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Jul. 17th, 2022 07:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kiriel123I am so SO tired of seeing anything about Stranger Things. I muted it on social media which has helped, but sometimes people just refer to characters and don't use the name of the show so some of it still gets through.
I literally didn't know anything about this show before the latest season except it's set in the 80s and there are aliens and one of the characters really likes waffles, and that was it, until suddenly a new Stranger Things meme pops up where people are tattooing numbers on their wrists. And I was like what the fuuuuuuck is going on with Stranger Things, and apparently the latest season was filmed in a concentration camp (because why not??) and Netflix partnered with AirBnB to offer people the opportunity to purchase a night in a cell in the concentration camp where people were tortured and died so they can get the "Stranger Things" experience ( because WHY NOT!!!)
And I've only seen two people address this in the fandom (I'm purposefully not seeking out content for it so could be more I don't know), and it's just so frustrating. Yes, let people like what they like, but when it's something that actually happened to real people who still feel consequences to this day maybe think critically about what you're watching and what is appropriate!!
This isn't limited to just Stranger Things - people do this in all sorts of fandoms, like the Handmaid's Tale off the top of my head. And it's like, ok watch the show if you want, but if you feel the urge to tattoo your arm with a concentration camp identifier or wear a hooded costume from a show to a protest against rolling back abortion rights consider that what you're aping is a real horror that happened to real people, and then just don't
I literally didn't know anything about this show before the latest season except it's set in the 80s and there are aliens and one of the characters really likes waffles, and that was it, until suddenly a new Stranger Things meme pops up where people are tattooing numbers on their wrists. And I was like what the fuuuuuuck is going on with Stranger Things, and apparently the latest season was filmed in a concentration camp (because why not??) and Netflix partnered with AirBnB to offer people the opportunity to purchase a night in a cell in the concentration camp where people were tortured and died so they can get the "Stranger Things" experience ( because WHY NOT!!!)
And I've only seen two people address this in the fandom (I'm purposefully not seeking out content for it so could be more I don't know), and it's just so frustrating. Yes, let people like what they like, but when it's something that actually happened to real people who still feel consequences to this day maybe think critically about what you're watching and what is appropriate!!
This isn't limited to just Stranger Things - people do this in all sorts of fandoms, like the Handmaid's Tale off the top of my head. And it's like, ok watch the show if you want, but if you feel the urge to tattoo your arm with a concentration camp identifier or wear a hooded costume from a show to a protest against rolling back abortion rights consider that what you're aping is a real horror that happened to real people, and then just don't
