AITAH for wanting to platonically ship myself with another character in the friendship sense that another Imgflip user made for the community?
Hello there, fellow redditors from this subreddit. I bring forth, another story that is fresh and hot off the presses.
So, not that long ago (around a month), I had found out about this one community OC that one of my followers and little bit known on my side, and the OC name is called Claire, a "Beanoid" character that was made for the Imgflip community in the MSMG (MS_memer_group AKA Mildly Small Memer Group) stream. The creator of Claire is my old pal Chronological (AKA ChronolinthMusic), fellow Imgflip user and had been there for years. I had already made sexual comments about Claire saying that I'd smash with her (Saying it in the Smash Or Pass sense, I only say that stuff for the funny, if ykyk), and had made other comments throughout the month, so my reputation on that isn't GREAT, but if you understand my point about it, then you can agree with me.
So, this morning, I said that I wanted to platonically ship (THE KEY WORD BEING PLATONICALLY) myself and Claire, and Chrono was pissed because she is highly uncomfortable with people shipping her character because she thinks that I'm doing it for the romance when I'm not. Other people were also saying that as well when I had stated for the record that I am only doing it for the FRIENDSHIP, not for the romantic relationship. Unfortunately, everyone did not take this to this level of understanding and they are now overreacting to this, saying that I want to be in love with the character and saying that platonic shipping doesn't exist when it does, although I had stated multiple times that I am PLATONICALLY SHIPPING THE CHARACTER! PLATONIC SHIPPING IS WHERE YOU SHIP FOR THE FRIENSHIP, NOT THE ROMANCE! And people are already saying that I'm a freak because I want to smash Claire when I had said that I wouldn't actually think that and people are automatically assuming that I am doing a romance ship when I'm not, in which that makes me controversial when I had stated loud and clear, that I wouldn't and won't ship the character in the romantic way, and for the friendship way. I had said this in multiple comments, multiple posts, and people are still not listening to me, and because of my past sayings and that I had said those only as a joke, it makes me the asshole here when I'm not the asshole! Another person agreed with me saying that I'm in the right and they