Hiatus. (again.)

Heyyyyyy it's yo gurl Rie Sonomura! I'm a Neo Y2K themed VTuber who streams a variety of games! I even write - @riesonomurawrites . In fact I do other forms of content creation too - video editing, some graphics, and I'm looking into art and music. Expect Vtuber related posts here of course, with the occasional fandom post and/or reblog! I will keep discourse/controversial topics to a minimum here. That said, please do not drag me into any discourse, and tag posts accordingly so I can filter them out.

This blog is also considered PG-13. There may be some mildly suggestive content here but nothing explicit.

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“Gaming YouTube” has always been notoriously bad, and a mess of toxic people and groups with really forced interactions for personal gain, yet this particular group/channel has always felt nice and wholesome, and its strongest point was how naturally these guys interacted, played or even talked shit about each other – like true close friends who love each other (which was probably the reason it was the only Let’s Play channel I ever cared about). Knowing two of them don’t even really like each other anymore just felt terrible. I’m glad they were honest and open but it’s still a sad ending. Even if they never work together again, I hope Matt and Pat can one day they rekindle their friendship.

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i can be found under most places with this username anyway, i don’t think i’m infamous enough to have any impostors yet lmao

if you’re a teenager and you read my fics that are dark or violent or sexually explicit even after i tag them for dark and violent and explicit content, that does not mean i have made fandom unsafe for you. it means you did not heed the warnings. you ignoring warnings, ratings, and tags means only one of us is at fault for that and buddy, it ain’t me.

i’m not your dad or your baby sitter. i’m here to provide content to other adults. when i write that’s who i have in mind. i have almost no control over teenagers who wander onto my blog or ao3. but the teenager who ends up there does have control. i don’t owe an explanation or an apology for my fandom content and y'all can take the puritanical “protect the children from fictional violence” bs elsewhere.

The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.

To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.

On the 17th, dead silence.

People are saying log off but what they really mean is don’t open the site or the app.

But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.

What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think ‘oh everyone’s gone let’s shut down.’ What it actually makes them think is ‘oh shit people aren’t happy and if people don’t keep using our site we’re out of money and out of jobs.’

A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.

If you want to join in, here’s what to do:

Do:

Close all open instances of the app and site on all your devices before the 17th

Make posts before and after the 17th on tumblr and other platforms, talking about why this ban is bad

Make posts on other sites during the 17th. Flood the official tumblr staff twitter and facebook with your anger and your opinion

Come back on the 18th and check in

Don’t:

Delete the app from your phone (this doesn’t affect their revenue and since it’s off the store at the moment it’ll be hard to get back)

Delete your account. I mean you can if you want to, but if you keep your account and don’t use it you’re saying to staff that there’s still time to save it. If you delete it’s hard work to come back.

Open the app or website (including specific blogs)

Make any posts (turn down/off your queue and make sure nothing is scheduled)

Go quiet elsewhere. Make it clear that this is just about tumblr, not a mass move away from all social media.

Remember: the execs don’t care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means there’s $0 further income from it. That’s their last possible course of action. If we make it clear we’re not happy, they’ll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.