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ceasarslegion · 2 months ago

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Uncle story?

Oh boy!

So the first thing i need to say about my uncle is that he is an idiot. Terminally stupid and also the most self-righteous bastard I've ever met. Truly deadly combo.

I must also start by clarifying that this is not the same openly gay uncle who is a Scottish lord and ran for mayor of a small Saskatchewan town because he was bored and won and then showed up to all the official things in a top hat. That is technically my great uncle and on my dad's side. We must not smear that uncle's name due to confusing him with my mom's brother who is too stupid to realize how stupid he is and thinks the fact that no one can understand what the fuck he's ever talking about is a sign of intelligence.

So my uncle is openly gay. And he lives in the UK as a dual dutch-canadian citizen. He is engaged to an Israeli man (do not discourse on this post. I mention his nationality to highlight something else I will mention. Just some guy who doesn't even live there is not responsible for a certain conflict going on). He also grew up in Dubai but family went back to Canada for a spell around when he entered high school. He works as a travel agent last time I checked, but he can never hold down a job for more than a few months without getting fired so who knows at this point.

You're with me, yes? Gay, immigrant, fiance from another country, grew up in the gulf?

This motherfucker. Said he would vote for Trump if he were american and that brexit was a good idea. And is anti-immigration. And thinks feminism is cancer. And once tried to convince my mom that men across the UK were being arrested for "stare-rape" which is apparently when you just look at a woman in public and she can then claim you raped her with your eyes. And thinks pride is pedophilic. And thinks bisexuality is just people who want to be special and can't pick a side. And the only person he's still on speaking terms with in my immediate family is my grandma who is just as toxic as he is stupid.

My dad once said, word for word, while a few drags into a blunt: "if I ever see [uncle] again, I'm going to beat the shit out of him for what he said about my son." I don't know what exactly happened to get him kicked out of my parents apartment when they cut ties with him during a visit, but I know it was a screaming match over something to do with me. I had long moved out at that point so I wasn't there to see it. And this is coming from the mouth of the same guy from my red bull and snickers post, my dad is not a violent or scary guy and I've never seen him lay a hand on anybody.

My uncle and I used to be really close when I was a kid because he's a very artistic person, and I was too. We were the two creatives in the family. Also as a queer kid who didn't know he was trans yet I was naturally drawn to queer masculine influences. This fell apart pretty quickly when I started like, growing into my own person instead of a carbon copy of the people around me. He was steadily becoming dumber and dumber to me but it really came to a head in 2016

So trump wins the US election. I am still living in Abu Dhabi at this point and I had just graduated high school in June of that year. My boss is American. She is devastated and says she's going home early that day because she needs a few hours to process what's gonna happen now. At my desk I make a Facebook post saying that if any of the americans I knew refused to vote over your own self-righteous bs that I don't want to talk to you again because you clearly cared more about having the moral high ground than sucking it up for the people who trump will go on to hurt. This post is a big hit among my Arab majority peers.

This goes on without incident. 3 months later my uncle comments a big essay on it sucking trumps dick and saying some pseudo-qanon shit about Hillary Clinton. I respond citing actual sources and hit him where it hurts: Mike pence's then-plan to divert AIDS research funding into conversion therapy.

I go back to work (I am at work when the response happens too). About an hour later my phone buzzes on my desk. I open it to an essay twice the size in my messenger DMs from him crytyping about how I've changed and turned into such a whiny SJW, how I'm no longer the same person i was when I was 11 (damn I hope so), how I'm such a bully now (YOU CAME ONTO *MY* POST 3 MONTHS LATER???), and uh, no word of a lie, that he can't be racist because he dated a black man in high school. I. I never mentioned race in the post or my response to him. He brought that up on his own.

I ended up calling him out on it by replying to his public comment with "hey if you're gonna cry about how you're not racist in my inbox for pages and pages on end like that because someone said you were being stupid at least do it in the same place you were flaunting your idiocy, damn."

We didn't talk for a good couple years after that. And then something came up and we talked again for a bit, I don't remember exactly what anymore but we had to interact in person for it. I was willing to be civil, he started by doing the equivalent of crossing his arms and pouting until I said sorry for how mean I was to such a sensitive little muffin on the internet. Very mature guy I'm related to here isn't he. Insane how he's the uncle and I'm the nephew huh

This lasted for a good 2 weeks. Because the pokemon sun and moon leaks happened and I showed him the character models for red and blue and joked that they looked like a newlywed couple on their honeymoon in Hawaii. Pokemon was one of the few things we could still agree on at this point, so i was trying to bridge a gap with a family member with it. Thinking that he would appreciate the joke as a gay man.

