Braindead shipers with headcanons are part of every fandom. Some are just bad, some completely retarded(yes, MHA, I’m talking about you)
ninjad912 on
All media. Doubly so for anime. Another show specifically known for it is bungo stray dogs.
CyanLight9 on
This can happen in any media.
MaintenanceWooden851 on
Damm
gunmunz on
Touhou, mainly cause there’s only one guy who’s alive, seen, and named (as in beyond just ‘The [descriptor] Man’) . And he’s not even part of the main series.
drekaelric on
This reminded me to Genshin impact shippers
Retsam19 on
I think this is basically any media that gets a significant female fandom.
Fanfic writing has always been a staple of female fandom (AO3, the biggest fanfiction site has done demographic surveys and about 5% were cisgender males, ranking as the 4th most common gender identity behind nonbinary and transgender)
… and shipping characters together basically at random, with no regard for canonical orientation is a fanfiction staple.
Flemlius on
The female to male ratio of interesting characters is like 10:1, how are you surprised that there’s a lot of lesbian ships? Also in RWBYs case specifically, the girls actually have good relations with each other.
Ruby especially has lots of interactions with Weiß and is openly very endearing with Penny.
Yang and Neo are set up as rivals, but to a shipping fandom it is an obvious starting point.
I don’t even have to talk about Blake and Yang since they are a thing in the show itself (at least afaik).
It’s not like there’s no straight ships either. I would never forget about Pyrrha and Jaune, Nora and Ren also started in a relationship. (Can’t remember how that one evolved.)
As one final note, the shipping fandom itself is also shaped by the times when there just wasn’t any official queer representation. Straight people on the other hand will never not see themselves represented on screen in this way.
Deruta on
I mean… Kirk x Spock fanfic kinda started “fandom” as we know it back in 1974.
AntiHeroSora on
There’s only one confirmed gay couple in RWBY, but it also doesn’t help when the majority of the characters are female so there’s very little pairings for the shippers to do that aren’t gay
Mac_Tgh on
Inside out at least for me (and seemingly on the internet too). Riley in the second movie is a “you know what? Screw the Chinese market” decision away from being a lesbian protagonist or at least bisexual. But hey, Disney is Disney.
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Braindead shipers with headcanons are part of every fandom. Some are just bad, some completely retarded(yes, MHA, I’m talking about you)
All media. Doubly so for anime. Another show specifically known for it is bungo stray dogs.
This can happen in any media.
Damm
Touhou, mainly cause there’s only one guy who’s alive, seen, and named (as in beyond just ‘The [descriptor] Man’) . And he’s not even part of the main series.
This reminded me to Genshin impact shippers
I think this is basically any media that gets a significant female fandom.
Fanfic writing has always been a staple of female fandom (AO3, the biggest fanfiction site has done demographic surveys and about 5% were cisgender males, ranking as the 4th most common gender identity behind nonbinary and transgender)
… and shipping characters together basically at random, with no regard for canonical orientation is a fanfiction staple.
The female to male ratio of interesting characters is like 10:1, how are you surprised that there’s a lot of lesbian ships? Also in RWBYs case specifically, the girls actually have good relations with each other.
Ruby especially has lots of interactions with Weiß and is openly very endearing with Penny.
Yang and Neo are set up as rivals, but to a shipping fandom it is an obvious starting point.
I don’t even have to talk about Blake and Yang since they are a thing in the show itself (at least afaik).
It’s not like there’s no straight ships either. I would never forget about Pyrrha and Jaune, Nora and Ren also started in a relationship. (Can’t remember how that one evolved.)
As one final note, the shipping fandom itself is also shaped by the times when there just wasn’t any official queer representation. Straight people on the other hand will never not see themselves represented on screen in this way.
I mean… Kirk x Spock fanfic kinda started “fandom” as we know it back in 1974.
There’s only one confirmed gay couple in RWBY, but it also doesn’t help when the majority of the characters are female so there’s very little pairings for the shippers to do that aren’t gay
Inside out at least for me (and seemingly on the internet too). Riley in the second movie is a “you know what? Screw the Chinese market” decision away from being a lesbian protagonist or at least bisexual. But hey, Disney is Disney.