Filth Core or Filthcore is the online fandom far opposite end of the
slider from Purity Culture, with both views being solidly insane, and normal
people existing in places between the two.
Where Purity Culture equates fiction with
reality IE:
people who like villains must support those bad actions in real life, Filth Core argues fiction can't effect
reality at all, so there's never a 'bad' presentation of relationships, beliefs, or actions that can hurt
people or shape perception. IE: even 24 hour consumption of underage porn can never effect anyone's mental state or actions and there's no need to monitor how things affect you, propaganda is only a real world thing and you should lay off complaints about race representation and
chill, or an author has no responsibility not to use bigoted tropes, as writing can't effect
reality.
Filth Core users like to target kids who have been harassed by Purity Culture, because the desire to push back against that makes it easy. At worst, you find adults who encourage kids to sex roleplay with them as it 'can't possibly have any effect,' but mostly they're just really annoying assholes who refer to anyone who disagrees as 'religious' '
pearl clutchers' and 'children', and think they're incredibly intelligent. Very often shamelessly addicted openly to hentai.
Ironically, many will occasionally argue one specific thing they want an excuse to hate does effect reality, seemingly genuinely without noting the hypocrisy.
"So wait, you're not dating him anymore?"
"No...It turned out his big kink is border patrol raping
people in custody."
"Wait, so you broke up just because you think his kink is gross?"
"Well--no, it wasn't that; it's that he watches and reads porn for it for hours EVERY day, and I felt like it was getting really unhealthy and kind of creepy, especially since I'm not
white. But, when I brought it up, he got really
mad and chewed me out about being self-righteous and judgy and stupid, and went on and on about how fiction can't affect
real actions like some kind of Filth Core freak."
"Oh. Yeah. Dump his ass and
RUN."
