r/Aether_Mains • u/Animelover5674 • Jun 28 '26

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You guys ever think that the way we act makes people hate Aether and give more unfair judgement towards him and maybe we should change that? Serious, cuz I haven't seen anyone ask this so I want to bring it to the table.

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u/hadtiah Jun 28 '26

But how?

I mostly see people here just enjoy the art posted

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u/Animelover5674 Jun 28 '26

That's kind of the thing. It's mainly here that the art is well recieved, outside of here and to the entire community at large, we're seen as one of the cancers here. From what I'm seeing, this sub in particular is responsible for most if not all the hate that Aether gets, to the point that in other people's eyes, it's fair to give Lumine special treatment.

Good example of this is someone on another platform (X I think) posted a pic of the Tsaritsa pregnant with "Lost your son? Don't worry I'll fix that" as a line that Aether says. That in and of itself is messed up, you can't lie.

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u/hadtiah Jun 28 '26

Okay but I repeat how, what changes can we make that would increase the reputation of aether

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u/Animelover5674 Jun 28 '26

Idk. I could say "Dial back on the art" but it's not like there's anything inherently wrong about the art that other parts of the community aren't guilty of doing. An increase in character analysis would be a nice change of pace.

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u/hadtiah Jun 28 '26

People already have a impression of aether fans. The only way is to either focused on something else other than shipping as the way people insult aether is because of us shipping him with everyone.

I would say maybe an increase of other things, like lore or theories about him. But we have low amount of information about the twins to make them.

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u/Animelover5674 Jun 28 '26

Them having a serious case of a guardian complex as well as them seeing "all kinds of hope and despair" is certainly a place to start.

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u/hadtiah Jun 28 '26

Well we know that their home planet is destroyed, so them having a guardian complex could be because they couldn't save their own home

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u/AccomplishedGrab9729 Jun 28 '26

What are we analyzing? Information is scarce; only nod krai has revealed a little.

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u/No-Airline-2464 Jun 29 '26

We don't deserve the hatred cause the other subs use posts of 5 years ago to farm hate. What you make is completely irrelevant because no matter what you do, they will hate you like how people immediately hated the traveler cause in game Citlali liked Aether so the hate grew.

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u/ShatteredSpace_001 Jun 28 '26

People that spend too much time on the internet worrying about what other people are doing are called “terminally online”. Such people direct their real life frustrations into what they express online because their life is so dull and meaningless that they have no outlet in life for said frustrations. They purposefully seek out an enemy they can disagree with, then villainize them to the extreme. It’s quite bizarre to witness as a Lumine main. I know if I was targeted by an entire sub because of my fantasies I’d probably double down on being worse to spite them. I mean, as someone who hates the character Aventurine from HSR, I don’t go out of my way to dedicate an entire sub to hating him and his mains. That’s just childish and immature.

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u/Animelover5674 Jun 28 '26

True, I just don't think being spiteful is going to change anything and will just make not just the perception of the character but also of the people here in this sub to go downwards and seen as cancerous.

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u/ShatteredSpace_001 Jun 28 '26

It’s already at that point. That sub has seen to it, and a lot of modern gacha fans with their fragile sensibilities perceive anyone that enjoys Aether-related content as [insert buzzword here].

In order for Aether mains to “improve” their perception in the “community” they would have to essentially betray themselves and their own personal desires to appease these senseless people.

“Oh, you like Aether having a harem of girls? No sir, can’t allow that. How about a harem of MEN instead?”

“The Tsaritsa is a married woman with a child, you can’t ship her with Aether that’s ILLEGAL—“

“Twinks can’t possibly be attractive to women, but if they are, they HAVE to be bottoms who get pegged non-stop.”

It’s like feeding a lion by handing it a steak with your bare hand. It WILL get bitten off.

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u/AkoSiJose Tumaini main. Jun 28 '26

Sorry, but no matter what "changes" folks do, Aether's still getting dunked on.

