1996 July 9, Chris Byler, “Re: 'PUSHER was a 'Shipper!! *gak*!”, in alt.tv.x-files[1] (Usenet):
I think this whole thing is a semantic misunderstanding.. the anti-shippers and the pro-shippers are putting entirely different meanings into the phrase 'in love'.
1996 November 18, Gil Trevizo, “NEW: Amazes me (1/1) by Jeannine Ackerson”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative[2] (Usenet):
VRA. Relationship: Lots of MSR. Anti-relationshippers should skip merrily away from this story, singing their anti-shipper songs. <g>
1997 February 12, Gerald Burns, “Re: SCULLY AND MULDER KISS ?????????????”, in alt.tv.x-files[3] (Usenet):
<sigh> And what's wrong with a little kiss? Even if it's just a platonic one? Is that so bad? It seems as if anti-shippers are so wrapped up in this 'No-kiss' thing that they forgot what a kiss can actually mean.
1997 February 15, Alyssa Fernandez, “Re: Get Them Together W/out Ruining Show”, in alt.tv.x-files[4] (Usenet):
There was nothing inane about Sarah's suggestions, given the nature of her hypothesis--i.e., that they could be gotten together "w/out ruining the show" for anti-shippers.
1997 March 11, Ann Vermillion, “"Forbidden Fruit" by Anne Vermillion, re: Exit to Eden challenge”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative[5] (Usenet):
MSR ahead! anti-shippers, this ain't your cuppa tea! Plenty of UST!
1997 March 11, Kirsten M. Berry, “REVISED - A Little Bit of Truth NC17 (01/01)”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative[6] (Usenet):
No, it isn't Mulder/Scully sex, so you anti-'shippers can breathe a little more easily.
1997 April 15, Dawson E. Rambo, “"Small Potatoes" Preview Quicktime Movie”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative[7] (Usenet):
I went over it frame by frame. I know how totally, utterly pathetic this sounds (anti-shippers be warned....)
1997 April 21, Dawson E. Rambo, “NEW: (30/29) "Snapshot: Epilogue"”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative[8] (Usenet):
This Epilogue is for serious, die-hard 'shippers ONLY. If you are an anti-shipper, reading this story may, frankly, cause you to go BLIND.
1997 April 25, Terry Luck, “Re: 'SHIPPERS SUCK!!!!”, in alt.tv.x-files[9] (Usenet):
For all you pro-shippers and anti-shippers keep posting and debating. Someone is watching you.
1997 November 29, Joe Ramirez, “Re: shipper horror to come”, in alt.tv.x-files[10] (Usenet):
In fact, it would constitute the very sort of inexplicable, sensationalized, soap-operatic development that the anti-shippers always have proclaimed would be the ruination of the show (only from the opposite direction, of course).
1998 February 28, Jmercu...@hotmail.com, “Anti-Shipper Paranoia”, in alt.tv.x-files[11] (Usenet):
The reason you anti-shippers are always bringing up "Moonlighting" is because that is precisely what you want to see between M&S.
1998 April 8, Sean Carroll, “Re: IF YOU LOVED ONE BREATH, READ THIS!”, in alt.tv.x-files[12] (Usenet):
I am one of the most ardent anti-shippers you'll ever meet, so that would be where we differ :)
1998 May 3, schoon...@mailexcite.com, “CONFIRMED! A KISS!”, in alt.tv.x-files[13] (Usenet):
Get ready, anti-shippers. You've had your way long enough. On June 19, you will see... A KISS!
1998 August 25, Alyxzia Kendle, “Credits & Thanks for "Of Darkness And Light"”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative[14] (Usenet):
I know you'll never read this novella because you're a stubborn anti-shipper but I just wanted to let you know that I wrote the last chapter for you. <evil grin>
2003, Carol Stabile, Prime Time Animation: Television Animation and American Culture, page 189:
These "shippers," Internet fan-slang for fans who want central characters to have a relationship ("shippers" is short for "relationshippers"), carried on fan-site wars with the "anti-shippers," fans who thought Daria had more integrity as a single girl.
