Simblr Drama

Staff: WHAT DO YOU FUCKING WANT FROM US???? YOU WANT NO NUDITY? FINE! NUDITY IS BANNED! 

Tumblr users: W-We just want for you to–

Today a group of students decided to tear down a sign in Arabic that had been put up next to a Swedish sign in our school cafeteria, in order to replace it with a “we speak Swedish in this country” sign, which a) this place has ALWAYS been multilingual and b) holy fuck racism and c) not on my fucking watch, so I am going to put up a new sign tomorrow, and would highly appreciate it if you could help me translate the following statements into as many languages as possible:

please stop using ad.fly

not only does most everyone who knows what they’re doing enough to install cc have adblockers installed and running so you get $0 for those clicks, but 

ad.fly periodically, accidentally allows ransomware advertisers

you know, those sites that pop up that say someone (the FBI, windows, microsoft, your hard drive) has your computer locked, and you need to call a 800 number to unlock it? (which usually involves paying hundreds of dollars in untraceable methods i.e. gift cards)

as of 12:50pm on 09/07/2016, the time of posting this, every time i personally click an ad.fly link, both the “continue to ad” (because i’m using adblock plus) and the “skip ad” button on ad.fly open a ransomware popup.

(users can get around the ransomware popups using adblock plus and google chrome, by clicking the x on the popup’s dialog message, then clicking “prevent this page from creating additional dialogs” and closing the tab/page that opened instead of the download link)

i understand most everyone can use more money to support content hosting or the technology needed to continue their creativity, but is the $0.001 you get for every click REALLY worth the real possibility having someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing being exposed to ransomware?

would you feel ok if you knew that someone emptied their life savings to buy iTunes cards to pay some scammer because you use these links?

the users most likely to be affected by ransomware schemes like this are those new to the sims cc communities, younger users, and people inexperienced with computers.

i’m sure ad.fly will remove these particular new ransomware advertisers at some point, as they try to be an above-board company. in my few years of experience using ad.fly links from cc creators, ad.fly blocks these unsavory advertisers within a few days/weeks of them managing to purchase adspace from them, but the scammers ALWAYS try again. and they seem to get through every few months.

is it worth the risk to your fans to get a thousandth of a penny?

Now, onto the real reason I’m adding on to this post. There is such a thing as an adfly skipper. You can use this one, which is an extension to chrome. There are also equally useful ones for firefox, which I won’t link because it takes a single google search. I personally don’t know if you’ll still be in any danger since I believe the skipper still loads the adfly page and then immediately redirects you to the download page, but it’s safer than clicking “continue” and getting a dangerous popup.

1. You are responsible for your own media experience. 

2. There is such a thing as a healthy level of avoidance towards topics that make you feel unwell or even (in a real-life clinical definition of the term) trigger you - but you are the one to actively take care of what you view.

3. Avoiding does not mean policing others.

4. You have no right to tell artists to censor themselves - you may criticize what others do, you may dislike it, that’s fine - but actively asking for censorship when you could easily unfollow or block a person just makes you look incompetent in your use of the internet.

No. It’s not. TAGGING is “common courtesy”. I’m obsessive about my tagging here. I’m consistent and I have directories for extra convenience. All anyone needs to do to avoid posts from any of my games is block the very first tag on that post. If that is truly beyond your capabilities, I sincerely don’t know what to tell you other than to unfollow me and save us both the grief. 

And what is this bullshit about not being allowed to have colorful and realistic Sims on the same blog? It’s called a SIMblr. Short for SIMS TUMBLR. As in, THE ENTIRE FRANCHISE. That includes everything from Sims 1 to Sims 4, plus the Sims Medieval and every kind of creation you can make in each of those games. ALL OF IT. Yes, some people prefer one game over another and choose to only post content from those on their blog. That’s fine. That’s THEM. I like everything, so I’m keeping it all in one place, safely under the category of SIMBLR.Want a theme? How about Sims? Have I mentioned that I’m cutting everything down to just being Sims here, like a Simblr should be? 

Everything is already being separated. My videos are getting their own blog. My RPG screens have their own blog. I’ve done everything I can think of to please you picky little trolls. And yet you still have petty complaints and commentary to needle me with.