not just fandom itself but everyone! it's one thing to have an interpretation (obviously fine, there's many possible interpretations of characters - like while i see arashi as a gnc gay dude, and i think that's the intention in canon, i also think jp media often intentionally gives this Character Type a little bit of ambiguity, and eng fandoms just cannot handle that or different interpretations...) but it's crazy how basically anyone on the english side of twitter that even tangentially touches enstars fandom is convinced it's 100% canon Representation.

(although honorary mention to the ones who are like "yeah actually it's not canon but they're wrong so i'm going to harass the enstars twitter/customer support to fix it." like they're at least real with themselves but they still rank high for the bonkers follow-up. )

anyway. i think it's a widespread problem that fandoms value what they can label as "rep" more than characters (individually or as their Roles) and stories, but usually it's harmless and just annoying. but i don't think i've ever seen the level of misinformation spreading and harassment over it that engstars fandom has. it's insane