An unpleasant reminder:

If you block all the Black people that are frequently critical of "minor" and major antiblackness in a piece of media, from a celebrity, or in a fandom only to turn around and say that "no real black people in our fandom care about this"

You're an ass.

Because you're curating critical Black fans right out of the fandom and making it so that the only "real" Black fans are the ones who'll let everything slide and come up with excuses upon excuses as to why things can't be antiblack and your fandom is FINE.

If you only listen to Black fans - in the Star Wars fandom, who are part of ARMY, in slash shipping fandom spaces - who make a point of their fannish experience to shut down other Black fans uncomfortable with what they see as antiblackness at any point... You're not an ally.

There are so many people who I've never once interacted with across a whole host of different fandoms who have me blocked specifically because I am critical of antiblackness from their favorite celebs or in their fandom...

And they'll be like "No Black fan actually cares"

Wrong

The Black fans that DO care about antiblackness in their fandoms get ignored, silenced, blockchained, harassed, and forced to lock their accounts for talking about it and so the Black fans you see "not caring" are left to represent Blackness in your fandom spaces.

It's not that "real" Black fans - of comics, of Korean hip hop, of Star Wars, of BTS - don't care about antiblackness in these spaces/from these things -

But that your fandoms have decided which Black opinions matter and to minimize the critical ones/fans.

I don't feel entitled to other people's time or to them seeing me on their timelines, but it is incredibly frustrating to see people literally decide to block ANY black fan that's even a tiny bit critical of fandom or a celebrity or a piece of media -

While holding up their PickMes in the fandom (who have a reason not to critique the thing, they see how y'all handle critique & critical Black fans) as an example of what real fans look/behave like and why Those Black Fans Talking About Antiblackness couldn't be/aren't real fans

I don't care why someone might have me blocked on main, lord knows I block people for all kinds of nonsense on there -

But I do care when I see people I know have blocked every single vocal Black person in their fandom that's expressed a critical thought about fandom...