He exploded at me. Like full on screaming exploded at me over that. He yelled about how homophobic I was, that i had no right to call myself queer because I hadn't been sexually assaulted or threatened to be murdered (HE HASNT EITHER??? LIKE HE VERY MUCH HASNT 😭😭😭 also you are making a LOT of assumptions about the life of someone you made NO effort to be a part of despite him giving you every olive branch you could possibly grab), that it was insulting to every gay person in the world to say that the best representation we deserved was pokemon (THATS NOT WHAT I SAID??? Also what's wrong with a gay pokemon character 😭 how is that insulting 😭😭) and that I had no idea what it was like to suffer for my identity. He said this while I was living in a place where queer people got executed for being moral degenerates btw.

Something in me snapped that day and I responded with "oh tell me more about how hard your life was in your dubai villa with an in-ground pool and a hired nanny. I'll truly never suffer as much as you have. Tell me more about how you threw the first brick at stonewall."

My parents had to stop themselves from laughing at that response and steered me out before my uncle could explode even more, and I never talked to him again.

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wirewitchviolet · 8 months ago

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When Complete BS Becomes "Common Knowledge."

Someone told me they stopped paying attention to someone who reviews movies after one too many mean-spirited jokes about trans people, and it was one of those cases where the reviewer in question definitely had the vibe of someone who'd go around doing that, but I couldn't think of any real flagrant examples. Cut to me watching a movie the other day, remembering that oh yeah, I skipped that one guy's review of it because I wanted to go in blind, and sure enough, that review has this big long crappy 5 minute aside of an out of left field "DID YOU JUST ASSUME MY GENDER!?" routine. So that's a shame.

Now this particular guy rather famously Does Not Get Out Much. Pretty sure he hasn't really have any exposure to a single trans person, or to any real die hard transphobes, and most likely what happened here is he saw I dunno, an episode of South Park or a facebook post from some bigoted aunt, or some Tiktok video, something like that, and just blithely assimilated it into his world view.

But you know, the reality is... to the best of my knowledge no trans person has ever actually said this, or anything similar to this, and we sure as hell don't live in a world where anyone would have the back of someone who did? But you know, here we are.

Now I want to be clear, this isn't some kinda thing where trans people can't take a joke or anything. Literally while I was typing this, some cis guy just tossed this out, and this is a real tired old hokey one, but I cracked a smile, because oh yeah, the whole "programmer socks" bit really is a weirdly accurate stereotype.

And there's plenty of other trans jokes I'll laugh at. Ones directly at my expense. Some real dark ones even. You wanna go off on trans women all having the same like 10 names and them all sounding like we were born in the 1800s, go for it. Other stuff about how we all dress? Coping mechanisms? Low standards? Being too into pickles and sriracha? There's plenty.

But "DID YOU JUST ASSUME MY GENDER!?" and while we're at it, "I identify as..." don't even have the vague shape of something you're ever going to encounter in reality. Like if I didn't know the context of where these came from and hadn't had them posted a thousand times or so by people with swastikas for avatars and such, these probably would get a laugh from me the first time I heard them, because they sound like weird surrealist humor. Like, "don't you hate how every time you go to the laundromat, you have to play chess with the dragon before they let you in?"

But, again, I know the context. And the context is a bunch of fascists want people like me dead, and they're both too scared to pick up a gun to do it themselves and too incompetent to know who to point it at or where to find them. So they sit around with each other and go "hey, what sort of person does everyone hate? Let's all say trans people talk like them!" And because they haven't spoken to a single human being besides each other and the rich parents they're sponging off since getting banned from the Something Awful forums in the 90s/punk bar in the 80s/whatever, they settled on "rich white person calling the cops on somebody for walking down the street" and "didn't I first get into being a hatemonger because I was stupid enough to think that time I saw someone roleplaying he really thought he was a big scary dragon?" Which has honestly worked out weirdly well for them when you stop for half a second to appreciate just how absolutely ridiculous it is to ever imagine cops coming to the aid of trans people.

Like... here's a situation that actually plays out in reality. I have a bad tooth. Dentist says I need a root canal, and she doesn't do them. Refers me to another dentist like an hour and a half away. I walk in, write my Victorian sounding name on some paperwork, fill in all my various medications, wait a bit, hop into the big dentist's chair, so far so good. This dentist busts out the pick and the mirror about to have a look, and goes "hey, so I noticed on your medications you're taking a ton of something called divigel? What is that?" I say "oh, yeah, I'm trans, so I'm on supplemental estradiol." She almost drops the mirror, stares at me like she just realized I'm Venom and if she bent down to look at my teeth I was about to swallow her whole head. She stands bolt upright, says, "your teeth are fine, get out." I'm a bit confused, but I can read a room, so I say "well that's weird, but OK..." and start to leave. I get a "have a nice day SIR!" shouted at me. And then I go out, call the cab company to say my appointment ended early, and get told too bad, it's coming when it's scheduled, and someone snickers. See, at some point in having to take cabs to all my appointments, a driver worked out that this woman he'd been picking up from this address for the past year has a similar voice to and maybe vague family resemblance to who he'd been picking up from that same address the year prior, and after getting the courage to ask me, guess who's constantly having cabs show up late, or not at all, or on time with a driver staring angrily into the rear view mirror while blaring AM radio with someone shouting about all "the gays" needing to be rounded up so they can burn in hell. And I just need to suck it up and live with it. I'm sure as hell not going to pick a fight over it. I'm just gonna stand out in the cold (fortunately with nice warm knee-high socks) waiting for this cab for an hour because I sure as hell can't stay in this lobby.

