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Like 80% of songs are about breaking up or getting together with someone and melodrama romance is pretty much one of the biggest literature/video/tv branches. Romance is a core aspect of many cultures and is something only a relatively small minority of people have no interest in. Sure not every story needs romance, but to a lot of people, it's something they want in a story.This has probably been said before, but why is 90% of fanfic shipping stuff even for stories in which no one is shown to be in a relationship even once? I do not care that the actor is hot, if you're writing fanfic for a fantasy, a horror story or a murder mystery in which the motive was not jealousy, there are no married couples and no one is mentioned as having a SO then adding a ship is missing the entire point.
A lot of people like the original work, but crave some romance in it. Other people want to take a work that has too much romance and trim it down so the story isn't about ships.
Take a setting that has basically no romance and that's a very easy thing for fans to add, likely because a bunch of people like that genre and it's the biggest/easiest gap to fill in creating fanfiction for that work.