this week on america's favorite idiot

or, I just love drawing flimsy wavy characters

The last part I said was to kinda make some of you realize that you are the only one who can handle it, not someone who’s asking you to friend them over on discord to “discuss the appeal” like they’ve been doing for a while now. If they say “I can help you appeal” or “please send a message to x recipient” then it’s absolutely a scam. The only person you should be talking to is tumblr staff through their support page.

Again if they ask you to send a friend request to a supposed “support” account then you’re likely getting hacked.

But also, my very loud "I'm sorry, WHAT!?" reaction because that's my blog header in the screenshot. MY. ART. They stole my art for their scam.

And I know they had to steal it from me because it's custom-made by me, from art I did:

"Is posting really illegal csam stuff"

If you receive a message that's a single "hi" or "hello" or other one-word communication from someone you don't know, with no immediate follow-up - 99% chance that's a scammer of some kind. Do not reply. Block and move on. Real people leave real messages.

Like if I was going to message a stranger out of the blue, I'd be saying something more like "Hi, I saw that post you did about (subject) and wanted to ask (some question)" or "Hi, I saw you reblog thing, that post is incorrect/a scam/whatever", or "Hi, are you the same (username) as is posting on (other site)?" etc etc etc. A real message, not a phish hook cast in the pond.

I probably block 2-5 random hi's a week on Tumblr, the vast majority of which are new accounts that are supposedly single men or pretending to be famous people. There was one week where it was all Keanu Reeves impersonators. Etc.