But again, the whole weird myth here posits a world where trans people are all-powerful and control the government and stuff. And the basis for that is like... sometimes people refuse to pass ridiculous laws to stop trans people from doing things we only do in bigots' imaginations at great taxpayer expense, and SOMETIMES someone is responsible enough to double check what's up before they allocate the funds. Like... hell, you know what's exactly as completely divorced from reality and honestly the same people doing to same crap? That wild BS about "schools keeping litter boxes in classrooms because all this acceptance of trans people means we also have to accept kids who think they're cats!" Like... how the hell can anyone actually be stupid enough to believe that anyone else could be stupid enough to believe that they're actually stupid enough to believe such an OBVIOUSLY made-up narrative? Like... lawmakers bring that one up and try to get bills passed on it. Everyone else in the room is socially obligated not to laugh and ask whether they also want to pass legislation against Bat Boy and UFO abductions. This is Ralph Wiggum tier absurdity.

But like... what do you do about this sort of thing, really? As the person ultimately has to deal with the dentists who think I'll bite their heads off, ask to speak to their manager, and drop trou over a sandbox the state mandates they keep in the middle of the room, I'm... not in the room when this BS gets concocted, or discussed, or shared in Minions meme some film critic sees and imitates to try and be relatable and relevant. Can someone else start grabbing all these people by the lapels and shake them and shout questions about how they can be this stupid, maybe invite them back to reality for me?

#bigotry #transphobia #out of touch boomers #the one joke

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newspropaganda · 3 months ago

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Welcome back to Roasting 101: Today’s subject—fake Yu-Gi-Oh! fans who don’t know the first thing about being real. This clown keeps crawling back like he has something to prove, but the only thing he’s proven is that he’s stuck in a loop of stupidity. I already know who he is—just another troll running the same tired playbook. You can tell from his posts he's probably got some messed up agenda. But here’s the thing: he milks the hate like it's going to make him matter. Newsflash, I’ve been hating this fandom’s nonsense since 2015, and nothing you’ve said has ever phased me. I’m the original OG, like Andrew Tate is to masculinity, while you’re just screaming into the void with your social justice warrior nonsense.

5D’s is peak fiction, and your whiny comments don’t change that. Over time, real Yu-Gi-Oh! fans will wake up to the greatness of 5D’s, but you? You’ll still be stuck in your echo chamber, crying about things you’ll never understand. 5D’s is the bread and butter of this franchise—more relevant than anything mainstream media throws at us because it’s a flawless show. You’ve clearly never appreciated it, and if you’d been around in 2014, you would’ve been booted from this fandom faster than that joke ScarlightCipher, who tried and failed to make a name for himself. Yeah, I crossed paths with him back in 2015—and believe me, I roasted him so bad, he never recovered.

You just got roasted, son. 5D's fans are on a whole different level, and your weak pity posts can’t touch us. There’s a reason I’m the WW5D’s champion when it comes to roasting. People like you fold under pressure while I’m out here on a higher level, making you cry with every word. Step your game up, or step aside, because 5D’s isn’t just a show—it’s a legacy. And you? You're just another footnote in it.

I bet 100 bucks he’ll be back under a week, trying to troll again. That’s why I blocked him—he’s too soft to respect 5D's legacy. Sure, it's a card game adventure, but unlike that Bleach trash, he can’t tell me anything. 2025 is going to be the year of 5D's, where fake fans crumble, and real ones like me rise from the ashes to reclaim our fandom. And don’t get me started on Zexal fans—they think they’re the ambassadors of the community, but it’s the first three Yu-Gi-Oh! shows that put in the work, week after week, to build this legacy. These newer gens don’t know the meaning of respect.

But hey, if you think you can roast me back, go ahead and reblog this post. Tell me why I’m wrong without being a coward. There are plenty of reasons you can try, but instead, you’re busy whining under some virtue-signaling post like that’s going to get you anywhere. This isn’t Twitter, where people hide behind fake maturity. I’m a Facebook guy—over there, we handle things like men. Here, it’s WWE Champion vs. Jobber, and guess what? You’re the jobber. I’m the heavyweight champion of the Yu-Gi-Oh! community.

Real men, like Andrew Tate, always said, 'Beta males like him are exactly why we need toxic masculinity back.' He'd probably throw in something like, 'Your lack of backbone is why the world’s getting softer—you need to wake up, hit the gym, and stop crying on the internet. Real men handle business, not feelings.

