#I might just be too used to seeing the Twitter engagement constantly so ppl this is null on this site

[madillhethen]

I meant that ppl are mad at the bi erasure of Achilles so ‘ppl would riot if the character is straight’ was referring to that, which admittedly I worded wrong. Some ppl are disappointed that Fergus being ‘bi’ (I don’t know enough of him to know if this is true or not) had no males on his list only women and therefore ‘he’s straight’ so they’re upset on that. Also because he has some females that ‘is meant for the player’ has reawakened ppl crapping on him again for having ‘no tastes’ or some other argument.

But yes, ppl get mad at male characters who show interests at the female characters pandered to the player, and then they get treated like garbage by the fandom. So yes, a list would be fun but also just in fandom shipping spaces it’s just too exhausting to deal with. Some people will enjoy it and other ppl will use it as a weapon to gatekeep. Tumblr is on the side where it’s more chill—other spaces are not.

I wish more servants gave us lists of people they’d fuck tbh

[danteinthedevildom]

Okay that is VERY 😬

What is it about Twitter that make people go “yes I’m gonna be best friends with this person that barely knows I exist”

There's apparently a legit psychological thing where like. Bc we see so much of an influencer's life and personality on social media (esp. places like Twitter) fans can accidentally make a one-sided connection to the influencer.

So for instance, if an influencer talks abt all the stuff they did that day on their Twitter, you as a fan are getting a peek into their life, right? And sometimes it feels like when the influencer talks to the camera, they're talking directly to YOU. Not just the general audience.

And you're getting innundated with this stuff each day bc you follow them. So you see more and more of this person, their life, and who they are. And esp. with influencers, engagement is a BIG part of keeping fans following them - so sometimes posts are directed TO fans (e.g. the "Tell Me You Love Me" Tweet), and sometimes influencers talk abt how much their fans mean to them personally.

So it can become easy to forget, sometimes, that this is a hella one-way road. You might see a lot of them, but they see NOTHING of you. They have no idea who you are beyond the general concept of you being "a fan". And even if you're responding to their Tweets, which feels very personal to you, your message is just one in a few hundred to them.

In general, too, friendships are made bc you see someone frequently enough that you form a bond with them. You don't really see someone more frequently than you do on social media, where they're constantly posting.

So when you combine all of that together, some fans legit think they're MUCH closer to the influencer than they actually are bc psychologically all the foundations are there to suggest some form of close friendship.

I think also there's like this feeling that bc it's social media you're completely anonymous. It doesn't matter what you say bc you're safe behind the screen and an account that in no way shows who you are. Esp. with the rlly creepy account that posted the sexual stuff abt Miura; they had NOTHING to link back to who they are IRL, so it was "safe" for them to say that stuff even if they maybe wouldn't say it to his face.

(Ppl prolly also just... forget that influencers are real people. It's so easy to put them on pedestals and to think of them as Better or Higher, and then just totally dismiss that they have the same feelings and sensibilities as literally anyone else. Just bc you can't see that they're uncomfortable doesn't mean they aren't.)

Why it happens most on Twitter, tho, is I think bc that's where the influencers are. Tumblr can be bad, yeah, like don't get me wrong - it rlly CAN be. We still have fan accounts for kpop groups and ppl still melt over Dan and Phil. But there's very few actual famous USERS on Tumblr; we can't engage with them in the same way, and 9 times out of 10 they barely even know they have that following here. It's more of a fandom forum, less an influencer playground - and def. not a form of social media most influencers took seriously until semi-recently (and even that's iffy).

Twitter, meanwhile, is a social media site geared TOWARDS influencers. It's meant to be a space for them to engage with fans, post updates, and talk. This is where you find the creators; this is where they tell you abt their lives and show you what they're working on. If you want to be seen, you go there. So ofc that's where fans flock towards if they want to be seen by their favourite influencers.

The greater influencer presence means it's a lot easier to connect on places like Twitter than anywhere else. And when the site itself is meant to breed that connected mentality - meant to facilitate connections between influencer and fans... it can end up creating a problem.

(Ironically, Tumblr does still have a similar issue, just kinda parallel; ppl here treat actors the same way they treat the characters they play. So we got a HUGE Real Person Fiction community here bc we're so distant from the influencers themselves that they seem unreal.)

