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Content Warning: Mentioned SA/rape, incest, abuse, trafficking, etc.
I wish people were nicer. I wish people thought before they spoke. A lot of people don't know how much the things you post and talk about do affect the people beyond the screen. What I'm thinking about specifically when I say this are 'darkshippers', or whatever they're called nowadays. I'll be referring to them as proshippers in this post, just for the sake of consistency. That's what most people know them as.
Their go-to excuse is "it's just fiction, fiction doesn't affect reality". But fiction does affect reality. A lot. Recently, on Twitter, I saw that someone posted a screenshot of a real sex trafficking victim talking about how proshippers normalizing things like trafficking, SA, abuse, etc. negatively affects real victims, because of how watered down those terms have become. By romanticizing these topics, they downplay the fact that real people live this every day.
While that post - The screenshot, at least - was correct, the poster was not. They posted it on April 1st, and the poster is a proshipper themselves. They were essentially making fun of this real victim to play it off as a joke and mock them.
It's disheartening to see people make such cruel and heartless jokes, as a victim of abuse and SA myself. I hope that someday, people will realize how horrible things actually are, and maybe gain a bit of empathy.