You see, this is why I can’t stand America when it comes to Yu-Gi-Oh!. It’s not just politics and BS—it’s the fact that people here are so spoiled. Andrew Tate was right all along: people are getting softer. I roast the community because they attacked my show, and yeah, I admit I’m a little sensitive about it. I’m probably a '1% beta male' when it comes to other things, but when it’s about my shows, I stand my ground. It’s not all anger, though—I learned that it’s better to love a show than to support its fandom. I put my content out there, and people can decide for themselves if it’s good or not. It’s their choice to block, ignore, or support me. Personally, I love 5D’s, GX, OCG Stories, Pyramid of Light, and Bonds Beyond Time, but Zexal, The Dark Side of Dimensions, and the Rush Era? Total garbage. They just don’t compare.

And let me make one thing clear: I don’t support what anyone else says. They’ve talked trash about me, my show, and why they can’t respect me—but guess what? They’re the beta males, not me. Why do you think VoicesOfChaos, a Zexal fan, turned into a trans person? Because Zexal was like the American government, telling them what to do. Zexal is like a system that makes people feel stupid instead of giving them hope. That’s why I’ve always hated it. As for The Dark Side of Dimensions, it was just overhyped by clowns who thought it was good. I’ll take Bonds Beyond Time any day—it was more human, more real than Dark Side of Dimensions could ever be.

#Roasted

#yugioh #yugioh 5d's #ygo 5d's #5d's #yugioh dm #ygo dm #dm #yugioh gx #ygo gx #yugioh arc v #yugioh vrains #yugioh sevens #yugioh zexal #yugioh ocg stories #we live a clown world

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scarefox · 8 months ago

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looking into the media literacy tag makes me afraid that's the next term we have to put on the high shelf till you guys learn what it means....

but especially funny are the people who are butthurt and say stuff like "media literacy is stupid and overhyped"

like ?!?!?! media literacy / competency is literally what is missing in too many peoples skill set, which makes this world into a worse place but okay. if you think it is stupid to understand, interpret, navigate and use media as intended in the right context and meaning or to discover scams and false info easier ....

yall know this is not just about understanding fictional plots, right? but general usage and reading of media and internet...

lack of media literacy / competency is why so many boomer believe every bs on facebook, buy into scams and become conspiracy theorists...

#media literacy #media competency

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bluebeetle · 9 days ago

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One of the high schools here has had 3 lockdowns in the last month--2 from threats while the first was an airsoft gun some kid brought--and my coworker tried to claim it was revealed it was some "group in China" that does this and they did it to the US and across canada.

Immediately im like "hmmm" bc i never trust studies or stories abt some vague group in a large foreign country like China or Russia or Korea cuz it could so easily be complete BS...

Ask him where he heard this... "My mother heard it in a radio show or something" hmmm... I hate using my phone in a moving car but im checking news sites, im checking local facebook groups, im googling so many keywords. Nothing at all--there WAS someone arrested in late Nov for calling in threats to the US and Ontario but they were from... Nova Scotia........ Decidedly not the big scary China and likely not even the person making the threats to the local school. Made sure to relay this to him and kinda point out the issues with this esp after he tried to tell me I was wrong when I said the first time was an airsoft gun even tho I read the police report

(im almost certain its a student as the first one had a real reason--the air soft gun--and its close to winter break. They let you use ur phone when in lockdown--or they did the one time i did a real one--so boom. No class just going on your phone)

Hes like 22 so im hoping he will take this as a learning thing to use some critical thinking cuz if I have to listen to stupid made up shit im gonna go apeshit

#txt

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terriwriting · 2 months ago

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When we started The Beaverton we were just a bunch of smartasses trying to make each other laugh during our weekly meeting on the second floor of a disgusting pub behind Honest Ed’s (they gave us 10% off chicken wings). We never dreamed our jokes would one day be read by millions of Canadians, or that we’d get to write a tv show and a book. We just wanted to make our Stephen Harper and Degrassi jokes (it was 2010 ok?)

Nearly 15 years later that pub is a condo and the internet has changed. Our two main traffic drivers: Facebook and Twitter (we will never call it X) have algorithms that suppress political satire and do everything they can to stop people leaving their website to go to ours. Online advertising rates have plummeted. Instagram throttles any post with a link to our merch store. We’ve mostly survived on one-off paypal or interac donations from many of you kind folks, which we’re so grateful for. But unfortunately that won’t do it anymore.

What hasn’t changed though is how much we love making jokes about our stupid, wonderful country. We want to keep going into our 15th year. We want to continue calling out BS and hypocrisy when we see it (and there may be a lot of that soon if current polls are to be believed). We want to keep paying our writers, both the original chicken wing crew and those who have joined since, a fair rate for their articles. But to do that, we’re going to need some help.