As a sorta tangential point: it's a lot harder to post fandom content on Twitter - in part bc it's fuckin hard to find and in part bc you'd need to split some of my posts up into like 20 billion Tweets - so it's v. different in its fandom culture than Tumblr is. Hence, predominant Tumblr users, being more geared towards creating fandom content, act a little differently towards influencers than Twitter users, being more geared towards influencer interaction.

It's something we gotta be vigillant on as fans on Twitter, tbh. Like. We are talking directly TO the person. We are treating them that way in a space that is THEIRS and that they will PHYSICALLY SEE. We have got to be inherently more respectful and careful with how we're acting.

Esp. with a fandom as small as Obey Me!. Yes, it's much bigger than other Shall We Date? games, but the VAs are still relatively small-time, personal people who are shocked by the exponential growth they've experienced during Obey Me!'s two year run. A lot of them didn't even have Twitter accounts before this point (at least, not ones they regularly used), and I believe most of them haven't engaged with overseas fans before.

They will see a lot of what is being posted. So trying to keep it as kind, warm, and respectful as possible - and making sure anyone overstepping that line knows they've done so - is imperative. Esp. with the mentality Twitter naturally breeds in relation to fans and their influencers.

[orionsangel86]

Honest question: what would you do if they made Leo/Dean a Sam/Dean reference? I mean, they're already singing a song together about tv brothers. And Ksite tweeted that the thought Leo is Sam. I'm sorry, but at this point I think that's what they're gonna go for. Just look at the writer /spacekicker and you can see that he almost exclusively interacted with ppl like Kelios. Would you still point out the background and say it means Dean is bi?

Okay so lets just point out 1 thing you have wrong here.

Jeremy aka spacekicker on Twitter has been engaging with lots of fans. I have had a few convos with him myself, as have Min, and Meg, and a few others who I know for sure. He has been very lovely and warm with all of us.

Kelios latched onto him like a fucking leech the minute he announced his promotion to staff writer. She then bombarded him with various questions with her own clear agenda, and he was very graceful to her, but he gave her nothing of what she was looking for. When the spoilers came out revealing Sam and Dean would be separate this ep she got RUDE to him and at that point a few people jumped on board to tell him to ignore her and he went through and liked all our tweets. INCLUDING MINE. He probably has her muted by now.

I saw all of this go down with my own eyes. I have been on Twitter a year with a finger on the pulse of Twitter SPN fandom (I am in like 20 GCs all constantly gossiping it can be a nightmare getting anything done, but I literally ALWAYS know when a writer is active or when the cast are active or when any big drama is going down. It’s unavoidable. I know without a doubt that Jeremy does not prefer interacting with the likes of Special K. He interacts with whoever happens to interact with him. Like they all do.

So please don’t spread false info about a writer because you are feeling rather negative right now.

I am suddenly inclined to recall one of my favourite episodes 11x19. Oh that was such a joy. All the media at the time reported that Cesar and Jessie were hunting brothers and LOL how they all deleted the articles when the show proved them wrong and us RIGHT. I was one of the first people on this hellsite to suggest that they might be husbands. There were a few of us looking at those promo pics and kinda side eyed like “are you guys also getting husband vibes from these two?” and sooooo many people laughed at us and mocked us for daring to assume anything other than brothers. I am pretty sure I even had asks like this in my inbox saying “you are too hopeful. We all know they are gonna be brothers just like that one random article says they are!”. 

Ah that was a happy time for me. 

Anyway, to answer your question, if they DO treat him like some Sam mirror then fine. If so there will probably be some underlying story reason for it (perhaps Leo is a doublecross meant to manipulate and encourage Dean to kill Sam following Chuck’s commands, or maybe the whole thing IS a Djinn dream as some of my friends have speculated in which case Leo may take the role of little brother Dean feels he needs to protect in a fantasy world - if this is the case the lack of Sam in the Djinn dream is itself very interesting). If that’s the case I know with near enough 100% certainty that it won’t come across as gay between Dean and Leo. But the bisexual lighting still stands because Dean is STILL BISEXUAL whether he is physically with Sam or not.

