#callouts

[myfandomrealitea]

https://www.tumblr.com/myfandomrealitea/754159647278202880/im-proship-leaning-but-when-other-proshippers-say?source=share

I don't trust "documented evidence" as well, unless it's like in an official website or whatever. it's the mfing internet and people can edit or create fake messages or fake victims. hell, even with the new ai thingy they can create fake videos and pics. who gets to say these are real or not? I am saying this as a victim of fake callout posts who never got believed.

Modern cancel culture and the ability to just throw accusations around and be believed blindly have honestly ruined actual internet safety, accountability and being able to protect yourself and others from both false accusations and real dangerous people.

Its why I take issue with statements like "believe victims no matter what" and "support accusations until they're proven fake."

People have gone to jail for forty years and been proven innocent.

People have been murdered and their accusers have come forward to reveal they made the accusations up.

People have killed themselves over false accusations.

False accusations and blind witch hunting can ruin a person's life for literal decades.

It has absolutely nothing to do with proship vs antiship culture, even though the latter culture is in part what has exacerbated my stance. It has everything to do with the fact that practically weekly there's new news headlines about people milking a dead celebrity's estate with easily disproven claims, or bitter teenagers faking screenshots and falling over themselves to get internet sympathy because their boyfriend broke up with them.

I will always give victims a certain amount of benefit of doubt, but what I won't do is blindly launch a brigade against someone based on claims with no proof or flimsy proof with more holes in it than a festival tent.

[nothorses]

"It doesn't make sense to say "believe all survivors" if we don't also remember that most of us are survivors, which includes most people who cause harm. What we mean is we are tired of being silenced, dismissed, powerless in our pain, hurt over and over. Yes. But being loud is different from being whole, or even being heard, being cared for, being comforted, being healed. Being able to destroy is different from being able to generate a future where harm isn't happening all around us."

- Adrienne Maree Brown, We Will Not Cancel Us, and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice

[euniexenoblade]

I don’t mean this in a nasty way but I think some people who excessively make callout posts suffer from untreated moral OCD. There was this one popular blog who was notorious because they’d constantly make callouts when a user or piece of media became massively popular on this site in the mid-2010s to early 2020s while genuinely believing what they were doing was morally right and I saw they recently said this was the case back then.

As a person with OCD, I do not think that's the case. In the 2011-2014 era I ran in a group of trans people that consistently wrote call outs for others and eventually each other, it's about getting attention, starting drama, and the thrill of winning [what appears to be] a large scale feud. It brings new followers, it gives your writing further reach than expected, plus you get endless support. People who write callouts always end up with endless groups of people telling them how cool they are, how right they are, you're so right that person you hate I also hate. My disdain for callouts largely extends from this circle of people, and because a terf brained loser wrote a call out about me that consisted of "just trust me bro" that everyone took 100% seriously that lost me thousands of followers and the majority of the online friends I had. This call out is almost a decade old and people still believe it about me.

OCD makes it so I scrub my skin till I'm near bleeding, or I freak out if a room is not in an orderly enough fashion, it does not make you plunge yourself into Google docs with the intent of ruining someone's life.

[the-uncanny-dag]

Ok, I know we all hate callout posts, but don’t worry, gang, THESE posts whose function is to call someone out is different. THIS method of pillorizing people on the internet based on some aspect of their online conduct is fine, don’t panic. These ones are never gonna have fascist implications or come from personal vendettas, besties, I'm sure. This time it’s totally cool and fine to try and fix Tumblr's ecosystem by subjecting its users you & your mutuals never heard about to public humiliation and harassment. Believe me bro. These are GOOD callout posts. Trust me

[will-pilled]

PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT HARASSMENT OF ANY KIND, PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT CALLOUT CULTURE, AND PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT HATE MOBS PLEASE PISS OFF I DO NOT FUCK WITH YOU!!!!! YOU GUYS KINDA SUCK!!!!! ALSO PEOPLE INVOLVED IN CRINGE CULTURE OF ANY KIND!!!!! PLEASE FUCK OFF!!!!!!! THANKS!!!! (Not a DNI but I'll just block on sight if I see it lol.)

[pet-shop-of-horror-fan]

The people who are truly anti-callouts rarely exist, at least on Tumblr.

Many will say they are anti-callouts, that no one could ever deserve it, that it's cancel culture, that it is harassment, that no one ever does their research, that evidence can be doctored, and so on...

But most of them will turn around and give receipts on how horrible the people giving the callout are, with more than enough running actual harassment campaigns.

Tumblr will forgive anything, except giving callouts, unless of course the person getting the callout did one first, then it's justice.

When I first found the All-Callouts-Bad crowd, I thought they were just enablers because it's easier than putting in the work to see if the callouts are right or not. But many of them will put in work so most of them are not lazily defending the status quo, they are aggressively defending it.

[trollcallout]

Callout post for GrumB)lr user weeklyhorrorscope, aka Chittr user horrorscopicPrecision.

We all know WH / HP, real name Deidre, from her popular horrorscope posts (and the B)rawl that got posted to Tricktok), B)ut I B)elieve there may B)e something more sinister B)ehind her persona.

