#Tumblr drama

[correctopinionhaver]

[literal-bot-account]

y'know, back when I used Reddit, if you found some hateful content of any sort, it wasn't that hard to report it. You clicked the "Report" button, selected "Hateful Content" out of the wide variety of options available, and then clicked the "Submit" button. I did this pretty often, because some of the communities I was in attracted rather unsavory characters as a side effect.

Do you know what happened next? Next, I received an automated message that said basically "Hey, thanks for reporting This Content (link to reported content). We've received your report and will review it shortly." Usually, a day or two later, you'd receive another message in your inbox saying "Thanks again for reporting. We found this content in violation of our TOS and have removed it." Sure enough, if you followed the link back to whatever you reported, it would be gone.

It was that easy. No explaining yourself, no explaining yourself again but differently, no redirect to a new tab, you didn't even need to know the specifics of what did or didn't violate TOS. No matter what happened, they would write back and tell you what was going on. If the reported content didn't violate TOS, they would tell you.

When I hopped over here full-time, I continued that reporting habit, thinking it'd be largely the same experience. I have had complete and utter radio silence from @staff on every single report I've ever filed. Have I been making a difference? Is my voice being considered? Who knows! But it certainly hasn't felt like it so far.

At least now I know those reports were going straight into the garbage, rather than just having to wonder.

[teaboot]

the fix your heart was probably from the same anon who said you accused trans women of eating snotty salads, i don't know why they want to paint you as a trans misogynist over some dumb hearsay

Ohhhhhhhh

Yeah, I wrote “trans women are women, asexuals are valid, queer is not a slur” etc on a post and it turned out OP was a trans woman whose notifications got blown up by people bickering over it, a bunch of people messaged us both to stir the pot and I used sneeze guards on salad bars as a metaphor for why I was OK with people who disagreed with these values being upset by these values. Then in trying to keep the lady involved out of the blast zone I referred to her as “they” for anonymity and she accused me of willfully misgendering her. It’s kind of been a mess since then but I genuinely forgot the salad bar post

Wait

THIS IS WHY I GOT THAT SNOT SALAD ANON

WHAT THE FUCK

BRUHHHHHH

[icyplatinum]

So let me get this right.

A trans woman was harassed constantly for a while from what I heard were mostly transphobes and transmisogynists.

Said trans woman and multiple other people reported that harassment to tumblr staff. Tumblr staff proceeds to ignore said reports. Trans woman lashes out at staff as they’ve done nothing to mitigate the harassment she’s facing on their platform.

Tumblr CEO personally gets involved to get her account nuked because she made an obviously non-serious post about wishing that said CEO would die in an exploding hammer car accident.

Tumblr CEO then says that there is no transmisogyny at Tumblr staff because he himself doesn’t think it’s transphobic. He then proceeds to not acknowledge that the trans woman who‘s account he nuked was harassed and that Tumblr staff simply allowed it to happen due to the fact that she was a trans woman. Oh he also either already contacted the FBI & police to investigate said trans woman or threatened to despite what she said not being an actual death threat in the slightest.

The trans woman‘s backup account get‘s nuked as well despite Tumblr staff never really banning alt accounts for trolls or harassers showing a clear double standard again and showing that this seems to be a personal thing for the CEO.

CEO then continued having a meltdown talking about how good and trans-inclusive the totally not transmisogynistic staff members are and how some of them are trans themselves while continuing to not address the actual issue at all.

CEO then says nighty night while still having not addressed the actual issue at hand.

I think I got most of that right but I haven’t known of Predstrogen before this drama so most of the info is not from direct sources (except the CEO meltdown he did that all *very* publicly). If I‘m wrong on any point here please correct me.

[the-fabled-void]

Not to vaguepost abt trans cross (im not even being vague) but

Did. Did they just call trans cross an "inappropriate" headcanon

Proceeds to act like the creator didn't basically confirm it

Jakei: 🏳️‍⚧️

OP: Jakei is posting weird, incomprehensible things...

