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I’m going to start by flashing back to when I was 12 and going through my “yes!! I am unique because I listen to punk bands instead of the mainstream boy bands like one direction!!” phase. I would go on the popular section of Instagram (because that was still a thing at the time) and if I saw anything 1D related I would comment something like “Why do people even like this????” and of course many fans would flock to me and say things like “What?? How could you say that?”. An argument would start, and I would always use stupid excuses like “well it’s my opinion” “I have a right to say it” “I’m just trying to help”.

I thought I was doing it for the better of the people, and I wanted them to like my music instead of their music. Of course, I was really doing it for myself no matter what I claimed. Obviously I realized how mean and uncool that was of me, and I stopped. I regret, and apologize for those dark, dark times in which these events occurred (7th grade grunge phase, it was bad).

This is what the antis sound like, honestly.

These people are always trying to defend others, as I see many of them claim, but you and I both know the block button for tags and people exists for a reason. Also, I feel like you’re doing this more for yourself. Why would you start a war over art, fics, headcannons, etc. that people enjoy? Especially because you make a lot of people (even some of the people you claim to defend) feel like shit for it. True, I haven’t dealt with any traumatic experiences, and I would never ever diminish or devalue someone else’s experiences, but I think if the person was so affected by a ship they would take care to block things. (I’m aware that not everyone tags stuff, but like you can’t keep everything you don’t like away from you at all times, trust me I wish this could happen for a bunch of people at my school).

I also hate claims that whoever ships billdip must be a pedophile, or abusive or something like that. Whenever I see that stuff I kind of just think to myself, “???????”. 

Those claims have zero substance to them. I’m going to use myself as an example because I literally know no one else who ships billdip. Limited people at my school even watch Gravity Falls. I know I can’t speak for all people, but whatever works man.

Never in my life will I ever date someone who is too old for me (I don’t even ship the younger dipper and bill , I ship adult!dipper and Bill. Most of the time it’s just floofy stuff, among other things). Since I was about 13 or 14 I’ve been hit on by older men, especially online even though my age was clearly stated. This actually happened to me last week by a 20 year old on here, each time I get creeped out and each time the pursuer is blocked. Never will I ever date someone who is an adult or too old for me. As a sophomore, I won’t even date a senior honestly. Additionally, I will never be acceptable of any abuse that might happen to me or any people I know. I would also never abuse anyone because that, along with pedophilia, is terrible.

Billdip has never affected me in anyway, other than causing me to be extra happy or extra sad over fics or whatever. I may be young, but I’m not going to let a fictional relationship influence me in the least. I am aware of the bad parts about the ship, I don’t believe in ignoring the shit in life.

And frankly, if you’re young or immature enough to be influenced by something like this then maybe you shouldn’t even be on Tumblr. Before our class watches a clip with heavy swears, my English teacher always tells us, “I could watch movies with swears all day long and never go home and swear to my kids. I know you guys are mature enough to not do that either.”

I think antis have made a lot more people feel bad about shipping this than people who already feel bad about seeing billdip. I don’t think I ever saw anything about billdip triggering anyone before the war started (and I don’t really see anything now). Maybe that’s because they don’t choose to say anything, but I feel like I would’ve seen something by now.

So why listen to me, a 15 year old? Well I thought as someone who could be seen as a potential victim I should share my thoughts about the reality of the situation. I may not have the most serious addition to the argument, or the best grammar, or the most life experiences, but I thought my insight mattered. Maybe it doesn’t, but then I always hear about how taking the neutral side it taking the enemy’s side.

I guess what I’m trying to get at here is basically just leave us alone, antis. I’ve seen too much ship hate in my time (even at my age) than I would’ve liked to have seen. I just want to go back to how things were when the gf fandom was at relative peace, I mean besides what happens in the show anyways. It makes me sad seeing so many people divided, please just give it a rest. Just block things, the block button can be your greatest ally. As previously stated, I’m not trying to devalue anyone’s trauma, but I just really don’t like all of this hatred. 

Billdip shippers, don’t let anyone get you down. Just keep doing what you’re doing. 

PS: telling me to not ship billdip will not, in fact, make me and many others stop shipping billdip. If anything, it just makes me ship billdip even more because I am very stubborn, as well as a lot of other people. So just lay off.

Jfc this was really long, sorry about that.