things for awhile. I just came back to a flurry of attacks from the original asker and found myself unfollowed by them, too. I just… wow. I asked a question of clarification. It wasn’t an attack on anyone’s show. I have zero stakes invested in this - remember, I haven’t seen it! This person contacted me out of the blue to insist that I watch this thing. They didn’t state why. I didn’t reject the concept (of watching said show) out of hand, nor did I say at any point that my willingness to watch it depended on the answer to my question (though I did say that I’m not shopping for a new fandom at the moment). The force of the reaction was… weird. This is baffling. People suck sometimes. :/

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