Haha, that's one way to look at it. Seriously though, that is in fact a
positive attitude towards the content that can vastly transform the experience of the posts for the better.
It's the old question of liking something despite knowing it's (probably) fake:
Usually it doesn't hurt, and can in fact mean that literally nobody got hurt.
But there's a general tendency of such content attracting hatred:
If it does not explicitly identify itself as fictional, people don't like the idea of it being believed to be true.