What do proshippers generally believe about shipping real people? Stuff like creator x creator or celebrity x reader?

That it falls under the umbrella of "you should be allowed to write anything you want". Once again, it's not my personal thing. There's no real life pairing I read for, and the whole "blank x reader" is not appealing to me at all.

But I have no problem with people writing that stuff, or knowing it's out there. I saw someone a while back say that it's basically just writing about another character, and I agree with that. No matter how much a creator posts or how open a celebrity seems with their personal life, we're still only seeing a tiny snippet of their lives. We have no clue who they are when the cameras aren't recording because we just don't know them. And whatever someone chooses to write about is mostly stemming from that particular persona that they happen to put on for the world and that's it. It's completely separate from our reality because they're basically just writing about another made up character

The problem I have, and it's what I imagine most proshippers also take issue with, is when people start blurring the lines between fiction and reality. To me, there's a world of difference between posting something on ao3, and speculating on secret relationships in the comments of someone's youtube video. Or between talking about something on tumblr, and tagging the person directly on twitter.

I just don't understand people who condemn rpf and talk about how gross and invasive it is, but think it's funny to tag celebrities on twitter to bring up (what they think is) cringe-worthy fanfic tropes that people have written them into. Or people who print out fanworks to shove into an actor's face at a meet and greet and ask them what they think about it. That's where the lines get crossed, to me.

I think ao3 and tumblr still have an air of mysticism to them. A little secrecy, a little privacy. In the sense that someone in the public eye would have to put in a little work to find this stuff for themselves. They'd have to go to the site and search themselves up to find anything. As opposed to just about anyone in the world being able to force this content in their line of sight with a simple @ on a site like twitter.

So to me the problem isn't that this content exists. The problem is when people don't know how to keep fandom stuff private. Write all the rpf you want but remember at the end of the day these are real people, not your blorbos. You don't know them. It's inappropriate to say these things to them personally (which yes, also includes tagging them on twitter or in the comments of their videos). But it's also inappropriate to run up to them with other people's content just to say "look what these FREAKS wrote about you!!" And I think people either forget or just genuinely don't care about the latter.

Hey! I really adore your gifs, they are always beautiful and well thought out. And as a content creator I have to ask, does it ever bother you how underwhelmingly our stuff does, especially compared to paddock/race/other types of photos spammed?

TBH, I only started recently so I dont have enough of reach and also not too wow stuff so I get it (and also IDC about myself that much). But I see some others creating amazing stuff that doesnt get any reblogs whatsoever and it just breaks my heart bec I know how hard you all work to make this insane gifs and edits

Hi!! First: thank you so much! Glad you like the things I do!

Short answer: yes it bothers me that things dont get reblogged.

But not necessarily in comparation with new photos that drop in race weekend bc it is understandable (plus there are a lot of people who go out of their way to not only download things, specially with other websites so they are clean of watermarks and things like that, but also edit them).

What I do think is that more complex stuff needs the same amount of love and not just a like bc it doesnt change a thing. This is not my only blog, I have another one with lots of followers that is for tv and movies and even there, specially lately, the difference between reblogs and likes is discouraging.

But well speaking about f1blr more specifically, I think it is one of the worst on that aspect, it is brutal. Sometimes not even if you gif something in lighting speed does it reach the 100 notes. And I think it is because of a few things:

People just dont reblog, that's a fact. I always try to reblog everything I see and like and even go to the tags to see if there is something new, which brings me to point number 2.

I dont know why but the tagging system in the fandom in general it's all over the place. Some days ago I reblogged this post about tagging for creators and added in the tags that I think we need to use the f1edit tag a LOT more and the xdriveredit too! It is so easy and it simplifies a lot when looking for gifs/edited photos/graphics of an specific driver. I know there are some that uses them, me included, but there is a large part that doesn't and I feel creations often get lost in the main tag bc of the influx of new content all the time. Obviously this is not by any means fault of the creators, I think everyone in the fandom should look more into those tags so they are worth tagging them. It's the same way f1 fanartist tag things with f1 art or f1 fanart (i check those tags too)

Well this is more to do with simple gifs but people do not reblog multiple versions of things and while i get it to certain point sometimes it is a bit baffling to see. There is no way two gifs are exactly the same and all deserve the same love yknow.

And yeah I know some say "oh but why are you doing it only for notes, do it for yourself" yeah well if i did it only for myself i wouldnt be posting it, its always nice to receive love for something you did and are proud of! We are humans we need feedback it is not as simple as doing it for ourselves.

Anyways, I would say we need to check the tags more, have them organized and the most important bit: REBLOG, this is not instagram and it is not twitter even if the layout on web now is the same

also i would love to know who you are and see your creations!! And try to not get discouraged if you really like doing what you do!