This thread is open again. If it is going to continue, members must observe the staff post and avoid metacommentary. Do not attack each other and do not dismiss or minimize the concerns members have.
what is the actual fucking point?
The creator of the franchise decided to make it clear that
certain criticisms that had been flying around online were wholly invalid, and for
other criticisms what he, as the author, explicitly intended with aspects of his work, so that people didn't have to guess what he might be intending to mean, or infer things that are not there.
But the fact that he did that makes certain posts that certain posters aggressively perpetuated
objectively wrong, but now as per moderator diktat you have to treat what is now an actual disinformation campaign as though it is still true, because you can't dismiss someones elses (provably false)
concerns?
You are not allowed to question the motives why someone would perpetuate a
falsehood because it is
metacommentary?