By “purity culture”, I mean this recent idea that if you like [insert character that is villainous or has [insert bad belief] here] that you are secretly a horrible person, agree with their actions, or have the same beliefs as them.

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    13 days ago

    That’s bizarre because I’ve never seen or experienced this myself. Maybe it depends on the platform in use?

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      13 days ago

      Probably. It’s a Tumblr and Twitter phenomenon with some of it leaking to YouTube. But where it is it’s absolutely fierce.

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        13 days ago

        Ahhh, that explains it then. I never got into either of those.