"Remember, authors always do shit" bro is not saying that argument for someone being trans... That's usually when authors do stuff like kill a character for shock value

Detailed headcanons based very strictly on canon? That's so boring, it's a headcanon bc it's CANON in someone's HEAD, not because it's confirmed.

A headcanon doesn't have to have mountains of evidence, it can be there just to spark joy

There is nothing inappropriate about being trans, and trans headcanons are not disrespectful what are you even on. If anything, looking at his story and seeing ourselves means we understand the story, enough to interpret it our way

Nobody is saying we are cross? And if they are that's not something I know enough about to talk about in an informed way. But either way by that logic: Cross isn't you, so why make him cis?

None of these approximate diagnoses you make are canon either, if you wanna stick to canon so bad, don't turn around to say your own headcanons are 'more' canon (not that they aren't accurate, just don't be a hypocrite)

Also, I'm gonna hold your hand when I say this. People can be trans AND mentally ill

I can't believe I have to say this, but again, trans people are not fucking inappropriate

[shadowwolfmemes]

A message to @rhyliecaterflyisacoward

Sigh....

I don't always do stuff like this because I typically just block bad people and move on, but I want to do this like I've done so in the past.

@rhyliecaterflyisacoward, whatever it is you're doing is not cool. Harassing @9mysterybook6 or anyone will never be okay. You're literally 21 years old yet you're acting like an edgy, egotistical 13 year old.

You want to be treated with respect? You give respect.

You want to be treated like an adult? Act like an adult.

Guess what? Just because you're no longer a minor doesn't mean you're automatically mature and this is coming from an 18 year old girl who is still in high school.

You're literally making yourself look like an idiotic edgelord. Nobody is doing that, but you. Don't know what I'm talking about? Try defending this:

Still think you're a "hero"? How do you explain this post? [Post from @9mysterybook6]

Let me ask some genuine questions for you, Rhylie.

Why are you doing this?

Does doing all of this edgy harassment and dumb batshittery make you feel good about yourself?

Are you proud of what you've done?

Are you aware that your actions have consequences? Especially online?

The only person who should work towards redeeming themselves is you. You talk like people are attacking you for no reason, but there's literally proof of you being horrible floating around.

If you think I'm "harassing" you, I'm just stating facts from how you act towards others. I don't know what started this beef between you and Mystery, but it doesn't seem like it's doing you any favors from how you put yourself out there, Rhylie.

I'm not trying to attack you, I'm just genuinely concerned about your wretched behavior. What started all this? What did Mystery do to you to make you act like a middle school child throwing a tantrum?

[kudos-si-do]

[beggars-opera]

Here's the thing about engagement that staff doesn't seem to get here:

Tumblr is built around reblogs.

On other social media, original posts are the core of the site. Retweets are common but they're more conversational. Instagram doesn't have it at all. On tumblr, most people are reblogging more than they're posting on their own. It's a scrapbook of our own thoughts and photos mixed with other people's.

That's how you grow a follow list. Search a tag or, as was pointed out in a previous post, get a couple of recommendations upon registering and voila, you will find blogs, and then on those blogs you will see links to hundreds of other blogs because that first blog is interacting with them.

If you look at the last ten posts on my blog, only two are solely from me, and the rest are interactions with other blogs. So anyone who is visiting my blog for the first time and looking through it will find 12 other blogs to potentially check out just from looking at those ten posts.

Finding new content is not that hard.

[thebwarch]

Gee whiz I sure love having an account on one of the most embarrassing sites on the internet. First the half-hearted porn ban, which still doesn't make any goddamn sense and is so embarrassing and cruel, (Literally you fucked up artists and artist incomes for nothing, morons) then months of flagging sfw posts as nsfw, then trans people seemingly getting marked as nsfw when not, then the CEO is banning a transwoman instead of heeding her reports she's getting mass reported and stalked.

You can permaban someone for an unfortunate slip but can't ban the nazis and terfs?

