Because of the stronger language used on dial0fortheoperator, the nature of Tumblr and its social justice crowd, and the sensitivity of this issue in general, reader discretion is advised. Please keep an open mind while reading this, and please understand that I was extremely angry at the time of posting it. This only reflects my opinion of the type of social justice warriors (SJWs) that go around screaming "bigot" at anyone who even remotely disagrees with them, as was happening here and is per usual for Tumblr, and why they are a problem. If you feel you will be upset by that, or disagree when I say that I feel SJWs are ruining social justice and equality for everyone, then you're completely free to leave.
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Oh my God is this shit actually fucking happening?
Are you actually fucking serious right now SJWs?
How about instead of jumping to the same bullshit conclusion that you always do about how everyone who dislikes something that just so happens to have LGBTQA+ characters in it only dislikes it because they are homophobic, how about you try actually thinking once in a goddamned while? How about you try putting aside your fucking feels for five seconds and look at the real issue at hand here - namely that Porcelain Spiders is completely copying a Slendervlog wholecloth, adding little to nothing new, not even telling their own goddamned story, and they’re doing it all (to my knowledge) without the original creators’ permission?
Let’s get this shit straight right the fuck now, SJWs, because you keep making the same bullshit assumptions over and over and that means you clearly need to be bonked in the head with the definition stick again: It is not homophobia to dislike something that is an unoriginal remake because it is an unoriginal remake except now the characters are all gay. It is homophobia to dislike something solely because there are gays in it. Do you see the subtle. Fucking. Distinction here, SJWs? Because I couldn’t make it any more fucking blatant if I colored it in with pink fucking highlighter and had neon yellow flashing arrows pointing right the fuck at it.
Now personally, I could not care any less about this series; I do not follow Porcelain Spiders, nor do I want to because Marble Hornets already tells that story, and tells it way better than some remake ever could. I absolutely do not have an issue with any of the people acting in Porcelain Spiders, and couldn’t if I tried, because I don’t know them and I do not believe in judging people I don’t know anything about. And at first, I was kinda hyped about the idea behind this series. When it was announced, I went like, “Hey, more female and LGBTQA+ representation in the Slenderverse, that’s pretty damn cool”. It would be nice to have a few more series take that angle, and a couple already do - my own (finished) series WalkingWithGiants87 has an all female cast, and the cast of KeratinGarden is not only all-female, but also includes non-white females. So yes, I am all for more representation in the Slenderverse because representation is pretty fucking awesome. So my issue with Porcelain Spiders is 110% not about the fact that it has LGBTQA+ females as the protags.
My issue is solely with the copying.
See, what turned me off to the idea of Porcelain Spiders almost instantaneously is the fact that it literally is just a 100% remake. It literally adds nothing new, it literally doesn’t tell an original story, it just leeches off the success of a previous series. Now if Porcelain Spiders had a story that was even remotely unique, whether LGBTQA+ issues were brought up in it or not, then it wouldn’t have been an issue. But no, literally, the creators of Porcelain Spiders said they wanted to “Explore what [Marble Hornets] would be like if the protagonist’s identities were different.” You can find that statement literally right on the original Tumblr post that announced its start-up. Literally, the only thing they changed was the gender identity, sex, and orientation of the characters, but that does not make the series different or unique. What it does make it (and I mean this in the nicest possible way because I personally have no issue with this particular trope) is a Genderbent!Marble Hornets AU, and not even a very good one at that - not its own coherent series that rises above the ranks and challenges the popular “White straight male deals with Slenderman” formula that many Slendervlogs use. And perhaps most insidious of all is that, in the process of copying Marble Hornets, Porcelain Spiders says that if Jay, Alex, Tim, and all the rest were female and lesbians, the story would somehow have been “different” for them than if they were straight males. As if females and gays literally can’t have the same experience with fear and emotional pain that a straight male might. If you can’t see how that’s both a) homophobic, and b) misogynist, then you need to take your Tumblr Hivemind blinders off and think for yourself for fucking once. Because I can 100% guarantee you that everybody feels and experiences the emotion of fear in roughly the same way even if they express it in different ways, and that has absolutely fuckall to do with gender identity or sexual orientation.
tl;dr - People don’t dislike Porcelain Spiders because of the gays or because of the women. People dislike Porcelain Spiders because it’s a cheap knockoff of a series that really didn’t need to be remade, except this time there’s women and gays being exploited for the sake of “Oh but it’s different for them!” Do I sound angry at and offended by those two things? I am.