#this man made me redownload the app AND come back to tumblr

[ahyuanwrites]

Caleb’s 30-day welcome back greeting 🥺

[svbatomic]

as someone who has been on stan twt on and off since 2017, mcyttwt is by far the worst and most genuinely mentally damaging stan twt community i’ve ever been in. like to the point that after four years of being a stan twitter user mcyttwt was the only fandom that made me so stressed all the goddamn time that i had to leave the whole app for good. and like a big reason for that (and also a big part of the reason that i think the culture there is the way it is on there) is that mcyttwt actively rewards you for being terminally online (i am about to complain now btw so uh . mcyttwt refugee rant incoming below the cut)

the only reason i was on mcyttwt for so long (until late february/early march i think) is bc i couldn’t talk to my friends about mcyt irl as i would honestly get unironically bullied if i told anyone i’m a Cringe Social Reject Dream Stan Tm (not trying to imply dsmp stans r like. oppressed or some shit i just am well aware of the fact that everyone fucking hates us lol) and so i was like cool i can have a community of ppl who share my interests online and still have friends irl and it’ll be great

but bc of the weird ass performative culture around cancelling and shit on twitter it got to the point where i couldn’t do that anymore bc mcyttwt lowkey punishes you for having a life outside of it. like i would be inactive for a weekend bc i was hanging out w my irl best friend and come online to see i’d lost sixty mutuals and been @.ed in like three pissed off callout threads bc a cc or fan that i followed made one kinda dodgy joke and i didn’t unfollow them immediately bc i had a fucking life outside twitter and that meant i was problematic by way of inaction. and pretty quickly it went from shit like this happening once every couple weeks to every single fucking day.

and like the standards for what necessitated cancellation were so fucked. i had one mutual who had like a hundred followers who said she thought schlatt was funny on other people’s streams and got told to kill herself in the replies. at the same time i had an ex-mutual who would regularly post shit that doxxed schlatt and everyone was more or less okay with it. and unless you were online 24 fucking 7 it was impossible to keep up with all the different people you were supposed to be soft-blocking and hard-blocking and educating-not-cancelling, and you will absolutely get in trouble for inevitably falling behind

idk tldr that app is fucking insane to the point that i get actual anxiety from opening it and the only reason i was even on there for as long as i was is bc i felt like if i wasn’t on twt i wouldn’t have any outlet to discuss my interest in mcyt which is why i’m so glad that i said fuck it and redownloaded tumblr from back when i was a marvel blog bc like. towards the end it didn’t even feel like i was running a stan account it felt like i was a one man pr team with a minecraft profile pic