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everyone needs to hear about the situation in india right now. the youth of this nation are going through hell and back to protect the foundations that our country was built on in the first place, while the adults who are supposed to actually be in charge try to silence our voices.

NEET, which is an exam taken by millions of students per year and is the ONLY gateway for medical admissions across the country, had its papers leaked. so many took their lives because this exam meant everything for their future. and NTA, the agency who conducts this exam, was not held accountable.

there was national backlash. cockroach janta party (initially a satirical political party formed by abhijeet dipke in retaliation to the remarks of the chief justice of india calling the youth "cockroaches" and "parasites of society") started protests at jantar mantar, demanding the resignation of the union education minister, dharmendra pradhan. the movement also asked for ten million inr (~100,000 usd) in compensation for the families of students who died by suicide and wanted NTA be held accountable.

sonam wangchuk, a climate activist and education reformer, also went on a hunger strike at jantar mantar to protest against this corruption in india's higher education system. his fast began on june 28, demanding the resignation of the union education minister. his fast lasted for 20 days until delhi police FORCIBLY removed him and admitted him to safdarjung hospital on july 18.

because of this, cockroach janta party announced "chalo sansad," a march to the parliament beginning on june 20th, 9:00 am ist. but the police seems to be responding with water cannons, mobile jammers, and baton charge. all of this, because of a peaceful protest led by people no older than 30.

There are SIX questions total in reblogs, the end will be marked by large green text. If you don’t see all six, check reblogs and grab the version with the ending note.

Answers amended from the 2025 census based on feedback. If you’re mixed, choose what feels right to you I’m not here to do phrenology or paper bag test you but don’t make it my problem either. When in doubt, ask yourself: would the whites kill you too in the race war?

This census is US-centric because so is tumblr, unfortunately. This poll is also starting with a heavy Black/racialized bias due to my personal followers. The main point of this census is to see how white-dominant the site is currently compared to prior years, as well

For the purpose of this census, Imperial Core will be defined as the following: United States, Canada, Australia, Aotearoa, basically all of Western Europe, Japan, and Israel. If you want to argue about any of these designations, too bad maybe they should stop colonizing.

Note for clarification:

*For those who don’t know, TMA means transmisogyny affected (such as trans women, some non-binary people, etc.) whereas TME means transmisogyny exempt (Cis men, cis women, transmasculine individuals, etc). If you want to ask for clarification for which applies to you for the purposes of this poll, feel free to ask and I’ll try to reply, but if you try to argue or quibble about the terms themselves, I’ll block you.

Thank y'all for answering, and a special thank you to @aceynk for doing the math on the last two questions. Please keep in mind, this is not a captive poll so not everyone answers every question, meaning that as we progress the number of responders decreases. This is obviously not authoritative, its a fucking tumblr poll, but it has a big enough response pool to be decently representative when comparing consistency with last year.

This poll was done with a positive bias for Black, nonwhite, and transfeminine (TMA) responders due to my initial follower pool, meaning these groups are initially represented comparatively more than other groups regardless of their population density on the site. Take this into consideration when viewing the below information.

Question one, "are you some flavor of white?" garnered 22,110 responses, over twice the 2025 survey results but slightly less than the 2024 survey.

Tumblr is 78.5% white this year, a small 0.3% increase from last year. Nonwhite dropped from 16.1% to 13.5%, but this can be accounted for in part by the addition of the "only considered white outside of imperial core" option and a 0.6% increase in people choosing the "mixed" category, from 4.8% to 5.4%.

Question two, "so is you Black?" garnered 19,013 responses.

Tumblr is 3.9% Black this year, whereas last year it was 6% Black. The category for "willingly identifies primarily as Mixed rather than Black" was split out into "Mixed" and "Only considered Black outside my own country", splitting last year's 1.4% to 1% Mixed and 0.3% "Black abroad" (no good way to shorten it lol).

Question three, "are you trans?", garnered 18,755 responses.

