I get that this is a joke, but I was drunk the other day and had an existential crisis about something similar.

When I write stories, i am inventing a world which basically makes me a god. Am I a bad god for writing stories where terrible things happen?

Interestingly and coincidentally, a couple weeks after that both Overly Sarcastic Productions and Hello Future Me put out videos containing the quote “characters are not people” and I felt personally targeted by that (which is of course ridiculous because why would they know about me?)