HP has B)een following Chittr user astronomicTerror for several perigees now, long after they stopped posting horrorscope hoofB)eastshit and started posting music critiques aB)out our glorious Empress. Pictured B)elow are some of AT's cheets, so you know what I'm talking aB)out. She claims to B)e a B)ig fan of )(IC's music, B)ut doesn't even take the time out of her night to reply to these cheets, report them, or at the very least B)lock the account.

On her GrumB)lr account, she also claims to make "weekly" horrorscope posts, B)ut hasn't held up to that promise in many wipes.

Altogether, HP is a lying fraud who doesn't keep her promises. Is she really the kind of troll you want to B)e following?

[angelprickandholysemen]

ppl who dig into transfem's private sex lives to find icky kinks to "expose" as indication of being a sexual predator are the queer moral economy version of trade and/or johns

[hulk-]

Stop! Before you reblog that post that made you angry, ask yourself: could it be a rage farming or smear campaign post? Is it possible the OP is trying to mislead you into responding angrily and immediately, to get likes and reblogs from you?

Is the content really that bad?

Are there other explanations for the content besides "the target did it intentionally"?

Is it possible the target made an honest mistake that is being magnified?

Did anyone try to discuss the problem with the target in good faith first?

Could you attribute ignorance to the target's actions, even if the post attributes it to malice?

Is it possible the poster saw something they personally dislike, or has beef with the target, and wants to retaliate using a mob?

Is it possible the poster is bored and wants engagement, and knows outrage culture is the best way to get it?

Is the post worth spreading even if you're risking ruining an innocent person's reputation?

Is there a source for the claims? Are you sure that's a valid source? Is there an implicit bias in the source? If there are screen captures, did you actually read the screen captures too, not just the post text? Are the screen captures doctored? Have you checked this for yourself? Is there an agenda being pushed by the poster?

And, what prompted the post in the first place?

[roonienoonie]

No one else has made something like this so im going ahead:

Reblog this if you will NOT give a platform to callout culture and refuse to let it hurt innocent and/or marginalized people anymore.

[coulsonlives]

Just gonna say it: namedropping someone in a callout, then telling people 'not to harass them', is like dropping a lump of meat into a group of hungry dogs and saying 'don't eat the meat or stare longingly at it'

It's just empty, 'my intentions are good i prommy uwu' lip service to mask the actual intention of the callout: which is either to ostracize someone, actively harass em via proxy, or both

[shmitz]

Reminder that the *surest* way to create a toxic community that protects abuse and harassment is to have a policy or social atmosphere that silences anyone trying to publicly identify problem individuals or groups. "We don't want witch hunts" is a giant red flag and I will not put myself in any space where that's the rule.

The 'witch hunt' is something that happens when someone with *clout* points a finger. Abusers, at least ones with more than one brain cell, don't target them. They act against people who are more isolated, have fewer friends, and are less able to retaliate in any meaningful way. A public callout may be the only thing the victim has available to them. Take that away and, well, this is one way you can drive people to suicide.

[friendbreakfast]

i know this has been said a LOT but can we

can we like,

can we CRITICIZE PEOPLE WITHOUT MENTIONING THEIR LOOKS?

PLEASE??

CAN WE DO THAT?? THERE'S SO MANY FUCKING AWFUL PEOPLE IN THE WORLD THAT DO AWFUL STUFF AND JUST HAPPEN TO LOOK LIKE SO MANY NICE PEOPLE WHO HAVEN'T. WHEN YOU INSULT THEIR LOOKS, SPECIFICALLY, YOU'RE PRETTY MUCH SAYING THE PEOPLE WHO HAPPEN TO LOOK LIKE THEM ARE JUST AS BAD.

I KEEP SEEING THIS. I KEEP SEEING DUMBASS RAGGING ON PEOPLE'S APPEARANCE IN RESPONSE TO REAL CALLOUTS OF AWFUL BEHAVIOUR AND IT NEVER STOPS. NOBODY SEEMS TO LEARN

I AM SO FUCKING TIRED OF THIS. PLEASE STOP

[lilyliveredlittlerichboy]

yeah anyway "this person is dangerous" callouts cus they did something u don't approve of or made a mistake 6 years ago are not valid and even if it's "ough they did an evil thing" ask yourself where the context. who was actually harmed by this and is it likely to be directly translatable to anyone else. like someone being rude to their abusive ex doesn't make them unsafe for everyone else. and yeah like that post said, keep in mind the intention behind the callout - is it actually warning anyone of some real tangible threat, or do they just want someone they dislike to lose their support network to punish them for some perceived slight

[fantasblog]

‼️‼️Beware of @/angsty_hikka ‼️‼️‼️

She is bad person In utau community and also she is proshipper (She supports all proshippers and defends all her followers is many proshippers and more at twitter)

Look at my instragram and same I did:

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(I REALLY HATE ANGSTY HIKKA AND PROSHIPPERS TOO,WHEN I'M ANGRY AND FURIOUSLY)

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