Also fyi it's fucking disturbing to say someone could call themselves a nazi and be fine. What the actual fuck is wrong with you. Just working on being Elon Musk 2.0. I bet you idolize him too don't you.

Cohost, the website, is a million times better than this site and I can't recommend it enough. They have sane nsfw filters and a very similar but even better featureset to tumblr. Oh and the staff are nice people and queer people are directly on staff. No corporate bullshit unlike this place.

https://cohost.org/rc/welcome

Can't get over the nsfw ban, especially the terms of it. Someone can talk about wanting to be smoten in incredibly nsfw text posts but a transwoman can't post breasts *or apparently even sfw timeline* without getting banned.

This isn't a transwoman causing a scuffle, this is your leadership sucking for goddamn years.

Literally just call us faggots and get it over with, you don't fucking support the LGBT community if you don't support nsfw. Corporate rainbow icon ass bullshit. Fuck you.

[binglepringle]

So I got accused of racism and basically called an idiot for trying to point out a flaw in someone’s argument. Not cool.

If anyone cares to read this thing, can they tell me what they think? I need other opinions <3

First off, like an utter buffoon, in my anger I blocked them before I could screenshot my replies, so you’ll have to take my word for it. If you know my account at least, you’ll know I’m not and have never been racist, or idealized the baby sister Cass trope (in fact, I detest it).

I see this meme talking about the usual: people™️ wanting Cass to fall into negative stereotypes bc it’s cute or whatever, and the op gallantly pulling up a panel in which Cass displays the opposite.

The flaw with this one was two things: the panel they chose was Helena Bertinelli in the Batgirl costume, speaking in full sentences, and it was captioned “… and she can talk perfectly well.”

Of course I don’t think Cass is some little helpless baby because “aww she can’t talk she can’t read” that’s disgusting. What I do think is that going all the way to the opposite end, saying “no Cass is perfectly fine she can talk fine she’s not impaired in any way” is ableist. Is that wrong?

Cassandra is a disabled woman, and I think that saying things like “she can talk perfectly fine” is just a bit canonically incorrect. It’s straight up denying that she has a disability, if you ask me right now. BUT.

In newer issues, where Cassandra is older, and has worked on her disability more, she’s shown to communicate in full sentences and such. It would be different, to me, if they had a picked a panel from any comic with her that came out in the last 5 years where she CAN talk well, and it’s not Helena Bertinelli in her costume.

So, I’m arguing with this person. My initial reply was just me saying that the panel was Helena, and Cass didn’t exist until later and didn’t talk until even later, with citations. I was being petty. Definitely ended up being a mistake. I apologize.

The op then replies, and I paraphrase because this happened a few minutes ago, that they have writers privilege so they’re right and I’m wrong, that my citations were incorrect because—oh my gosh—the Helena panel wasn’t a comic titled No Man’s Land, even though I said “No Man’s Land V2”, not the specific comic, and that I’m not as old as the comic, because that’s relevant/s.

They were grabbing every straw in the bale. And here’s where I messed up: I replied. I was snarky. I told them they were grabbing straws, and I thought their argument was flawed, even though some of it was correct.

A MAJOR POINT THOUGH: in my last reply before this lovely message up top, I concluded that I thought their argument was FLAWED even though their point that people shouldn’t infantilize Cassandra was CORRECT.

Apparently they didn’t read it before responding to it, they were just so excited to point and yell “I’m big you’re little” that they didn’t see my response in which I very clearly stated that I did not like or support that trope.

Ok, I’m tired. In conclusion, I recognize now that trying to argue with anyone online is beyond stupid and will only get you called names and shouted at behind blue light. I apologize for being petty, and not just letting a (minor, in the grand scheme of things) note of ableism go and continuing on with my night. From here on out, I’ll know to never post any critical comments. It’s better for everyone to just remain calm and scroll past what you don’t like. Call this a learning experience.

My goal here is not to get any sympathy, it’s just that I’m pretty much always unsure if I did or said the right thing (in this case regarding the content of the argument, not the fact that the argument was had), especially online, so I want to get some other perspectives to tell me if I was horrendously wrong or not. This persons comment rattled me, and I know I messed up, so I want to know what someone else thinks of the situation. I also don’t want to be known as a bad person in case op had the same idea, so this is my side of the story.

