People like what they like, but it can be disheartening (and maybe even alienating) to not like something a whole circle of your friends is obsessed with.

I think most of Jayce's haters would be him in the Arcane universe. Thinks you're a good person but is easily convinced to be selfish and do dumb shit because of pretty girls. Because the girls ARE your favorites despite how boring or flawed they also are, aren't they.

Jayce has a really dumb face, lol. I like his character design from mid season 2 onwards, but in season 1 I just want to smack the living hell out of him every time I see him smiling.
But I actually like him as a character. He's just... unhinged and insane. He's not a very "good" character, he fucks up literally EVERYTHING he touches and thinks he's a good person while being the most egotistical prick ever. He also has a happy trigger on his suicidal ideation. Literally on his first episode he almost kill himself because he can't work his research. LMAO love that for him. He then proceeds to become a paranoid councillor that fucks over the undercity EVEN MORE and then he has hallucinations and basically becomes schizophrenic after he's touched by the arcane. LOL what a character arc. He's also very prone to manipulation and that really fucks with his agency in the story.
Viktor is the "good" character with strong morals, but he fucks up due to desperation and isolation (and he's fucked over by Jayce not respecting his wishes regarding the Hexcore).

Jayvik is my main ship these days, but the fandom is MMMMH sometimes VERY good, but most of the time not that good at all. I'm glad people are having fun and from what I've seen they don't take themselves too seriously, but a lot of people really need to learn how to tag their shit.

Eh. I'd rather the stories stay available to all on the internet than cause their authors all the hassles associated with publishing companies.

Does anyone know how things played out with the Disney Must Pay Task Force? Because I heard about when the guy who literally wrote the OT Star Wars novelization received the money they owed him (after calling a lot of negative publicity to the issue), but not what happened to any of the lower-profile people Disney was stiffing while continuing to rake in profits from their work. And then Unbound/Boundless seems to have copied the exact same playbook, plus claiming they're going to train AI on the content they stole from authors and stopped sending royalty payments for.

If anything happened that was supposed to deter companies from breaking their contracts with writers and pretending the goods are solely theirs to profit from, that doesn't seem to be working at all.