I have never quite understood the anxiety around W*ncest in this fandom as if the show is going to slap textual incest at us all in the final season. The Bronly’s really did a number on quite a lot of fans it seems with their manipulative lies. The show isn’t Game of Thrones. They have textually mocked game of thrones via Chuck as a promise they won’t follow suit. There will be no gay subtext implied between Sam and Dean, even if the gay subtext follows Dean around practically wherever he goes. Look we aren’t expecting miracles from this episode. As lovely as Jeremy is he’s still a newbie writer. Don’t get your hopes up too much, but at the same time try not to bury them completely too soon.

[davidjjohnston3]

7.24.2021'Reflections of a Russian-Romantic-Orthodox-Post-Soviet Obstetrician / Aspiring Catholic-Post-Reformation-Unified-Church Pediatric Neurosurgeon (Divider of Freak-Conjoined Child-Brains) cum. Bethlehem College and Seminary M. Div. Global Studies + Savior of Worldwide North Korean Studies + Policy  + Final Flaming Sword Destroyer of Democrat Intellectual Arrogance, Child-Hate, God-Hate and Anti-Korean Racism' Flaming swords that divide people, change the world, change souls... Russia's determination to remember tragedy as well as mercy and a spirit of gentle adoption whereby they treat students and other young people much different from what I did; also Russian anti-Nazism - everlasting I imagine - in an age when respect-me-or-die attitudes, moral purity, intellectual hubris and Scientism, messianic corporatism and much else are either being accelerated or badly necromanced as everyone tries to settle every little score (an easy way to forget all the starvation, organ-harvesting, betrayal of human promise that is going on every second).  I'm only writing this because it's 7:08 in the morning and it's easier to write than not to write.  Lately I developed the habit of 'Holding the Dream' to paraphrase the title of a Nora Roberts novel about children that I tried to turn in to 'Project 521' in a gentler time.  I read a C.S. Lewis essay though I forget which one, perhaps 'Home,' about being known.  When I read this essay at night it reminds me of a more trusting whole time as does Knausgaard's 'A Time for Everything' whose title is a joke at several levels; a book I'll finish reading, if I even finish 'Autumn' which is my favorite work of his about an unborn daughter, a 'notebook-letter-bouquet' which is a genre I appreciate.For a while I felt I was close to greatness and that my mind and heart were in unison with those I most respect around this globe such as Chancellor John Piper with respect to abortion-culture - playing God - but no matter what I say this is a Maoist era in which power has to be backed by guns or other 'hard' resources.  I was also compelled or perhaps tempted to provide background for my spiritual development which in retrospect attracted 'assassins' who were only interested in cherry-picking my worst moment. I honestly came to feel that there is some 'unconditional evil, unconditional hatred' in some that makes them - no matter how nobly they speak or how hard they worked in the past - determined to destroy something at the end rather than build something or help someone or do what they said they would do.I wondered if I blasphemed someone or something so that God allowed the Prince of Darkness through these people, every professing Christians or family-members.  People are talking about spirit and intellect and insight but forget that Lucifer has all these in abundance.  I've had some delusions and kept responding to people outside of myself.  I learned a lot about people whom understanding was without purpose or profit as a) telling them to themselves, that their expectations were wrong or criminal or sadistic or nihilistic or of the party of 'the protest of ultimate futility' - the messaging whereby someone says ultimately nothing matters or you don't matter - was never going to alter their mindsb) this increased experience of human / spiritual evil didn't really constitute increase of knowledge, wisdom, understanding but only more 'CCP-esque pimp-love lie-fare gas-lighting brain-damage; brick to the head' or to put it more gently a wrong emphasis of factors which distorted mood or disposition as an orchestra with good rehearsal, preparation, and conductor could be eroded in the wrong hands over time, and people were just trying to wear me down in a 'Bleed France White' war of attrition against everything I've tried to be and do  I also realized of late the time had come to give up certain perquisites that I had had in mind to one day gain or 'help myself to.'  At the bottom of my soul I guess I always wanted to cash in; someone else on FB after the miraculous sparing of my life in 2012 started spreading around an experience that I had had with a student in 2012 which was nothing like the K-wave NC-17 version could have been the CCP deepfake character-assassination pretext for WW3 or Covid unrestricted biowarfare against white guys.  Words can't fly back in to the mouth that once let them out and at this point I have no idea what my legacy could be - or in a way hopefully no one even cares anymore although I suspect they keep some version of the story somewhere for a dinner-party IDK why I am saying this; you can reason with some people / try and teach them but if they have no compelling reason to change they might just savage youI wondered lately whether some people really believe.  They want life but their interpretation / understanding or imago of life - who knows?  'Tomorrow will be like today only more so' (Isaiah, mutatis mutandis).  