you may counter this with “but kibi! just saying ‘this is good’ isn’t any better!” but consider: nobody does that

my complaint isn’t actually against swearing it’s against contemporary fannish culture of using really loud words (“i HATE that this is over”; “this DESTROYED me”; “gorgeous”; “asfkhfsfdjjtsvsa”; etc) as proxy for actual engagement with a work (the louder the words, the fewer interesting remarks are present); swearing is just the cheapest way that people do this and also the most unnecessary (because swears do not ever encode meaning just volume)

this is a lie i do that