245: Tone Death Rapture: Championship Edition : Tournament Edition

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(frozen comment) Re: MEME PET PEEVES

[(Anonymous)]

fair point, esp that last one, and i appreciate the thoughts. i think i just want it explained so i dont have to sit here and speculate, but even then it's not going to stop people from doing whatever, which i guess is the ultimate goal. i do want people to stop sexualizing kids, but that's not going to happen, like you said

the first type was honestly my theory as well, because i cant imagine what else would make someone find teen sex rp appealing as a demographic of mostly 30/40+ women [aside from being actual IRL creeps, which i feel like cant be the only case]

even writing 'teen sex rp' makes me feel weird

(frozen comment) Re: MEME PET PEEVES

[(Anonymous)]

you are aware that the things you are talking about involve characters that aren’t real? there are actual therapies for people who, with whatever struggles they may be dealing with, that recommend things like this to help them deal with those problems as they don’t harm any actual people including the patient themselves.

but that’s not my business to ask people about. it’s certainly not yours either.

if something makes you uncomfortable, you need to learn to curate you experience, scroll, block, whatever.

(frozen comment) Re: MEME PET PEEVES

[(Anonymous)]

henlo im psykeyeatrist

for therapy i need you to post teen sex memes on bakerstreet, its for therapeutic value

that will be $500 cash pls no insurance exceptied

(frozen comment) Re: MEME PET PEEVES

[(Anonymous)]

oh showing your colors now are we

piss off troll

(frozen comment) Re: MEME PET PEEVES

[(Anonymous)]

no one is arguing that fictional writings are in any way harming people in real life

that being said, why is it such a bad thing to question the content that floats across my dashboard? it feels strange that more people aren't questioning it.

(frozen comment) Re: MEME PET PEEVES

[(Anonymous)]

you seem like you're concern trolling, but on the small chance you aren't:

you can question whatever you want. is there a reason that you're doing it here, anonymously, on a comm known for overblowing even benign topics?

(frozen comment) Re: MEME PET PEEVES

[(Anonymous)]

well, because i agree that it's not really my place (or anyone's) to go DMing people who play on these memes and bombard them with questions.

my curiosity is its own thing. if anyone wants to answer me here, anonymously, that's great, but i'm not here to harass people, even if i do feel that what they do is strange

(frozen comment) Re: MEME PET PEEVES

[(Anonymous)]

but it is obviously calculated to generate outrage by putting it here, right? be serious. you think it's creepy, which you said from the beginning. i don't think anything that anyone here says is going to change your mind, so why bother asking and (to the people answering them), why bother engaging?

(frozen comment) Re: MEME PET PEEVES

[(Anonymous)]

people have been giving some good answers, honestly! i wouldnt say they've changed my mind to the point where i'll personally pick up a new teen muse, i think i definitely understand the idea of it all more

sorry for coming in all judgy and guns blazing. i feel like this has been really informative

(frozen comment) Re: MEME PET PEEVES

[(Anonymous)]

why the hell would there be the remotest expectation that anyone would convince you to play a teen

(frozen comment) ayrt

[(Anonymous)]

oh brother

(frozen comment) Re: MEME PET PEEVES

[(Anonymous)]

“no one is arguing that fictional writings are in any way harming people in real life”

“i do want people to stop sexualizing kids, but that's not going to happen, like you said”

that’s not what your own words imply

no one is questioning it because they scrolled and curated their experience hth

(frozen comment) Re: MEME PET PEEVES

[(Anonymous)]

- teen sex rp is weird
- teen sex rp should stop
- who is teen sex rp for?
- why do people enjoy teen sex rp?
- its weird that im the only person on the platform that find it weird and no one else is raising eyebrows at its prominence (not just in teen hormones meme that barely has ten tags, but across other memes that center around underage content)
- 'dont like / dont read / scroll past / etc' doesnt address the reason of why it exists and why people enjoy it
- no one seems interested in explaining these things
- all that being said, i dont think anyone is inherently evil or anything for writing it, i literally just want to know WHY

(frozen comment) Re: MEME PET PEEVES

[(Anonymous)]

i gave you a potential why and you decided to bury your head in the sand and ignore it.

if this is legit and you aren’t a troll you really need to learn to, and I’m saying this for the millionth time, curate your online experience

(frozen comment) Re: MEME PET PEEVES

[(Anonymous)]

i didn't mean to ignore it; i think what you said as an explanation makes a lot of sense! i should have said that earlier, that's my bad.

if curating you online experience means turning a blind eye to everything i find strange and never asking a question ever... i'm good.

as i've said earlier, i have no problem with scrolling past, i'm not asking the mods to take these memes down, i'm not DMing the people to play on these memes to stop doing what they're doing, nothing like that. in that sense, i'm indeed curating my rp experience and focusing on my own threads. but i also dont see anything wrong with coming to an anon forum and asking about this — i think you're conflating my questioning with the assumption that im over here foaming at the mouth

(frozen comment) Re: MEME PET PEEVES

[(Anonymous)]

anon, just re-read your literal list reply to me and try to tell me again that you aren’t “that im over here foaming at the mouth” and “i'm not asking the mods to take these memes down, i'm not DMing the people to play on these memes to stop doing what they're doing,” you have said multiple times you want people to stop rping this stuff

you also make statements which imply you think people are ignoring a problem.

i find it hard to believe you have completely no self awareness about the tone of your posts.

