Smits Happens

A Nervous Old Man (right) and his Emotional Support Violence Machine (Left)

I don't have exact numbers yet, but at least twenty users were terminated at the same exact time, recieving an "internally generated report" refusing to declare reason for the ban. I quote, "Upon review of your account we have determined that it does not align with our terms of service". No reason given, this was clearly a deliberate action by staff as they themselves claim

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pack it up boys we've made a social blunder

let's run that again

one more time normal style

I'm going to become a statistic

further proof god is out to get me

it's because I tore my acl senior year

I couldn't do it for religious reasons

my ex took my talent in the divorce

Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds

su mer lovin’ “scream at own ass”

In honor of the news, I figured I should finally post my entire "Mahou Shoujo Theater 3000" series as a triptych. Huzzah!

There's already people saying "I'm probably just going to give Discord my ID and face because there's nowhere else to go."

All you have to do is be patient. Leave the app for two fucking weeks. Cancel your nitro sub and leave.

The only reason this is happening is because people don't know how to boycott. The reason we don't have password sharing on Netflix anymore is because people showed Netflix that it didn't matter if they took password sharing away. The reason we're saddled with Twitter Blue is because everyone caved and bought paid features that used to be free.

And yeah, corporations have a lot of responsibility for enshittification, but they're going to keep fucking doing it if they know they can get away with it. Boycotts work, but you have to actually boycott the thing.

I boycotted Netflix for two YEARS before seeing that their average user count was increasing and that boycotting was, by the barest definition of the word, not happening.

Fighting against enshittification means sometimes you have to inconvenience yourself and take a stand. You can't just yell and expect things to get better if you don't actually try to make them better. Why would Discord stop doing this if the company knows it won't suffer in the long run? It's actually already planning to lose users and it has a strategy in mind to get them back. Because the company knows people just won't hold out.

"Where will I go to message friends then?" I don't know. And I'm very sad about that. My mental health will take a hit, and it'll suck for a long time. But like, when you think about why they want ID verification, it's very likely going straight to ICE, right? You know that, right? This isn't even a conspiracy anymore. It's just facts.

And the first person who tells me I'm fearmongering gets bashed over the entire face with the "phones aren't really listening, you idiot" conspiracy that turned out to be true.

Listen. Just try. I really need you all to just try.