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you wouldnt last a hour in the asylum where they raised me

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i can't believe the fluffy creeper truthers won

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having seen the minecraft movie trailer my opinion is: the actual character designs aren’t as bad as people are making them out to be (like the sheep is intentionally ugly that’s clearly the point and the piglins look about as good as they could possibly look in that “live action” style, I like that they seem to be using some of the legends piglin stuff). however the compositing is… it’s bad. everyone looks blatantly like they’re standing in front of a greenscreen. even the 3D models that are animated don’t look like they’re actually in the environments they’re supposed to be in but the human actors especially look baaaad.

the good news: if it really is “they aren’t done with compositing” there’s still enough time for it to look much better by the final cut! like that is Very Fixable in the time window they have!

the bad news: but it’s bad enough to make me blatantly go “oh no why didn’t they just animate it they could have just made it animated if the only things that are going to look good are animated anyway”

the worse news: 50/50 odds the studio decides to instead go “what if we ‘fix’ the character designs last minute”, which then will mean they ABSOLUTELY won’t have time to fix “they all are so clearly standing on a sound stage my god”,

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Welcome to the Syndicate ~ (aka the most exclusive tea party in the land)

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happy borth king <3

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there will never be another one like you and I MEAN IT. happy birthday king 👑

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anyways heres shelby

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crumb is practicing driving!

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i've been talking about this with friends over discord but i really need to say it publicly that i think it is entirely unproductive to sift through years of old video footage to look for signs that wilbur was and is an abuser or run his statement through (very inaccurate) AI detectors to argue that a human didn't write it when it's just your average lawyered corpospeak

i think a lot of people, especially younger people in this fandom, feel blindsided and want to find some kind of secret damning evidence that was hiding in plain sight that they missed but that's just not how abuse works most of the time. abusers are people that can and often are perfectly pleasant to most people. there isn't some secret trick to detecting them around you. and while a lot of what we've seen can be recontextualized knowing what we know, it helps absolutely no one to work ourselves into a frenzy to pull out of context clips to paint a narrative of victimhood on every single person he's ever interacted with. there's stuff he's done on camera in the past that we can be uncomfortable with especially knowing what we know now but it is revisionist to act like the same acts people cooed over and called 'brotherly' 2 weeks ago are suddenly smoking guns of abuse.

wilbur is not some disney supervillain who is rotten down to his core he's a human person who definitely wrote or got his team to write his shitty apology and definitely manipulated the people around him but there isn't some film reel of his abuse that we can play or people can look to to say they somehow knew he was a bad person all along

we have actual stories from actual victims to uplift and focus on, we don't need to dig for more things and slap a victim label on people who have not come forward to do so themselves and if they do come forward we can support them then but for the love of god can we stop circulating clips of wilbur and tommy's staged antics or wilbur yelling during mcc

all my love to shelby shubble and everyone else who is affected by this man's actions and is now being exposed to some of the most infuriating discourse conceivable. and fuck that man sincerely.

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I've gone through a lot of emotions since Shubble's stream, but the one that I feel the most right now, after going through several layers of mental barriers, is actually RELIEF

For years we've been watching this guy and his interactions with people and feeling this sense of frustration and unease that we haven't wanted to talk about because it would have had such bad implications on a popular streamer who so many people love and who's best friends with the streamers we love, and always having to go "oh it's probably just a bit" or "they probably talked about this off stream" or "he probably just doesn't realise what he's doing" etc. etc.

Always thinking it wasn't worth the drama to call out his behaviours as shitty

Not worth pointing out how he constantly managed to convince everyone that he was smarter than anyone else and always right, making his friends feel stupid and insecure even when they were actually right and he was wrong

Not worth pointing out how weird he was around his female friends, not worth pointing out how he would bring them into social situations only to then dismiss them, ignore them and push them aside

Not worth pointing out how controlling he was towards all his friends

Not worth pointing out.... except in private, with friends we felt safe talking about these things with

We have Discord logs of these discussions going back three years, these discussions about how we saw him do something shitty on stream to one of his friends that we cared about and how shitty it made us feel... but it would have been wrong to say that publicly, to parasocially accuse a famous stranger of being a bad friend. It wasn't our place to make that callout