Anyway, thank you if you reply. Have a good day/night.

[districtsleepsalonetonight]

This started out polite and I would have given an entirely polite answer, but oooh, they swerved right into condescension with that last sentence…

Firstly, I tagged the analysis with Jared Padalecki because his character is in the scene and is mentioned in the analysis. The same way I’m tagging this post because it’s literally about a question that was asked regarding his tag.

Secondly, I don’t have to apologise to you for tagging an actor in a post discussing a scene that literally features that actor. Especially when I see plenty of anti hellers intentionally tag their posts “Destiel” or “hellers” so it shows up in those tags.

Thirdly, I just gotta say, while I could understand people being annoyed if something triggering was included in a tag, the idea of actually messaging someone to berate them for the fact you had to accidentally see content for a ship you don’t like is just wild to me.

Like. Come on.

Mentioning that a trigger warning is missed is a totally different matter. The idea of actually thinking to go and complain to another user because I temporarily saw content for a ship I don’t like is just hilarious.

(Loving the ever-so-condescending tone at the end with “your fanfiction” too. But, y’know, I take the higher road.)

[paintandcringe]

This user is making callout posts without sources, trying to start drama.

When asked to backup their claims they say "are you calling me a liar?" "Just trust me bro" "are you also racist?"

Blocked me when I reminded them of the facts putting more context to the drama they misremembered.

Where is the google doc with sources @kyra45 ? Where are the out of context screen shots? This is amateur hater behavior!

We used to be proper website with proper drama and proper hategame! You can't just make callout post based on what you remeber of a past drama!

We need material! We need panache!

This is the autism website, you need to do the work if you wanna be taken seriously!

[silvermoon424]

I was thinking about how I used to get in SO MUCH drama (fandom and otherwise) on Tumblr back in like 2011-2015. Like, it was constant. And now I don't really have any problems on here at all. It's so chill.

It then it occurred to me that I now have a college degree, a job, and a fully developed frontal lobe. Yep, that'll do it.

[czech-hunter-reject]

Who was it

@ them rn

Girl, you are such a drama queen (and I love that about you 💕)

Anyways, it was @nonsequiturpizza, he shat on the mayor's dog!!! Everybody get your pitchforks!!!!!!!!!

[fandomsfordays21]

I usually hate addressing drama on the internet, but I have to say something about this.

TW for ableism and brief mentions of abuse below

Some random user created an account JUST to hate on the Autistic Ink Sans headcannon. Not evening having any annoying "Reasons" like the person about the Trans Cross headcannon. They're simply just being ableist. As an Ink Sans fictionkin, one who has Autism and ADHD myself and who's neurodivergence is a big lead to the development of that kintype, it's really hurtful. They have not only called me a "retard" on multiple occasions but also made a post directly asking Jakei to kill of my Underverse counterpart because they "Don't see a use in having an idiotic retard like him still hanging around." (Their words)

I physically cannot put into words how hurtful this is, it harms me on a very deep and personal level with both how they're treating autistics in general, how they're treating Ink, and how the word "retard" is not only a slur towards autistic people and people with mental disabilities, but also a word that is a direct trigger due to multiple years of abuse I had to endure. This is the same reason I despise being called anything along the lines of "Psycho" or "Crazy" in a hateful setting.

Mind you, this person made an account specifically for this. There are no prior posts except for those related to things I've mentioned before, and they didn't even bother to put up a pfp or a banner... Just got right to posting hate.

I'm not going to drop the account name, because you'll know them if you see them, but I want you to be aware.

I now know there is at least one person out there who wants me dead just for existing. I knew this already, it was just a fact of life, but being struck in the face with it on such a personal level? On a site that's my safe place?

I haven't talked about all I want to about this, but I can't bring myself to, really. I'm just really tired of this shit and I am going to block this person asap.