Capitan Devyr

Here's my take. I think what I'm about to say applies to any kind of content creator online. Sorry for the long post. I like Glitch's stuff. I was a little "ehh" on how Digital Circus ended but overall it was good imo. I've been a content creator for a long time, I've seen how nice fans can be and how horrifically mean they can be as well. First—creators of all kind. Me, you, Glitch, game devs, movie studios, etc. ALL of us live and die by our fans. We literally cannot exist without them. You can always just draw for yourself but if you're trying to make a living, you need people to watch, read, think, appreciate and even hate your work. If my time online has taught me anything it's that the internet at large does not care about your feelings—and shouldn't, imo. Fans are going to do whatever they want, regardless of what you the creator may say. Your intentions may be good. You don't want to see people who enjoy your content harass others or be harassed because they have some criticism about your work. You want everyone to be kind and civil because at the end of the day, this is all for entertainment. For fun. It's fiction and it's not real, no need to take it so seriously. But unless you're freakin' Mister Rogers, your words have little to no sway. They may do something purely to spite you and piss you off, because seeing people get mad about something you don't care about is funny sometimes. We cannot control the actions of people who watch our stuff and it's unwise to think we can. At most we can put out a polite general statement, "Please do not harass people in response to our work, whether they praise or criticize it.", but that's about as far as I'd go. We also cannot control our people interpret our work, death of the author and all that jazz. Someone seeing an animation of a guy walking into a tree may see a silly video and laugh while another guy sees it as a criticism of male intelligence or something. If you want to deal with fans who harass you online here are your options: - Ignore them - Mute them - Block them - Report them That's it. Glitch is an animation studio. They cannot police or dictate the actions of their fans. They have little power outside of reporting them themselves or a general statement. Unless Glitch themselves were actively asking fans to harass people (they obviously don't), I really don't see what else they could possibly do. I myself wouldn't expect them to do anything more than that. It's not fair for anyone to get harassed because they like or criticize a piece of media. At the same time it's inevitably going to happen some where. That's about all I got. Nothin' against you, just wanted to put my thoughts out there.