this blew up quicker than i thought and pretty much every “anti anti” type person in the notes is jumping to their usual wild conclusion victim complex of “OH SO HARASSMENT IS OK? YOURE DEFENDING HARASSMENT!!!!” even though the post itself is sarcastic and using the statement as an example of how hypothetical words can affect real life people, not a justification of it. but its also very obviously a general statement, not an example of a targeted harassment campaign against one person or people.

I feel like the conversation around "cancel culture" is inherently disingenuous because half the people in it are defining cancel culture as "experiencing consequences for shitty actions" and the other half are defining it as "online spaces dogpiling people for vague hearsay of a vaguely problematic thing they may or may not have actually done fifteen years ago, and may have been entirely made up by people who have personal beef with them." One is good. One is very bad. But they both get referred to by the same term, and that's...an issue.

I was going to follow you after seeing your muscle man post but I noticed that you're one of those asexy weirdos. Aro/ace people aren't oppressed and not wanting a relationship doesnt make you oppressed. Stop trying to wedge your way into pride if you didnt fight for it.

The most insidious types of fandom racism that actively promotes itself on tumblr and elsewhere (folk who write thousand word essays about how hard it is not to be racist writing fanfiction and etc, and “coming up with a definition for the antis™” that largely focuses on fans of color talk about things that trigger them), all appear to have had roots in the mainstream (and very white) LiveJournal community before the 2007 migration.

Yup. That LJ bubble mentality won’t die. 

As a black fandom old, fuck the “good ol days” when str8 women ‘splained to LGBT fans and racists wrote 90000 page essays defending their shitty white boys fucking against the backdrop of the Haitian earthquake fic and “pls warn for rape in your fics” was a controversial opinion that required weeks and weeks of arguing on metafandom and got survivors harassed out of fandom

Do you consider yourself an "anti"?

like i KNOW exactly what sort of idea you wanted to plant by asking me this, that you wanted it to then become a conversation of just likes and dislikes, to try and have me sorted into the internet faction war so you can have me labelled as just the other, a faceless amorphous group that can simply be treated as lol internet discourse.

I am so so SO sick of ppl calling anti/anti-anti discourse “purity culture”

seeing the shit people fall for on this website tells me that y'all are so young you don't know the concept of cannibal trolling / troll bait. it's when someone intentionally makes something so problematic/stupid or cringy/out of place that you'll waste as much time bashing it as possible. It's literally just the "wow, this is stupid!" version of outrage bait. SO MANY of you eat that shit up not realizing that the joke is on you. I'm secondhand embarrassed for you guys rn.

lots of people are saying that its hard to tell since some people really do have some batshit takes and i agree but i dont think thats an excuse when said account is posting these takes en masse. like when almost every single post they make seems too ridiculous to be true it probably is. or if a post is so blatantly self contradictory and seems like a perfect strawman. its really not hard to spot when you take a step back and analyze something thats getting clowned on without scrutiny.