us aros (rightfully) complain that most of the aromantic “representation” we get is creators saying their character is aromantic on twitter or whatever
but nothing compares to the absolute nonsense that the 2010s steven universe fandom went through
after the show ended, one writer was like “i’ve always seen peridot as aroace and deliberately wrote her to come off that way” while a different writer said “i’ve always seen peridot and lapis’s relationship as romantic and deliberately wrote it to come off that way.”
naturally wwiii broke out in the fandom over this
so yeah, we didn’t even get a word of god confirmation. we got two priests saying contradictory things while the congregation duked it out in the parking lot