#i saw an Instagram post thaf mentioned them and op had to put 3 dif edits going from theyre problematic to oops they actuakly didnt do
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Im not going to say specifics but theres so much 'through the grape vine' discourse on the internet that is so frustrating for a lot of reasons. But the most frustrating kind is the "baseless or otherwise unnuanced/overdramatic accusation of someone or something" that is either debunked, old and outdated or proven to be a much more complicated topic. But all most people will see is that first callout post and will internalize it as fact for years. Theyll continue to parrot it on other platforms whenever its mentioned and then outsiders will see that out of context and internalize that as well. Until its so far from the context and the damage is irreversible.
Or will take what might have been a understandable criticism but will turn it into a "this thing is irredeemablely bad and youre a bad person for liking it." If you so much as mention the thing you will have people saying "isnt this thing evil and bad?" Because of a tumblr post they read 5 years ago.
#its mostly just frustrating but ive seen this kind of discourse literally weaponized against small artists#because the people that hate them know followers and outsiders will take that inital accusation as fact and will probably never see#any retraction if one is even provided#like i still see people commenting on the dream daddy situation because they remembered that one post years ago about something that wasnt#even that bad but know the game is dead because of it#i also saw this happened with an artist recently where accusations were made about them by people that dont like them#some of the accusations werent even a bad thing but spun as evil#and some of the accusations were literally malicious#but all people saw were the baseless accusations and turned against them immediately#i saw an Instagram post thaf mentioned them and op had to put 3 dif edits going from theyre problematic to oops they actuakly didnt do#anything wrong!#but the damage was done because they took some rando saying they were problematic at face value without doing any research of their own#the opposite is when theyre irrefutable evidence about someone but everyone ignores ot because they just like them soooo much#but thats a different post for another time
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