The major change in this year's question was splitting the non-binary category into TMA and TME, as there are significant cultural differences that change how each group marks their primary identity. I will elaborate about this at the bottom of this post in FAQS* - Additionally, I'd like to note that this year 78 people responded as being Two-Spirit and 28 as having some kind of culturally-specific gender. I'm glad y'all are here :)

Last year, Non-binary/Genderfluid as a singular unit was 25% of responders. After splitting it to be better culturally representative, we can determine that TMA individuals made up at least 23.1% of responders. Transfemme alone increased from 21.6% to 27%, Transmasc alone decreased from 20.4% to 13.1%, "Non-binary but not trans" increased from 5.6% to 6.5%, Agender had a small increase from 5.6% to 5.8%, Two-Spirit decreased from 0.6% to 0.4%, "Cultural Gender" decreased from 0.3% to 0.1%, "Other" decreased from 3.5% to 2.8%, and "Cisgender" increased from 17.4% to 20.7%.

Question four, "are you currently inside or outside the Imperial Core?", garnered 18,244 responses.

Tumblr is at minimum 6.7% people from the Periphery/Semi-Periphery, with 3.6% living in a Periphery country and 3.1% living in a Semi-Periphery country. 1.5% of responders said their current situation is complicated and they couldn't claim a specific place. 91.9% Imperial Core residents, with 1.5% of that being immigrants from Periphery or Semi-Periphery countries. This question is new this year, so I have nothing prior to compare it to. The format of questions five and six will be slightly different due to functionally having two question sets in each. Numbers in [these] next to current numbers are last year's numbers. I will not compare last year and this year because I changed the way I asked it this year to account for people having few friends, as 1-2 out of 8 and 1-2 out of a couple dozen are wildly different percentages of total friend group.

Question five, "How many Black friends do you have?", garnered 17,595 responses.

Non-Black responses (pop. 15495):

24.98% (3871 responses) said they have 0 Black friends.

36.08% (5591 responses) said they have 1-2 Black friends.

17.12% (2653 responses) said they have 1-2 Black friends, but less than 8 friends total.

18.4% (2851 responses) said they have 3-6 Black friends.

3.41% (529 responses) said they have 7+ Black friends.

Which means that 78.2% (12115) of non-Black responses voted as having less-than-or-equal-to 2 Black friends.

Black responses (pop. 703):

8.25% (58 responses) said they have 0 Black friends.

18.78% (132 responses) said they have 1-2 Black friends.

24.18% (170 responses) said they have 1-2 Black friends, but less than 8 friends total.

24.18% (170 responses) said they have 3-6 Black friends.

24.61% (173 responses) said they have 7+ Black friends.

Which means that 51.21% (360) of Black responses voted as having less-than-or-equal-to 2 Black friends.

Question six, "How many TMA* (Transfemme, some non-binary, etc.) friends do you have?", garnered 16,693 responses.

TME Responses (pop. 9860)

13.17% (1299 responses) said they have 0 TMA friends.

25.63% (2527 responses) said they have 1-2 TMA friends.

17.57% (1732 responses) said they have 1-2 TMA friends, but less than 8 friends total.

29.79% (2937 responses) said they have 3-6 TMA friends.

13.84% (1365 responses) said they have 7+ TMA friends.

Which means that 56.37% (5558) of TME responses voted as having less-than-or-equal-to 2 TMA friends.

TMA Responses (pop. 5461)

5.6% (306 responses) said they have 0 TMA friends.

9.14% (499 responses) said they have 1-2 TMA friends.

11.77% (643 responses) said they have 1-2 TMA friends, but less than 8 friends total.

28.77% (1571 responses) said they have 3-6 TMA friends.

44.72% (2442 responses) said they have 7+ TMA friends.

Which means that 26.51% (1448) of TMA responses voted as having less-than-or-equal-to 2 TMA friends.

Last year, 11.9%/11.4% of responders reported they had less than 3 friends total. This year, only 7.9%/8.2% did. I'm proud of y'all for going out and making friends.

FAQS (below cut)

Why don't you? You should try it. It's very liberating.

To Light, Crime was the source of society's "Rot." And his philosophy on what constituted "crime" was basically about normal-ass people who were willing to break the law. you know, the laws Cops enforce.

It also explains why he's indiscriminate rather than surgical. Because of his own biases, he never stops to consider the flaws in the methods of who gets arrested, or how that never actually seems to have an impact on Crime Rates tm. Cops (like Light) simply see this as evidence that they're not arresting enough people! That they're not going far enough! And these are the values our protagonist was raised with. A surgical strike would let Real Criminals off the hook, while targeting people who, yes, may be more evil by orders of magnitude, but they do it in a LEGAL way!