And we could never know for sure if he really was a bad friend or if it just seemed that way because all we saw was his streamer persona

So yes, THANK YOU SHUBBLE

I just feel like my own trust in my own feelings and rationality has been validated

(Obviously it's a bad idea to think you can tell when someone you literally don't know is actually secretly an abuser; this sort of thing is constantly used as a weapon to cancel streamers some people don't like. Including by manipulative CCs who are very talented at making themselves seem like the victim and rallying their fans against their enemies)

(But maybe it's good to learn to recognise some warning signs anyway, even if you don't outright accuse them of anything)

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Listen "notallmen" discourse here is pure whataboutism. It is.

No, men are not inherently evil (and in fact "oh he's an evil creature that can't help it" is On Wilbur's Side lol), but what we are looking at here is a trend of consistent, violent misogyny. These are situations of cis men using their privilege as cis men to abuse people. That is what we are fucking looking at here and calling it what it is is necessary. This is gendered violence. Everything that we know about these communities and everything that Shubble and Lexie said was gendered violence and men protecting their privilege and entitlement.

I understand frustration with the lack of intersectionality in this conversation but that intersectionality is not going missing in analysis – it's going missing long before that bc the dynamics being discussed are the dynamics of popular streamers and the streamer community is overwhelmingly white and cis. This is not in fact comprehensive of all abuse cases and experiences, but focusing on that at the expense of addressing the insidious, deep rooted misogyny that drove these abuse cases is textbook whataboutism. This is in fact about how these cis men, as cis men, feel entitled to women's labor and bodies, and leverage their privilege in an environment that has some uniquely pernicious manifestations of patriarchal priorities to get what they want. That is the core of this. That's what's happening here. This IS about gendered power dynamics and people with privilege – in this case, yes, male privilege – trying to cling to what it promises them.

Yes, we should be mindful of transmisogyny and ableism in how we discuss this, but we cannot lose focus of what is being discussed

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posted Lexie's full stream with Shubble from earlier today

TW discussion of abuse

they talk a lot about accountability, warning signs, healing. I'd recommend watching the final thing. Unfortunately captions have not loaded in yet

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Tbh I didn’t think this entire situation would have a whole group of tumblr users start to spout victim blaming rhetoric alongside terf rhetoric and doing things like excessively saying “male” when you can just say men in an already horrible post soaked in radfem ideology but yeah. Nowhere is safe for trans women I get it, even in a situation where we’re supposed to be supporting a woman for speaking about the abuse she went through.

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I am once again wishing Shubble a very fun and happy life surrounded by people who love and care for her where she doesn't have to ever acknowledge that man ever again

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Hello.

I'm going to dissect what is happening in Wilburs appology, partially for my own sanity, partially because there is merit in dissecting what is being said here, what is being implied, and understanding manipulative tactics (even when they are so poorly done because he is too blinded by his own misogyny to effectively manipulate the narrative.)

In conclusion:

He only believes the harm he did was making her clear his apartment and being selfish

Does not believe he did anything wrong in regards to ignoring her safe word, pinning her down, or causing her pain she did not want.

As such, he necessarily her feelings as irrational and his perspective as more accurate, a further case of misogyny.

Thank you to Shubble for making us all aware of this shitty mans awful behaviour, and for her bravery in being the first to step forward. Thank you all other who corroborated her words and added their own experiences.

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Everyone say “thank you, Shubble”

And, if you’ve got time, I would say that while we should be worrying about deplatforming an abuser, supporting Shubble is really what’s most important!

I recommend watching a few of her videos to give her that boost! You can throw a like and a comment her way. Remember that content creation is a job and we can contribute even if just a little.

Her recent hide and seek video featuring Gem, Jimmy, Lizzie and Scott is incredibly cozy, her SOS video is cute and for a series that’s just barely started, both her empires seasons are solid (one link because they’re on the same playlist), her Witchcraft smp series is fun! She has a bunch of videos on other assorted games, and a small AITA podcast series featuring HBomb!

Send all the love to Shelby! Let’s put our time where our hearts are 💗