2015, Glyn Davis, Kay Dickinson, Lisa Patti, & Amy Villarejo, Film Studies: A Global Introduction, page 478:
The genre of shipper videos has become so established that other videos now operate as anti-shipper videos. For example, Buffy v. Edward (Jonathan McIntosh, 2009) rejects the celebration by fans of the character Edward Cullen from the Twilight film franchise by intercutting footage of Edward from Twilight with clips of the character Buffy from the American television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
“Anti-fans, anti-shippers,” Donnelly explains. “They root hardcore against a couple. Like hate-watching a TV show, but real life, man. It's my least favorite part of a fandom. No love, all hate.”
2021, Emily Burkhardt, Verity Trott, & Whitney Monaghan, "'#Bughead Is Endgame': Civic Meaning-Making inRiverdale Anti-Fandom andShipping Practices on Tumblr", Television & New Media:
However, present within our data were examples of when Bughead shippers would hijack the #Antibughead tag, antagonizing anti-shippers and asserting dominance within the Riverdale fandom on Tumblr.
Noun: "(fandom slang) one who objects to ships or shipping deemed problematic"[edit]
2016, Elizabeth Orson, "Exploring Abusive Shipping In The Jessica Jones Fandom", Focus Media Journal, Volume 37 (2016-2017), page 76:
Yourshipisfine articulates the position many Jessica/Kilgrave shipper take when arguing with anti-shippers over the problematic nature of shipping Jessica and Kilgrave together: “yeah, we know it’s fucked up and wrong, that’s one of the main reasons why we ship it” when arguing with anti-shippers over the problematic nature of shipping Jessica and Kilgrave together.
2019, Lauren Rouse, "The fan fiction reading guide: the use of multimedia and comments as close reading tools", thesis submitted to DePaul University, page 96:
Furthermore, antis are angry at the pedophilic undertones in a relationship between Kylo and Rey and the large about[sic] of abuse and rape/non-con based fics in the ship. This makes tumblr and the internet at large a tumultuous place for any Reylo shipper. Yet, Jessika has found her niche on the website and rarely, if ever, deals with anti-shippers.
2021, Dominika Ciesielska & Maria Rutkowska, "Between interpretation and morality: Anti-shippers in modern media fandom", Journal of Folklore and Popular Culture, Volume 65, Number 2, page 53 (abstract in English, article in Polish):
This article, focusing on media fandoms, aims to showcase this issue by presenting fandom discussions and arguments motivated by emotions around ships: from ship wars waged by shippers competing with each other, to anti-shippers driven by moral motives in the form of introducing the fandom purity wank issue and anti-shippers of celebrity pairings.
2021, Victor Larsen, "'It Makes Me, A Minor, Uncomfortable': Media and Morality In Anti-Shippers' Policing of Online Fandom", thesis submitted to Ghent University, page 43:
Anti-shippers tend to have the opinion that problematic art on the internet will be consumed by people too young to have the critical thinking skills to distinguish what is okay in real life versus in fiction, so it is best either not created at all or created in private.
2021, Allegra Rosenberg, "'Writing To Cope': Anti-Shipping Rhetoric in Media Fandom", paper presented at the Electronic Literature Organization 2021: Platform (Post?) Pandemic conference, page 7:
What is seen by pro-shippers as simply the desire for everyone to be able to write, draw, and publish what they want, even if it offends or “squicks,” is viewed by anti-shippers as unforgivably harmful.
2022, Agnieszka Urbańczyk, "Finding a Dead Dove in the Refrigerator: The Anti-Shippers' Call for Exclusion of Sensitive Content as a Means of Establishing Position in the Field of Fan Production", Przegląd Kulturoznawczy, Volume 53, Number 3, page 405:
Today's anti-shippers, often called simply antis, are not against the act of shipping itself. Their goal is to purge the Internet of content deemed problematic and to stop people from creating more of it.