This is a long-winded way of saying Sometimes That Radioactively Toxic Pairing Has Compelling Narrative Importance But Saying "I Ship It" Has Too Many Positive (Affectionate And/Or Derogatory) Connotations And Does Not At All Capture My Thoughts On It

Or maybe I'm overthinking the phrase idfk

I need a phrase for "these two have SOMETHING going on that is intrinsically tied to who they are as characters and ignoring it would be a disservice, but I only care about it enough to acknowledge its importance and then move on to the ship I ACTUALLY care about"

For me "I ship it" is for the ships that you can envision an endgame for, canonically doomed or not. Some part of you *wants* it to succeed/have succeeded at some point, even if you know it doesn't or can't. It *could've* worked if not for xyz. Or it *does* work and they deserve to be together.

But also sometimes my audio processing is fucky or the person speaking is very mumbly and then I remember why I turn on the subtitles by default

To be clear the like spam isn't a complaint, it was the perceived randomness of which videos were liked that confused me.

This theory came from liking and saving one (1) video on my fyp, scrolling, and then liking another from the same account. And another. And another. And now I get.