Thought I should also post the longer explanation on why I include the "Please don’t comment things like “I miss them”, “Fuck Mappa”, etc" disclaimer in all my YOI art:

Some of y’all probably find it annoying and I don’t like doing it myself, but I felt it was necessary after getting a decent number of similar comments (mostly in Tumblr tags but it also happened during my short stay on Bluesky) and I think I should explain why a lot of us aren’t very happy with those kinds of comments.

I know it’s disappointing not to get a movie, a sequel or any kind of canon expansion of a work of fiction that makes us so happy and means so much to us. But someone else’s art/fanfic/etc is not the place to vent your sadness and/or your anger at an animation studio, especially if you don’t know if that person is okay with such comments.

It seems fandoms have become very consumerist nowadays, people devour a series as soon as it comes out, maybe engage with it for a short while and then move on as soon as there’s no more canon content to consume and consider it “dead” and talk about it as if it was lost media or something. The most common comment I get on my YOI art is “I miss them ):”, and I know it’s not your intention, but when you comment such things on someone else’s fan creation, you’re sending them the message that what they do doesn’t matter. I’ve even had one comment that was “I miss this fandom”. A comment about missing the fandom, on a piece of fanart made by a fan that belongs to the fandom, and is making fanart out of love for the series and sharing it with other fans that also belong to the fandom. Insert “Quit telling everyone I’m dead!” meme. Also all stories officially come to an end at some point, that doesn’t mean they’re gone, you can rewatch/reread them as many times as you want, the characters are still there.

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