#i also disagree that the initial post was political per se but the reblog is where it started going amiss

[manebioniclegali]

There have been some scam blogs that only started 4-10 days before messaging people (i.e. me, cuz when you get 4 in as many days, there's gotta be something amiss, bc this is not the site that that many people at once would flock to for donos), which follows how the scam blogs typically operate, but from what I can tell in the notes there were a couple of people who may be legitimate cuz they had posts going back to 2012. One of the people in my inbox went back about a month, so they may have been legit (spam blogs don't typically stay up for that long). Not to say some scammer couldn't have hacked the account, bc that happened to someone I used to follow before they deleted their blog or something, but without seeing that person's content, there's no way to make that determination whether or not they were hacked. And usually the hacking isn't to drum up money to a fake fundraiser.

Tbh I'm glad the initial post was made by a big blog like this, even if the wording was harsh and uncalled for in the reblog by the mod, bc that's how I found out me and someone else I follow weren't the only ones getting flooded by blogs asking for donations and claiming to be vetted within days of each other. I know one was legitimate, but I'm doubtful of the other ones. In general, I don't think going to blogs and messaging them to contribute to your go fund me is the best way to go about it specifically for this reason, bc Tumblr is trained to assume that they're a scam; remember the animal hospital scam accounts that were around less than a year ago? And before that, people asking to "check out my game" or to check out the coding on their blog and it would lead to a scam. Definitely the issue here is that it got out of hand and people were being rude and mean.

(although, also, people in the notes aren't off the hook for telling the mod to kill themselves. Real upstanding job there, guys :/ you catch more flies with honey than vinegar, even if said fly doubles down on being wrong)

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