They might love life or hate life but they want it and they also often don't care where it comes from, which is part of why right now the debate over social justice or the fact that so much in the United States comes from outside of the United States, or the fact that poor Millennials et al. are often still unable to get married and have children while Boomers ride emperor-on-palanquin- style on top of the Social Security system and reproach us for believing, like the title of a novel about Shanghai, 'What We Were Promised' at the breakfast-table or in (public, Democrato-Maoist-intellectual-town-bike-fruitbasket) schools about freedom, self-esteem, magic - world peace, nuclear disarmament, the 'salvation' of the natural environment, outer space, technology, non-traditional families, racial reconciliation, international adjudication of breaches of international law and esp. enforcement of human rights.  It struck me several times in recent months and years that the rulers, the sovereigns, the princes and great captains of the nations I admire such as Israel and Korea were often either a) special forces soldiers (such as Moon Jaein, Ehud Barak)b) human rights lawyers (Roh Moohyun, Moon Jaein again)c) spies (the individual who might actually have closest to total control of world-events right now; or at least the ultimate veto of everything and everyone, with variable selectivity and specificity / detail) I don't know if I was overreacting or what; I was comfortable with my 'modest income' from mental illness and felt adequately justified since I was engaged in respectable activities; I felt I hadn't really had a moment's rest in life since I was about 4, constantly shot at, judged, abused, thrown to wolves etc. and blamed for my own problems since I 'didn't "make" daddy____.'   I even believed I had a chance to re-emerge since everyone amid Covid appears to be essentially on the same side.  Before recent events I event felt an 'FDR-moment' / 'New Deal moment' was feasible under Biden though I now see clearly I believe that JRBJr. can't control his underlings, staff, et al. as FDR was able to do; and America and the world are simply too complicated.  Vladimir Putin was saying - and he doesn't always lie - basically that constitutional democracies are too weak.  Neoliberal+ shills, 'Wahh bureaucracy, Milton Friedman, grist for our mill, cliche, cliche, eat the poor, abandon the weak, post-partum-abortion, God is dead' but a lot of these people are part of a bureaucracy as well and Russia's got government bureaus, CCP does, Korea does.  Anyone who ever loved or admired Confucius or studied China knows - though many such as Ezra Vogel and Tu Weiming and some dumb-ass Australians and Indian-Singaporean pervert this knowledge for pleasure and profit - what can be achieved through sincere, spiritual, loving, reverent, educated, talented, qualified, also beauty-loving, statecraft.I guess the only question in a way is whether Microsoft themselves have nuclear weapons or Google built the guidance-systems or something and that's not an LRB title though if I had lived a purer life to this point I might be on staff there or at least they'd welcome me in the cake-shop.  Howbeit at this point my 'last wish' is kind of to die in Korea where they journalists are NOT affected or mercenary, and the rag-picking of ppl like me is not fake or ultimately egocentric / meretricious / simulacrum or sham-virtue (again I hate to talk about Nietzsche since I wanted to move on to just David Platt, Saint Augustine, John Piper, John MacArthur, global Christianity 2022).  Korea's also, I noticed, a country where the Covid body-account appears to be honest and I know for a fact, as Dr., Prof, much else Eric Feigl-Ding has been talking about on Twitter about 25 hours a day, a country in which the Democrat mentality of 'you got sick you're stupid' or the Milwaukee mentality of 'you got sick bypass watch you die joke at bar but we're still good Christians South Park Satan must be good to be evil sometimes' isn't in effect and people have resolved to do everything they can both to prevent and to mitigate as well to contain or pocket though no one wants to talk much about that.  Like I said the other day I wish I were in Korea; I also had a dream about one of those free-standing station-stops in rural Japan that reminded me of 'Cafe Lumiere' by Hou Hsiao Hsien and a conversation I had with Prof. Ban Wang fmr. Rutgers and last I checked Stanford about how Japan had built these intricate rail-systems in order to help preserve rural culture.  Another good film about rural Japan is 'Hanamizuki' although IDK if post-Covid anyone is going to want to talk again about micro-sized kindergartens, the Iraq War, fishing, the meanings of trees, following through on commitments or promises, or returning gratitude and love.  IDK whether the stuff I read over the last 5-10 years about housing-prices in places like rural Japan or, alternatively, Vladivostok are as low as I've read but if they have good internet I might go if only b/c  people there aren't interested in teaching you every lesson or extracting the max. from you then leaving you to die in the name of 'getting to know one.'  There's a short Somerset Maugham book called 'The Moon and Sixpence' though I don't admire Maugham that much and prefer his literary criticism / critical appreciations of other writers and cultures to his fiction but it feels like what some people are looking for today is more like 'huge amounts of money, charming personality, offer we can't refuse, satisfying sexual favor or we either vivisect you or pozz you up with 1st-gen anti-psychotics / kill you with ECT and still deny the exist of God, as well as demons.'My other privileged Millennial friends are all mad at me for not bearing fruit and my 'last love' said I dishonored my parents but Koreans  & maybe they don't get just how much Mark Johnston et al. are totally committed to reversing course at the most destructive possible moments and never paying what they said they'd pay; like how terrorists will sometimes detonate one bomb for the civilians and another for the first responders on the scene - though maybe I just ran out of chances.