So we’re launching a Patreon: www.patreon.com/thebeaverton

#canada #canadian politics #cdnpoli #satire

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swedebeast · 8 months ago

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Not sure if I ever shared this, but I remember a few months ago a bud was texting me over FB and he was asking for my phone number so he could call me when he needed to pick me up later that day, and I wrote my phone number over FB chat in two posts, split in half. And he insisted I type it in one go. I said nah, not interested in putting that out on Facebook. So he called me and nearly chews me out for being difficult, and I just explained I do do not give out that kind of information on any social media platform in any capacity, because I don't want any BS scam calls from dataminers.

He said he had worked with IT for years and never heard about it, and I was paranoid (maybe even insinuated I was stupid).

And I just cannot shake the feeling he just got mad he had to memorize 10 numbers split between 2 messages.

#personal #oh I have written about thus guy before

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west-tokyo-incidents · 1 year ago

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Incorrect quotes because I'm on that bs again. Starts off Puck/Renji but just goes all over the place.

Renji: I owe you one.

Puck: That’s ok. You can just date me and we’ll call it even.

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Puck: Talk dirty to me, baby~

Renji: The dishes.

Puck: Wh-

Renji: They’ve been there for 4 days and it’s your turn to wash them. You still haven’t cleaned them and I have asked you to do so several times.

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Puck: I'm trash.

Renji: As someone who's environmentally conscious, it's my duty to pick you up. Does 7 work for you?

Puck:

Puck: You smooth motherfucker.

Puck: And yes it does.

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Renji: At first I thought you were foolish and incompetent.

Puck: My apologies for whatever misstep I may have taken to dispel that impression. It was an honest mistake, I swear.

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Renji: You look good in that hoodie.

Puck: You know where else I'd look good?

Renji, zero hesitation: My bed.

Puck, at the same time: By your side- wait, what?

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Uta: I got an idea!

Renji: Does it involve breaking the law?

Uta: By now don’t you think that’s a given?

Renji: I was just trying to be optimistic.

Uta: Don’t bother.

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Chiaki: Know why I called you in here?

Uta: Because I accidentally sent you a dick pic.

Chiaki: *Stops pouring two glasses of wine.* Accidentally?

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Uta: There. How do I look?

Chiaki: Like a cheap French harlot.

Uta: French?!

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Chiaki: Who would you swipe right for? Puck or Uta?

Renji: I would delete the app.

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Puck: I'm so happy, I could kiss you!

Renji: Um...Neat.

*later*

Renji, lying face down on their bed: I said "Neat," Uta. Who the fuck says neat these days? It's not neat to say neat but I said it anyways because I'm fucking stupid.

Uta, reading a book: Don't beat yourself up too much, Renji. Everyone gets nervous sometimes. Remember what I did when Chiaki confessed their love for me?

Renji: Didn't you thank them?

Uta: *closes the book and looks at the ceiling* I fucking thanked them.

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Puck: That's ridiculous, Renji doesn't have a crush on me.

Uta: Yes they do.

Chiaki: Yes they do.

Renji: Yes I do.

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Chiaki: I spy with my little eye something that begins with the letter “s”.

Uta: *looks over at Renji and Puck* Uta: Is it “sexual tension”?

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(Post Renji-Uta fight)

Puck: How the hell are you still alive?

Renji: Honestly, I’m just as confused as you are.

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Uta: There is no i in happyness…

Renji: There is if you fucking spell it right.

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Renji: That's not funny.

Uta: I thought it was funny.

Renji: You don't count. You started laughing in the middle of a funeral because you started thinking of a meme you saw on Facebook.

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Chiaki: Do you have any skeletons in your closet?

Uta: Literally or figuratively?

Chiaki: I have to specify?

#puck/renji #chiaki/uta #incorrect quotes

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driftinginburgerland · 2 years ago

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Someone in a facebook post swears a family member of theirs works for Pepsi and brought her a sample of a new Mountain Dew flavor. I call bs but it looks pretty.

Also who would be stupid enough to post about this? Someone gonna lose their job.

#mountain dew #pepsi #glitter mountain dew

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ooc-miqojak · 1 year ago

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Given that staff is already turning this place into Tiktok by forcing us to opt out of the terrible 'tumblr live' (tiktok but worse) every 7 days, how are we supposed to trust them on this? Especially when they say stupid shit like 'people only see 25 posts' and 'those have to immediately engage you in tumblr or else'... What??? I see hundreds of posts a day - one swipe of my thumb, and I see at least 25 posts? And since I have cultivated my dash,I see what I want to see. I even use the thing that suggests what my friends are liking - but if it gets any more algorithmic than that, I don't want any thing to do with it. If I want insta or facebook/meta bs, I'll use those? There's a reason I chose tumblr!

Push notifications are part of the technological addiction problem that's happening at present - much like a slot machine, you get a little ping/buzz, and wow! Look at the notifications! Feel the rush! You're admitting that you're trying to be more predatory and addictive, guys.

