No, it still seems like quite a false equivalency to me, because an MMO and a bloggin platform just are two very different platforms , for starters. Over there, you pretty much got a blank canvas where everything goes and where "canons" are sometimes needed in a group setting, while here it's pretty much all OCs, so taking a character from a show is going to cause some intense headscratching.
You're right in that AUs are a popular thing on Tumblr, but thus far I've seen the whole thing being implemented in a different fashion than is suggested here. You got your coffee shop AUs, or , yeah "what if" instances of how a character might be in another setting, but the thing I've yet to see a kind of "fandom shift" who would actively seek out another community. To elaborate: that'd be if someone would take ol' Ash from pokémon, do a, hell, Attack on Titan imagining of the character with the same name and then do the extra mile of interacting with said tumblr community. Now there's something I haven't seen before, well if someone did that, there'd be the same amount of headscratching going on, despite the canon bias.
I really don't want to end up being inflammatory here, but I want to say that just because something is seen as a bad idea and discussed honestly doesn't mean that there's some unfair stigmatisation going on.
You're right in that AUs are a popular thing on Tumblr, but thus far I've seen the whole thing being implemented in a different fashion than is suggested here. You got your coffee shop AUs, or , yeah "what if" instances of how a character might be in another setting, but the thing I've yet to see a kind of "fandom shift" who would actively seek out another community. To elaborate: that'd be if someone would take ol' Ash from pokémon, do a, hell, Attack on Titan imagining of the character with the same name and then do the extra mile of interacting with said tumblr community. Now there's something I haven't seen before, well if someone did that, there'd be the same amount of headscratching going on, despite the canon bias.
I really don't want to end up being inflammatory here, but I want to say that just because something is seen as a bad idea and discussed honestly doesn't mean that there's some unfair stigmatisation going on.
