imo ians journey was never about moving on from tj. it was about taking charge of his own life instead of blaming his fate for everything, & about actually coming to terms with his past while being able to leave it behind. tj was never ians past though, even in the v beginning he implied he'll leave "for a few years", which he did end up doing in the end. moreover, if the basis of the story was ian leaving tj & the gang, then the story couldve ended around s2 bc tj had basically pushed him out of his life and the gang, so ian couldve left. instead ian spent the season searching for tj. i can see why people think tj was the Big Bad guy, the main evil in the story and Jo was clark kent coming to save ian, but that was never the authors intention, and she made this v clear from the beginning. she said the story's about all three people changing, not about one saving the other. thank you for coming to my ted talk ill be back w more in a bit <3
!!! a week before this i rmbr somebody saying even if jo isn't endgame, jo fans will js feel bad for him & get over it after a while, unlike tj fans who would. idk. kill themselves or wtv. anyway im not talking abt the comment section here bc im only seeing people shit on characters which is perfectly fine, do that ofc, but the recent chaps have rly brought out the worst in people on twitter. first they were praying doyak ends up with an actual abusive partner, then they said they regret praying for her health and her fathers health, then they said they hope her dog dies, then they've been telling her in masses to kill herself, then they said doyak is abusive irl. this is psychotic. it's mental illness. & these tweets are by accounts w big followings too. to an extent i get feeling heartbroken, disappointed etc etc. ive been reading this for years, and i would've felt distraught too. but people need to realise these are lines on a paper. PIXELS. joseph landi will be fine bc he doesn't exist. ian will not be miserable for the rest of his life bc he's not real. but the author is real. i feel like a broken record bc ive been repeating this for the past few weeks, which proves that the resentment has been bubbling up for weeks, but there's a huge line between criticism and harassment. anyway shout out to people who feel disappointed but can still decipher the line between fiction and reality. bare minimum but its crazy how rare it is.
I followed the story mainly via people’s analysis as I was letting marinate, until
It got ugly and people started being vile. After Ian left parted ways with Jo at the gas station I decided to stay off Twitter until the story officially ends and a while has passed. I can imagine how badly people are crashing out. I’ve always liked TJ over Jo, however I never made it a deal breaker on my final opinion once the story ended. I feel for the author as I can only imagine the horrible comments she’s getting. Despite being very rey clear from the beginning that nothing has changed from when the story was originally written.
hmm ive been the BIGGEST tjian truther for years so im happy as fuck obv BUTTTT. the ending was sozosososo rushed sigh i could tell tj was the endgame for a while but she just skipped over so many plot points. there was foreshadowing for jo to be more than a plot device but that's what he was till the end, important parts were rushed over, s3 js sucked as a whole honestly. which does make me think maybe she's in a hurry bc the fandoms getting to her now....... even rn she's been getting told to kill herself and people are talking shit about her father etc. so its pretty disheartening.
Honestly, Jo’s character feels like he was so fucking useless to create now. I get people like Tj which is fine but I really don’t like how he treated Ian and Ian just accepted it. I personally would’ve been fine if Jo wasn’t created at all, because it feels like a copout type of response for someone who isn’t willing to work on themselves and go back to the old ways they used to be in
this is why i actually think she mightve changed up the plot a bit. obv just a speculation, but ive reread this 1000 times & i noticed there were times when jo was........ weird. & i thought it would AT LEAST get addressed but it never did ? this combined w a lot of other stuff & maybe she js didn't wanna go down that route bc she either didn't think she could execute it well or maybe smth else. but yeah as it is now jo turned out to be pretty useless, though people do say his point was to make ian realise that he wanted a normal life just w tj, but like. WHAT DID JO LEARN ????? DID HE GAIN ANYTHING ?? idk man
BRO EXACTLY, LIKE WHAT WAS THE POINT OF JO? JUST TO MAKE HIM END UP BEING HEARTBROKEN? I honestly had it in my head that Jo was going to be endgame the way the buildup to this was going. It does seem extremely rushed, and while I can understand that she felt like she may not have been able to execute it well, it just feels like a bit of a copout and makes Jo just seem extremely useless now. I mean I’m glad Ian is happy, but it’s also upsetting bc poor fucking Jo


they're suing doyak on twitter over jo not being endgame u can't make this shit UPPPPPP
crazy how they convinced everybody for years that tj stans are the only ones who are toxic when so far hundreds of them have: sent death threats, said her father who recently went thru surgery should just die, said her dog should die, said she should be abused irl, doxxed her, said she's an abuser and the list goes on. sick fucks.
& fyi even as somebody rooting for tj im SUPERRRRR disappointed in the ending. but considering everything the authors been subjected to so far no wonder she was in a hurry to wrap it all up.
THATS ACTUALLY SICK AF imagine stooping so low you attack the author and their family just because of a mere drawing mann they're insane. the author needs to sue. and i hope these people learn to move on from literal pixels and get a job. i wish doyak will still continue to create webtoons and never let this shit affects her passion
I’m gonna be real as just a bystander, the author enabled both ends of the ship wars and both would’ve harassed her because of how toxic it’s become. I do not doubt at all that TJ stans would be doing the very same thing if the endgame didn’t go how they liked.
Ultimately, it’s because the story strung both ship fandoms along until the very last second. Other love triangle stories make it very clear by at least the end the second to the last season which ship would win. Even Twilight had more sense to make it clear that Edward would be with Bella and Jacob’s got no chance.
mental illness bruh & yeah i agree i hope she's not v affected by everything
though i think the author dragged everything out way too much, i don't think she deserves even 1% of the harassment she's getting bc of it. u can criticise the story without resorting to abuse. & i never said the other side isn't toxic, it's just that everybody, even people on here, kept saying that tj stans are toxic as fuck and are ruining the entire fandom when jo stans have been equally as nasty since day 1.
From what I’ve seen, everyone’s been toxic. It’s why I never bothered touching this series, tho I like to peek to see the drama. Now, what I see is that one side lost and is being toxic to the author beyond valid criticism, and one side won and is coddling the author acting like they wouldn’t be toxic if they hadn’t won. It’s all the same shit to me.
i don't get the point of talking about hypotheticals ? ill call out people who ARE being toxic, presently, who ARE abusing the author. "acting like they wouldn't be toxic if they hadn't won" ik for sure i wouldn't be acting like a mad man if tj wasn't endgame, so ill shit on those who are thank you.
Eh, I just think it’s naive to believe there’s anyone actually innocent in this fandom lol
I think TJ stans are being performative. I think Jo stans are assholes. And it sucks for the author that this is her fandom.
Oh wait you’re a TJ stab so you’re getting mad at me now for saying everyone sucks lol
Makes sense.
had u actually read what i said u would've known i called both sides toxic. i litr said tj stans aren't the ONLY side that's toxic. & ive constantly admitted that the whole fandom is fucked up. my point was that the jo fans who love acting holier than thou, litr were acting like this last week, shouldn't do so bc they're nasty as fuck. how the fuck did u see me say this & came to the conclusion that im only calling one side toxic? learn to read bruh wasting everybody's time here
I’m being fr bro right now you just sound like you want Jo fans to look bad and you finally got a valid reason to hate on them
GET HELPPPPPPP IJBOL if seeing me call out the abuse an author is facing has u jumping to this conclusion maybe get ur priorities fixed lmao. LMFAO even. and man i don't want jo fans to look bad, they ARE bad. nasty fucked up pieces of shit who should rot in hell <3