The comparisons to Trunks and Shadow are far more damaging to Silver's reputation than his uwufication. The uwufication is just a byproduct of women and effeminate men trying to find something worth liking about him when his few positive moments are spread across multiple games and a cancelled comic. If Silver was to ever be cool to boys like Trunks or Shadow, then it needed to have been right after 06 to course correct the character, and being a japanese company that was not happening. Now Silver is in a position to get fucked by shippers who are calling the shots because it was not the fanbase crying that saved Silver; it was gabs and other silveryumes that threatened with their wallets and gossip. Silver wasn't saved. He was moved to another prison