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I mean NieR Automata and Witcher 3 managed to make significant amounts of money without a single lootbox or exploitative amounts of DLC but sure.

Yeah, okay, guys. Games Totally Need Lootboxes to Make Any Money.

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control your own consumption of content

Sarah is allergic to strawberries. As soon as she puts them in her mouth, her face swells up and she gets hives. It’s non-life-threatening but uncomfortable for her.  

Sally is also allergic to strawberries, and has the same symptoms. 

Sarah informs her friends she is allergic to strawberries so they can stop using them in shared food. Some of them even stop eating strawberries too (or, at least, stop eating them around her), so she is more comfortable. Sarah researches places she can eat out that will take care with her allergy, and chooses restaurants who agree they can accommodate her, or who do not use strawberries in any of their cooking. 

Sally, on the other hand, goes into restaurants specifically advertising only strawberry desserts, orders a dessert, and makes a huge fuss when she gets sick. She takes to social media, the local newspapers, everywhere, to tell people how terrible this restaurant is for not specifically accommodating her personal allergy. She goes back frequently to insult and harass specific staff. Some staff have even quit because of her. Sally says it is her personal right to have her allergy accommodated in every single place she feels like eating! She posts pictures of herself all swollen and ill everywhere and blames the restaurant and the staff for her discomfort. 

Be like Sarah, not like Sally. 

Control your own consumption of content, don’t enter tags you don’t like, and don’t harass creators that make things you don’t like because you’ve decided you have to have the entire internet cater to your personal likes and comforts. 

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They were just standing around complimenting each other

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Last ramble before I do actual things, maybe:

Speaking as an autistic adult, I do not understand in the slightest why it is embarrassing for an adult to enjoy Doctor Who or Minecraft or My Little Pony. I do not understand why being passionate about something and finding connection with others is a bad thing. I really, truly do not understand this, speaking as someone who generally only easily talks to people with regards to a shared special interest or experience. I really do not understand why these things have been labelled “cringe culture” and why it took so long for people to understand the problems with this as a concept.

However, I really do not understand why the defense of these things has shifted to “it’s embarrassing, yes, but let kids enjoy things” or “it’s embarrassing, but cringe culture is pretty ableist, so maybe don’t” or “it’s embarrassing, but it isn’t hurting anyone, so let it go” or “it’s embarrassing, but it’s someone’s special interest”. I see this all the time, this absurd defense of something Tumblr has deemed inappropriate prefaced by the person seeking to support me claiming that this media is still embarrassing.

The idea that some forms of storytelling and fandom (in a world where nothing is pure and everything has faults that hurt some minority group, because all creators are hampered by one form of privilege or another) are acceptable to openly enjoy and some aren’t, even though neither is labelled as particularly venomous or dangerous, is so ridiculously arbitrary to me. So far, I’ve seen no defense of this that I can’t chalk up to “allistics once again making no sense”. I haven’t seen anyone explain why Minecraft is something no reasonable adult should touch. All I see is that fandoms and media often enjoyed by autistic adults get labelled “cringy”, and when people who are slightly aware of ableism realise that’s a bad thing to say, they shift to “it’s embarrassing but we’ll defend an autistic’s right to enjoy it”.

Thanks for your condescension, but if that’s your defense of my right to enjoy a property that allistics deem inappropriate for arbitrary allistic reasons (probably the fear of being mistaken for an autistic person, ableism), you can shove that defense where the sun doesn’t shine.

(I’m not talking about media that exists to damage, and I’m not saying that the media’s flaws and the ways it unintentionally hurts people shouldn’t be discussed, or that people aren’t justified in not consuming them and discussing this. I’m saying that I can’t see how Doctor Who is any more awful than whatever the current Tumblr TV show or game darling is, because there are few people in the world who are entirely lacking in some form of privilege and this shapes the media we consume. Stop requiring us to perform our activism about everything wrong with something in order to “acceptably” enjoy a TV show about a screwdriver-using time-travelling space magician.)

