I think the producer thought, oh this is a wonderful new 'trend' let's jump on it and for some reason, he equates fandom=nerds, geeks, male.
I think the place in SPN fandom where shipping questions get bad are Misha Collins events - because he's been willing to address the shippy side of the fandom, (Dean/Castiel) and he has a con persona that's snarky - but the last con he attended got out of hand when it came to people sexually harassing him, so the end result will probably be he stops taking those questions, or becomes more impersonal, which would really, really suck. Jared and Jensen don't get asked the shippy questions - unless it's Jensen a little bit about Dean/Cas, but J2 don't really address slash/shippy questions.
Every year some people get freaked out that someone has shown their idol the porny artwork or ridiculous fanfic they wrote, forgetting that when you meet this person, they will never attach the thing to you - unless you bring it up. Then the post notices 'don't show my fanart to people' while promoting it to hell and back on tumblr, lj, da, etc. So not much sympathy here.
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I think the place in SPN fandom where shipping questions get bad are Misha Collins events - because he's been willing to address the shippy side of the fandom, (Dean/Castiel) and he has a con persona that's snarky - but the last con he attended got out of hand when it came to people sexually harassing him, so the end result will probably be he stops taking those questions, or becomes more impersonal, which would really, really suck. Jared and Jensen don't get asked the shippy questions - unless it's Jensen a little bit about Dean/Cas, but J2 don't really address slash/shippy questions.
Every year some people get freaked out that someone has shown their idol the porny artwork or ridiculous fanfic they wrote, forgetting that when you meet this person, they will never attach the thing to you - unless you bring it up. Then the post notices 'don't show my fanart to people' while promoting it to hell and back on tumblr, lj, da, etc. So not much sympathy here.