The Frozen Fandom Divide and its Toxicity

I first have to just say:

Holy shit, you guys, can we all just get along?

I’ve never seen a movie divide so many fans of the same thing. I can’t even browse the Frozen tag for gifs and fan art/fics now without seeing trash talk against a certain group. It’s disappointing. We’re all here because we love Frozen; what you get out of it and what you enjoy should not be the concern of others.

Do I have my own issues with the movie? Hell yeah. The pacing’s awful, they tried to cram way too many plot points in the small run time, the Kristanna subplot was totally unnecessary, and I’m still not 100% on board with the ending.

But you know what? THERE’S STILL SO MUCH I LOVE ABOUT THIS MOVIE. The animation is breath-taking, the emotion on the characters’ faces just shatters my heart in the best way, the songs are an eargasm, and Elsa and Anna are still the perfect babies they were in the first film.

With a sequel to a movie as big as the first Frozen was, SOMEONE is going to be left unhappy. It’s not going to go the way you would’ve have made it. But you had no control over it, so why are you mad your headcanons didn’t come true? Would I have separated the sisters at the end? Hell no. When I first heard the rumors that was happening and then the confirmation that it actually did? I was crushed. There were two days in a row where I was in a deep state of depression and cried several times because that just defeats the entire message of the first movie, right?

Yes and no.

You can believe either and are completely correct because every person takes something different away from a movie. I don’t care if you’re the anti-Elsa Kristanna shippers who are taking this movie as God’s word or the Elsanna shippers who denounce the entire Kristanna ship spanning both movies; your opinion is your opinion. Takeaways from movies are subjective, and who are you to denounce someone different from you? Especially regarding these ship wars.

Guys, I’m sick of them. Hell yeah I’m an Elsanna shipper, but I always KNEW, even if the movie turned out the way I wanted it to, that it would never happen. Even if Anna hadn’t ended up with Kristoff, that ship is just never going to fly and I’ve accepted that. That’s what fanon is for. But, Kristanna shippers, just because your ship did happen doesn’t give you the right to go into the Elsanna tag and rub it in our faces or call us nasty names just because of two fictional characters we like together. I’m sure you have something better to do.

And Elsanna shippers: I’m sure we have something better to do than heckle Kristanna shippers by trying to convince them their subplot was entirely not needed/rushed/invalidated/what-have-you. Let them have this.

In the end, I’m still incredibly happy and in love with both movies. The first one changed my life so much and in so many wonderful ways and even then there were things I criticized heavily. Hans’ villainy being rushed and random, “Fixer-Upper,” Kristanna being added within the last five minutes of the movie, “In Summer,” the trolls… I could’ve done without all that, but what am I going to do? What’s done is done, same with Frozen 2. Doesn’t mean I still can’t take home with me my own takeaways at the end of the day or go dive into Elsanna fanon to fix my wrongs.

Cope in what you love about the movie, not what you hate.