[dreamilyenchantingwasteland]

This was too long for Twitter.

[Tweet: I fucking hate when ppl share graphic animal cruelty stuff on facebook like seeing an animal brutalized makes me physically sick]

@oneunaccountedfor​ said: I've had this argument internally so many times, also about the horrors of war and military action. Ultimately I think I'm with y'all, that it's not good to force such imagery on people. It can feel so goddamn hopeless and desperate though when people are so defiantly ignorant and wicked on account of their ignorance. I want everyone to be horrified of these things—but brutal imagery just makes them horrified of me and the immediate. It doesn't create understanding. It's not a real lesson. I mean, in principle I'm not opposed to harm per se—if the harm is that I'm bringing people to awareness of evil and they are appropriately upset, that's a very moral kind of "harm." But I dunno. There's so much context and I'm with you also that we want to create a sensitive and caring environment, not a cold & heartless one where we constantly psychically bombard each other I wanna find some writings on this, I'm sure they're out there buried in the good social justice discourse. I feel so lost at sea. @dreamilyenchantingwasteland​, any thoughts?

Hmm. Okay, totally off-the-cuff thoughts on this: It’s complicated. (Of course.) But I don’t think what’s complicated is the morality of sharing the message so much as questions about context. Which sort of seems to be what @saladgirl is saying also.

I DO think that when people are confronted with incontrovertible evidence of horrific, brutal acts, it changes them. Photo/video evidence is still considered relatively incontrovertible by most people these days. (This may shift.) And so, for example, I think the success of Black Lives Matter largely comes down to the fact that otherwise sheltered people have recently been “forced” (or “allowed”) to see countless videos of police brutality against black people.

Likewise, I’ve had a number of people tell me recently that they became a vegetarian or vegan because of some documentaries they watched about the horrible conditions of factory farming. Their narrative is usually something along the lines of “I always thought factory farming was bad but I could never quite get myself to quit eating meat — until I saw that movie, and now I can’t get the images out of my head, fuck.” Similarly, we’ve all heard the stories of people turning vegan after working in a slaughterhouse, etc. And, I mean, the Vietnam protests were caused in large part by people seeing the reality of war on TV.

I suspect this kind of brutal imagery doesn’t change the minds of anybody who’s already firmly opposed to the position being put forward — partly because, I suspect, those folks have in some ways already bitten their bullets. Hawks understand that war is brutal. Hunters and farmers know that killing animals is disturbing and disgusting in many ways. Cops and cop-lovers, obviously, are not surprised that police are violent towards black folks. These people just have pre-constructed justification narratives for brutal acts, so when they see them happening “in the flesh” they can apply their narrative and sleep at night.

On the flipside, people who in theory believe that war, police brutality, animal cruelty, domestic violence etc. are wrong but don’t see it in their day-to-day are constantly trying to manage a sort of ethical cognitive dissonance. Their (our) narrative is less about why these acts are categorically okay, and more about how they’re probably not really happening. Not like THAT anyway. How a lot of the stories are apocryphal or exaggerated — PETA being drama queens or whatever — because, surely, the world can’t be THAT terrible of a place? And yet we go around with this sort of quivering anxiety in our guts that maybe the world *is* that terrible a place and we’re not doing anything about it.

