User blog:Weavillain/Is TLH Fandom Guilty Of Being Oversensitive to Lincoln Loud?

I've been wanting to talk about this topic for a while now and at first, I was going to relent on it because I didn't want to incite any possible hurt feelings or flame wars or whatever. But after seeing the reaction from "No Such Luck", yeah, I'm not relenting anymore. So, with that being said, here goes nothing with my first ever TLH Wiki blog. I hope this doesn't come across as a rant and more of an open discussion that anyone, no matter how you feel about this topic, is welcome to partake in.

Now, onto the question at hand, is TLH fandom guilty of being oversensitive to Lincoln Loud?

Yes.

Well, there's your short answer. Now, for the longer one:

I've noticed that ever since "Brawl In The Family", it seems like anytime that Lincoln is inconvenienced, no matter if it's in the slightest, certain TLH fans react in the following ways:
 * They dub the episode as "Lincoln torture".
 * No matter what Lincoln did to bring the torture upon himself, that gets ignored entirely or denied. Essentially, only he's allowed to get away with being a jerk.
 * If any other character is responsible for bringing about the "torture", they're demonized.
 * Everything else abut the episode is ignored and it's graded as terrible, no matter how brief the "torture" they despise lasts(i.e. "Making The Grade" and the van scene).
 * The writer of said episode is called out as a hack.

There are other ways I see this sect of fans react but those are really the main five.

Now, I'm not here to demean these people. They obviously like the show and want to see their obvious favorite character get ahead in life. I understand that. However, I think we've gotten to the point where we can't see any episode of Lincoln as the butt of mean-spirited humor without the above reactions taking place and quite frankly, I think it's a bit (okay, very) dramatic.

They seem to react to Lincoln's "plights" as if he were a real person and not a cartoon character. From where I stand, they seem to take the gags of a cartoon and add real life implications and ramifications onto it. Thus, anytime Lincoln is the butt of a joke, instead of realizing that it's a joke, they believe that a real person is being put through the wringer. I mean, yeah, if I started thinking like that, chances are, I'd hate the show, too. In fact, I'd hate any show I watched. But see, that misses the point and I can't get any enjoyment out of what I'm watching anymore.

I mean, I get that cartoons, especially well-written ones, can inspire emotion and loyalty from the viewers and all but it seems that with Lincoln Loud, some fans can't seem to draw the line between fiction and reality and make mountains out of molehills out of moments that really shouldn't inspire such vitriol.

In short, take a breath. It's a cartoon. A really, really, good cartoon but...it's still a cartoon. Lincoln Loud is not real. An eleven-year-old boy from Michigan is not being "tortured" or "ostracized" or "bullied". I hope we can all remember that the next time another "torture" episode rolls around.

And with that, my two cents are given. Let me know what you think about this "issue". Do you agree, disagree, somewhat agree, somewhat disagree, sorta-kinda-probably agree, sorta-kinda-probably disagree, maybe-perhaps-possibly-conceivably...okay, okay. You get the picture.