Okay but seriously, none of you get why this is bad.
When Philip died, the BBC cancelled all programming for the rest of the day (and iirc possibly the next day as well) in favour of just airing various tributes to him. They only played sad songs on the radio for the next week.
Their complaints site fucking crashed because of how many people were writing in. Like the British public most emphatically did not want this.
And it didn’t just affect television. A lot of local councils shut down as well. I actually know someone on our parish council, and they were pretty openly complaining about being told to down tools in the middle of a pandemic because some old guy none of us had ever met finally hopped the twig.
Nobody wanted this.
While Tumblr was responding in an eerily similar way to the BBC (no, framing it negatively doesn’t entirely negate the fact that you spent the whole time drawing as much attention to him as possible and trying to persuade everyone that he had way more historical and national significance than he actually did) everyone in the UK was pretty much indifferent about it, but having to put up with the government trying to openly force us to mourn.
Again, we didn’t want to. Most of us— barring the odd overly patriotic weirdo— don’t really give a shit about the monarchy. At best they get seen as a quaint curiosity, at worst as a pretty blatant enforcer of classism.
This isn’t “ha ha ha the queen’s gonna die” this is “oh fuck, the government is going to directly interfere with the day to day lives of ordinary people in an effort to force them to publicly mourn the head of state”. This is, quite honestly, shit.
Like, if this doesn’t concern you beyond a vague “fuck the queen”, then you’re not actually anti-monarchy, you’re just edgy.