ProJared and SpaceHamster are really good examples of how Internet personalities can have wildly different boundaries and comfort zones with fans and how both are equally deserving of respect. Jared actively courts flirtation from adult fans while Jeff dislikes even discussing what he finds attractive in another person, and both approaches are valid!
As fans, it’s important to keep in mind that celebrities have just as much a right to give and deny consent as anyone else, and what one person might be okay with won’t necessarily fly by another person, even when the people in question are friends with similar content and audiences. Just like with people you meet IRL, one person saying yes doesn’t necessarily mean the next person will have the same reaction.
It’s not that I don’t enjoy flirtation, perhaps I was just in a weird mood. I don’t want it to come off like you guys can’t ask me personal questions. I was merely saying that it didn’t really contextually matter, like an arbitrary list of things isn’t what defines you as a person, or a thing you’d have to meet for me to personally find you attractive. I don’t dislike discussing that kind of thing, but sometimes it can seem like people just want to know these really intimate and specific things about you so that they can see if they ‘match’ what you’re looking for, for lack of a better word.
I generally agree with this statement though, even if I think that statement about me isn’t inherently true. Everyone is totally different. Sometimes people are so deep into ‘internet culture’ or whatever that they forget not everyone is in the collective ‘joke’ or thing you’re referencing. Not everyone is going to react the same way. Especially if you’re pushing personal boundaries and asking really personal questions or something.
The densest people on the internet are the ones who say sci fi and fantasy are getting too political. Why can’t we go back to the good old days of The Twilight Zone, with its various episodes about mob mentality and the danger of mass paranoia that totally weren’t about the Red Scare. Or Star Wars and its genocidal empire of racially homogeneous Aryan men. Or Dune with its religious tribal peoples who live in a desert that contains the galaxy’s most valuable resource and the wars with the foreign colonizers, that was purely from Frank Herbert’s imagination. Can you imagine how much Star Trek would suck if it was packed to the brim with ham-fisted allegories of every societal issue of the 20th century. Not like all this modern ultra-political stuff, like a woman hero.
Just goes to show that when media is getting “too political” what they really mean is “media is making it obvious im a terrible person with allegories”