So, when we’re shown incontrovertible evidence that, in fact, our worst nightmares are true — black children are being murdered with impunity, dogs are having their noses cut off, women are being brutally raped in their own homes — that low-level anxiety in our guts explodes and we’re left with several choices: find some way to deepen in our denial (but usually with an awareness that we’re doing it), join the “other side” by picking up their narrative about why these things are no big deal/a necessary evil, or take action in line with our values. Most people choose one of the first two, but probably enough people choose the third option (at least for a little while) to justify this strategy. It’s like a very “tough love” way of preaching to the choir.

All of that being said, here’s where we come back to the question of context. It’s one thing to have some doubts about the morality of eating meat, and to decide you’re going to watch an investigative documentary about factory farming order to understand more about how horrible it is, with the full knowledge that this may push you over the edge in terms of not being able to stomach animal products — in fact, maybe that’s (consciously or subconsciously) part of WHY you’ve chosen to watch that documentary.

It’s another thing entirely to wake up in the morning and find that someone has taped pictures of animals being tortured to the ceiling above your bed. That’s an abuse tactic. And while I believe that causing “harm” or discomfort in the interest of encouraging ethical behavior is justifiable, abuse never is.

So, you’ve referred here to people posting images of animal brutality in such a way that they end up in your social media feeds as “forcing” you to see them. And I think this is the crux of the issue. I think we can agree that it’s not bad for these images to exist. These things are happening to animals. Better that they be documented than not documented. Better that those documents be publicly available than that they be hidden or destroyed. Even, arguably, perhaps better that they be broadcast with the intent of raising awareness among those who would be more likely to do something about it if they were reminded, viscerally, that this was happening.

I think we can also agree that it’s wrong to force people to watch triggering content against their will. So, to what degree are we being forced to engage with that content when it’s posted on social media? This isn’t a rhetorical question. I don’t know the answer. Certainly, corporate social media platforms are intentionally designed to captivate us, to in many ways force us to keep using and looking at them even when we don’t want to. I think that may be more of a problem with ad-driven social media platforms than with the people posting troubling content to them, but that’s sort of a whole different ethical can of worms.

But is it okay to broadcast images of animal torture (or police brutality, or domestic violence, or war) on the TV news? (TV and radio usually provide a content warning before they do something like that: “Attention, the following program contains x, y, z and may be upsetting to some viewers.” In fact, it might be interesting to read e.g. some writing by professional journalists about whether or not they felt it was ethically imperative to publish or not publish the Abu Ghraib images — because that was something the field of journalism itself had some conundrums over.) Is social media more akin to the TV news, or to your personal inbox, or is it something else entirely?  Do the cultural contexts and/or feed management options of different types of social media streams matter? Is it more okay to post torture videos on Twitter than it is on Facebook? Tumblr? Reddit?

Again, these aren’t rhetorical questions. I think these are some of the questions we’re all having to wrangle with because we are dealing with a whole lot of very new communications technology and, tbh, we haven’t had much time to establish normative ethics around their use. Journalistic ethics and interpersonal social ethics are blurring together and crashing into each other all over the internet right now, and they’re often at cross-purposes. Eventually, there will be clearer etiquette guidelines about what should be posted where and everyone will know them — and will have to break them with intention if they want to share information that isn’t supposed to be shared there. It’s conversations like the ones we’re having right now that are going to help establish those etiquette norms. But for the time being, it’s a little bit of a free-for-all and I think many folks are taking advantage of that — for good or for ill — to get their content in front of eyeballs without much need for concern about the social consequences of doing so.

So, yeah, it’s complicated. But here are the gut intuitions I personally have about sharing torture videos (animal or otherwise) — because apparently we live in an era of history where “sharing torture videos” is a question of ethics and etiquette we all have to ask ourselves about.

1. As long as torture is happening, it’s good that torture videos (and still images, etc.) exist and are available to the public.

2. Nobody should be sending that shit to your phone directly: No texting it, no sharing it in group chats unless they exist for that purpose, probably no posting it directly to your Facebook wall. Basically, nothing that triggers a notification. You should never click through a notification with no warning and suddenly be face-to-face with images of violence.

