SpamFiles

Annnnnnnnd it begins.

It just wouldn’t be spam if we didn’t have one more cancer widow here. I guess she doesn’t actually say she has cancer here, but come on. “Last wish”? She’s so dying.

Let’s play Spot The Red Flags:

1. “Customer”. These places never call you customer. They call you by the name on your account.

2. The wording is off. Not a lot, but who says “your payment information we hold on record”?

3. They didn’t capitalize the name of their own company. Only once, but still.

By now you’ve probably heard all about the great Tumblr purge of “adult” blogs (quotes added because we all know how big of a crock that is). I don’t think anything I do technically violates their stupid new rules, but I wouldn’t be surprised if I got caught up in it anyway. I’ve vaguely alluded to sex, after all. If I vaguely alluded to gay sex, then I’d definitely be gone, because we all know what this is really about.

I’ve been trying to figure out what to do about it, but frankly I don’t have any good solutions. Even if I can keep posting, do I want to? It’s not like I’ve ever been good at building a following. And I feel like all the things (not to mention the blogs) that I enjoyed are going to be strangled to death by this process anyway. What’s the point of staying if there’s nothing worth staying for?

So. I think it’s time to end this blog, this experiment, this whatever-it-was, although I do so with a heavy heart and a hope that I’ll be able to find another forum to keep posting the stupid spam I’m still getting. To those of you I still follow: it’s because I got something out of it, whether knowledge or just plain enjoyment. Thank you for that. Perhaps I’ll see you in another incarnation. I hope so.

I’ll spend this week as we approach the Day of Reckoning posting the last set of spam I’ll come up with. Maybe it’ll make you smile, or maybe you’ll just ignore it. Either way is good enough for me. This blog was always about what I enjoyed anyway. And that’s okay! If there’s one lesson I would like everyone to learn from me, it would be that it’s okay to do something harmless even if no one else enjoys it but you.

Hey, I took your stupid pill and I don’t have a stronger, thicker member!

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