Thread 82150450 - /r9k/ [Archived: 105 hours ago]

Anonymous
8/11/2025, 4:07:34 PM No.82150450
powerscaling vs shipping
powerscaling vs shipping
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Who is worse for communities? Powerscaling dudebros, or shipping girlies?
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Anonymous
8/11/2025, 4:10:05 PM No.82150468
Shipping is universal whereas powerscaling is purely for brownoid dbz fans
Anonymous
8/11/2025, 4:11:10 PM No.82150475
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>>82150450 (OP)
Shipping girlies by a wide margin. Powerscaling is just dudes arguing on twitter about if someone could beat Goku or not. People become insane over shipping and harass the show runners for 'baiting' but not following through on certain ships.
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Anonymous
8/11/2025, 4:12:19 PM No.82150478
>>82150450 (OP)
People who talk about fictional characters as if they're real people need to be in a mental asylum.
Anonymous
8/11/2025, 4:12:37 PM No.82150481
>>82150450 (OP)
Im on tumblr and whenever I want to look for gifs of the shit im into im met by Femreaderxmaincharacter shit. Really fucking annoying.
Anonymous
8/11/2025, 4:13:54 PM No.82150487
shippers, power scalers are just obnoxious but you can tune them out while shippers are deranged and do deranged things. the fights are completely different. when power scalers disagree its MY GUY IS STRONGER THAN YOUR GUY and maybe they call each other retards, but shippers feel like they're being cucked by ships they dont like and take it personally. and the people who ship real people are even more insane
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Anonymous
8/11/2025, 4:15:14 PM No.82150491
>>82150475
Both are pathetic for different reasons. One is retarded and other is mentally I'll.
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Anonymous
8/11/2025, 4:16:44 PM No.82150499
>>82150491
The worst for one is picrel while the others harass creators and others irl
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Anonymous
8/11/2025, 4:17:16 PM No.82150503
Profile_-_Comic_Book_Guy
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>>82150499
Sigh, picrel
Anonymous
8/11/2025, 4:17:53 PM No.82150507
>>82150487
>shippers feel like they're being cucked by ships they dont like and take it personally. and the people who ship real people are even more insane
I remember reading twitter and seeing a pajeeta in her 30s post arguing with people and sending them death threats because she liked the short guy from the hunger games over some other nigga. It's so weird.
Anonymous
8/11/2025, 4:30:16 PM No.82150593
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>>82150450 (OP)
What the fuck does any of that mean?
I'm so fucking tired, bros
Anonymous
8/11/2025, 6:15:56 PM No.82151379
>>82150450 (OP)
the average powerscaler is more annoying than the average shipper, but the worst 10% of shippers are infinitely more toxic than any powerscaler could ever hope to be.
that said, a healthy community needs some of both: moderate shippers to actually care about the characters beyond "hype moments and aura," and moderate powerscalers to provide funny posts and agenda like in /jjk/ and /dbs/.
Anonymous
8/11/2025, 6:41:23 PM No.82151587
>>82150450 (OP)
Power scaling is arguably more "productive" and can be fascinating to speculate about, even though it's largely nonsensical and meaningless (it's all subject to the writer's imagination after all). Shipping is generally a losing battle, especially if the fans are arguing about a fictional series without official ships or with a designated love interest even if the character and the shipping is boring, with the shippers becoming borderline suicidal and making death threats if they don't end up having their way.

Power scaling has tangible statements and feats that end up derailing into childish arguments and/or the feats being glossed over and getting mild retcons at worst. Shipping has unhinged fandom wars and copium