So recently I've been scrolling through Eddsworld Amino and found two posts that are rants about ocxcanon and canonxcanon. I shrugged it off like I always do whenever I see a rant about the subject, but curiosity got the best of me and I ended up looking at both of them and they sure turned my life upside down.
About a year ago, I've made a more than two part segment of the many things that I hate in the Eddsworld fandom. Fun fact: I feel like revamping them because they weren't all that good, but now's not the time.
Anyway, the person who wrote both of the rants that I will be going over was a person named Ohvex and before we start, do not go onto their posts or wall and leave them hate or harass them. I don't want to be held responsible for a witch hunt. Let me deal with it for you since I'm the residential idiot here. Oh and if you, Ohvex, is reading this right now, I am not hating you. I'm just pointing out some things that you've got wrong. If you think that I may have offended you, we can talk about it in a civil manner. Oh and I also want all of you to take everything that I say with a grain of salt.
Without a further ado.......why hello you, I'm Lbat1901 and I'll be your host for Rantception. A series where I go over the bad, the good, and the ugly in many different fandoms but mostly the Eddsworld fandom with good old style of commentary. In the last episode, we've went over princeofmints whom I had to get a helping hand since I had literally nothing on her which was published in July.
Now in this second episode, we will be going over two rants that Ohvex made on shipping in the Eddsworld fandom. I will be starting off with their ocxcanon rant simply titled: "Why can't I ship Ocxcanon" and oh my...that's some title. Ok, we're starting off strong.
(Editor's note: When I first saw the part that you're seeing next, Lbat didn't bother to write out who's talking. But don't you worry, I've fixed it so you won't get confused. You're welcome!)
Ohvex: Just a quick warning if you get offended over this stuff then you can leave now because in no way am I being disrespectful to anyone
Lbat1901: But you haven't told me what it is tho
Ohvex: This will also include a bit about canonxcanon, so if you don't like it then again, you can kindly leave
Lbat1901: Ok then
Ohvex: How do I even begin? First let's talk about the saying "but your oc is you!" Actually, no our oc isn't! Most of our oc's aren't actually based off of us. They have no connection towards us whatsoever. They do not look like us, talk like us, walk like us, and have the same personality like us
Lbat1901: You sure about that, Ohvex? ....You might want to take a look at the younger fans who insert themselves into Eddsworld and basically any fandom out there. Trust me, I remember having an oc who was based off of me that could turn into a werewolf. I also made them extremely overpowered. God I hated kid me....
Ohvex: Another misconception is: "Well it's more valid to ship canonxcanon than ocxcanon!" Like what the hell? Why is it not valid to ship my made up character with a canon?
Lbat1901: You're not wrong on this actually. There's a thing called character development. If you made an oc for Eddsworld and have no idea on what their personality and what their interactions with the canon characters in Eddsworld would be like, I highly suggest writing oneshots. Trust me on this. I have an Eddsworld oc named Tony and I had no idea what his interactions with the canon were to look like, so I ended up writing short one off stories before ending up writing my fanfics Eddsworld: At World's End and Eddsworld: Untold Tales From The Future and they actually turned out pretty great. Plus it even helped me improve my story telling skills
Ohvex: In my opinion, canonxcanon is more disrespectful to the creators since the characters are actually based off them. Tomska has addressed many times that they are just friends and I believe Matt did to. I'm not sure though. It's one of the reasons why Tord left
Lbat1901: Again, you're not wrong, but all I remember was that Matt told fans to stop harassing his wife after the two got married which outraged those fangirls who wanted to date Matt. However they had to face the facts that Matt was way out of their age range and still is to this very day.
Also did you just say that you're not too sure on what Matt said about ships? If you're not sure if he said anything than why you put in the rant?
