I’ve been in fandoms 25 years and watching 9-1-1 since season 1 and the people who want Buck and Eddie together are some of the most toxic fans I have ever seen. The lies and misinformation they spread like it’s truth is truly amazing.

I’ve seen so many people who wanted to enter the fandom, but didn’t ship the blessed pair, be immediately subject to abuse and abandon the fandom. Over and over since season 2. I stopped engaging with it after S3 but popped back in once in a while and watched it get worse.

I know nerdy people in RL who know nothing who have heard in their own online circles that 9-1-1 fandom is toxic and not safe.

Like I know they are good for engagement. But any publication that just uses and baits them (or writes them a love letter) is just adding to that environment.

Because the one I saw was the one that wrote fanfiction turning a gay man into a predator who assaulted and murdered a child (and posted it without warnings and with misleading tags to intentionally trigger fans of the character), the one that is still @ing people with death threats and suicide baiting tweets, the one that bullied a journalist into going private because she dared to write about a canon relationship and quote an actor who said that their character is straight, a fandom spent months harassing gay men because they liked an actual gay character (including calling them homophobic slurs), who harassed fans of color for months, who even made a video directly naming the ones they were planning to bully, who made hit lists of “traitors” who shipped the “wrong” ship, who throw around homophobic slurs they have no right to use. Need I go on?

@Maria, this! I was looking for this. 9-1-1 is one of the most toxic I’ve ever seen full of the vilest and most unhinged behaviors from the worst shippers and there are receipts of it everywhere. You can even easily find them when you check the quotes from LFJ’s recent tweets. And this article here is pretending it’s all sunshines and flowers? Pfft!! What a bunch of crap!

You’re conveniently leaving out the bullying and harassment the actors playing the love interests of Buck and Eddie receive from buddie shippers. The literal DEATH THREATS they’ve received, the constant tagging them in horrible hate posts as if that’s an okay thing to do. The way that anyone who ships anything other than buddie has a target on their back and are constantly dogpiled on.

Oh yeah, you used a picture of Jennifer, but left out that part when buddie fans made her cry for saying Buddie wasn’t going to happen.

Saying fans “guessed” the breakup was going to happen based on the color of his shirt, when we all know there were leaks going around for days (I say as someone who was told about the breakup days in advance) and they used that information to harass and bully people who did ship Buck and Tommy.

Haley, if you’re going to talk about the fandom you really shouldn’t make it seem like the whole fandom is filled with only whimsical fun people only shipping buddie, when it’s actually a fandom of people who have been terrorized for years by fans who feel they are entitled to their ship becoming canon and believe they will get what they want by forcing every other fan who disagrees with them and actor who would be a love interest of Buck or Eddie out by constant, horrific hate spewed at them.

Also you know what? Thank you for talking about real people shipping because it’s the one real problem with the fandom you brought up, considering on multiple occasions fans crossed boundaries and speculated on the sexualities of actors and even put this where the actors could see.

Yeah. Cute fandom.