#and use absolutely HORRENDOUS hashtags

[scorndotexe]

re4r is trying to be really dramatic but leon has his metaphorical hitman agent 47 clown suit on for me and i will not stop with the jokes

[scorpiusmalfoylovesoscarwilde]

albus "I hope I die first, because I can't live without you" potter

and

scorpius "I hope I die second, so I can save you from that grief" malfoy

[antiloreolympus]

10 Anti LO Asks

(Note: All of these asks are before episode 206 (Season 2 finale) so some may be dated.) 1. Am I just dumb or do the lo fans who insist we "see" how powerful Persephone is are actually lying? Because sure we'vr see big trees and once or twice seen "wild" vegetation, but have we ever actually SEEN her use her powers? and no the AOW doesn't count since that wasn't her actually doing it willingly (such a dumb retcon). IDK it seems like we've seen more instances of  Hades using their powers all the time yet we've never actually seen the supposed "chosen one" Persephone once use her own.

2. It's so frustrating how there's no reflection on Rachel nor the fandom's part for how Eros is depicted. When he's around Persephone he starts acting more "feminine" and even gets design-wise to look more "feminine" with his posing, eyelashes, beauty marks, and slimed down with more androgynous clothes, but as soon as he's with Psyche he's depicted as much taller, muscular, and in darker more "manly" outfits with chiseled features. I don't even think it's intentional, but it's very hmm induing.

3. At the begging of LO RS made it seem like Persephone didn’t have many friends or that her friends were kinda just spies for Demeter so she kept them at arms length, where we’d see that Artemis is suppose to be her first “real friend” and I guess Eros too? But no this whole time she had dead flower nymphs that didn’t get named almost 200 episodes in; and after mentioning said dead flower Nymphs Persephone wants to watch Hades’ first meeting with herself where she was naked/he was drunk so they can have a laugh. 

4. NGL I want RS to cover the Trojan War bc I want to see what absolutely stupid ideas she'd put into it but also I just know she'd make Helen hashtag Empowered™️ by wanting Paris and being complacent in the deaths of thousands and be weirdly anti Menelaus who is clearly the bad guy here but also she'd make sure Helen's "beauty" is in comparing her to Persephone because of course you can't have anyone be hotter than her. I can see it vividly and it's horrendous.

5. I mean idk making LO be 100 give or take episodes would have probably been for the better. Im not saying it couldnt be a bit longer than that, but she's basically restarted the whole story 200+ episodes in, so there's really no excuse to claim she HAD to have all these episodes when other popular webtoons got their stories done in a good way without such an excessive amount. IMHO A short but strong story is so much better than a dragged out, weak story like LO has turned into.

6. TBH I'm surprised LO hasn't done a "cancellation' plotline yet. I can see it now, Hades ranting the media is trying to ruin Persephone's reputation and trying to take away all her prospects and shaming her for the harmless crime of mass murder. Probably throw in some "it is misogyny to critique her" for good measure and with zero reflection as he's in his massive mansion as he gets rich off ongoing slave labor. I feel like just off her handling of Thanatos we'll get it eventually.

7. I was going to say why is there never any gay renderings of HxP only to remember than one MLM comic on Canvas that just rips off LO down exact plot points and the only major WLW version i've seen was a book so hyper violent towards Persephone (with female Hades?? loving to abuse her??) and hateful of Demeter it actually made me sick to my stomach. Anyway outlaw HxP retellings i've had ENOUGH 🗣

8. the fans claiming "rachel is giving persephone a CHOICE" which like for one, who says she has the authority? but even then she's still, you know, a fictional character, she doesnt have agency by the mere fact she's fiction, so at the very least it has to be written into her character to make choices within the narrative, but rachel doesnt even do that? stuff just HAPPENS to persephone and she doesnt react, she's just yanked along. rachel doesnt even write her to make choices, she just exists.

9. its funny rachel claims LO is some empowering feminist story when its like, even barring the clear fact its NOT, the "feminism" is basically the "more 👏🏽 female 👏🏽 CEOS 👏🏽"logic of not actually fixing old power structures and creating equality. the system doesnt need to change, it just needs to be more accessible, which doesnt actually fix anything. making persephone be another CEO doesnt make it suddenly feminist, she's just now profiting from an unfair system like the men already do.

10. People are calling Hades "Persephone's husband" 🤡 yes we all know how it will end but at this point he is merely a guy she knew for 3 weeks 10 years ago. Calling him husband is ridiculous.

[we-can-be-heroes]

#HASHTAG « POÈME » FÂCHÉ/this is my land (hashtag angry « poem »/this is my land)

TW : wickedness, stupidity and most of all : anger (the anger of a 26 years old who realized only yesterday that they were angry and had the right to be)

PSA : 1000th degree horrible humour style (right??!)

I think it’s really great if my presence on this website keeps you from coming back ! In this way, you can keep being you’re most amazing, realest, authentic, candid, flawless, committed, refined, so well-educated revolutionary self with your very well-spoken activist devotees and friends ! While I ….. I 🧟‍♂️‼️ …. I can keep ruling the horrendous subterranean e-thot lands ‼️ with my cyber-slut crown at the top of my head, the only book I’ve ever read (a manga, “bresrek” or something like that) in my left hand and my phone in my right hand as my scepter !!! In MY land aaaaall the citizens are sellouts, who vended their vapid souls to hellstagram (but will continue to complain about it to pretend they don’t enjoy it) because they’re feeble minded, “self-obsessed” “attention whores”, in the image of their Quing ! “- Speaking of “quing”, are you a woman ….???? A man ????? Straight ???? Gay ???? Are you even ACTIVELY BISEXUAL ???? WE DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT YOU ARE and that irritates and confuses us in the most offensive way !!!” Anyway let’s get back to what I was saying about MY LAND ! In MY LAND, all the citizens make poor choices, and, in the image of their Quing, are still with their nerd boyfriend they probably have a “co-dependant” relationship with … All this because the numerous toxic mental illnesses they’re stuffed with but REFUSE to treat out of LAZYNESS, thinking someone will fix it for them and preferring to write shitty poems on tumblr rather than seeking “professional help” or getting out in the real world to see what it’s like. “-speaking of getting help��.You were just as predisposed to be armed for this life as we were (if not even more !) so why are you not fighting ???…..What ?! Lend you my weapons..?? Absolutely not, you must find yours on your own… as we obviously did… (right?!)… but if you don’t … then I will judge you for it while shaking mine in front of your face, my precious weapons I collected only by sheer power of my mind and the discipline I acquired throughout my very noble battle… »But eventually… we will pity you… it’s not entirely fault, it’s also that of your tyrannical Arab mom (it’s a shame that you can’t get out of her grip, as we did with our parents…yet you’re an adult ?!) who breathed into you and all the citizens of the E-thot Lands, this unbearable shame that prevents you from being fully human, and therefore from having a conversation, and therefore from being a friend. It’s all your fault after all. You are destined to wander the barren plains of the E-thot land alone, as is your choice, dear Cyber-slut.

Are you ok tho ? Still mentally ill ?

Poem not written with the help of a real dictionary but with that of Google translation, and not even written with a real pencil but on tumblr through their scepter-phone !!!

[athena5898]

(Disclaimer that I actually think social media is important and my hatred is to capitalism focus algos)

I'm a social media manager, which means I have to know how all these hell sites work (or figure out how one works very quickly). My disclaimer is that I like this site for my random shit despite the algo (of which I hate) and the inability to find new people. I am thinking that over time and as these shitty websites keep making mistakes, more and more people will go to federated alternatives. Until then I'm buying my time.

All that being said, people's response to blue sky is fucking wild! It is by far one of the worst social media platforms I've seen. It's like Equate Twitter (right before Elon Musk took over) and honestly, Twitter was already really shit at that point also, so to be the worst version of that is mind-meltingly bewildering.

