I don't think I've ever been so turned off of a popular franchise as much as I have in regards to Kingdom Hearts. I first heard about it when I started highschool back in 2007( we didn't have a middle school in my neighborhood it was elementary school and then straight to highschool) because of the group of girls I had art class with.
They were your typical loud, obnoxious middle school super weeaboo girls who were addicted to yaoi, calling each other baka & chan & kawaii, Naruto running, Starbucks, and Twilight -in other words nauseating.
They latched onto me because I drew and was half decent at it, always bothered me for free drawings, which I often refused unless it was their birthday, and only drew their favourite character doing something sfw.
It's been literally 11 years until I could sit myself through someone playing this game because listening to those girls high-pitched shrieking of all the pairings they had for Roxas&Sora with every male character pushed me further away from it. The worst of it being when one kept showing me their explicit yaoi porn of Sora with Goofy and how pissed they got when someone mentioned Kairi being his love interest and not one of the many male characters- cue the manic OTP yaoi rage with hysterical crying.
I can honestly tell you, not one of these girls had any interests in recognizing the plight of the lgbtqa+ community either -they just thought homosexual relationships were a huge turn-on and openly talked about how if they could get with those characters they'd have threesomes to make them all straight and have harem upon harems of fictional guys they "fixed"
And yeah, they "shipped" real guys too. It left a lot of the students in their classes uncomfortable when these girls walked up to those guys saying how they could imagine them getting fucked by their brother or best friend. It caused a handful to be bullied by their friends and put those who weren't ready to come out in mortifying positions. I know this because these people would plead with me to get these girls to leave them the fuck alone and there wasn't much I could say or do because those girls would burst into tears and accuse me of bullying them.
One bitch even followed one of the guys all the way back to his house.
I respect and encourage people to find themselves, their gender, and love who they want to love.
You go by "him", "hir", "zi", "her", "them", or "they"? Respected and noted to refer to you by your pronoun.
Masculine representing and you're head over heals for a transgirl- awesome go get that coffee date and tell me how it goes I believe in you! Love is beautiful!
But I will NEVER respect or partake in the fetishizing of a gender or orientation. You're not little objects to push make believe objectives on, you don't deserve to be overly sexualized, you don't deserve to have your life treated like an accessory and invalidated like that.
It's beyond annoying and it ruins things for everyone.