3. If you use your social media account primarily for social communication, keeping in touch with family, chatting with friends, etc. you probably want to be pretty sparing and considerate about posting disturbing imagery on it. If you use your social media account primarily for broadcast, political, or awareness raising reasons around this issue, post whatever the hell you want; your followers know what they’re signing up for.

4. It’s always okay to post links to content you’re deeply moved by, with content descriptions, and encourage your friends to watch them if it’s safe for them to do so. It’s polite to remove the preview images.

5. Social media platforms ought to be better designed to give users more control over what they see and don’t see. You should never have to see animal torture images if you don’t want to, even if all of your friends are posting them daily, because there should be ways for you to block/unsubscribe from certain types of content not just entire profiles.

In short: It’s not really an issue of whether or not it’s okay to share disturbing content for awareness-raising reasons. That’s a tactic that has inherent pros and cons, always has, and always will.  It’s an issue of the current ease and scale with which that content can now be shared outside of predictable (i.e. journalistic) contexts — and, because of that, there is an ethical imperative for software developers and designers to give users more granular filtering facility. Precisely for the reason that we are now in a situation where people need to be able to make personal decisions about their level of exposure to things like torture videos. They won’t, though, because the same kind of software that would allow you to opt out of seeing torture videos would also allow you to opt out of seeing ads.

[anonymoustalks]

i think the supreme court is a horrible institution tbh

(6-19-20) You both like politics.

You: hi

Stranger: hi

You: what are you interested in?

Stranger: ideology wise? leftism. discussion? whatever you want

You: leftism is an interesting word

Stranger: there are a variety of ideologies.

Stranger: what are u interested in?

You: mhm me, I guess people and the issues that affect them and their feelings

You: I guess I'm interested in what people think

Stranger: that's fair. different people believe different things for their own reasons.

You: yup

Stranger: any ideology?

You: I'm kind of like vanilla moderate-left

Stranger: hah.

Stranger: what an interesting phrase.

You: lol

You: idk I dunno if there's a particular ideology to it

You: I think I'm relatively normal though

Stranger: do you support capitalism?

You: mhm idk, we live in a capitalistic society

You: I think there are bad things that arise from capitalism

You: but I think I also benefit from it

Stranger: i suppose so.

You: what about you?

Stranger: no, i don't support capitalism

You: mhm how far left are you?

Stranger: hahaha

Stranger: definitely not center-left

Stranger: pretty far

You: lol

You: all the way to the left? (jk)

Stranger: i'm so far left i don't believe in a state

You: haha

You: I feel like there are many of you on omegle

Stranger: or u may just be talking to me over and over again

You: that could be the case

You: do you think you've talked to me before?

Stranger: i meet a lot of people who refuse labels

Stranger: but i find that funny bc in the end our ideological beliefs can be classified as being this or that

You: mhm

You: I think I'm a little bit more policy driven than ideologically driven possibly

You: ideologically I may be a hippie lol

Stranger: but policies are the result of underlying ideology

Stranger: i like hippies a bit

Stranger: free love

You: mhm, but the policies I support don't always reflect my ideology I think

You: yup!

Stranger: fair

You: I think it's important to love everyone

You: and I think its important for government to address as many people's problems as possible

You: even though somebody's problems might not be my problems

Stranger: well as fellow humans we should care for each other

You: yup

You: I like omegle because I like hearing about what people consider to be their problems

You: and I think about what they are angry about

Stranger: capitalism, post-colonial legacies, and hierarchies of power

Stranger: i guess they could all fall under the latter

You: haha ^^

You: where are you from?

Stranger: american

You: mhm

Stranger: u?

You: I think there are a lot of race narratives lately

You: us east

You: so I think about that a lot

You: a lot of difficult feelings about race

Stranger: we have never addressed the hierarchies that slavery created

You: yup

Stranger: they evolved

Stranger: and continue to ruin ppl

You: mhm

Stranger: 's lives

You: I think I try to understand where the alt-right and conservatives are coming from

You: or at least, that's what I spend a lot of my time on omegle doing

Stranger: i don't engage with them

Stranger: they lie

You: you dc?

Stranger: what?

You: disconnect

Stranger: yes. fascism does not need a platform

You: mhm

Stranger: and i don't need to hear someone try to explain white genocide to me

Stranger: it's not real

Stranger: they have created false narratives

Stranger: and i know where they come frm

You: mhm

You: I try to talk to them

You: or well, I try to understand why they're attached to their beliefs

Stranger: their narratives are violent

You: very

Stranger: be careful

Stranger: u might fall down a hole

You: fall down a hole?