Okay, so what do I mean by this? Shit isn't exactly constructive criticism. If you have been on one of these hellsites for any stretch of time, you come to learn that algos decide everything. Ever have something pop up into a feed that won't go away despite never liking something like that? That's the algo. It somehow got it in its little A.I brain that you like posts with brown shoes and now it must show you posts with that criteria until you slap it silly a few times and it knocks out of it.

The purpose of Captalism-based algos, is to keep you posting and scrolling. This is why Facebook incentives posts that make its users angry and why all of these companies LOVE misinformation.

What does this have to do with blue sky? It's no better, and honestly slightly worse because there is no way to search through the hellsite with hashtags or any other user-control features. This makes it horrendously hard to find people that aren't stamped approved by the algo god. Also despite claims of federation, it's not federated yet with only veiled promises of doing it in the future. (yeah right)

My issue is that, if you try to bring this up with people who use the site, they either ignore you or outright say that's not how it works! That's better than anything right now! It is the most bewildering thing I've ever experienced. Anytime I'm forced to use blue sky, it feels like a nightmare. I have absolutely no way of finding people unless they are being served to me in such a painfully curated obvious way that it almost makes me nauseous. If you complain about this, a blue sky person will tell you that you are just not using the website right. Or I'll see a post about how good "discoverability" is under blue sky. It...just isn't?

there is still a word limit, and unlike later Twitter, you can't do threads. Which is great for user engagement and creating clickbait argument bait for everyone to feed into everything...but it's not good for genuine engagement and actual conversations. (things people like this claim to care about).

All of this to say, I guess my issue isn't blue sky being shit, (cause of course the guy who designed Twitter who is making an alternative to elon is going to make it shit) but that people are *defending* this shit. Hell not just defending it, claiming it's the best thing to happen to social media. Watching people sign up and go to it slowly over time after they yelled and complained about Twitter even before musk showed up. (valid complaints too).

This could be the time to do something great. Instead, we get blue sky. My only hope is that because everyone scattered to the winds, it'll keep power out of any one group's hands as much as Twitter had.

I knew people were addicted to Twitter, but I had no idea that their addiction wasn't to social media but to *twitter* itself.

[pandoriasbox]

Horse Girl “Movement”

I’m just gonna toss my two cents in on this while it’s still a hot topic instead of taking over other people’s posts with my opinions. I think SSE, the company behind the game, made a horrendous mistake in how they’re managing and marketing this “movement” of theirs. I can understand where they’re coming from and I think I understand their general intentions.

Like I get it, “horse girl” especially in North America (though depends on where you’re from) tends to be used negatively and especially for bullying. It wasn’t a huge deal where I’m from since it’s way more rural here so kinda more normal but I’ve always had the impression it kinda implied you were weird or strange bare minimum and I’ve heard some awful stuff from friends about how it’s viewed elsewhere. So I think it’s fair for SSE to think “oh hey we’re a huge horse game that could influence people to look at this more positively and make people feel better about this.”

Problem is, they used probably the worst ever wording for their hashtag and whoever was responsible for replying to concerns on instagram was really ignorant at best and just downright inconsiderate of actual minority groups that face oppression and go through the process of reclaiming slurs. I agree with folks saying “redefining” is a better word to use, it’s at least not feeling like you’re ripping off far more serious and important movements and pretending yours is on the same level as them. Like absolutely bullying sucks but I don’t think any “horse girl” has been explicitly targeted in a systemic way for just liking horses. I have seen other things like people commenting it’s also something that might be related to neurodivergence and I’d agree, I think talking about that would be a really interesting and good topic to discuss. However, the way I think this is coming off from SSE’s side is more of a loosey goosey “uwu we’re gonna post some positive stuff about horsey girls and anti bullying advice that doesn’t do anything.”

And I absolutely hope I’m wrong, I want to be wrong about that but at the end of the day, there’s so little you can do about bullying or supply advice for bullying. You can attempt to ignore bullies, you can talk to someone of authority like a teacher if you’re in school but if you’re an adult or online? You’re kinda screwed, you just block and report if you gotta and try to move on, don’t interact. Honestly, I think the main thing that helps against bullies is just having a support group of some kind and unfortunately if you’re already the odd one out because of something like being a horse girl, you’re just kinda screwed. A lot of times, people won’t do anything about bullying because they either don’t want to get bullied or don’t want to get hurt themselves, or worse, they just don’t care.

So I don’t have any real hope for this “movement” they’re trying to do. I think it’s just going to be a weak attempt to try and uplift their female playerbase, score some brownie points and hand out some likely ineffective anti-bullying advice. Maybe they’ll tell people to be nicer to horse girls too. Again, I hope I’m wrong but SSE hasn’t had the best track record when it comes to making a stand on anything and this comes off as more of a marketing ploy to rope people into the game or just push harder on their female playerbase that they’re hashtag relatable, hashtag we’re with you, hashatag something something girlboss.

So yeah, I’m pretty salty about it and I usually keep rants off my blog but this has affected more than me, it’s hurt my friends, it’s hurt me, and I’m kinda pissed about how inconsiderate it is to minority groups and on top of that, another nail in the coffin showing how little SSE cares about anyone else in their community who isn’t cis female. Like this isn’t a one off thing, these kinds of lack of consideration moments have been sprinkled throughout my time playing and following SSO.

Like I’ve said multiple times, I’m all for SSE being supportive of girls, women, anyone who identifies as female. I want to see them do more positive female orientated things and I think this was an attempt but an incredibly poorly conceived one at best. What I want to see is more showcases of female creators, equestrians, ect. SSE is in a unique situation where they could very easily shine more light on the game design process for young girls and women. They could talk more about behind the scenes, they could showcase more of their female devs, artists and writers (they already do but what about showing them go through their work process if they’re okay with that?) They could even do events around getting girls into game design. But what do they do? Continue to spout about how hashtag feminist they are by marketing towards girls instead of actually producing content that feels like it’s really uplifting female players. It’s not an easy line to distinguish but I gotta say I feel like 8 times out of 10 they’re on the wrong side of it.

And at the end of all of this, it just wraps straight back around to the problem of SSE doesn’t care about players who aren’t cis female. I’m not saying everyone in the company doesn’t but the face of the company and perhaps the marketing and social media teams feel like they don’t. The external elements of this game and franchise don’t care about us, they don’t care about gender queer, trans, nonbinary, gender non-conforming players. They don’t care about actually showing gender equality in their game, about making it so young girls see that they are on equal footing as boys and no better or less. Or about making an actual difference in showcasing how it’s normal to be outside the gender norm even if you identify with your assigned birth gender. And maybe that’s okay if you’re a little company still just trying to make the next Barbie game and fade into the background. 

But it’s 2022, gonna be 2023 before we know it and gender diversity is a huge topic now. We are moving faster and faster towards widely recognizing genders other than female and male and if SSE wants to actually be inclusive, they’ll start doing that too. It’s reasonable for them to put more effort into anything female over male or other gender queer content but it’s no excuse to either leave it on the sidelines, limit it to pride month or push it to locked areas the player may never see or only see once and then abandon. And most importantly, there are games with make your own characters or player blank slates that are more gender progressive than SSE is attempting to be right now. I love the look of the new models but I am hating how limiting they are gender wise. I want a nonbinary character, I want to have the option to be a gender nonconforming butch coded woman instead of the only one in the game being A VILLAIN. And maybe I can’t have a character that looks like she’s in her late 20′s like me but I don’t understand why I can’t have a gender neutral one or why I can’t play as a male when even most indie games that don’t have premade characters let me.

