The Actual Meaning of #DropTheB
So, #droptheb has been blossoming as a movement recently.
Well, or, that’s what its postermakers would like you to think.
Basically the idea is based off of that one meme recently:
which is a completely idiotic slopfest on its own but that’s a different thing.
Basically someone on 4chan had the bright idea to make posters turning that from a shitty meme into a good facsimile of an inter-lgbt movement.
The posters look like this:
…yeah.
There are like seventeen of them floating around on twitter, and they’re actually working. This is because they’re made to target exclusionists, anti-MOGAI ppl, etc. who see everything new they don’t understand as MOGAI nonsense. To them, this seems exactly like something their oh-so-terrible MOGAI enemies would spit out. It’s also hinging on the recent discourse that’s been happening about why bi or pan are or are not valid labels.
The people who are doing this know what they’re doing, and they’re well informed about current discourse. That’s why it’s working.
Now, a 4chan movement to intentionally destabilize the LGBT community built on current discourse combined with invasive ideas expressed via digital posters on Twitter? Doesn’t that sound remarkably familiar?
Oh right, that’s because 4chan has done the exact same thing before justifying pedophiles being in the LGBT community using the term “clovergender”, which may I remind you was based off of
the 4chan logo itself.
Here are some screenshots from a Reddit post on the topic, with whitespace cropped out.
As you can see, even 4channers are tired of this shit.
#droptheb is an even scarier beast than clovergender, and that’s because of two reasons: Firstly, it works very well as a catalyst for preexisting tensions due to the bi/pan discourse. It’s provoking responses from many exorsexists and nb exclusionaries as well as bisexuals attracted to more than two genders.
Secondly, it’s spreading much faster than the clovergender “movement” ever did, and working very well to provoke discourse. I’ve seen it very earnestly argued over in places on Tumblr and Facebook as if it’s unironic, and people need to understand its true nature.
And I don’t need to mention the obvious, right? That to be bilingual doesn’t mean there are only two languages?
Anyway, I don’t often reblog bait, but I would like you and anyone else reading this to reblog in order to spread awareness of #droptheb’s malicious intent and its success in dividing the LGBT community. People need to be aware of this before it destroys the community.
