someone i follow on tumblr mentioned these and i thought it had to be a joke. i've heard of rpf (real person fiction) before (mostly one direction fics), but it never occurred to me that people would be writing fics about cheerlebrities. i made a post about it on my tumblr, and then someone messaged me with the names of several instagram accounts that write cheerlebrity fics (i can post those names if you want since i know people are trying to get them taken down. i also know of a few that are up on wattpad). i ended up looking at them and they really bothered me. nothing i saw was graphic or anything, but rpf in general just should not be a thing. one of the fics i saw basically demonized one cheerlebrity who happens to be dating another cheerlebrity just for the benefit of the fic, and it was just awful. they all just came across to me as petty and mean and wish fulfillment, and it was really sad. a lot of them even tagged the subjects of the stories, which has to be incredibly uncomfortable for those poor kids.
fan fiction can be great (some of the best writers i know write fics for the les miserables fandom), but writing fics about real people is crossing a line and it's absolutely terrifying. i hope someone can come up with a way to get these accounts shut down.