 SSE needs to grow the hell up and take a long hard look at what’s going on outside their little bubble because even though we’re a minority, a lot of long time queer and male players are getting real sick of this treatment. I don’t enjoy seeing my friends drop like flies off the game that brought us together. I don’t want to drop it myself because continued lack of respect on topics like these. Maybe it feels like an overreaction to people who are part of the target audience but after a while this stuff builds up both in SSO and outside it. I’m just sick of seeing piss poor gender representation and I want to finally say something and try to do something about it.

[deliciousdetectivestranger]

Notes from the Winter Solstice Meeting

Phew! Just back from the winter solstice meeting on Mount Olympus. I promised you a report. I don’t have any solid news yet, sorry, but I did petition the gods directly, so we’ll see what happens! The transcript of my talk with the Olympians is below.

Notes from Winter Solstice Meeting 2019,

Mount Olympus

600th Floor, Empire State Building

New York City

 

INT. MOUNT OLYMPUS – THRONE ROOM

We see an aging mortal writer in the midst of a great chamber. He is dwarfed by a semicircle of giant thrones inhabited by the Olympian deities.

 

Rick Riordan: Thank you for seeing me, O great Olympians.

Zeus: We understand you want . . . (checks notes) a reboot. What is wrong with your present boots?

RR: No, Lord Zeus, a reboot adaptation of my books about Percy Jackson.

Zeus: I knew that. Percy . . . Yes, he’s a good lad. Those movies, though –

Ares: Oh, gods! No. Just NO. I wanted to KILL somebody.

Hermes: To be fair, Ares, you always want to kill someone.

Ares: THAT’S NOT THE POINT!

Athena: Mr. Riordan, we already rained fire and pestilence upon that studio.

RR: Yes, Lady Athena, and I appreciate that.

Athena: The particular division that made those horrendous adaptations has been dismantled. And the remainder of the company has been . . . (dramatic pause) acquired. (Glances at Zeus) Which corporate hydra did we send to devour it? Starbucks? Amazon?

Hephaestus: (grumpily) Disney. I made a very competitive bid with Hephaestus-TV, but I was rejected! Bah!

Athena: I remember now. The hydra of the Mouse God. A powerful force indeed! At any rate, Mr. Riordan, after your first movie experience, didn’t you swear on the River Styx that you would never go to Hollywood again?

RR: I may have made some rash statements to that effect.

Hades: We take oaths on the River Styx very seriously, Riordan. Don’t make me claim your soul before its time!

RR: No, Lord Hades. Of course not. I just thought . . . well, honestly, I’d be happy to just write books and ignore Hollywood forever, but my fans really, REALLY want me to try again, seeing as there are so many new opportunities now that Disney has acquired the rights –”

Artemis: I loved Frozen. Oh, gods. Elsa is Hunter Squad goals!!!

Ares: I preferred Mulan. The new live action version looks lit — like nuclear bomb lit.

Aphrodite: You are all silly. The Little Mermaid is the best. (sighs)

Poseidon: For once, I agree with you. (clears throat). But we’re getting off track. Riordan needs to appease his fans. That is something we gods can understand. What would you have us do, mortal writer person? A hurricane against Los Angeles? A tsunami? This is, after all, my son Percy’s reputation we’re talking about!

RR: No, Lord Poseidon, nothing so dramatic. The executives I have talked to so far have been interested. I think they’ve listened to me. But there are many people that must give their input. Many executives to speak with.

Hermes: True. The servants of the Mouse God are myriad.

RR: Right now, they are considering my words, and talking, and pondering.

Athena: That is wise. Such actions must be carefully considered.

Hermes: Ugh, but pondering, though. That could take months. Years. Decades.

RR: (sighs) True, Lord Hermes. It is a very long process. That’s why I was hoping you gods could give me your blessing. Perhaps send some good omens our way? Really, any support could help.

Zeus: (stroking his beard) We could get a hashtag trending on social media.

RR: Actually, my fans already did that, without me even asking. It shot to #1 worldwide on Twitter.

Demeter: (busily sorting different kinds of cereal in a large bowl) You could spend more time meeting with people in Hollywood.

RR: I have already done that. I’ve gone to L.A. twice this fall, each time for a full week of meetings.

Artemis: (winces) That is a lot of time in L.A.

Athena: Perhaps we could show Disney how beloved these books are. We could grant you tremendous success and years on the bestseller lists.

Hermes: (waves his hand impatiently) Guys, Riordan’s already got huge success. Those Percy books have been on the bestseller list for ten solid years. That should be a strong enough message!

Ares: Well, I suppose that leaves us no choice but a full frontal assault. I will summon the war chariots!

RR: That’s not necessary, Lord Ares! Just your blessings are all I ask. May I continue to negotiate and push for a new adaptation? Will you favor my efforts?

Poseidon:

Absolutely! Those books have brought me incredible publicity. Er, I mean, they’ve brought all of us incredible publicity.

Ares: Hmm. I didn’t come across as a very nice guy.

Silence.

Athena: Anyway, what would this new adaptation look like, Riordan?

RR: I have some very specific ideas, but it’s too early to say. We have to wait to see what the minions of the Mouse God are willing to consider. The most important thing is to do a faithful adaptation that makes the fans of my books happy. They’ve been waiting for over ten years, and I really don’t want to let them down.

Hermes: Yes, fine, but what’s our cut?

RR: Your cut? Um, well . . . you get lots of publicity. New readers hearing about you, learning your names and your deeds. I’ll even burn a sandwich in your honor.

Hermes: Peanut butter?

RR: Sure.

Hermes: You are a shrewd negotiator, Riordan. I will support you.

Zeus: Would you be willing to take some notes on the script, though? For one thing, I should be played by Brad Pitt.

Ares: No, I’m Brad Pitt!

Demeter: (looks up from her large bowl of cereal) No, Brad Pitt is mine! (blinks) Wait, what are we talking about?

Hera: (glances up from her Good Housekeeping magazine) Go back to sorting your Frosted Flakes, Sister. (narrows her eyes at Riordan) I always come off looking like the villain in your books, Riordan. Why is that? Why should I support you?

RR: Ah. Well, Lady Hera –

Zeus: Don’t be touchy, my dear. He took artistic liberties, that’s all.

Hera: Hmmm.

Zeus: Speaking of artistic liberties, what if – hear me out – what if we made Percy Jackson a teenaged vampire?

Poseidon: Never! But I think the story would work well if we made all the characters be in their early twenties. And we turned it into a sort of spy thriller meets romantic comedy.

Athena: Or perhaps you could just let the author do what his millions of fans want and be faithful to the source material.

Zeus: Well . . . I suppose you’re the goddess of wisdom for a reason.

Athena: Also, I want to be played by Brie Larson.

Hermes: Dibs on Benedict Cumberbatch.

Hades: I want Stan Lee to have a cameo.

Zeus: Stan Lee is dead; may the gods rest his soul.

Hades: You’re talking to the Lord of the Underworld, here.

RR: (under his breath) Suddenly an animated adaptation isn’t sounding so bad.

Aphrodite: I just want to know when the casting calls are.

RR: (confused) My lady?

Aphrodite: Well, I know I don’t have any acting experience, but I look perfect for the role of Aphrodite and my friends all tell me I’m very dramatic.

Artemis: You are Aphrodite, you nitwit.

Aphrodite: Don’t be rude! I just want an audition.

RR: Uh . . . okay. So then do I have your permission to keep pressing for a new adaptation?

Muttering and whispering among the gods.

Zeus: Very well, mortal writer person, but even with the gods on your side, this will be a difficult struggle, and it may be a long time before you get a clear answer. Unlike the Olympians, Hollywood does not work during the winter holidays. Everyone is out of the office until after New Year’s.

RR: Yes, Lord Zeus. But I must keep trying. For the fans! For the children!

