ocpdzim:
txttletale:
txttletale:
the fluffiest most ‘wholesome’ fic about a real living human teenager with a high likelihood of seeing it is 100 times more harmful and ethically fucked than the nastiest most taboo thing you can imagine being written about fictional teens and i wish people would talk about that more tbh
like 99% of “rpf” is literally just sexual harassment!
i get so sick and tired of seeing people defend rpf as “just fiction” because op is right it literally isn’t. i don’t wanna go into excess detail about it bc i worry it could be too identifiable and even now almost 10 years later i am still terrified of those fuckers finding me, but when i was a teenager i was sort of a microcelebrity on an online game and had to deal w rpf being written about me and it was very traumatizing. around 7 different people, including both other teens and full grown adults, were writing “fanfic” and drawing “fanart” about me and 2 other people, one of them an adult who had been abusing me and the other an even younger family member. even more people were cheering these pieces of shit on. they claimed it wasn’t harassment and that they were doing it because they liked me and the other 2 people they were writing their garbage about, but it was harassment whether they meant it that way or not and made it harder to break away from the aforementioned abuser. i pretty much scrubbed and remade my online presence from the ground up afterwards.
and i don’t care if your victim is an actual celebrity, they still have internet access and could come across your rpf. in fact, actual celebrity victims have come out and spoke about it being traumatizing for them too and damaging their relationships - their fame doesn’t protect them from the damage and if anything i wouldn’t be surprised if it makes them more vulnerable. it is not ok.
rpf people - please think about the impact of your actions for one minute. its not too late to stop doing that and find a fictional character to write about instead. or even just continue your bullshit but not post it online and enjoy it in private where there’s 0 chance of the person it’s about ever seeing it and being hurt by it.
