The reason why fangirls ship "everyone"

People complain a lot about shippers but I think what they do is relatively harmless, unless it's directed at real people.

yes it is harmless but i feel like its more of a matter of preference more than anything. others like to look at characters interacting in a non-romantic (only friendly) way rather than have them associated w each other. this also brings the fact that shippers overanalyze every single detail to the point that they think the whole show revolves around their ship. maybe not all shippers are like this but i understand why ppl hate them and find them annoying tbh.

Those ships aren't exactly harmless, since sangwoo and Bum's relationship was terrible and abusive and Ciel is a literal child??

I don't mind shipping, since when done with common sense, it's literally harmless. They're not really shipping the characters (when it comes to shipping they're rarely ever shipping the actual characters) but an idea of a relationship.

What I meant was people shipping characters that have actual romantic potential without becoming toxic and emotional chemistry. I think it's harmless fun and people complaining about it doesn't make sense to me.

I mean. I guess that's fair?

I personally think it's more of a matter of the author not fully understanding the character's potential since a lot of shonen series have the female love interest and the male lead ending up together and completely ignoring the best friend when we've hardly seen an interaction between the girl and the boy and it's the age old usage of "girl meets boy" instead of making any actual emotional attatchment between the two characters other than "She's my designated love interest and so I'm obligated to get mad if she gets hurt" which honestly makes everyone hate the relationship and possibly even the girl.

I don't mind if the author doesn't ever have a relationship happen between two male characters, and that's usually not what people want. There are people who complain about two guy characters when one or both of them are bad people or just not a good match for each other. But what makes me annoyed more than fangirls shipping is when an author cannot thinks that just because their plot might be interesting, it means they can neglect their character development and interactions.

Essentially what I'm saying is that if you write a good story with good characters and you don't ignore things and actually make things inclusive and such, you're probably not going to get people sho ship things intensely and overanalyse interactions.

Also, people overanaylse interactions because the smaller actions are usually subconsious. People rarely blush when they're in front of their actual crush, and they can show closeness by 'brief lingering touches' and 'smiles' and literally almost dying for someone.

People can excuse that for friendship, but honestly, I don't think I'd die for a friend I knew for a few months or so. Even a friend I knew for a year or few.

Don’t mind me just following this thread coz this is interesting (=・ω・=)

The article is also interesting! it outlines all the points i'm trying to make (albeit, I'm not sure if I'm making them that well) but it uses examples in media (especially anime) and it's very insightful!

It might me better if you just read the article instead of following the thread, since it would probably be far more informative than anything here.