Hera: (rolling her eyes) You’re as dramatic as Aphrodite. By the way, I expect my part to be played by Elizabeth Taylor.

RR: But she’s – (catches a warning look and a shake of the head from Zeus.) – I’ll see what I can do, Lady Hera.

Zeus: Excellent! Now if you’ll excuse us, Riordan. We have other business to attend to. These climate disasters aren’t going to create themselves.

 

Riordan exits, bowing and scraping.

 

Zoom out from Mount Olympus to an aerial view of Manhattan.

 

Fade to black.

[amonicano]

Week 9 - Fandoms

For this topic, I will be specifically focusing on Kpop groups and One Direction fandom.

What is Fandom?

First, let me start off by explaining what fandom is. Fandom is basically another saying of "fan culture". A fandom us a group of people who have formed a community or subculture around a piece of pop culture, such as a book, movie, video game, comic, music groups, or sports team. This group of supporters is united by their love for the source material.

While most fandoms are made up of people who buy the source material and its various offshoots (action figures, posters, books, etc.), they can also be made up of people who actively interact and engage with the original material through creative works. Posting fanfictions and drawings, as well as writing songs or creating videos on the original work. People may even dress up as the characters from the source material.

Kpop fandoms

If you're unfamiliar with K-pop music, consider pop bands such as One Direction, Little Mix, and Fifth Harmony in the western countries: they're similar to the concept of idols.

Fandoms are a large part of K-pop fan bases and what comes of fandoms in general is always that one common thing you always see: Toxicity. The power of social media has become so popular among fanbases. The K-pop fandom is immensely popular on Twitter, with some accounts as old as the platform itself.

I'm pretty sure everyone has heard of cancel culture. If no, cancel culture is a form of online shaming involving a celebrity/or fans receiving backlashes if something offensively done by them. This is a very common thing in K-pop fandoms as K-pop fans are not afraid of this idea. In fact, they can even start canceling people or idols at anytime. In some cases, these fans have gone as far as making death threats or directing massive pile-ons for innocent opinions. Pretty disgusting.

I have never really linger around in any of the K-pop fandoms because I have been on Twitter loooooong enough to actually see the amount of sh*t happening just from a trending hashtag or accounts appearing in the normal hashtag like #BTS I follow. I admit that I love and support BTS in terms of their music but I do not want to associate myself with the fandom because of the amount of pathetic people within the fandom, especially the new fans (I hope I don't get killed but this is the truth)

Pretty sure we all know who Charlie Puth is. ARMYs started to cancel him after his live performance with BTS in 2018 (If I’m not mistaken) as they accused him for using BTS just to gain more popularity. It is really insane because some of these fans gives 0 craps and just went all out cancelling him for no damn particular reason or actual evidence. 

I’m done talking about BTS ARMY. This is so tiring so I’ll talk about One Direction instead.

One Direction (Directioners)

Awwww, look at their glowups.

Ah yes, this takes me back to my time back in early secondary school days where I was an absolute hardcore One Direction fan. The fact that I still have their autobiography books as well as merchandises till today. Maigod, I feel embarrassed. But hey, I still listen to their songs cause it’s so goddamn good and even though they have disbanded, I still keep up with Harry Styles LOL. Yes, he’s my bias. Okay, moving on xD.

Also, people who are a fan of One Direction (1D) are called Directioners. 

I’ll just get straight to the point and keep in one paragraph LOL cause this post is getting a bit too long. Basically in short, One Direction was badly mistreated by both toxic Directioners and people from other fandoms back then. Louis Tomlinson was called horrendous names and people commented how his voice wasn’t good enough when in actual fact, HE’S ACTUALLY REALLY GOOD AND HE HAS THAT ANGELIC VOICE. When his mom passed away in 2016, I was so disgusted at the fact that people had gone so far to commenting “I would love to make out with his mom’s dead corpse,”. This is so disgusting. Niall Horan was badly picked because of how he wasn’t as good looking as other members as well as being told that he was not good enough for the band as well. Liam Payne went into alcoholism due to the amount of stress he had to go through, which resulted him to go for therapy after the disbandment of One Direction. Zayn Malik was called racial slurs because he is a mix Brit and Pakistani. What’s even worse was that when Zayn was the first one who left the group, fans, especially the hardcore Zayn Malik simps went as far as cutting themselves thinking the faster and sooner they cut, the sooner Zayn will go back to the group. As for Harry Styles, when he was 16, he was labelled as a ‘womanizer’ by their management. Yes, you heard it right. The damn management. Even the damn management mistreated them badly back then.

I’m literally facepalming as I’m typing out all of that. 

But yes, those are all some of the major points I’ve mentioned about Directioners and the mistreatment towards One Direction. There’s more to those I’ve mentioned and I can literally write a short book about it LOL.

Anyways, in summary,

Every single fandom out there is bound to have toxicity happening within. The thing about toxicity is that it cannot be avoided and stopped. Some fans even go as far as to cancelling other fandoms just for the sake of power of who do better and all that shit. It’s honestly tiring I swear, and that’s why I never involve myself with any of the fandoms after One Direction, and I’m glad I’m not in BTS ARMY fandom, though I’m a big fan of BTS music myself. Heck I rather just fangirl over them by myself like for real. 

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Hellooo I read some posts of yours under the hashtag “Riordan Critical”, and I really liked your opinions. I was curious, what do you think about Magnus Chase’s serie and, more importantly, about representation in his books?

Warning: The following text will contain high levels of salt that will make the dead sea seem sugary.

This turned out longer than intended, so I decided to shorten it here. Klick and read all of it, but seriously, I am overly salty in this, as a heads-up.

Well, what I mainly think about Magnus Chase is that it’s a cash-grab.

Riordan had one really huge hit with Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

He wrote the Kane Chronicles about the Egyptians and they were… not as popular as that. So he decided to crossover and tie-in and essentially try to convert PJatO readers into “Look, here is your Percy! Check those stories out and discover that you might like Carter so you will buy my other books!”.

Then he tackled the Romans, but straight-up went sequel to PJatO with that, because he saw that non-Percy material wasn’t working as well.

And with the Norse he essentially clickbaited.

“Magnus CHASE. Look at that name! What could it mean? Is it perhaps next gen about Percy and Annabeth’s son? But oh why would he have Annabeth’s last name? Oh, I simply NEED to know!”

That… is literally the only purpose that Magnus being Annabeth’s cousin fulfills. To make really-very sure PJatO readers would also read Riordan’s new series.

There is virtually no other reason why those two are cousins. It would have splendidly worked if it was just about Magnus Hunt, or whatever kind of alternative last name you might like. Just something that doesn’t tie it together with PJatO.

So, that was kind of a turn-off for me.

Additionally, as you did notice due to reading my other Riordan Critical posts, I’m not exactly a fan of Heroes of Olympus. It had a lot of potential, but the author didn’t feel the need to explicitely write even half of said potential. It also showed that while Riordan was great at writing kids and dealing with them, he flat-out sucks at teenagers because inexplicably all they seem to care in his mind is romance.

So the idea of a book-series where we right away start off with teenagers already gave me a mighty migraine caused by Riordan’s shipping history.

Another turn-off.

Lastly… please call back your bald eagle and roll up that star-spangled banner, Riordan, America is not the center of the universe.

PJatO was written during a time where yes, America was very centric and even respected. 90s and early 2000s, yes, I agree, America was basically the center of the world. So to have the Greek gods move there, okay. I’m buying it.

But to have the Greek gods live in New York City and then tie the Kane Chronicles also into the same universe and also have the Egyptian gods sit in Brooklyn, New York…

And then add the Romans, who - hey, wow, San Francisco and not New York! What a shock. Such surprise.

