Pro Tip:

muchymozzarella:

People, especially celebs, do not have to be SCUM OF THE EARTH for you to justify not liking them

For example: I don’t like Taylor Swift. There are many reasons why I don’t like Taylor Swift, many good reasons for me. For me, her music isn’t genuine enough to warrant praise and her tendency toward faux white feminism strikes me as alarmingly unlikable. But for all that, she is not the devil incarnate. She is not evil or too wholly problematic for anybody to dislike her. She deserves much of her success and fans and she is kind and talented in many ways. She’s made many mistakes but she isn’t made of her mistakes.

In the same vein, people do not have to be godlike in their pure, unproblematic existence for you to justify liking them

For example: I like Pewdiepie. His mistakes have been massive and he has said bad, racist things, and that’s made a lot of people rightfully mad at him. I think he deserves all the backlash for his actions (fair backlash and not BS false DMCA claims coughfirewatchcough) and that anybody who defends it as “not being that bad” should get a boot to the chin. 

All that said, I think he’s an intelligent person who’s got this awareness of comedic irony that most of his fans and detractors never seem to pick up on. He makes me laugh, and he is overall a good person, at least from what I see of him and how he treats friends and fans. He’s most definitely problematic, he’s said shitty things, and his fanbase is made up of Actual Demons from Hell, but I still like him for how he makes me feel happy and entertained and is more of a genuine and warm person than other celebrities I like much less. 

You can like problematic people because everybody is problematic one way or another, and you are setting yourself up for an entire life of disappointment if you put anybody on a pedestal. 

You can dislike people who are generally liked by others simply because some aspects of them put you off or simply because you just aren’t interested in them. 

It’s not that hard to understand that people are complex and nuanced and the world isn’t black and white, and you are not obligated to justify your preferences to strangers on the internet. 

Mozzarella makes excellent points, as usual.