Katcie

less unstructured time than ever, constant 'extracurricular' obligations cutting into time spent socializing, exploring, relaxing.

more supervised than ever, not allowed to take public transport or spend time alone in public spaces (previously the norm for teens and pre-teens, until media sensationalism made hypervigilance the norm). not allowed to be around peers except when adults are available to supervise/drive.

(despite the fact their parents are working more than ever? bc our whole culture around employment is abusive and exploitive. fewer and fewer families can afford to have parents at home, even as kids are allowed to do less and less without adult around.)

capitalism run amuck + defunding of parks, libraries, etc means it costs money just to exist in public, which is fucking nuts. (it also costs money just to get to public spaces. our world is less walkable than ever and public transport programs are constantly sabatoged. no wonder when kids are desperate to get their driver's permit--at extra expense and risk.)

and when kids do try to spend time away from home, they gets accused of loitering???

you've built an environment composed of nothing but soulless strip malls and chain coffeeshops, and decreed that kids who spend time there are a "nuisance." literally where the FUCK else are they supposed to exist? at the libraries you closed on weekends? at the parks & sports fields you stopped funding, the woods you tore down, the backyards that get smaller with every development? at the movie theaters & arcades & restaurants they can't afford? on the streets they cannot drive on, on the sidewalks that lead nowhere, and where you have banned bicycling & skateboarding & rollerblading & existing for any length of time?

kids these days want to spend time outside, time in public, time hanging out with friends in person. kids these days do not want to constantly rely on the internet as their main source of socialization & leisure. but you have stolen all their options.

It's also the first fandom I've seen that applies the standards set by the actors to the characters they play. I think most of the actors have a decent degree of separation from their SMP characters to not give a shit, but the fans still don't seem to get that means there are different standards.

So not only do you have average fandom bullshit of ships, theories, and other discourse, but you also have added onto it arguments about boundaries for the streamers that wouldn't fly in any other fandom.

dare i say honestly that mcyttwt is far more racist than mcyt content creators (excluding schlatt) could ever be?

like… i have a lot of experience over there, and that’s moreso coming from watching from afar than actually having a public account. so imagine what it’s like actually being known on there, i definitely can’t…

i do wanna firstly say again that i’m white, but i’m making this post to specifically uplift poc voices and share awful behavior that i’ve observed over and over again, probably at least once a week, and that’s considering the fact that i’m never on there. so take that as you will. <3

Add to it the fact that most of this is done by kids encouraging other kids and it becomes a lot scarier since it's likely none of them know what the fuck they're doing. And, like it is with most cults, it's fucking HARD to pull people out of.

I'm pissed about everything they do, of course. I think their goals are stupid and methods ineffective. But I'm moreso worried about how this is gonna fuck these kids up if it continues, but if you explain what they're doing is wrong and why they shut down and isolate further.

i can recognize white people as a whole have systemically oppressed POC in america, which is where i live 

most people when they make white people jokes only mean the shitty white people and i am not a shitty white person