Stranger: into the alt-right

You: oh haha

Stranger: i've seen it happen to too many moderate or centrists

You: mhm, thanks for the warning I guess haha

You: I just think there is so much sadness in this country

You: and I think that bothers me

Stranger: u think?

You: well it does

Stranger: i understand the sadness

Stranger: but i am not sad any longer, i am angry

You: mhm

You: are you protesting?

Stranger: yes

You: mhm that's cool

Stranger: and u?

You: no, I'm not very involved, unfortunately >.<

You: I feel like I am glued to the news constantly though

Stranger: if u are not protesting, u can donate

Stranger: or disseminate information

You: oh do you know any good organizations?

Stranger: the naacp is always good

You: yup

Stranger: don't just donate to random ones, some aren't real

You: yeah that would be bad

Stranger: it happened with this foundation based in CA

Stranger: ppl donated millions

You: that's fraud

Stranger: i mean technically in this system it's not

You: hm?

Stranger: it's a legitimate org

You: oh

Stranger: but it's owned by one man

You: ah...

Stranger: only one man

Stranger: and he's the only one who "works" there

You: yeah that seems so sketchy

Stranger: but it's also ppl's fault for not doing their research

You: off topic but I'm really happy about daca today

Stranger: i am too.

You: (was browsing through the naacp twitter)

Stranger: but still worried

You: yeah

Stranger: roberts only sided with the liberal justices bc of a technicality

You: yeah

Stranger: i think the supreme court is a horrible institution tbh

You: mhm go on

Stranger: why do they basically get lifetime appointments?

You: mhmm

You: yeah idk

You: I think in theory, they're not supposed to be political

You: but they totally are

Stranger: of course

Stranger: everything is political

You: are you involved in social media?

Stranger: not really

You: was just curious where you get your news

Stranger: i browse news sources.

Stranger: i like politico

You: ahh that's nice

Stranger: it's pretty accepted by both parties

You: yeah I'm browsing the wikipedia article

You: I feel like I end up reading them a lot when it's around election time for some reason

Stranger: i always cross-check sources tho

You: mhm you're very thorough

You: I think I usually end up reading the new york times the most, but mostly because I have it on my phone the most

Stranger: anyone can be the victim of fake news, i am no exception

You: yeah

You: I should check if there's a politico app

Stranger: i try not to have those apps, bc then i'd be tempted to keep checking

You: haha

Stranger: i limit my news intake to the morning

Stranger: and sometimes in the late afternoon

You: mhm, I should probably be more disciplined I guess

Stranger: we all have our thing

Stranger: i only recently started doing it

Stranger: i can only hand so much human suffering at one time

You: yeah

You: it's a lot to process and digest

Stranger: humans haven't evolved to handle this amount of human suffering

Stranger: the digital age overwhelms us

You: yeah

You: idk if people or more insensitive or something too

You: I gues the mean-spiritedness

Stranger: i think we become desensitized

Stranger: it's like seeing another school shooting

Stranger: you feel bad, but it's morbidly normal

Stranger: and u think "not again" but then nothing changes

You: mhm, I've been weirdly and randomly emotional over the last couple weeks

You: it's strange

Stranger: u should let yourself feel

Stranger: it's a lot

You: mhm

You: I don't know how to navigate the politico site lol

Stranger: oh?

You: I kind of like the old style where everything is just listed chronologically in order of publication lol

Stranger: Hahaha

Stranger: i understand

You: like I think I found their tag feature

You: but I just want to be able to scroll through everything

Stranger: but this might make you a better news consumer

You: mhm, efficient or something? you mean?

Stranger: not efficient.

Stranger: a more conscious consumer

Stranger: you're going to be more thoughtful in what you chose to seek out and consume

You: oh

You: idk, I kind of struggle with "top news" sections

Stranger: hah

Stranger: Well, I should go to bed. It was a pleasure chatting. Take care, and wear a mask!

You: okay, goodnight!

You: thanks for talking to me!

Stranger: No problem, it's nice chatting with people who aren't dumbass pedants.

Stranger: Goodnight.

Stranger has disconnected.

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