Yeah, no, that’s still the US. You could have, at the very least and to make it at least a tiny bit realistic that you’re retconning Romans in, have them be seated in Europe. Instead of also the US. Because sure, totally, Egyptians, Greeks and Romans never-ever run into each other while they all got their home-base in the same damn country.

And now, what a shocker, the Norse gods also moved to the United States of America.

Newsflash: America really actually isn’t the center of the universe and, this might come as a surprise, America is not that popular anymore either.

The sheer egocentrism of having Greeks, Romans, Egyptians and Norse gods all abandon their original continents to move to the US kind of makes me nauseous at this point.

No. No, America is not that great. No, not all the gods of the entire world want to move to the country where trans people aren’t allowed to use restrooms anymore, where unarmed black people are shot by the police, where children have to march for the right to not be shot at school, where women have to travel to another state to maybe get an abortion.

No, your country is not that great, Riordan, please stop acting like it.

It’s quite frankly very insulting that Riordan treats Europe like a pesky, underdeveloped little thing that’s not worthy its own gods attention.

I could buy one pantheon moving on the US. I don’t buy four.

If you want to write US centric god stories, how about you give native Americans some rep and start writing about their gods. Who, you know, would thus also just stay in their own country for a change.

I just really can’t accept the fact that he now also moved the Norse gods up to the US and that oh my such coincident, Frey fucked the sister of Annabeth’s dad so now the Chases attracted two different pantheons.

That’s just too much bullshit, click-baiting and things that make me weary from experience with his last series.

So. Yeah. I haven’t read it and nor do I have plans of reading it, because literally not a single thing about it seems worth reading and all the things I just listed make alarm bells go off in my head.

Also, just one more salty add-on: Personally, I think that his representation in Magnus Chase is also click-bait. He realized there is a huge audience for LGBTQ+ characters when he made Nico gay so he is now focusing more on representation for popularity’s sake.

Look, I know that last part in particular is really very bitter and everyone who reads the books and is happy about the representation given in them should. Of course. We don’t get enough rep in YA novels.

Nico di Angelo was handled horrendously. In my opinion.

I loved House of Hades and the plot of Nico coming out to Jason. Don’t get me wrong, not everything Riordan does is awful, obviously I also like a lot of his stuff, otherwise I wouldn’t have read it.

I one hundred percent believe that Nico was intended as gay from the get-go, because the evidence for his canonical love for Percy is all over PJatO. It was good writing. It was a brilliant set-up.

The level of angst Nico dealt with in HoO was good. Realistic, especially for a kid from the 30s.

But then Blood of Olympus ended and Riordan, I don’t know, panicked. He completely rushed and butchered everything that he had been setting up for years now and it is... At its very core, this was the moment where he lost all of my trust, really.

When Nico flippantly confesses to his feelings for Percy in public. A week ago, he couldn’t even admit it in front of Jason and a god, even with high stakes, but all of a sudden he has the confidence to confess not just to being gay but to his feelings for Percy.

And then this utterly rushed job of “Well, he was in love with Percy for years, but over the past five days, he totes 100% got over it and now he has a crush on Only Other Gay, whom he spoke a total of about 5 sentences to”, just because Riordan can’t live without shipping.

Nico had been through so much. Give the boy time. Yes, okay, let him bond with Will, but there was no need to rush the “suddenly over Percy” shit and the coming out of the closet thing.

Riordan’s middle-aged straight man was showing hard there and as a lesbian, who went through the spiel of denial, hiding and coming to terms myself, I felt... I was genuinely emotionally crushed for weeks by what a shitty job he did with Nico’s coming out.

It’s not even about the ship. I never expected Nico and Percy to get together at the end, I’m not an idiot, I know he’d never break his OTP up.

It’s solemnly about the fact that Nico coming out to Percy was handled like a fucking joke. Flippant and fun and “You’re not my type haha now I’m off with Only Other Gay”.

He could have had Nico bonding with Will. He could have had Nico getting over Percy. He could have had Nico confessing to Percy.

But it all needed more time. The book was ending though, so he rushed through it and slapped a shotty, shitty ending to Nico’s coming out arc and it still makes me so intensely angry.

There is just no way that Riordan didn’t know he’d force another sequel outta those books. So there was absolutely no reason to rush it all.

He could have just had it end in the infirmary. Even with Will making his comments and even with Nico being flustered. But end it there.

Give us a Nico who is more settled at Camp Half-Blood and who is more settled with his sexuality and who would have then come out publically and confessed to Percy. Months after that book, in the next series. Time that would have given Nico the chance to fully embrace himself before opening up to others.

But that’s not possible for Riordan. Riordan needs a happy ending and both PJatO as well as HoO proved that happy endings only work with romance. The great happy ending of PJatO was less about the end of the war but had to be celebrated in an overly cheesy underwater kiss between his OTP. The great happy ending for HoO was that Piper and Jason were happy, Frank and Hazel were happy, Percy and Annabeth were planning to go to college together wtf how is that even possible Percy just missed an entire year of school he ain’t graduating high school any time soon, Nico and Will were going off into the sunset together and the grand finale was literally Leo and Calypso flying into the sunset together. Not a single friendship or family based happy ending. It’s all about the romance and everyone has to be in their one true love best by the age of 14 because that is so wildly realistic.

Riordan has so completely lost my trust over the course of Heroes of Olympus that I can’t help but wonder about the actual motivation behind the things he chose to do there, because many of his past decisions really can just be tracked back to money and popularity.

Many of his decisions made in Heroes of Olympus themselves, for example, directly reflect him rolling over onto his back to try and please his readers (-> spoiling the finale of HoO over a year prior to the final book being published by tweeting how none of the Seven will die in the finale. Thanks for taking out all of the suspense). It’s a habit of his and it keeps getting worse and I’m just… not there to stay and witness.

I’m the kind of girl who doesn’t want to continue being dragged down by something when it’s shitty. When something loses quality so drastically, I do the healthy thing - and quit. And I quit after Blood of Olympus and I have absolutely no intention of ever touching another Riordan book again, unless it’s PJatO for rereading purposes - because that was still actual quality.

Now, lastly, on the matter of representation. Well. It’s a bit pathetic?

I mean, PJatO had Charles Beckendorf, who’s black, and Ethan Nakamura, who’s Japanese, and… literally every other character who was in any way or shape important, was white. And the only two POC were killed off during the Titan War.

Then he wrote the sequels. Leo - Latino. Reyna - Latina. Hazel - black. Frank - Asian. Piper - native American.

It was… Let’s be real, it felt like he was trying to cram as much representation in there as humanly possible to make up for how white the first series was. But I wouldn’t particularly call it representation, because aside from stating their ethnical backgrounds, he didn’t really do a lot with it. It had very little effect on the books and on the characters themselves.

There was like one tiny scene of Piper in a flashback with her grandpa and for a second there I thought he was using that to set up the next spin-off books about native American gods, tied in with Piper’s family, but that didn’t happen.

Reyna being Puerto Rican only… came into play when they were in Puerto Rico, but that was also… not really of actual importance. Like, the scenes as they were could have as well happened in Miami with a white girl.

The thing is, I recently watched One Day at a Time and it’s about a family with roots in Cuba and their Cuban heritage is important. They’re by no means reduced to being Cuban, but it’s integrated into the story. It’s important to the plot and it’s important to the characters’ personality. Now that is what I would call representation.

To actually go and do something, work with the ethnical backgrounds you give your characters.

Traditions, language, pride in their heritage. Cultural clashes, maybe.

Like for Hazel, who is a black girl from the 40s and from whom I would have liked to see more wonder or maybe even anger upon what has changed and what hasn’t changed since her childhood. Riordan teased it, a little, in the flashback about Hazel and Sammy, but in the end, that was only mainly for more love-drama too because it wasn’t enough that this 13 year old girl had Frank in love with her and Leo crushing on her, no, it was vital to add some past romantic drama for her.

