Oh yeah that bell is tolling for me

you. you get it.

“Game on, then.”

not sure if it’s “new” but in the past couple days, my friends and I have each been receiving about dozens of this exact message with the exact same script from various random blogs.

but instead of empty blogs that are very obviously bots, these blogs all have profile pictures and reblogs on their blogs like any other normal blogs. although if you scroll down far enough, most of them are very recently created, with the first ever reblogs from their blogs being from less than a week ago — which makes me think they’re newly created blogs with reblogs and profile pictures, so that they’re not very obviously bots anymore. but they all use the same script.

obviously I did not contact them, and I have all of them blocked and reported. because I know if I did contact them, they would try and convince me that my blog was somehow “compromised” one way or another, and then they’d say I’d have to contact this random guy on discord (instead of tumblr support) and then I’d have to change the email I associated my blog with to their new email that they gave me. then boom. the second my blog was registered with their email, they had control of everything, and chances were that I’d never be able to get my blog back. or worse, they had access to my personal information too. it’s all the same scam tactics.

do NOT fall for them. do NOT contact any shady, random person on discord or any other platform. the ONLY way you contact support when you have an issue with your blog is directly through tumblr support. not a random guy on discord.

I’m not disclosing their url because even though I’m 90% sure it’s a bot, I don’t want to accidentally send people to harass an innocent person in case of the blog having originally belonged to an innocent person before they were hacked. because when these scammers/bots hack someone’s blog, they use the blog to further scam other people, since the blog was originally a legit blog, it won’t look “empty and obviously a bot”.

The use of the term "degenerate," SS runes in the background, red and black colors, and the coloration of the wolf being impaled make it clear this image is spreading far right rhetoric. This is a call for violence against those perceived to be "degenerates." This is a political message built purely on disguist and seeks to justify violence by depicting certain groups as an "other" and therefore deserving of being targeted.

Not only on a surface-level does it not matter, because even if this was the lewdest actually-loli image out there the point would be exactly the fucking same: that attacking people for their fictional interests, no matter what they are, is exactly what the right wants you to do and is the first step on the ladder of Getting Rid of the Deviants (and if you're LGBT, even one of The Good ones, that includes you). How soon we forget that the most common tactic in the past was to call GAY MEN pedophiles for any conceivable reason. It was not true then. It is not true now.

But also just on a more insidious level that I just really don't see people pick up : the sort of people who grifters like the OP Twitter poster want to appeal to *both do not know* and *do not give a shit* what the technicalities are. They are already biased against this transgender person, more likely than not, and this tweet serves as proof of whatever suspicions they have. You can't walk that shit back by pointing out "well actually those characters are adults because (X Y and Z)".

The people who are going to hate Zooey Zephyr because of a tweet like this don't care about your stupid anime game and probably LOVE reading those articles about how ~weird and foreign~ Asian countries are, anyway. They don't care how old the characters are. They don't care about the lore. They don't care that actually, the company who made the game is actually *Chinese*, not *Japanese*. None of this matters. They will not research it, because these types of people, who lack the critical thinking to take this as anything more than the inflammatory, blatantly-false post it is, are already lost to us. And trying to explain it, if it doesn't also make the person you're arguing with think you're one of The Bad Ones Too (because why do you know so much about the distinction, why do YOU know how to identify what is and isn't animated pedophilia, you're one of those Perverts too, aren't you????), is just ignoring the Deeper Issue to begin with.

The issue IS NOT: 'Actually these characters are adults so it's okay'

Here’s a doodle for em, love your work loyal, love the boys, they just need a bestie to talk to

DREAM: [about the minecraft movie 2] they filmed the whole, like homoerotic dnf section already