So, when your fandom object fails fans as hard as Scott has done, where does that leave the people in the fandom? At the end of the day, fans don’t know these celebrities and they really don’t know their fans. They can’t care about fans the way that these fans may need them to. That means, in some cases, a celebrity won’t (or can’t) turn around and offer sincere or meaningful solutions to a bad situation. It unfortunately means fans should take care of each other as best as they can — celebrities and the corporations powering them aren’t willing or able to take care of fans the way they ultimately deserve. white and purple af1 their own insecurities, and private experiences that the average person might just keep to themselves or at the very least, not feel obligated to speak publicly about on a global stage. And as with the most recent announcement from Channing and Jenna, that type of sharing is not always met with positivity and support. Sometimes, it's met with higher expectations.Instagram contentView on InstagramTwitter contentView on Twitter white and purple af1 While it’s expected for fans to act as cheerleaders for celebrity couples and feel a level of sadness when high profile relationships end, the reactions to Hollywood heartbreaks from disappointed fans often include some predictable ultimatums: “If they can’t make it, no one can!” But these proclamations often gloss over the reality that celebrities are real people too. As anyone who has gone through a breakup knows, heartbreak can be difficult to process, let alone in the public eye. And it's perhaps a bit much putting the fate of love as we know it on two stars as they wade through the emotions, turmoil, and anguish that a breakup can bring. white and purple af1 Generally, any storyline that refuses to define characters’ sexualities while teasing the idea of representation is queerbaiting. The previous controversy was of the traditional variety, where a same-sex pairing is written with same romantic beats as any other canon couple, but without any fruition because they are both canonically straight. So while Sterek (the ship of Derek Hale and Stiles Stilinski) fans have plenty of reasons to be heated, Jackson’s bi-erasure is a much more insidious type of queerbaiting, especially considering that there’s foreshadowing as early as Season 2 that Jackson’s sexuality was more complex than it seemed. white and purple af1
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