And that’s just not something Riordan does. He slaps an ethnical background onto the characters and that’s kind of… it. He writes romance novels by now, where everything else has gotten rather secondary.

I can’t speak for Magnus Chase because I haven’t read it. I’m aware there is a Muslima lead, a genderfluid lead and a character who is mute or deaf, I’m unsure about that one I just know ASL is represented in the series in some way.

All of those can be good. If he actually does a good job with it. If it’s just sub-plot stuff that’s tagged on and not worked with, well, that’d be a shame. Personally, I don’t trust him to prioritize any of those things over his shipping, but I’ll hope that it’s good and at the very least, it seems satisfying enough.

Then again... I don’t read too much critical thinking in this fandom and too much blind love for “Uncle Rick” who can’t do no wrong, so... I don’t trust that to reflect how the books really do.

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Social media advertising is an acquired skill. Not many are able to formulate social media campaigns. That is exactly why those providing digital marketing services in Gurgaon have specialised social media marketers at their disposal. The idea is nothing but to give rise to an interesting set of stories that end up generating interesting conversations.

Also, there is a set of don’ts that people providing social media marketing and digital marketing services in Gurgaon need to keep in mind. Marketers have been nurturing this horrendous notion that quantity is quality. Well, that is certainly not the case with digital marketing and social media advertising.

Here is a set of don’ts that need to be kept in mind while preparing social media ads:

No Over-posting, Please

Posting content regularly is absolutely fine, but what you need is a pre-defined content calendar. Post something fresh and conversation-worthy after every few days and let there be a debate, but refrain from posting too many pieces of content at once. Also, give people ample time to comprehend the messages that you are trying to convey. Bombarding your target segments with countless overlapping pieces of content will only lead to a steady decline in the effectiveness of the campaign.

Hashtags aren’t Always Great

A lot of social media marketers and those providing digital marketing services in Gurgaon seem to be obsessed with hashtags. Hashtags are good (undoubtedly), but using anything in excess can lead to the creation of several long-term problems. Also, do not pair up Tweets with hashtags just to make them trend. There are ‘sensitive’ hashtags, such as the ones dealing with sexual violence and the growing number of assault cases. It is not a good idea at all to stick your nose in conversations that have nothing to do with your brand.

Questions and Comments are Always Welcome

Comments should never cease on social media. Well, that is because giving rise to relevant and engaging conversations is one of the major reasons behind the creation of these social media platforms. Also, do not take unwelcoming tweets and conversations negatively. Use them to grow your known (and to make way for improvements).

Automation is Not the Right Way

A lot has already been said about automation. Automation, in all fairness, is the next big thing in the world of IT. However, advertising has little to do with automation. The idea is to make it ‘personal’ and ‘human’. Bombarding people, especially your most reactive consumer segments with automated emails appears quite ‘uninviting’ and ‘bland’ to the naked eye. Those who provide digital marketing services in Gurgaon, along with those who deal in social media marketing, are well aware of the fact that automation does more harm than good.

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Videos of shooting tragedy in New Zealand continue resurfacing on social media

This is a tragedy that doesn’t deserve a snappy lede, but it is one that needs to be highlighted because tech companies should be held to account.

Earlier today, there was a horrendous mass mosque shooting in New Zealand that killed 49 people — and because this is 2019, social media was used by the apparent murderers to plan, announce, broadcast and virally resonate what they did.

Some of that — such as the Facebook and Twitter accounts of the perpetrator — have been deleted. Yet nearly 12 hours later, you can still find multiple copies of the shooting videos on YouTube and Twitter, with some being used to promote other things.

YouTube issued a statement several hours ago condemning the snuff videos, adding that it is removing them as soon as they are made aware:

“Our hearts go out to the victims of this terrible tragedy. Shocking, violent and graphic content has no place on our platforms, and is removed as soon as we become aware of it,” said a spokesperson in an email to TechCrunch. “As with any major tragedy, we will work cooperatively with the authorities.”

The turnaround time of “as soon as we become aware” isn’t quite as fast as you might think. Randomly browsing on the most basic of searches in YouTube at around 9am Eastern, we found a number of copies of the shooting incident — the same ones posted as livestreams on Facebook — and reported all of them.

As of writing, three of the first four we clicked on are still up. One of them is even used to promote other videos — gaming-related as it happens.

To be clear, the YouTube links we clicked on are re-uploads of the primary source video from the event, not any allegedly legitimate “news” coverage that’s been uploaded in response to it, much of it coming from chancers who are essentially just hoping to make a little click-money from people browsing for more information. Those don’t only include no-name video posters. The likes of the Daily Mail sickeningly used clips of the video in the name of news.

On Twitter, it was just as easy to find embedded video clips, by way of the New Zealand hashtag plus a keyword or two. These included clips of the shooting, plus several taken by motorists of the police chase for the perpetrators, which present their own casual eeriness and off-color comments from the recorders.

Twitter also issued a statement the mirrored YouTube’s.

“We are deeply saddened by the shootings in Christchurch today,” a spokesperson said in an email to us. “Twitter has rigorous processes and a dedicated team in place for managing exigent and emergency situations such as this. We also cooperate with law enforcement to facilitate their investigations as required.”

Like YouTube, Twitter is also monitoring the platform and has both human and computer-based screenings to field reports. But the situation highlights how — despite the stated commitments from companies that work in social media to track malicious or harmful content on their platforms, and despite all of the tracking algorithms and teams of humans that they have built to help — social media services continue to fail the public when it comes to keeping their platforms from getting exploited for horrendous ends.

Meanwhile, the lead comment on the Reddit thread about the news states, “New Zealand Police has requested the Footage not be shared on social media. Please do not post the Videos. If you see the Videos, bring it to the moderators attention,” and judging from the first couple pages, this appears to be working.

A Reddit spokesperson sent us the following statement: “We are actively monitoring the situation in Christchurch, New Zealand. Any content containing links to the video stream are being removed in accordance with our site-wide policy.”

It’s also worth noting that after a shooter apparently encouraged viewers of his livestream to “subscribe to PewDiePie,” the YouTube star (who has attracted controversy for anti-Semitic messages in the past) tweeted, “I feel absolutely sickened having my name uttered by this person. My heart and thoughts go out to the victims, families and everyone affected by this tragedy.”

Just heard news of the devastating reports from New Zealand Christchurch. I feel absolutely sickened having my name uttered by this person. My heart and thoughts go out to the victims, families and everyone affected by this tragedy.

— ƿ૯ωძɿ૯ƿɿ૯ (@pewdiepie) March 15, 2019

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Videos of shooting tragedy in New Zealand continue resurfacing on social media

This is a tragedy that doesn’t deserve a snappy lede, but it is one that needs to be highlighted because tech companies should be held to account.

Earlier today, there was a horrendous mass mosque shooting in New Zealand that killed 49 people — and because this is 2019, social media was used by the apparent murderers to plan, announce, broadcast and virally resonate what they did.

Some of that — such as the Facebook and Twitter accounts of the perpetrator — have been deleted. Yet nearly 12 hours later, you can still find multiple copies of the shooting videos on YouTube and Twitter, with some being used to promote other things.

YouTube issued a statement several hours ago condemning the snuff videos, adding that it is removing them as soon as they are made aware:

“Our hearts go out to the victims of this terrible tragedy. Shocking, violent and graphic content has no place on our platforms, and is removed as soon as we become aware of it,” said a spokesperson in an email to TechCrunch. “As with any major tragedy, we will work cooperatively with the authorities.”

The turnaround time of “as soon as we become aware” isn’t quite as fast as you might think. Randomly browsing on the most basic of searches in YouTube at around 9am Eastern, we found a number of copies of the shooting incident — the same ones posted as livestreams on Facebook — and reported all of them.

