Citations:anti-shipper

Noun: "(fandom slang) one who opposes a specific ship or shipping in general"

 * 2003, Carol Stabile, Prime Time Animation: Television Animation and American Culture, page 189:
 * These "shippers," Internet fan-slang for fans who want central characters to have a relationship ("shippers" is short for "relationshippers"), carried on fan-site wars with the "anti-shippers," fans who thought Daria had more integrity as a single girl.
 * 2015, Glyn Davis, Kay Dickinson, Lisa Patti, & Amy Villarejo, Film Studies: A Global Introduction, page 478:
 * The genre of shipper videos has become so established that other videos now operate as anti-shipper videos. For example, Buffy v. Edward (Jonathan McIntosh, 2009) rejects the celebration by fans of the character Edward Cullen from the Twilight film franchise by intercutting footage of Edward from Twilight with clips of the character Buffy from the American television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
 * 2020, K. B. Ritchie, Charming Like Us, unnumbered page:
 * “Anti-fans, anti-shippers,” Donnelly explains. “They root hardcore against a couple. Like hate-watching a TV show, but real life, man. It's my least favorite part of a fandom. No love, all hate.”
 * 2021, Emily Burkhardt, Verity Trott, & Whitney Monaghan, "'#Bughead Is Endgame': Civic Meaning-Making inRiverdale Anti-Fandom andShipping Practices on Tumblr", Television & New Media:
 * However, present within our data were examples of when Bughead shippers would hijack the #Antibughead tag, antagonizing anti-shippers and asserting dominance within the Riverdale fandom on Tumblr.
 * 2003, Carol Stabile, Prime Time Animation: Television Animation and American Culture, page 189:
 * These "shippers," Internet fan-slang for fans who want central characters to have a relationship ("shippers" is short for "relationshippers"), carried on fan-site wars with the "anti-shippers," fans who thought Daria had more integrity as a single girl.
 * 2015, Glyn Davis, Kay Dickinson, Lisa Patti, & Amy Villarejo, Film Studies: A Global Introduction, page 478:
 * The genre of shipper videos has become so established that other videos now operate as anti-shipper videos. For example, Buffy v. Edward (Jonathan McIntosh, 2009) rejects the celebration by fans of the character Edward Cullen from the Twilight film franchise by intercutting footage of Edward from Twilight with clips of the character Buffy from the American television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
 * 2020, K. B. Ritchie, Charming Like Us, unnumbered page:
 * “Anti-fans, anti-shippers,” Donnelly explains. “They root hardcore against a couple. Like hate-watching a TV show, but real life, man. It's my least favorite part of a fandom. No love, all hate.”
 * 2021, Emily Burkhardt, Verity Trott, & Whitney Monaghan, "'#Bughead Is Endgame': Civic Meaning-Making inRiverdale Anti-Fandom andShipping Practices on Tumblr", Television & New Media:
 * However, present within our data were examples of when Bughead shippers would hijack the #Antibughead tag, antagonizing anti-shippers and asserting dominance within the Riverdale fandom on Tumblr.
 * 2015, Glyn Davis, Kay Dickinson, Lisa Patti, & Amy Villarejo, Film Studies: A Global Introduction, page 478:
 * The genre of shipper videos has become so established that other videos now operate as anti-shipper videos. For example, Buffy v. Edward (Jonathan McIntosh, 2009) rejects the celebration by fans of the character Edward Cullen from the Twilight film franchise by intercutting footage of Edward from Twilight with clips of the character Buffy from the American television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
 * 2020, K. B. Ritchie, Charming Like Us, unnumbered page:
 * “Anti-fans, anti-shippers,” Donnelly explains. “They root hardcore against a couple. Like hate-watching a TV show, but real life, man. It's my least favorite part of a fandom. No love, all hate.”
 * 2021, Emily Burkhardt, Verity Trott, & Whitney Monaghan, "'#Bughead Is Endgame': Civic Meaning-Making inRiverdale Anti-Fandom andShipping Practices on Tumblr", Television & New Media:
 * However, present within our data were examples of when Bughead shippers would hijack the #Antibughead tag, antagonizing anti-shippers and asserting dominance within the Riverdale fandom on Tumblr.

