On image boorus, you can almost hear the moderators heave a deep sigh every time it comes up. Because - there’s decades of fanart, all tagged male. Quite a friggin’ lot of it has unironic comments going A: ‘What a cute girl!’ B: ‘How do you feel about surprises?’, back when person A was objectively incorrect. Do you retag all those pictures as female, even when it’s a screenshot of Bridget telling someone ‘I am a dude?’ How do you handle the “genderswap” tag? Do you disambiguate the pre-Strive and post-Strive versions, like the eight different Ashes Ketchum, or the fewer-than-you’d-think Links?
Underlining the issue - everyone hears about Testament and just goes ‘oh.’
On image boorus, you can almost hear the moderators heave a deep sigh every time it comes up. Because - there’s decades of fanart, all tagged male. Quite a friggin’ lot of it has unironic comments going A: ‘What a cute girl!’ B: ‘How do you feel about surprises?’, back when person A was objectively incorrect. Do you retag all those pictures as female, even when it’s a screenshot of Bridget telling someone ‘I am a dude?’ How do you handle the “genderswap” tag? Do you disambiguate the pre-Strive and post-Strive versions, like the eight different Ashes Ketchum, or the fewer-than-you’d-think Links?
Underlining the issue - everyone hears about Testament and just goes ‘oh.’
There’s clearly a difference between fanart, and an article meant to inform people.