As of writing, three of the first four we clicked on are still up. One of them is even used to promote other videos — gaming-related as it happens.

To be clear, the YouTube links we clicked on are re-uploads of the primary source video from the event, not any allegedly legitimate “news” coverage that’s been uploaded in response to it, much of it coming from chancers who are essentially just hoping to make a little click-money from people browsing for more information. Those don’t only include no-name video posters. The likes of the Daily Mail sickeningly used clips of the video in the name of news.

On Twitter, it was just as easy to find embedded video clips, by way of the New Zealand hashtag plus a keyword or two. These included clips of the shooting, plus several taken by motorists of the police chase for the perpetrators, which present their own casual eeriness and off-color comments from the recorders.

Twitter also issued a statement the mirrored YouTube’s.

“We are deeply saddened by the shootings in Christchurch today,” a spokesperson said in an email to us. “Twitter has rigorous processes and a dedicated team in place for managing exigent and emergency situations such as this. We also cooperate with law enforcement to facilitate their investigations as required.”

Like YouTube, Twitter is also monitoring the platform and has both human and computer-based screenings to field reports. But the situation highlights how — despite the stated commitments from companies that work in social media to track malicious or harmful content on their platforms, and despite all of the tracking algorithms and teams of humans that they have built to help — social media services continue to fail the public when it comes to keeping their platforms from getting exploited for horrendous ends.

Meanwhile, the lead comment on the Reddit thread about the news states, “New Zealand Police has requested the Footage not be shared on social media. Please do not post the Videos. If you see the Videos, bring it to the moderators attention,” and judging from the first couple pages, this appears to be working.

A Reddit spokesperson sent us the following statement: “We are actively monitoring the situation in Christchurch, New Zealand. Any content containing links to the video stream are being removed in accordance with our site-wide policy.”

It’s also worth noting that after a shooter apparently encouraged viewers of his livestream to “subscribe to PewDiePie,” the YouTube star (who has attracted controversy for anti-Semitic messages in the past) tweeted, “I feel absolutely sickened having my name uttered by this person. My heart and thoughts go out to the victims, families and everyone affected by this tragedy.”

Just heard news of the devastating reports from New Zealand Christchurch. I feel absolutely sickened having my name uttered by this person. My heart and thoughts go out to the victims, families and everyone affected by this tragedy.

— ƿ૯ωძɿ૯ƿɿ૯ (@pewdiepie) March 15, 2019

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Twitter users went crazy after Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) eviscerated her 2020 Democratic presidential primary opponent Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) over her criminal justice record.

During the second night of the second Democratic primary debate on Wednesday, Gabbard — who endorsed self-described democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the 2016 presidential election — took aim at Harris for her tenure as California’s state attorney general, saying that she was “deeply concerned” about her record and there were “too many examples to cite.”

Harris had served in the position from 2011 to 2017.

Gabbard tore into Harris for sending “over 1500 people” to prison for marijuana-related offenses and “laugh[ing] about it” when asked if she ever smoked marijuana, as well as claiming that the California senator “blocked evidence” that would have led to the freeing of “an innocent man” facing the death penalty “until the courts forced her to do so.”

Additionally, the Hawaii Democrat also claimed that Harris “kept people in prison beyond their sentences” so that California could “use them as cheap labor” and “fought to keep [the] cash bail system in place.”

Watch the video here:

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard challenged Sen. Kamala Harris’ record while serving as attorney general of California #DemDebate2 https://t.co/NjrPPlVf8d pic.twitter.com/XSFiZfG9vi

— TIME (@TIME) August 1, 2019

“She put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana. She blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so. She kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California, and she too keep [the] cash bail system in place. That impacts poor people in the worst kind of way.”

Harris responded by saying that her work as the attorney general of California “significantly” reformed the state’s “criminal justice system” and claimed that it served as a “national model for the work that needs to be done.”

She continued on to say that she was “proud” of her work and “making a decision” to “actually” do the work instead of “giving fancy speeches” in Congress, and said that she was “an advocate” for the decriminalization and legalization of marijuana.

When asked for her response to the California senator, Gabbard continued blasting Harris’ record as a state attorney general, saying that she “did not” make an “impact” in people’s lives when she was in “a position” to do so.

She then restated her claim that Harris “blocked” the revelation of evidence that would have exonerated “innocent people” facing capital punishment until “being forced to do so” and said that “the people who suffered under your reign as prosecutor, you owe them an apology.”

“You actually blocked evidence from being revealed that would have freed them until you were forced to do so. There’s no excuse for that. And the people who suffered under your reign as prosecutor, you owe them an apology.”

Users on Twitter went crazy after the spat, with the hashtag “#KamalaHarrisDestroyed” trending on the site “hours” after it.

Wow. Hours after Tulsi Gabbard gave a brief overview of Kamala Harris’ checkered criminal justice record, #KamalaHarrisDestroyed is trending. pic.twitter.com/rfexLvsYl9

— Walker Bragman (@WalkerBragman) August 1, 2019

Check out some of the other reactions:

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard didn’t hold back when she took aim at Sen. Kamala Harris, saying "there is no excuse" for her record as a prosecutor and she owed those "who suffered [her] reign as prosecutor" an apology https://t.co/ZjPujKeqcw #DemDebate2 pic.twitter.com/bTq6htgolm

— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) August 1, 2019

Whatever you think about Tulsi Gabbard, she told the truth about Kamala Harris’ atrocious record as a prosecutor. #KamalaHarrisDestroyed

— Sean Kent (@seankent) August 1, 2019

– Gabbard was correct about Harris and cash bail. Harris, now a prominent critic of cash bail, pushed as San Francisco district attorney to it more expensive; she once said people were coming to town to commit crimes because bail was so cheap: https://t.co/FGVwVzlAsq

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 1, 2019

Kamala Harris tried to brush off Tulsi Gabbard effectively ending her campaign⬇️

It didn’t work, and only made her look worse.

She didn’t refute *any* of her claims, she just made herself look like more of an elitist…#DemDebate pic.twitter.com/62lfKv9WFt

— Students For Trump (@TrumpStudents) August 1, 2019

RIP to Kamala Harris’s campaign campaign.

Killed on July 31, 2019 by Tulsi Gabbard.#DemDebate

— Ryan Fournier (@RyanAFournier) August 1, 2019

Kamala Harris waving goodbye to her chances of being president after Tulsi Gabbard steam rolled her pic.twitter.com/ZsK1kVxPY7

— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) August 1, 2019

Tulsi Gabbard just annihilated Kamala Harris' horrendous record as Attorney General.

She kept innocent defendants locked up while KNOWING there was exonerating evidence.

UNACCEPTABLE!

— Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) August 1, 2019

Tulsi Gabbard just absolutely destroyed @KamalaHarris ⬇️

She called her out for her *awful* record as a prosecutor…#DemDebate pic.twitter.com/Ccl662jjAS

— Students For Trump (@TrumpStudents) August 1, 2019

Gabbard: You blocked evidence that would have freed innocent people!

Harris: IM AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY!!

Did I just have a stroke or is that what just happened? #DemDebate

— Philip DeFranco (@PhillyD) August 1, 2019

Tulsi Gabbard pummeling Kamala Harris right now on her record as Attorney General of California.

— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) August 1, 2019

Tulsi Gabbard is correct about Kamala Harris and her prosecutor's record; it is all true. Sen. Harris can't talk her way out of that and she is not challenging Gabbard's claims.