Ohvex: "Most fangirls love to ship their oc with canon characters!" In some cases, that could be why I'm not going to lie, but that's only like 2% of the fandom
Lbat1901: Ehehehe.....ahahahaha! I shouldn't be laughing at this but......excuse me what? 2% of the fandom? Oh my god-.....uhh....I hate to break it to you, but that's not accurate. I would say that between 50 to 80% of the fandom ships their oc with canon Eddsworld characters. I don't know where you got 2% from, but hey, it's your number
Ohvex: But most ocxcanon shippers are actually the most sweetest and most respectful people ever. They know boundaries of the canon characters and were not like crazy over the ship. We just like to express our opinion to ships as well
Lbat1901: Once again, you're not wrong, but there is a 50-50% chance that you might encounter nice people and people that take shipping ocxcanon a bit too far. It mostly depends where you go in the fandom and basically any fandom in general
Anyway, Ohvex ends off the rant by stating that everyone has different opinions and yeah, I agree with that despite picking out some things that they got wrong.
God...that was something, but never mind that, we got a bigger problem. We are now heading into canonxcanon *lightning strikes along with the booming sounds of thunder*
Ohvex: So like I have done this before, but with a poll, so I am doing it again because I want to get these ship rants out of my system so I don't have to do them again
Lbat1901: Alright, I'm all on ears. Please do explain
Ohvex: I'm really disappointed in this fandom. I have no words. When I first joined the fandom, I really like Edd as a creator and I wanted to get more into the fandom. But as I kept getting more into the fandom and following the creators, I saw Tomska has tweeted 1-3 times that he doesn't feel comfortable with any of the ships. I believe Matt did too
Lbat1901: Oh my god, you've said this in the last rant. Why are you putting it iin here when you're not too sure on what he said?
Ohvex: First Tord and now this!? How many reminders do you people need!?
Lbat1901: They probably need a million reminders, but remember this fandom is made up of the og fans from 2004, the fans from the early days of the YouTube era of Eddsworld, the fans from Legacy, and as of recently the fans from Fan Service 2. So that's basically about almost 20 years of the fandom's existence
Ohvex: Stop trying to reason with the creators that well we just ship the characters
Lbat1901: Yeah guys! Ohvex is right! We should also stop trying to reason with the creators that WTFuture, Fun Dead, and Zombeh Attack didn't happen and that The End and Spares was just a fragment of our imaginations
Ohvex: Hunny, have you forgotten that the characters are based off of them?
Lbat1901: Yeah guys! Have you forgotten that Matt fell down the stairs in Eddsworld Halloween Special 2007 and that basically the four main characters were ruthless during the early days of Eddsworld? Because I sure haven't
Ohvex: Hun, if the creators don't like it no means no. Get that through your thick ass skull!
Lbat1901: Uh...creators saying no to ships? I think you've meant only three of them that being Tomska, Patryk, and Tord and they're not even part of the official crew anymore. So it really doesn't matter on what they said about people characters, but in all seriousness, can we please stop bothering Tomska about if he's returning back to Eddsworld and that he'll support TomxTord? I hate to hurt the feelings of little kids, but he not coming back. He has moved on with his life
Ohvex: It's not just about me not liking it. There's a reason as to why I don't and shipping just makes the fandom more toxic than it already is! And it's more about respecting people's boundaries they are REAL people and it's one of the reasons why Tord left! And people are still shipping it. Even worse making nsfw accounts like keep that shit to yourself! And then they wonder why people report it
And this is the point where I had to draw the line and it called it quits while trying to read this second rant. Oh Ohvex, I agree with anything that you've said in these two rants, but I couldn't ignore the many things that you got wrong. Especially the part when you weren't too sure on Matt saying something about ships and yes, I took it with a grain of salt, but if I were you, I would've just left that part out.
At the end of the day, I'm not giving you hate since I like to tell whoever is reading my posts about a certain thing in Eddsworld take everything I say not too serious. I do agree that TomxTord is a toxic ship and that people don't get boundaries of the real life people that the characters in Eddsworld are based off of.
And yes, I know that paultryck has a bad history since it ruined Paul and Patryk's friendship and basically ruined Patryk's chances of finding work, but I wouldn't be telling people who like the ship to stop if the ships makes them happy. The same goes for any other ship in the fandom.
Anyway, thank you to those who've made it this far. Now the biggest thing I have worry about would trying to figure out what I should name ep 2 of Rantception.
Oh god, this is so hard. Eh I might change the title if you guys don't like it.
This has been Lbat1901 and I'll see you next time.
Goodbye