look, guys, this may seem ironic coming from a person with Verbose Disease, but I'm about to tell you the secret to winning social media: shutting the fuck up. you have a controversial discourse opinion? shut the fuck up and no one will know. can't participate in a boycott for various reasons? shut the fuck up and no one will know. you think or do something Problematic that has no bearing on anyone but yourself? shut the fuck up and no one will know. you haven't been keeping up on a pressing social issue? shut the fuck up and no one will know. your mind is a wonderful place where you can have all the bad takes in the world and they're all perfectly insulated from everyone and everything unless you try to excise them on a grand scale. you can take the mental L all by yourself without using a public platform as a confession booth and face zero repercussions and it'll be just fine. open up a damn diary and explain yourself there.

oh yeah that guy's like reading something else because that is a 100% miss rate

What Touhou has that practically no other franchise can match, besides the torrential amounts of fan love throughout nearly three decades, is that fanworks operating on loose but existent frameworks of the characters is how you explore characters first and foremost.

With Arknights, if you tell me you ship, say, Muelsyse and Ho’olheyak because of that one comment about Mumu knowing where to catch her napping, I’ll respectfully nod and then think “ok then Mumu and Doctor makes 500 times more sense given all their cutscenes together and voicelines”, if you tell me you ship Arturia and Viviana because of the trailer and or event, I’m already on the hills collecting beautiful wildberries not even acknowledging this but I support you politely nonetheless sure whatever.

With Touhou, if you tell me Reimu would bone a Zulu African version of Nue, brother, I’m funding your project myself. You tell me Cirno and Toyosatomimi no Miko is your crackship, I want to see where the FUCK you are going with that, but I want to see it, I can already throw some lines about immortality conditions being a linking factor plus the goofier parts of their personality, good execution will sell it to me. You tell me Keine and Eirin doing that nasty in the backshed, I’m already waiting for the sequel with Reisen and Youmu.

Like. It’s different. And depending on the author, proven.