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Jonny should NOT have had to admit that the addiction featured in this statement was based off of personal experience for yall to stop dogpiling him. Unless there is something undeniably wrong about the way a content creator has tackled a subject matter, can we please stop making shitty demands of accountability? This isn’t the first time a creator has had to publicly out themselves to avoid public censure.
Like I feel like it should have been enough that fellow fans like myself said “hey, i relate greatly to this depiction of addiction, and the fear surrounding lack of control was perfectly depicted.” literally all of us who related to it knew it could only have been written from personal experience, and a lot of us even said it yesterday in the discord server, but people talked over us. I literally thought for a minute, reading the discord server yesterday and this morning, as well as posts today, “am I being an addict…wrong?” because people were being SO INSISTENT on pushing their personal experience (or even non-experience bc a lot of non-addicts were chiming in) to say the episode Did A Bad Job or Pushed A Harmful View Of Addiction.
Like yeah it only depicted the darkest freaking parts of relapse and the ways addicts get undermined, by themselves and loved ones, because this is the apocalypse, the fear rules the world, and I 100% guarantee that Francis had a ton of true support in their life, they had a lot of friends who helped them, they were seeing a therapist. Like the very nature of their hell being them sober and trying to stay sober and being bombarded with their original traumas, and their enablers, shows that! This was Francis’ worst, darkest, most irrational fear. And it was deeply relatable to so many addicts.
But nah, y’all have this image of addiction, whether bc you think you know more about addiction than addicts or you think your lived experience as and addict is the only worthwhile one being depicted, idk. It’s just been…really frustrating because this is the first time ever that I feel I have been personally punched in the gut with a depiction of addiction because it felt like Jonny Sims literally reached into my head and read my mind during my worst moments struggling against a relapse.
I just want people to be mindful of how they talk about things, especially when actual addicts in the fandom have been saying “actually, this was a pretty accurate depiction of fear that comes with addiction based on my own lived experience.” Because, 100%, we were saying it yesterday. We were saying it today. I have a post with almost 300 notes saying it. And the fact that Jonny had to even say it, come out and tell everyone even a fraction of his story, for y’all to lay off, when it was obvious in the way it was written and how raw his voice acting was…
Like so many people in this fandom will analyze the sounds of fabric rustling and the slight upward tilt to something Martin said for a week, but act like the way Jonny said “I don’t want it. Any of it.” and “No. Not this time. I won’t.” didn’t come from somewhere deep and personal. It’s wild.
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jarchivjst:
supplimental:
Jonny should NOT have had to admit that the addiction featured in this statement was based off of personal experience for yall to stop dogpiling him. Unless there is something undeniably wrong about the way a content creator has tackled a subject matter, can we please stop making shitty demands of accountability? This isn’t the first time a creator has had to publicly out themselves to avoid public censure.
Like I feel like it should have been enough that fellow fans like myself said “hey, i relate greatly to this depiction of addiction, and the fear surrounding lack of control was perfectly depicted.” literally all of us who related to it knew it could only have been written from personal experience, and a lot of us even said it yesterday in the discord server, but people talked over us. I literally thought for a minute, reading the discord server yesterday and this morning, as well as posts today, “am I being an addict…wrong?” because people were being SO INSISTENT on pushing their personal experience (or even non-experience bc a lot of non-addicts were chiming in) to say the episode Did A Bad Job or Pushed A Harmful View Of Addiction.
Like yeah it only depicted the darkest freaking parts of relapse and the ways addicts get undermined, by themselves and loved ones, because this is the apocalypse, the fear rules the world, and I 100% guarantee that Francis had a ton of true support in their life, they had a lot of friends who helped them, they were seeing a therapist. Like the very nature of their hell being them sober and trying to stay sober and being bombarded with their original traumas, and their enablers, shows that! This was Francis’ worst, darkest, most irrational fear. And it was deeply relatable to so many addicts.
But nah, y’all have this image of addiction, whether bc you think you know more about addiction than addicts or you think your lived experience as and addict is the only worthwhile one being depicted, idk. It’s just been…really frustrating because this is the first time ever that I feel I have been personally punched in the gut with a depiction of addiction because it felt like Jonny Sims literally reached into my head and read my mind during my worst moments struggling against a relapse.
I just want people to be mindful of how they talk about things, especially when actual addicts in the fandom have been saying “actually, this was a pretty accurate depiction of fear that comes with addiction based on my own lived experience.” Because, 100%, we were saying it yesterday. We were saying it today. I have a post with almost 300 notes saying it. And the fact that Jonny had to even say it, come out and tell everyone even a fraction of his story, for y’all to lay off, when it was obvious in the way it was written and how raw his voice acting was…
Like so many people in this fandom will analyze the sounds of fabric rustling and the slight upward tilt to something Martin said for a week, but act like the way Jonny said “I don’t want it. Any of it.” and “No. Not this time. I won’t.” didn’t come from somewhere deep and personal. It’s wild.
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