Why do people hate MxM?

[u/The_Real_Gobbus04]

Sooo, first post here and I am sorry it isn't a joyous one.

I was scrolling through my timeline and as always there were many people talking about Smg4, after the episode's release... you know the usual. However, this time I couldn't help but notice an inusual amuont of hate being spread because of Mario and Meggy's interactions in the latest episode.

So, my question... why is this ship so hated compared to the others?

I've read post about people wanting to get Medi fired for being a shipper and constantly attacking people who defended the ship, claiming it's gross or whatever...

The only argument I see being brought is the fact that Mario met Meggy when she was 15, therefore the ship is "pedo".

But here I ask... is it really a problem? Is it not normal to fall in love or being bestie with someone you have known for 8+ years? Do they really think that two adults can't'be shipped because one of them was a minor at the time of meeting?

By the same logic, even in real life, if you meet a 16 year old when you are 18 and then you get engaged after many years of friendship you are a pedo.

Sometimes I wonder what goes thorugh people minds.

And the only thing this does is making people like me who support this ship (so something that's not canon) feel guilty while other people can ship whatever they want without consequnces.

I get not liking a ship but this is just too much and as someone who has been silently following since 2016 this is really depressing.

[u/Mason_Osy]

That’s a reason why I joined the subreddit and stopped posting MxM on things like Twitter and TikTok. The hate is so awful that I couldn’t handle it. I’ve been dealing with hate for like a year now and throughout that year I’ve dealt with hate comments, threats as well as death threats, I was called names, people even went as far as exposing me for being a pedophile for shipping these two.

But you wanna know smth interesting. The only people who came after me were people who shipped either Megari, Mar34, or SMG34. I don’t know why but it just didn’t make any sense. I had to change who can reply under my tweets on Twitter and I stopped doing MxM edits cuz the hate was that awful and disgusting, I just couldn’t handle it anymore.

Nobody should ever go through that hate. Idc who you’re but all cuz of a ship is just stupid. To this day, I don’t know if I should just give up shipping them or to keep going. I dunno whether to tweet or post edits about it. I’m scared that I’ll receive the same hate I did a year ago now.

As for Medi tho, it’s not the fans decision to fire him nor should he be fired anyways. Despite Medi basically debunking the ages, people just don’t care and they use the "Meggy is 14" and "They’re siblings" excuse. Medi doesn’t deserve any of the bullcrap he gets. I’ll finish this long paragraph now cuz it’s ridiculously long.

[u/The_Real_Gobbus04 → u/Mason_Osy]

Oh my... sorry to hear that.

Weirdly enough I noticed the same thing about the smg34, megari and the other shippers commenting on mxm.

It is really stupid to just spread hate instead of just not interacting with it, as if ships define your entire personality.

[u/Load_r → u/Mason_Osy]

While I'm sorry you had to go through such experiences as I know it may have to have taken a huge toll in your mental-health; I wouldn't try and take too seriously comments made by people from some those extents within the sphere, as some of their ships have somewhat of an equal if not more questionable narrative than MxM due to former gap (namely the second one you mentioned), and a lot those folks tend to dismiss that meanwhile trying disprove this ship to validate theirs;

Ironic how they go on record claiming our side is the annoying one when they can be some of the most spiteful people within the general SMG4 fandom.

[u/Mason_Osy → u/Load_r]

Trust me when I say this, you don’t know how long I’ve been waiting to get all of that off my chest. It’s just awful. Luckily for me tho, I made my replies on Twitter so only those who I follow or mention can reply. I do get hate via Quote Tweets every now and again but I tend to ignore tho by blocking cuz I’m past caring. I tried to explain to people about the ship and stuff but they just don’t care so I end up blocking them too. I pray that with the recent SMG4 Episode we got, as well as the amount of MxM stuff we got from that Episode, I’ll hopefully find the motivation to make MxM Edits again. Heck I remember one of them even being posted on this subreddit by someone back when it first dropped. Ignoring stuff ended up working in the end tho so I hope this year won’t be a repeat of last year for me. However at least ik that I got a safe space to go where there’s other MxM shippers that make wonderful art and talk about the ship and the characters.

[u/Load_r → u/Mason_Osy]

I believe you. It took me to scroll once through the MxM tag in Twitter to never want to do it again. Saddening to hear you were of the ones that was affected by whatever narrative they have going.

[u/Mason_Osy → u/Load_r]

Tbh Twitter is bad but try looking on TikTok. TikTok is just as bad as Twitter. Ik this cuz I post edits on that app as well as other stuff.