Noun: "(fandom slang) one who objects to ships or shipping deemed problematic"

 * 2016, Elizabeth Orson, "Exploring Abusive Shipping In The Jessica Jones Fandom", Focus Media Journal, Volume 37 (2016-2017), page 76:
 * Yourshipisfine articulates the position many Jessica/Kilgrave shipper take when arguing with anti-shippers over the problematic nature of shipping Jessica and Kilgrave together: “yeah, we know it’s fucked up and wrong, that’s one of the main reasons why we ship it” when arguing with anti-shippers over the problematic nature of shipping Jessica and Kilgrave together.
 * 2019, Lauren Rouse, "The fan fiction reading guide: the use of multimedia and comments as close reading tools", thesis submitted to DePaul University, page 96:
 * Furthermore, antis are angry at the pedophilic undertones in a relationship between Kylo and Rey and the large about [sic] of abuse and rape/non-con based fics in the ship. This makes tumblr and the internet at large a tumultuous place for any Reylo shipper. Yet, Jessika has found her niche on the website and rarely, if ever, deals with anti-shippers.
 * 2020, Sarah Boyd, "The Archive of Our Own and the Stakes of Publishing Fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Stirling, page 209:
 * The trading of reasons to oppose a particular ship began to become a source of social capital within the anti-shipper clique, providing its members with the kind of communal validation that, by definition, they would never receive from pro-shippers.
 * 2021, Dominika Ciesielska & Maria Rutkowska, "Between interpretation and morality: Anti-shippers in modern media fandom", Journal of Folklore and Popular Culture, Volume 65, Number 2, page 53 (abstract in English, article in Polish):
 * This article, focusing on media fandoms, aims to showcase this issue by presenting fandom discussions and arguments motivated by emotions around ships: from ship wars waged by shippers competing with each other, to anti-shippers driven by moral motives in the form of introducing the fandom purity wank issue and anti-shippers of celebrity pairings.
 * 2021, Victor Larsen, "'It Makes Me, A Minor, Uncomfortable': Media and Morality In Anti-Shippers' Policing of Online Fandom", thesis submitted to Ghent University, page 43:
 * Anti-shippers tend to have the opinion that problematic art on the internet will be consumed by people too young to have the critical thinking skills to distinguish what is okay in real life versus in fiction, so it is best either not created at all or created in private.
 * 2021, Allegra Rosenberg, "'Writing To Cope': Anti-Shipping Rhetoric in Media Fandom", paper presented at the Electronic Literature Organization 2021: Platform (Post?) Pandemic conference, page 7:
 * What is seen by pro-shippers as simply the desire for everyone to be able to write, draw, and publish what they want, even if it offends or “squicks,” is viewed by anti-shippers as unforgivably harmful.
 * 2022, Agnieszka Urbańczyk, "Finding a Dead Dove in the Refrigerator: The Anti-Shippers' Call for Exclusion of Sensitive Content as a Means of Establishing Position in the Field of Fan Production", Przegląd Kulturoznawczy, Volume 53, Number 3, page 405:
 * Today's anti-shippers, often called simply antis, are not against the act of shipping itself. Their goal is to purge the Internet of content deemed problematic and to stop people from creating more of it.
 * 2023, Samantha Aburime, "Hate narratives, conditioned language and networked harassment: A new breed of anti-shipper and anti-fan – antis", Journal of Fandom Studies, Volume 10, Issue 2-3:
 * Thus, an anti-shipper who is against those viewed to be pro-shippers is already deemed more morally pure.
 * 2023, Madison Bradburn, "Fans Like Us: Anti-shipping, Othering, and the Reauthoring of Fandom", thesis submitted to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, page 16:
 * This is especially true as Anti-shippers utilize rhetoric that positions Pro-shippers not only as “bad” fans but also as “bad” members of society.
 * 2023, Sarah Ellen Ford, "Politics? What Politics: Digital Fandom and Sociopolitical Belief", dissertation submitted to Bowling Green State University, page 54:
 * This is a broad definition for a term that each individual may use differently but is primarily used to distinguish a person from an “anti-shipper”.
 * 2023, Adrian A. Stone, "The Antagonistic Anatomy of Anti-shippers: A Thematic Analysis", thesis submitted to City University of New York, pages 35-36:
 * To further bolster these fortifications, there is a perception held among anti-shippers that their position is what ought to be considered ‘normal’ in contrast to the alleged degeneracy of pro-shippers.
 * 2024, Bracy Appeikumoh, "Why Have There Been No Great Women Eroticists?", thesis submitted to OCAD University, page 29:
 * Hamletmachine is very open about her art and has come under fire for it: in 2023, detractors (who more than likely have anti-shippers in their ranks) mass reported her Patreon page and had it taken offline for several days thus threatening her income.