"Create patterns that encourage users to keep returning to Tumblr."

Oh, so you're just saying the quiet part out loud, now? You'd like to encourage the addictive nature of apps? It's already an impulse to constantly check notifications on apps - as stated, that's literally the point of push notifications. (There's a documentary or two out there that discusses this.)

So you want to reinvent the wheel in changing the way the feed/dash works, despite a poll showing that over 90% of people saying they don't want that, as well as trying to make this worse version of Tumblr more addictive?

Maybe try asking the artists and 'small creators' you claim to want to help... what they want/think would help them! Instead of forcing changes on everyone that no one wants while claiming it's for our own good. Use whatever mumbo jumbo tech-talk and excuses you want, but most of us can read between the lines, on this one.

If you force me to see blogs I'm not following on my dash 'because it's outdated' to only see what I'm opted in to see, you're no better than any other social media site, and are actively removing my reason for being here! I follow tags to find new blogs! I follow other blogs with whom my mutuals interact - Tumblr has always been a bit 'build your own experience', and that's what people love! If new users want something more like Meta or Tiktok or Insta, those already exist! Tumblr isn't hard to use by any means - you just can't be lazy and expect to be spoonfed content like on other sites... and the spoonfeeding is what people say they hate anyways! So why force it?

Don't homogenize. You should be expanding on what makes Tumblr great... not cutting it off at the metaphorical knees to make it like the trash that already exists. Like, say... make the tag search function more user friendly - an actual user request that's gone ignored for years. Work on that instead of forcing things no one really needs or wants or asked for.

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Tumblr’s competitive advantage lies in its unique content and vibrant communities. As the forerunner of internet culture, Tumblr encompasses a wide range of interests, such as entertainment, art, gaming, fandom, fashion, and music. People come to Tumblr to immerse themselves in this culture, making it essential for us to ensure a seamless connection between people and content.

To guarantee Tumblr’s continued success, we’ve got to prioritize fostering that seamless connection between people and content. This involves attracting and retaining new users and creators, nurturing their growth, and encouraging frequent engagement with the platform.

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To enhance Tumblr’s usability, we must address these core guiding principles.

Expand the ways new users can discover and sign up for Tumblr.

Provide high-quality content with every app launch.

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Retain and grow our creator base.

Create patterns that encourage users to keep returning to Tumblr.

Improve the platform’s performance, stability, and quality.

Below is a deep dive into each of these principles.

Principle 1: Expand the ways new users can discover and sign up for Tumblr.

Tumblr has a “top of the funnel” issue in converting non-users into engaged logged-in users. We also have not invested in industry standard SEO practices to ensure a robust top of the funnel. The referral traffic that we do get from external sources is dispersed across different pages with inconsistent user experiences, which results in a missed opportunity to convert these users into regular Tumblr users. For example, users from search engines often land on pages within the blog network and blog view—where there isn’t much of a reason to sign up.

We need to experiment with logged-out tumblr.com to ensure we are capturing the highest potential conversion rate for visitors into sign-ups and log-ins. We might want to explore showing the potential future user the full breadth of content that Tumblr has to offer on our logged-out pages. We want people to be able to easily understand the potential behind Tumblr without having to navigate multiple tabs and pages to figure it out. Our current logged-out explore page does very little to help users understand “what is Tumblr.” which is a missed opportunity to get people excited about joining the site.

Actions & Next Steps

Improving Tumblr’s search engine optimization (SEO) practices to be in line with industry standards.

Experiment with logged out tumblr.com to achieve the highest conversion rate for sign-ups and log-ins, explore ways for visitors to “get” Tumblr and entice them to sign up.

Principle 2: Provide high-quality content with every app launch.

We need to ensure the highest quality user experience by presenting fresh and relevant content tailored to the user’s diverse interests during each session. If the user has a bad content experience, the fault lies with the product.

The default position should always be that the user does not know how to navigate the application. Additionally, we need to ensure that when people search for content related to their interests, it is easily accessible without any confusing limitations or unexpected roadblocks in their journey.

Being a 15-year-old brand is tough because the brand carries the baggage of a person’s preconceived impressions of Tumblr. On average, a user only sees 25 posts per session, so the first 25 posts have to convey the value of Tumblr: it is a vibrant community with lots of untapped potential. We never want to leave the user believing that Tumblr is a place that is stale and not relevant.

Actions & Next Steps

Deliver great content each time the app is opened.

Make it easier for users to understand where the vibrant communities on Tumblr are.

Improve our algorithmic ranking capabilities across all feeds.

Principle 3: Facilitate easier user participation in conversations.

Part of Tumblr’s charm lies in its capacity to showcase the evolution of conversations and the clever remarks found within reblog chains and replies. Engaging in these discussions should be enjoyable and effortless.

