One Of The Things I Think About A Lot In The Worm Fanfic Part Of The Community, Is That Someone Once

One of the things I think about a lot in the Worm fanfic part of the community, is that someone once made up the idea that Purity triggered because some minority person mugged her or attacked her.

And a lot of people bought into that, despite:

A.) We know her trigger event. She was trapped after a car crash and nearly starved/dehydrated to death

B.) It’s a classic baby step of white supremacist narrative. “I’m not racist, I just have a traumatic past with X minority group and they made me this way!”

Reminds me of this - at the time - enjoyable series about an male MC who was dealing with the fact that both of his friends (boy and girl) had a crush on him.

Things turned sour for me when the boy was outed as gay to the school and his best friend on the baseball team insults and berates him for trying to act like a “normal kid”.

Later, they friend explains that he’s not homophobic, he’s just dealing with the fact that a family friend assaulted him as a child, so thinks being gay is not normal.

And the narrative supports this!

There’s so many damn things wrong with both scenarios that I don’t even know where to start!

In the context of Worm fandom though, I worry that it’s a sign of how ingrained white supremacist users are in the community, and speaking as someone who’s dealt with kicking them out of forums because they tried to recruit people (or couldn’t hide how much they hated anyone who wasn’t the right shade of light skin), it’s not the only sign.

Not as dramatic as the user who refused to believe Coil was black (because he “talks white”) and threw a tantrum when he was proven wrong, but more insidious for sure because few people in this fandom fact check.