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This has been happening all month with little to no international media attention. Here are a few organizations you can check out for resources or to support:

ActionAid India

SEEDS India

GlobalGiving

They're preying on insecurities to do it. Yes, you can write an essay - but can you write a good essay, they ask you. Do you not want to improve your output? Do you not want people to think of you as competent and very clever? Why go through the mortifying process of failing and failing and failing until you succeed if you can just skip the "learning" part of doing, and simply generate a ready-made product?

I'm preaching to the choir here obviously but it's a concerning thing to witness nonetheless. My kid is 6 next week and I've been teaching her that failing at things is morally neutral and in fact necessary even before the advent of AI, but it's becoming ever more important that we teach the kids that criticism and failure and discomfort aren't necessarily bad things, but just a part of the growth process.

This post isn't meant to be a call-out post, a degrading post, or targetting specific creators. I say this all with the intent of bringing awareness and education to the writers on tumblr.

It seems that people have forgotten about tumblr decency and respect when it comes to tumblr tagging.

Tagging is very important when it comes to posting, and it is crucial that creators tag their works properly. Mostly within the x reader community.

You need to tag your x reader fics as x reader because not everyone is looking for x reader content.

You need to tag your x reader fics with gendered readers if you have gendered readers in your work because not everyone wants fem reader or male reader fics. and don't tag work as "gn reader" if it has specified pronouns used.

You need to tag your smut fics as smut because not everyone wants to read your smut. Not to mention that minors can't filter your work if it isn't tagged as 18+ content.

You need to tag your oc x canon work as that because not everyone wants to read oc x canon.

When creators don't tag their stuff properly, it makes blocking the tags hard for individuals. We, as a community, need to be aware that the tags exist for a reason, and tags are like warnings for readers so they know if they want to read something or not. It can be seen as deceiving as well.

It is especially crucial that you tag the content properly if you have dark content in your works. Trigger warnings are the most important thing to have when it comes to making content.