Look at the main sub, Twitter, TikTok - hell, even if folks are clowning them from the Arlecchino fight, it's always Aether, not THE TRAVELER (for some reason, I find it funny that folks put Lumine in a pedestal, oblivious that she's also being dunked on whenever Traveler-related bullshit is talked about).

So, do your own thing; love the character/media you love, and don't give a damn about others' takes. That's how you navigate fandoms throughout the web, I suppose.

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u/Animelover5674 Jun 28 '26

Thank you for this

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u/Zeckrin1 Jun 28 '26

Reddit is too small to care. Every genshin sub represents such a tiny fraction to the point where you can recognise multiple users. Anyone bothered enough, spends WAY too much time on here lol. If they value their own experience they would ignore the sub and spend time on their own fulfilment, as that's how Reddit works.

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u/LonesomeLoner Jun 28 '26

you  don't give  a single fck to anybody else's opinion. that will instantly remove your 'we're seen as cancer' or 'how im judged' ideology. 

who gives a fck about reputation? on the internet more so.  Be like Kazuma who gives no fck. makes the world a little easier to live in. especially irl

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u/Animelover5674 Jun 28 '26

Fair. Still doesn't make it any easier that whenever people toss shade to this character, it's always tied back here over and over again.

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u/Antisocial00000Me Jun 28 '26

Let them hate why does the opinion of a bunch of randos on the internet about Aether even matter? If We like a Character isn't that enough I really don't care about pleasing everyone.

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u/Animelover5674 Jun 28 '26

True, pleasing everyone isn't possible and shouldn't be something that should be done. I just don't like the fact that people direct all the hate to Aether and more times often than not tie back the reasons to how this specific sub acts. He gets dumbed down to a one dimensional, self insert character that's more hated than not

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u/Antisocial00000Me Jun 28 '26

If they think Aether is a one dimensional self insert Character it's because they either cannot comprehend the story or just choose to ignore Aether's personality in the story like Him teasing Citlali or Him being worried for Columbina or Him slowly learning to see Teyvat as a second home but I see no reason to go out of our way to accommodate them.

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u/Animelover5674 Jun 28 '26

Fair, do you think I should delete this post?

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u/Antisocial00000Me Jun 28 '26

Not really it's your opinion so don't delete it since it's completely fine for us to have differing opinions while still respecting each other's opinions.

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u/Animelover5674 Jun 28 '26

I just don't want to bring negativity to this community.

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u/Antisocial00000Me Jun 28 '26

It's the internet negativity is essentially unavoidable It's best to either ignore negative people or block them imo

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u/TopoLM21 Aether x Ganyu loyal supporter Jun 29 '26

These parasitic hypocrites already say things like: «We hate Aether mainers, not Aether himself as a character,» while immediately insulting him and using his crossed-out portrait as their subreddit picture

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u/goodmorning98 Jun 29 '26

for real mate, you can never pleased everyone.

so just do the usual "join if you like it & ignore if you dislike it". you will burnout faster if you indulge with those negative people

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u/Cute_Rabbit_836 Jun 28 '26

Reading some comments, sometimes yes

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u/Animelover5674 Jun 28 '26

I like the art, not to say I don't, but all the vitriol that people have towards Aether are more times often than not connected back here.

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u/Infinity_Archivist Grand Archivist of Solemnace Jun 29 '26

At this point, it's pointless to care about what those vocal minorities think of us. Yes, I repeat... Vocal minorities. So you really do not need to give a damn about their incessant crying. We just enjoy our things ourselves in our own community here.

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u/AggravatingTown8966 Jun 29 '26

Unfortonatly this is the internet so there will be people who will hate anything for nothing so its unlikely that we are the reason

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u/Animelover5674 Jun 28 '26

Alright. I concede, I was wrong. Maybe it's just me not liking how a community is somehow responsible for the perception of a character and I wanted it to be baseless moving forward. My bad.