What happened???
Basically, FrukMeRunning (Rayanne) made an Instagram story talking about how it's inherently racist to assume all of the Asian characters in Hetalia are related, specifically mentioned Nichu (JapanxChina) as an example of a ship that she doesn't think is incest.
People saw this post and immediately and incorrectly assumed that she shipped Nichu; because of this, tons of people began sending her hate messages (telling her to commit suicide, calling her a pedophile/incest supporter, etc). Eventually, somebody ended up doxxing her, and she deleted all of her social media accounts.
Once she deleted her accounts, some of the people who had initially attacked her went "Oops! Sorry, turns out she's not a proshipper! My bad!" and began to aggressively market Rayannes Redbubble, assuming that it would be enough to make up for what they did.
I'm usually not one to post about controversies (even when I made a post or two about the infamous blocklist, I ended up deleting them because I don't want my social media accounts to be associated with those things), but this particular case is just so infuriating to me.
Rayanne is an incredible artist and person, and she was wrongfully bullied off of her platforms for LITERALLY NO REASON AT ALL. She didn't even ship Nichu! And even then, let's assume for a minute that she did ship it:
oh my god you guys. who fucking cares
Who fucking cares if someone ships two fictional characters? THEY ARENT REAL. You can't use somebody shipping something you don't like as an excuse to send them death threats? What the fuck is wrong with you guys? How rotted does your brain have to be to make you think thats at okay in any scenario? People were telling her to commit suicide and then acting like they were some sort of hero.
The worst part is that the people who did it to her will face absolutely zero consequences whatsoever. I KNOW they won't, because some of the people who harassed her are making posts on Twitter just saying "Oops, I feel bad! Buy from her Redbubble!", and their followers are replying like "omg it's ok! take care of urself!🥺", completely ignoring the magnitude of what the person did. She got doxxed. Nobody involved in the harassment deserves to be so easily forgiven. This isn't a case of "we accidentally hurt someone's feelings!", it's a case of "we greatly misunderstood and overreacted to a situation and ended up essentially ruining someone's life!".
If any of the people involved in the harrassment are reading this, I say this from the bottom of my heart: truly, sincerely, go fuck yourself. Go outside and realize what it's like to be a rational human being again.
