No one had predicted pandemics and lockdowns and hospitals overflowing with bodybags. ![]() People had predicted Trump’s presidency would be bad no one had predicted it would be this apocalyptically bad. This was also during the height of the Pandemic. These vote counts were taking an extended amount of time due to the pandemic causing high numbers of mail-in ballots, resulting in a constant state of Election Day Stress for multiple days straight. The core of the hysteria was that Americans (who make up a huge chunk of tumblr’s userbase) were currently glued to their laptops watching the live presidential election vote counts come in. We were latching onto a “positive “ piece of inane stupid fandom news in a time of great stress, with all the desperation of a drowning man who latches onto whatever piece of wood will keep him afloat. ![]() the first time I learned about any of that context was way later, watching videos where people claimed that fandom history context (that I did not know anything about) was the actual reason for the hysteria.īut the reality is that people latched on to the Destiel stuff because it was a piece of big useless inane zero-stakes fandom news in a time when we were desperately waiting for serious high stakes election news. And while those videos are cool, valid, informational, and make lots of really well-considered interesting points- I can tell you that me and almost all my mutuals had literally no knowledge or interest in the fact that “oh supernatural had made nods at the ship in the past but the creators were adamant that I wouldn’t be canon” or etc etc etc etc. The two biggest Youtubers I’ve seen try to dissect “what happened that November 5th” in video essays both weren’t American- and I think that explains why they both tried to explain the hysteria primarily via analyzing the Supernatural fandom/the original show, rather than through the lens of the election. ![]() As someone who has never been in the supernatural fandom ever but dID join in on the hysterical destielposting-it was really more about the stress of the pandemic and the 2020 presidential election. People who try to analyze what happened on Tumblr on November 5th, 2020, often really overstate how much it was actually “about” Supernatural.
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