Yup, it was. For all that she is (or was) one of the chillest characters in the show, her shippers in both flavors are single-handedly the worst cancer I've had the displeasure of dealing with in the past 3 years running. Bronies at their most virulent had nothing on this.
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So this character is at the least widely seen as gay by the fans? Doesn't seem all that odd to think her bike leaving a rainbow trail is a nod to that.
Lets just say that bumblebee shippers and its counters were never really, strong in restraint
to say nothing of facebook fandoms in itself
More like, the character she is being shipped with has an equally prevalent heterosexual ship, which leads to no ends of debate on whether either or both of them is gay or not.
Well, "debate" is too kind a word. "Shitflinging" would be more accurate.
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At least in Facebook people have the relative restraint of being forced to post through an account they associate with themselves, if they haven't been directly forced to use their real name. I don't even want to imagine how cancerous the same people would be unleashed elsewhere.
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The ancient conflict of shipping your catgirl with a monkey or a robot
truly the struggles of a new age
So, I'm doing another cover with the same artist for the Lion King/Camelot/Vortigern one, and was wonder what y'all think of this:
Namely, the character placement. Too much?
You're right, I can't imagine why people who are possibly LGBTQ+ would care about a character also being LGBTQ+.
I also think that if your problem is with the shitflinging, maybe your annoyance would be better served being pointed at either the shitflinging itself or the actual root cause - shipping -, instead of at something being used as a LGBTQ+ symbol (among other things) since, what, the eighties?
Sigh.
No, Spoony. The answer is no.
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That'd be harder to do spoony my guy
then again, seems in this case its rather stupid to start shitflinging for seeing a rainbow in a 'cute-i-fied' spin off show
Annoyance at the existence of idiots is a given, which is why I chose to focus on something more interesting, i.e. the status of the rainbow as a symbol in today's popular mindset.
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And to answer your previous question, the LGBT people in the group are usually the first to call bullshit on the shippers' various diatribes on why the pairing they favor is "CANON". So no, it's really shitflingers and not 'oppressed minorities' who typically start this shit.
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Woo I fly out to Japan tomorrow
Let's fucking goooooo
I have no idea. But it probably means something.
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