@raakamagna  
Mm, perhaps. There are probably people who are weird enough if he ever finds them. ;3

@thps48  
We should give the guy a break. I mean, look at him! That is probably the closest he will ever be to a woman in a romantic context.

@raakamagna  
As long as he himself likes his own creation, that’s enough. XD

@Trahzo  
I’m surprised to hear about it. I didn’t know until cardstock mentioned it.

@CardStock  
Well. Some authors do self insert in relevant ways, there are shows and books that are nothing but a fictional rendition of the author’s life.
 
The problem is not the self insert, even as the romantic interest of a main character, but the levels of cringe tied to it. It is cringy in many levels.
 
To give him credit though, at least the guy did what no man ever did before, get to make a ship between himself and his waifu part of the official show. Weird, cringy, even disgusting, but anyone with a waifu would dream of achieving that.

@Background Pony #B511  
What do you mean defending it? Are people defending cartoon pedophilia happening right infront ot thier faces?

@CardStock  
That sucks. It’s weird people are defending it. A cameo makes more sense.

@Background Pony #B511  
The worst part is I’ve found people trying to defend it. Not just the terrible reboot but this entire self insert thing. One even said “Well it’s nothing new for writers to insert themselves into a series” Yeah, but NOT as a romantic love interest to a main character. They were only ever side characters that got maybe 3 seconds of attention and 2 words of dialogue.

@Evil Emperor Proteus  
@Background Pony #B511  
Oh god I don’t think there’s really anything wrong with a writer inserting themselves as a cameo but as a recurring character and as a love interest that just sounds dumb

@Evil Emperor Proteus  
Trust me I want nothing more than this reboot to not exist. It’s the same kind of garbage that ruined Teen Titans.
 
Not all reboots are terrible but the good ones are a bit harder to locate than either the “meh” or “terrible” ones. Because the studios decide that “Hey, this was popular 20 years ago, lets remake it but make it what we think is hip and cool now and completely ignore what made people like the original.
 
Thank God the new DuckTales is looking good so far

@northern haste
 
A writer’s self-insert on the new powerpuff girls show
 

@northern haste  
It’s one of the writers self-inserting himself as Blossom’s crush. He also voices the character himself, and all of his episodes involve this self-insert. It’s fucking disgusting and cringe-beyond-cringe, and an abuse of his position.
 
 
@CardStock  
You’d have a hard time convincing anyone that this reboot is canon. Like, to anyone besides that self-inserting writer, who I refuse to name, lest it give him power.

That moment when a writer is inserted into that scenario.
 

 
And that it was in the show’s canon
 

 
I don’t care if the network says it wasn’t his idea, even I believe that they still allowed this.

I’ve only seen a few episodes of the 2016 series but what the fuck is that?