Unfortunately, the current way that conversations work on Tumblr across replies and reblogs is confusing for new users. The limitations around engaging with individual reblogs, replies only applying to the original post, and the inability to easily follow threaded conversations make it difficult for users to join the conversation.

Actions & Next Steps

Address the confusion within replies and reblogs.

Improve the conversational posting features around replies and reblogs.

Allow engagements on individual replies and reblogs.

Make it easier for users to follow the various conversation paths within a reblog thread.

Remove clutter in the conversation by collapsing reblog threads.

Explore the feasibility of removing duplicate reblogs within a user’s Following feed.

Principle 4: Retain and grow our creator base.

Creators are essential to the Tumblr community. However, we haven’t always had a consistent and coordinated effort around retaining, nurturing, and growing our creator base.

Being a new creator on Tumblr can be intimidating, with a high likelihood of leaving or disappointment upon sharing creations without receiving engagement or feedback. We need to ensure that we have the expected creator tools and foster the rewarding feedback loops that keep creators around and enable them to thrive.

The lack of feedback stems from the outdated decision to only show content from followed blogs on the main dashboard feed (“Following”), perpetuating a cycle where popular blogs continue to gain more visibility at the expense of helping new creators. To address this, we need to prioritize supporting and nurturing the growth of new creators on the platform.

It is also imperative that creators, like everyone on Tumblr, feel safe and in control of their experience. Whether it be an ask from the community or engagement on a post, being successful on Tumblr should never feel like a punishing experience.

Actions & Next Steps

Get creators’ new content in front of people who are interested in it.

Improve the feedback loop for creators, incentivizing them to continue posting.

Build mechanisms to protect creators from being spammed by notifications when they go viral.

Expand ways to co-create content, such as by adding the capability to embed Tumblr links in posts.

Principle 5: Create patterns that encourage users to keep returning to Tumblr.

Push notifications and emails are essential tools to increase user engagement, improve user retention, and facilitate content discovery. Our strategy of reaching out to you, the user, should be well-coordinated across product, commercial, and marketing teams.

Our messaging strategy needs to be personalized and adapt to a user’s shifting interests. Our messages should keep users in the know on the latest activity in their community, as well as keeping Tumblr top of mind as the place to go for witty takes and remixes of the latest shows and real-life events.

Most importantly, our messages should be thoughtful and should never come across as spammy.

Actions & Next Steps

Conduct an audit of our messaging strategy.

Address the issue of notifications getting too noisy; throttle, collapse or mute notifications where necessary.

Identify opportunities for personalization within our email messages.

Test what the right daily push notification limit is.

Send emails when a user has push notifications switched off.

Principle 6: Performance, stability and quality.

The stability and performance of our mobile apps have declined. There is a large backlog of production issues, with more bugs created than resolved over the last 300 days. If this continues, roughly one new unresolved production issue will be created every two days. Apps and backend systems that work well and don't crash are the foundation of a great Tumblr experience. Improving performance, stability, and quality will help us achieve sustainable operations for Tumblr.

Improve performance and stability: deliver crash-free, responsive, and fast-loading apps on Android, iOS, and web.

Improve quality: deliver the highest quality Tumblr experience to our users.

Move faster: provide APIs and services to unblock core product initiatives and launch new features coming out of Labs.

Conclusion

Our mission has always been to empower the world’s creators. We are wholly committed to ensuring Tumblr evolves in a way that supports our current users while improving areas that attract new creators, artists, and users. You deserve a digital home that works for you. You deserve the best tools and features to connect with your communities on a platform that prioritizes the easy discoverability of high-quality content. This is an invigorating time for Tumblr, and we couldn’t be more excited about our current strategy.

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indigo12 · 2 months ago

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. So here we are. In front of a keyboard again.

I find myself wanting to share information, that I am 100% sure is correct information, but unfortunately some of the Social Media Platforms, have a God complex. They’re either too stupid to understand my content is sound, or they know it’s sound, and that’s the reason they put they brakes on it. It’s been going on for years, and Facebook is by far the worst. (Fuck you, Facebook).

I could be writing this for nothing. They decide how many people see what. It’s them who actually shapes people’s realities. They are no different to Mainstream Media. Everything they do is focused on dumbing people down, creating fear and anxiety in everyone, and last but not least, making sure that people like me, don’t get too much air time. We’re a threat. Why? Because we see through their obvious BS.

The NASA page won’t let me comment, nor does the JWST page. The reason for that, is because I can’t stay quiet when I see the obvious lies they post. They’re all obvious to me. It’s my duty to call BS out. It’s everyone’s duty to call stuff out if it’s wrong.

I feel for you science fans. I used to joke around calling you Tyson’s Furys. You have absolutely no idea what they've done to most of you.

You’ve been ‘taught’ the Moon landings happened. You’ve been taught that anyone questioning anything ’America’, is a conspiracy theorist, and you should all act accordingly. I see it everyday. The amount of verbal abuse I’ve copped off of you lot over the past three or four years, is more than what most people experience in their entire lives. There were mornings when I didn't want to look at my notifications, but I did. It wasn’t rare to see 20 -30 of them. Mostly Facebook. And mostly Tyson’s Furys.

