Who says fiction doesn’t affect anyone? Didn’t you read? Earlier, some people even supported Pyeonghwa raping Incheol again. As a psychology student, I can’t underestimate this kind of support. You don’t get it. A lot of people I’ve seen end up taking stuff from movies or games into real life because they started out like this. If we keep acting like ‘it’s okay it's just fiction, oh it's okay it's not real,’ it gets stuck in their subconscious without them realizing
If you say this as a "psychology student", you're failing to understand your lessons. If someone is affected by what they read/see jn a fictional story, it's simply a matter of managing their emotions about it and filtering the content they choose to consume if it doesn't agree with them. It does NOT mean they could ever confuse that what happens on a fictional story faithfully reflects reality, real life morals or that it condones/promotes harmful acts. IF a person thinks that, it's caused by other serious issues in their lives, NOT the fiction they read.
i don't agree with them but they're not failing to understand their lessons, what they're saying is true. the idea that fiction doesn't affect reality ignores the evidence of exposure's influences on people's perception of normal and acceptable behavior. people's mind don't operate on an on/off switch for fantasy. it doesn't matter if they know it's wrong, fiction can bleed into reality through a person's mind without them knowing because most of the time that builds up. it's not about the content that disagrees with them, it's about the content that doesn't bother them. if someone is affected by a fictional story in ways which slowly changes how they view things like this person is talking about then it's not a matter of filtering content but of recognizing that the content is harmful in the first place, something that doesn't happen bc of influence and it's why they keep talking abt normalization and subconscious lolz
It's like that grp of ppl who are boasting that they send reports to the police abt anyone who likes problematic/toxic plots in fictional stories, convinced they're saving lives. T_T When instead they flood the reporting system with the equivalent of useless "I like to read mystery vs philosophy", and potentially delay actual victims of real life harm getting the help they neeed. All they have to do is say/discuss how they felt uncomfortable reading it, not become obsessed to prove how wrong of an act it was that they read in a damn manhwa, as if they and every other reader will be smited be gods, governments, online morality police and their moral compass will be shattered unless they condemn it. That's some next level irrational fear they've internalized.
no, tell me why i'm wrong. to my knowledge rn no one is saying fiction directly makes people commit crimes, but acting like fiction has zero psychological influence is even more unrealistic than that and all those psychology books say the same thing. human perception doesn’t work on a simple “just filter your emotions” switch. people absorb things through repetition and fiction is one of the biggest sources of repeated exposure we have. media doesn’t turn someone into a rapist, but it does shape what people become desensitized to, what they joke about, and what they consider “normal,” which is exactly what influences rape culture. i disagree with someone policing reactions to toxic yaoi on mangago of all places just as much as the next person, but acknowledging that media influences attitudes subconsciously is in fact basic psychology. don't tell me that i'm wrong and that i should read a book to find out why when it's coming from someone going against what the books say and then blocking me so i won't respond
In my comment, I pointed out the people who literally told Pyeonghwa to rape him again. Do you think it’s okay to just let people like that be? I said this as someone who has dealt with rape survivors, would you give me the same answer if you were talking to me in that context?
You should be telling me not to care too deeply about this, not acting like you know my whole life. I’m talking about the topic, but you’re attacking me personally like Crown

Ugh, I don’t get why people who dislike comments from others who are spitting facts. I can’t wrap my head around the fact that some people even support Pyeonghwa for "raping" him again, like do you want to get raped too? Ofcourse the people who are complaining know they’re reading a toxic BL, but at least they are still in the right mind, not like ‘yeah, go rape him again' like the fuck??