would y’all respect authors?

On twitter idk how this author got into my feed but they’re saying they are trying to end the webtoon they make because ppl kept shipping their characters and it makes them uncomfortable because they don’t want their characters to be shipped cause they view it as friendship or something and there’s no romance I don’t read their work but this actually got me thinking some ppl can’t respect authors (if its an unproblematic author) like in the end of the day if the author says their characters is this and that i think we should just accept it cause its their character why cant u follow it and is it hard not to ship ppl everytime u read something the fact that they were genuinely distressed and didn’t like what they created no more l feel sad omg cause if i make an oc saying A and u ppl kept saying B I’ll not want to show u my story too

ps i just found out that if u hv a webtoon once ur story done it becomes webtoons like u dont hv control of what ur story anymore omg