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i could write a book abt all the things i love abt we bare bears but by far my fave thing is that it set out to be a show about three slightly socially inept bears trying to fit into a society where everyone turned them down for seemingly no reason, as a metaphor for immigration and minorities. and in the first portion of the show the bears’ main goal was to find new, cool friends, people who wanted to hang out with them, not even to make any personal bonds, but just so they could feel like they fit in somewhere after a lifetime of being cast aside by almost everyone they met, that was what a good majority of the early episodes were about

after it became obvious that was a no-go we immediately started seeing characters like chloe, a socially anxious korean child prodigy who struggles with the pressure of meeting the huge expectations set on her; charlie, a paranoid social outcast who struggles with interacting with people because he spent his whole life running from ones who wanted to hurt him, and ranger tabes, a big, excitable, passionate woman who is constantly ridiculed and deemed naive by male coworkers for striving to do good in the world. over time, the amount of episodes about the bears trying to host a huge house party or manage to invite some random people over for juice has decreased to almost nothing, while the episodes about them hanging out with and supporting and having a good time with chloe, charlie and tabes have become essentially the status quo

and i don’t know if the bears have realized it yet for themselves but it quickly became very blatant that these were the friends the bears were looking for all along, and that each of them was worth a thousand times more than any of the big social groups they used to hope for. the message of the show isn’t that anyone can fit in anywhere. the message is that the best place you can ever strive to fit in is with people like you. people who care. people who have felt what you’ve felt, or are at least willing to try to understand. the underdogs of society will always end up grouping together, and are capable of forming what are absolutely the most beautiful, strong, enriching, empowering and loving friendships. this is the level of compassion and understanding we should all have for each other, so that no one ever spends another day of their life wondering why there seems to be nowhere in the world that wants them to exist