To me the vid is clearly a vid from slash fandom talking to slash fandom

I'm somewhat interested to see you say that, I think. I've always felt that VVC is really closely tied to its slash origins and traditions, or at least can't really be understood outside that history and context. Not really in a critical way, but just by virtue of the way it understandably wants to protect its very specific history of a specific subset of a fandom that has recently grown much larger than that. I always felt like most participants would disagree though?