Autistic adults already deal with our disability aids and our coping mechanisms and our communication and our interests and our expression of emotion being deemed “childish” or “inappropriate”. I’ve been told I am embarrassing for my emotions and reactions and interests and needs by my family and friends more times than I can even count. We are continually and routinely infantilised, dismissed and belittled. Tell me, how are you not doing this here? How are you not contributing to a world where you are shoring up the fact that only autistics or kids can enjoy whatever it is that Tumblr has deemed unacceptable for adults?

When you call our interests “embarrassing” while seeking to defend us from those calling them “cringy”, how are you not as ableist?

Until you can shut down the idea of anything being cringe culture (or in fact the entire concept of cringe culture) without using words like “it’s embarrassing, but–”, you’re no ally of mine.

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Honestly?

Cringe culture isn’t about the ‘weird’ stuff drawn for a fandom. People say that’s the worst part of a fandom, but when it comes to cringe comps you never really see that sort of stuff, do you?

No, you see art that is obviously drawn by young or amateur artists. Cringe culture is entirely about humiliating young artists, humiliating actual children, because they drew a video game character they liked. Or they drew two of their favourite characters interacting!

Or maybe they’ve just spent the last 4 hours or more making an animation meme, because the song is cool, and it fits with the characters, and they really want to show off this great animation they made.

Instead, it gets put into a cringe comp, they get hate, they stop posting art, and they stop drawing. Cringe culture is putting off loads of young artists who don’t want to draw their favourite characters anymore because, according to everyone in the comments, they’re a cancer to the fandom. It must be so harmful if you’re a kid and you are told, by an adult, that you are a cancer, and you are ruining something you love.

So really? If you support cringe comps or cringe culture, unfollow me right now, cause I am completely done with that crap.

(Sorry, just wanted to rant, YouTube’s been recommending Cuphead cringe comps and I am so tired of this)

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Hey Artists!!

With Inktober winding down, I figured that November needed an art challenge too. Well fear not! I present to you, No Cringe November! This month is meant to celebrate the fall of cringe culture, and encourages you to show off pieces that rude people might say are “cringy”. Worry not, as things like fan trolls, pony sonas, ocs, and self inserts are all welcome!! Tracking tag is #no cringe november, and will start on the first of November!

Rules

1. It must be sfw. No pornographic material will be allowed. Tumblr is 13+, people. Keep it clean.

2. No hate speech allowed. Anything that is racist, ableist, homophobic, transphobic, or sexist in nature is not permitted.

3. Absolutely no ddlg, cgl, or map interaction allowed.

4. Do not harass artists about this. Just think to yourself…what would Bob Ross do?

5. Have fun!!!

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I may have gotten a lil bit carried away on twitter but I feel all of this

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Things that aren’t cringy:

Steven Universe sonas

Having OCs

Mogai identities

Fursonas

Etc

Things that are cringy:

Being a terf

Transphobia

Homophobia

Biphobia

Nazism

Fascism

Hating people for their pleasures

DD/LG

CG/L

Having no common sense

Attacking people for their identities

Racism

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anyways

🌺💜🌼💛💕 Incest/rape/pedophilia/abuse shippers and fundashi/fujoshis are disgusting and aren’t protected or supported by anti cringe culture 💕💛🌼💜🌺

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This is your daily reminder that terms like f*ta and tr*p are incredibly transphobic and you should never ever use them

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Me: I love this person...so much....they're such an important part of my life...I wouldn't be the same without them....how can I convey that to them?

Me:

Me:

Me: *sends them a meme out of nowhere at 2am* perfect

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a moodboard

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Someone: why do u always say u feel sick

Me: because, my sweet dude, I literally cannot determine the line between my mental illness and physical unwellness anymore. I am Literally Always Ready To Die I am in a constant state of uncomfort my guy it always makes me feel like I'm gonna be ridin the queasy train to regretville

Me: haha

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Unironically this

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reblogging music on tumblr is more symbolic than anything because nothing is actually playable