Because she can't. #DemDebate2

— Terrell J. Starr (@Russian_Starr) August 1, 2019

Looks like Gabbard's punch landed harder than we thought. Kamala Harris' comms guy —> https://t.co/2GNoCamT7V

— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) August 1, 2019

Tulsi Gabbard checks Kamala Harris on her record. Over incarceration, didn’t free an innocent inmate and more. Kamala’s response is a deflection which surmises as “doing the job is harder than talking about doing the job”. True, but it’s your record Senator. #DemDebate

— Tim Black ™ (@RealTimBlack) August 1, 2019

The spat with Harris may serve to bring up Gabbard’s poll numbers in the future so that she can qualify for the third debate, which she has not done so yet.

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Videos of shooting tragedy in New Zealand continue resurfacing on social media

This is a tragedy that doesn’t deserve a snappy lede, but it is one that needs to be highlighted because tech companies should be held to account.

Earlier today there was a horrendous mass mosque shooting in New Zealand that killed 49 people — and because this is 2019, social media was used by the apparent murderers to plan, announce, broadcast and virally resonate what they did.

Some of that — such as the Facebook and Twitter accounts of the perpetrator — have been deleted. Yet nearly 12 hours later, you can still find multiple copies of the shooting videos on YouTube and Twitter, with some being used to promote other things.

YouTube issued a statement several hours ago condemning the snuff videos, adding that it is removing them as soon as they are made aware:

“Our hearts go out to the victims of this terrible tragedy. Shocking, violent and graphic content has no place on our platforms, and is removed as soon as we become aware of it,” said a spokesperson in an email to TechCrunch. “As with any major tragedy, we will work cooperatively with the authorities.”

The turnaround time of “as soon as we become aware” isn’t quite as fast as you might think. Randomly browsing on the most basic of searches in YouTube at around 9am Eastern, we found a number of copies of the shooting incident — the same ones posted as live streams on Facebook — and reported all of them.

As of writing, three of the first four we clicked on are still up. One of them is even used to promote other videos — gaming-related as it happens.

To be clear, the YouTube links we clicked on are re-uploads of the primary source video from the event, not any allegedly legitimate “news” coverage that’s been uploaded in response to it, much of it coming from chancers who are essentially just hoping to make a little click-money from people browsing for more information. Those don’t only include no-name video posters. The likes of the Daily Mail sickeningly used clips of the video in the name of news.

On Twitter, it was just as easy to find embedded video clips, by way of the New Zealand hashtag plus a keyword or two. These included clips of the shooting, plus several taken by motorists of the police chase for the perpetrators, which present their own casual eeriness and off-color comments from the recorders.

Twitter also issued a statement that mirrored YouTube’s.

“We are deeply saddened by the shootings in Christchurch today,” a spokesperson said in an email to us. “Twitter has rigorous processes and a dedicated team in place for managing exigent and emergency situations such as this. We also cooperate with law enforcement to facilitate their investigations as required.”

Like YouTube, Twitter is also monitoring the platform and has both human and computer-based screenings to field reports. But the situation highlights how — despite the stated commitments from companies that work in social media to track malicious or harmful content on their platforms, and despite all of the tracking algorithms and teams of humans that they have built to help — social media services continue to fail the public when it comes to keeping their platforms from getting exploited for horrendous ends.

Meanwhile, the lead comment on the Reddit thread about the news states, “New Zealand Police has requested the Footage not be shared on social media. Please do not post the Videos. If you see the Videos, bring it to the moderators attention.” After browsing the first couple pages of comments, this approach appears to be working.

A Reddit spokesperson sent us the following statement: “We are actively monitoring the situation in Christchurch, New Zealand. Any content containing links to the video stream are being removed in accordance with our site-wide policy.”

It’s also worth noting that after a shooter apparently encouraged viewers of his live stream to “subscribe to PewDiePie,” the YouTube star (who has attracted controversy for anti-Semitic messages in the past) tweeted, “I feel absolutely sickened having my name uttered by this person. My heart and thoughts go out to the victims, families and everyone affected by this tragedy.”

Just heard news of the devastating reports from New Zealand Christchurch. I feel absolutely sickened having my name uttered by this person. My heart and thoughts go out to the victims, families and everyone affected by this tragedy.

— ƿ૯ωძɿ૯ƿɿ૯ (@pewdiepie) March 15, 2019

source https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/15/new-zealand-tragedy-social-media-responmse/

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Videos of shooting tragedy in New Zealand continue resurfacing on social media

This is a tragedy that doesn’t deserve a snappy lede, but it is one that needs to be highlighted because tech companies should be held to account.

Earlier today, there was a horrendous mass mosque shooting in New Zealand that killed 49 people — and because this is 2019, social media was used by the apparent murderers to plan, announce, broadcast and virally resonate what they did.

Some of that — such as the Facebook and Twitter accounts of the perpetrator — have been deleted. Yet nearly 12 hours later, you can still find multiple copies of the shooting videos on YouTube and Twitter, with some being used to promote other things.

YouTube issued a statement several hours ago condemning the snuff videos, adding that it is removing them as soon as they are made aware:

“Our hearts go out to the victims of this terrible tragedy. Shocking, violent and graphic content has no place on our platforms, and is removed as soon as we become aware of it,” said a spokesperson in an email to TechCrunch. “As with any major tragedy, we will work cooperatively with the authorities.”

The turnaround time of “as soon as we become aware” isn’t quite as fast as you might think. Randomly browsing on the most basic of searches in YouTube at around 9am Eastern, we found a number of copies of the shooting incident — the same ones posted as livestreams on Facebook — and reported all of them.

As of writing, three of the first four we clicked on are still up. One of them is even used to promote other videos — gaming-related as it happens.

To be clear, the YouTube links we clicked on are re-uploads of the primary source video from the event, not any allegedly legitimate “news” coverage that’s been uploaded in response to it, much of it coming from chancers who are essentially just hoping to make a little click-money from people browsing for more information. Those don’t only include no-name video posters. The likes of the Daily Mail sickeningly used clips of the video in the name of news.

On Twitter, it was just as easy to find embedded video clips, by way of the New Zealand hashtag plus a keyword or two. These included clips of the shooting, plus several taken by motorists of the police chase for the perpetrators, which present their own casual eeriness and off-color comments from the recorders.

Twitter also issued a statement the mirrored YouTube’s.

“We are deeply saddened by the shootings in Christchurch today,” a spokesperson said in an email to us. “Twitter has rigorous processes and a dedicated team in place for managing exigent and emergency situations such as this. We also cooperate with law enforcement to facilitate their investigations as required.”

Like YouTube, Twitter is also monitoring the platform and has both human and computer-based screenings to field reports. But the situation highlights how — despite the stated commitments from companies that work in social media to track malicious or harmful content on their platforms, and despite all of the tracking algorithms and teams of humans that they have built to help — social media services continue to fail the public when it comes to keeping their platforms from getting exploited for horrendous ends.

Meanwhile, the lead comment on the Reddit thread about the news states, “New Zealand Police has requested the Footage not be shared on social media. Please do not post the Videos. If you see the Videos, bring it to the moderators attention,” and judging from the first couple pages, this appears to be working.

A Reddit spokesperson sent us the following statement: “We are actively monitoring the situation in Christchurch, New Zealand. Any content containing links to the video stream are being removed in accordance with our site-wide policy.”

It’s also worth noting that after a shooter apparently encouraged viewers of his livestream to “subscribe to PewDiePie,” the YouTube star (who has attracted controversy for anti-Semitic messages in the past) tweeted, “I feel absolutely sickened having my name uttered by this person. My heart and thoughts go out to the victims, families and everyone affected by this tragedy.”

Just heard news of the devastating reports from New Zealand Christchurch. I feel absolutely sickened having my name uttered by this person. My heart and thoughts go out to the victims, families and everyone affected by this tragedy.

— ƿ૯ωძɿ૯ƿɿ૯ (@pewdiepie) March 15, 2019

Via Ingrid Lunden https://techcrunch.com