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I love this fandom, but I do not love this fandom lmao

People can be so toxic, and it’s always about ships. Obviously, this isn’t exclusive to the Invader Zim fandom, but I see it a lot here. A lot. It’s made so many people leave the platform because of the unnecessary discourse. So many artists have been bullied off of Tumblr or this hell-fandom has made people dislike their IZ interest in general, anymore. Just let people make art, man. They aren’t hurting anyone.

I also find it a bit odd that it’s always ZADR getting hate on. Any ship involving Zim, really. Why don’t people put the same energy into TAGR? (To clarify; I don’t think either ship should be hated on. I just find it rather odd that I really only see ZADR trashed.) People will always try to make the argument, “Well, Dib is a child. Zim isn’t.” Who says? Jhonen? The known troll? I don’t take his word for fact, to be honest.

It’s pretty obvious in the series (show, comics, and movie) that Zim is portrayed to be child-like. It would be weird (and not the type of fun-weird that’s regularly in the series) if he was an adult. It wouldn’t make much sense. Leave the funny little spacebug be.

I don’t know, it just majorly irks me (pun half intended). Sorry for the little rant.

Edit after months: Also, there is an old magazine that stated Zim is a child. Behold.

To the antis of the Invader Zim fandom

Anyone who’s 14 and under and is an anti dosen’t have to read this part. Listen, you all should be ashamed of yourselves, imagine teaching children that if you ship two fictional characters together that they should go die. Now I’m not giving the younger antis a hard time bc they’re YOUNG and the older antis are manipulating them. if you hate ships hate them, if you love ships love them. But when you tell other people to die over a fucking FICTIONAL ship that won’t even become canon in the franchise that’s when it becomes a problem. You guys want to talk shit and then not listen to a single word on what anyone else has to say, you know that Jhonen is messing with you guys right? Like yes Zim is 160 in Earth years but in irk years he’s SIXTEEN. Also with the logic that Zim is an adult he’s abusing Dib, it’s child abuse. “B-but OP!!! It’s fiction!1!1!1!1!!” if that’s your immediate response then you just proved your shit wrong. You can still hate ships with irkens and humans but that dosen’t mean you have to force your shit down other people’s throats, but how about if you’re seeing ZaDr/ZaGr/whatever on your feed? Well then stop looking at those posts, stop following people who make those posts and keep to yourself. Sorry but this shit needs to be said, I lost a whole group of friends bc I shipped ZaDr and honestly I don’t care about that anymore, we couldn’t put our differences aside and we fell apart.

And as for the kids, it’s not right to tell people to die over a fictional ship or anything fictional in general. Please treat people with kindness even though you don’t ship ZaDr, or TaGr, or ZaGr, this goes for any fandom in general.

Moral of the story, stop getting pent up over shit you can fucking avoid, it’s the internet.