When I first started this questioning stuff, I didn’t really have an attitude problem. It’s all pretty much objective reasoning, so no bad attitude required. But after a while, I had to don the thick skin, and before long, I found myself biting back. I’m not talking about everyone I’ve spoken to, so I’m generalising when I say you guys are the nastiest bunch of pack mentality oriented people I’ve met online. I’ve had Emails, random phone calls, random text messages, and basic harassment in general. And all because I dare not agree with things I think are obvious absurdities.

In 99% of our conversations, you lot have always talked down to me like I was an idiot, but I have always tried to look past that because I understand it isn’t any of your fault, but, sometimes I’ve lashed out, too. I’m only one. You are many. I’m still here as strong as I was the first day. I’ve spoken to thousands of you over the years, and I know for a fact that many of you have started to think about things more. Quite a few of you have even told me that’s the case.

Social Media showed their cards back then, too. When it first started, we would use F bombs to express our animosity towards each other. I’m talking on both sides. But as the pattern of me questioning stuff became clear to those who run the Social Media pages, my vocabulary options were slashed. You guys were protected, and still are, because you can call me everything under the Sun. If I step out of line even a little bit, my comments are denied. Even the words, stupid and idiot, were taken from my arsenal. Funnily enough, it was that, that made me grow a bit, because I still refused to back down. As time went on, I started to realise that you lot have limited common sense, so I started using correct knowledge as a verbal weapon instead. I still do it now.

I explain correct knowledge to you all, but you don’t understand anything other than what’s been forced down your throats, by your liar teachers. And this is the reason you all get the shits with me. It’s frustration. Cognitive dissonance. All of you who attack me after reading my posts, suffer from it. All of my information is correct. I know it is. I understand how logic works, and I have more than my fair share of common sense. And common sense is something that you’ve all been told is worthless.

“Science overrules common sense.” You scream at me.

Whoever told you guys that science overrules common sense, had absolutely none himself, which is why he probably said it in the first place. Only a fool would say that. It’s dangerous. Why is it dangerous? Because common sense is also a built in alarm system. What if the wrong people were in control of the science. Then what? How would any of you know? You are all too far gone with trusting the science, to notice any irregularities. Your realities are filled with hypothetical particles, and magic, but because you all threw your individual thinking abilities away, or you were robbed of them, now you can’t differentiate between what’s real, and what isn’t. The same goes for not being able to differentiate between what’s possible, and what isn’t.

You have to believe everything you’re told, because the majority of you no longer have the ability to question anything. Instead, you unwittingly defend nonsense and lies, at the same time as attacking the people who are trying to warn you.

I’m not a conspiracy theorist, you Muppets. I’m a truth seeker. I can see the truth so clearly, it amazes me that hardly anyone else can. It’s the Indigo Child thing. I have all of the traits, and they are real traits. The new term is Earth Angel, which sounds as corny as Indigo Child. They’re just names, but it’s the things they stand for that matters. This is why I do what I do. I can’t not do it. It’s bigger than me.

You carry on doing what you're doing, and by all means carry on believing that the sun takes 4.6 seconds to radiate it’s own light the distance of it’s own diameter. It’s a lie. An absurdity. One of my first Slam Dunks.

It’s obvious that the Sun’s light can’t be timed. It’s fucking light, for crying out loud. See. I can’t help myself. I really can’t. You carry on doing and believing what you see fit. I’ll carry on screaming… “Wake up! They’re lying!”

How many PHD’s did it take to work out that the Egyptians carved the equivalent weight of 65 Nimitz Class Aircraft Carriers, out of some quarry with just copper hand tools, and no wheel? It’s no wonder you guys have ended up confused. If those are the lessons being taught by your ‘highly decorated and qualified people’, who are also in charge, one more generation and they’ll believe that they’re moving to Mars soon. Oops. Already happening. Not going to Mars. That’s a logistical impossibility for the foreseeable future. It probably won’t ever happen. Common sense. Trust me. Mars travel is as unlikely as a Solar Probe orbiting the Sun, and being cooled down by a gallon of water and a radiator. You just have no idea when your intelligence is being insulted. Here’s a few examples of when they’ve insulted your intelligence.

Roemer. Taking notes on Io for approximately nine years, as he observed a delay in Io’s appearance from Behind Jupiter as Earth moved further away from the pair. The opposite happened as Earth moved closer to the two. The speed of light calculated hundreds of years before electricity was up and running, and the method used took 9 years, and involved finding a Moon with a diameter of only 1/38 of the Planet it was orbiting, and at a distance of 420,000 km. Not to mention that the pair were sometimes close to one billion kilometres from Earth. With a 1600’s telescope? It’s an absurdity.