(frozen comment) Re: MEME PET PEEVES

[(Anonymous)]

da

the reason why people are treating you with hostility and mockery is because you asked a painfully stupid question that appears to be trying to generate fake outrage. you're either an idiot or a troll, and so you're being treated like an idiot troll.

(frozen comment) Re: MEME PET PEEVES

[(Anonymous)]

we've got the (maybe fake) incest meme, the kidnapping meme, the taboo sex meme, aphrodisiac whatever, memes about murder, memes about rape, memes about kidnapping and stockholm syndrome, memes about beating the shit out of one another, and the underage sex is what you're raising an eyebrow about??

here's my take on the 'why' as someone who actually doesn't care for or enjoy writing teenage/high school aged characters - a lot of popular media features teenagers in high school. in plenty of cultures, high school is often a glorified time of our lives, a lot is made about first crushes, first kiss, first everythings, prom, homecoming, nerds and geeks and freaks and jocks. people miss that time in their lives before they were adults with adult worries and burdens and enjoy reliving it through rping teenagers. people also like the explore the teenage brainspace of immaturity + hormones + impulsiveness and what kind of character chemistry that might result.

(frozen comment) Re: MEME PET PEEVES

[(Anonymous)]

tbf i also raise an eyebrow at most of those as well, the underage sex is just the one that i noticed last and wanted to comment on

but i think you make a good point. i think it's easier for me to see something like a murder meme as pure fiction without seeing it as wrong or concerning, but the underage/rape memes feel way more Weird. maybe because murder is more common with like true crime and horror movies? i wouldnt see anything wrong with someone watching the new scream movie, but i'd be super weirded out if someone was telling me how much they liked that cuties movies on netflix

you've given me something to think about...

and your explanation makes a lot of sense! i totally get that.

(frozen comment) Re: MEME PET PEEVES

[(Anonymous)]

you're allowed to think it's weird, but it's socially inept of you to expect other people to conform to your tastes

(frozen comment) Re: MEME PET PEEVES

[(Anonymous)]

this is the answer

(frozen comment) Re: MEME PET PEEVES

[(Anonymous)]

Cuz shipping is fun and sometimes I want to ship or write smut with a character that happens to be a teen. It is not about their age, it is about wanting to see the character in a variety of situations.

It doesn't matter that people do this either. What matters is not hurting real life human beings.

(frozen comment) Re: MEME PET PEEVES

[(Anonymous)]

i cant imagine what else would make someone find teen sex rp appealing

teens are full of hormones and emotions and are still in the process of learning how to regulate both of those things. sex involves both hormones and emotions. it's a recipe for what can be a very emotionally charged situation, especially if they're both doing it for the first time with all of the added weight that entails.

(frozen comment) Re: MEME PET PEEVES

[(Anonymous)]

thank you for explaining, i appreciate it

i feel like both of those things, hormones and emotions, can be explored in ways that don't put kids at the forefront, like an aphro meme, or an emotion changing muffins meme, but i do understand where you're coming from and it makes sense

(frozen comment) Re: MEME PET PEEVES

[(Anonymous)]

I’m someone who is disinterested in writing or reading about fake teens having sex. I don’t have any sort of moral feeling. Teens are going to have sex, the majority of the time with each other and slightly older people, both in reality and in fiction. I’m just not interested because these days I don’t consume much media with characters in that age range, and rarely play them, so it’s never applicable to me.

That said, I think you need to be careful about the word “children”, and question what you mean by that word. A negligible amount of players in DWRP are writing characters under 14. Most of the teen characters are on the older end, and not all of them are having sex, much less explicit sex. Suggesting players are writing “children” can feel hostile and uncharitable.

On top of that, most of those teen characters are from settings where teenagers often have a degree of responsibility, power, and social capital that’s unprecedented for real teens. A lot of them are fighting in wars, hunting supernatural creatures, in kill-or-be-killed scenarios, often with minimal to no adult supervision, if there are adults in their lives at all. This is especially prevalent in a lot of anime, but is true of a lot of western media too. While they may be technically 16, ask yourself: if the character’s age was stated to be 26 all along, would you even notice? What if they were said to be in college instead of high school? For actual “children” characters, who behave like children, you generally couldn’t change a number and have the character still make sense.

And even if a character is truly the most run of the mill high schooler possible and baby faced as hell: it’s still fiction. You don’t have to read it, nor do you have to speculate on the motivations of people writing it. There are virtually no minors in this space, and the ages of the characters involved are incidental 99% of the time, NOT the motivating trait. If anyone here wanted to engage with “pedophilia” with any seriousness or intent to groom, there are many other places on the Internet they could do that. You do not need to jump at shadows here, or think poorly of people when no harm has been done.