Revised opinion on tagging #kin/#me
Its come to my attention that the reason there’s an outcry against people tagging art as #kin is because they’re not tagging fanart.
They’re tagging people’s personal OCs.
WHAT THE HELL YOU GUYS? WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?
While I stand by my assertion that people have the right to tag things whatever they want due to freedom of speech, why the hell would you tag somebody’s random OC as #kin?
There is no way on earth, the moon, or elsewhere that you have legitimately discovered that you are kin with somebody else’s random OC that they doodled once, twice, or a few times.
If the character is a character in an ongoing story or webcomic, fine, sure maybe. Maybe you have discovered the depth of connection to judge that you’re kin of them. Maybe you’re having memories and pains of homesickness and missing that body and people you knew.
But tagging people’s one-off or seldom seen personal OCs that aren’t part of an ongoing story you feel that you’re honestly kin from?
Wow, that’s shitty!
Could you be kin of that person’s OC? Maybe! But you don’t have enough context through a few drawings or fragments of prose to understand that!
Not only can I absolutely understand why some artists would feel like you’re stealing their OC’s design for yourself, but WAY TO TRIVIALIZE BEING KIN!
This is exactly why people thing that kin are stupid/bullshit. Because people treat it like a shallow thing. Like you like it, and feel a small connection to it, and that makes it okay for you to call it being kin.
No, that is NOT being kin.
To all the artists who have had their OCs tagged this way, and felt confused or hurt by it, I PERSONALLY apologize on behalf of all otherkin. That is not what being kin is, and while people have the right to say whatever they want about your drawing, I’m sorry that someone imposed on you that way. Its totally rude, not cool, and not kin.
