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I don't know how one's success defines or cancels out their bigotry or racist remarks. There are plenty of successful people who were and still are racist; so how does one's popularity cancel that out? It doesn't matter whether he is racist or not, but I have an issue with fans like you believing that bigotry can be canceled out by how much profit a person makes.

I’m just as disappointed but not surprised. Parasocial fans will do anything to defend their faves, including to support a situation that puts their favorite actor and actress at risk. On the other hand, there’s people that believe something being normalized means it should continue to exist; which is odd at best because there’s plenty of things that are normalized that have caused more harm than good. Situations like this, where minors are paired up with adults to play romantic leads, will continue to garner negative responses because people will continue to make it known to the industry that this practice is something the audience doesn’t support.

no where in their comment did they blame the actress, in fact they're criticizing the agency and fans for encouraging this

I have more of an issue with people trying to justify this with "the adults consented to cast this minor." Adults consenting to something on behalf of minors would never be equal to minors growing up to understand the weight of a situation that an adult put them through. Age and mentality gaps between romantic leads have always been a hot debate throughout history. And let's keep this in mind: Just because certain things are normalized, it doesn't equate to being ethical. Not so long ago, teenage brides were normalized and considered "consensual" on both parties, so now what? The argument of consent, when one of them is a minor and having their decisions made for them, doesn't help defend your faves. Let's not try to make people who have the right to question and worry about the situation sound crazy or out of touch when there have been several situations in the entertainment industry where young stars have experienced some form of trauma because of how mature their roles were, especially romantic roles. Just like how some of you guys may argue, "you don't know about the entertainment industry, how would you know these actresses and actors aren't protected?", people are also going to argue, "how would you know that they are being protected?" We don't know what's going on, and personally, I'd rather see adults play love interests than have minors play love interests with adults under the excuse of "they need to further their career."

Some of you guys need to stop misdirecting you're anger towards the actors and actresses when there's already a contract signed. On the other hand, some of you guys need to stop finding excuses to defend the act of casting minors with adults when playing romantic leads, especially if this is done to defend your faves. Obviously, this is weird; people are going to make loud responses and boycotts to let the industry know that they (the audience) don't support this. This isn't specifically to target anyone's faves; this boycott response could be towards any actress, actor, company, or production team.