The only thing I can come up with is because our society is romance and sex obsessed. And it shows in many many mediums.
I honestly don't know why people take it to such extremes as Shipping Wars, Het Is Ew, and a few other tropes displaying shipping toxicity.
I suspect people like using character shipping as scapegoats to make their own dream relationships happen.
The fact that only 140 characters are allowed here is honestly so disappointing to me.
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, yeah that's part of it.
to be honest i've never gotten it myself, i don't really see fictional characters as outlets for my own romantic desires or anything. it's even more puzzling in series where the romance is not even the focus or just non-existent.
The only time i ever get attached to character relationships is when I care about both characters individually, which is just me being invested in a work in general, and not really anything to do with the "shipping" mentality.
the whole thing is just kinda weird in how obsessive it can get.
I dunno, maybe they are virgins who can't find a true pairing in real life, or maybe they are just obssesed with romance even in a "No Hugging No Kissing" franchise, or maybe they just are bored and they couldn't found something more interesting, or maybe they are just reflecting their own real life existing pairing (yeah, I know people who do this, they already have a real life (wo)man and stil they love ship two characters because those characters remind him/her real life relationship), or maybe they are just covered on tree sap, or maybe they are a bunch of Trolls.......... .. .. .. To be fair, there is a lot of reasons I can think.
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Because we're all human (probably), and humans make lovey-lovey, and take said lovey-lovey seriously.
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I didn't see a topic about this, so I decided to make this; feel free to redirect me if a similar topic exists.
So something I've noticed in the various fandoms, but why do people get so emotionally invested in the pairing of two characters? I can understand getting attached to a certain pairing because even I'm guilty of this too, but I know a lot of you have noticed that fans take it to toxic and obnoxious levels.
Can someone please explain this to me? Anyone who may have experienced it at some point?
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