#fishcourse

The funny thing is that fishcourse gets JUST as volatile

It's like a running joke at this point that you go to fish reddit and you'll be like, "i smiled at my fish today :)" and inevitably someone is going to call you out like, "How DARE you, don't you know that releases chemicals in their brain and now they're stressed and they'll poison themselves (corys, what magical little creatures), you should feel terrible and CPS should take your fish away"

Personally, I have mine on a 3 day rotation, because I demand they do what they're supposed to do and clean my goddamn tank LOL

Day 1 they get multivitamin granules sprinkled where they hang out

Day 2 they get a small piece of algae wafer OR pleco pellet OR fresh blanched veggie

And then day 3 my hair algae is growing so I leave them to go eat it

... they're very lazy, though, and they seem perfectly happy to ignore what's supposed to be their FAVORITE food

Then, if any come to the top of the tank, they get freeze dried blood worms, and i hand it to them with tongs and they get on the end and when I'm sure they've got a hold of the worm, I let go and they swim off with it

It's the best part of my day 😭

Tanks... while they can technically go in any kind of tank, small or large, and still be quite happy (they really are easy to care for provided you understand the water stuff), I'll always advocate for them going in a bigger than required tank with at least double the room they need, so like, I've got 15 amano shrimp and a single betta in a 30 gallon

Plus, nano tanks are actually harder to care for

Here's a good one

And finally, an honorable mention to the saltwater sexy shrimp, which i bet you didn't even know existed

Choose wisely!

A lot of people are confused about what happened with Tumblr user i-am-a-fish (who I'll refer to as Fish from here on out for the sake of readability), and a lot of rumor, misinformation and hyperbole is circulating. With this post I hope to compile the claims and evidence against him, examine their validity, and hopefully bring everyone up to speed.

Let's get the main thing out of the way first:

Veggiefact is a Twitter account with over 270k followers. 

The callout post it references is this one: https://ratsofftoya.tumblr.com/post/189087352976/this-is-a-repost-since-just-making-an-addition-to. A second call-out is making the rounds too, from bubblegumlopunny, and it’s a Google doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gv0ixX_jw9geWxFc07b9En--AGHcTqVBO1E6TLGLhHI/edit

Both callouts share about 90% of the same information. Bubblegum’s callout includes accusations of racism and lesbophobia as well, and more incendiary language and questionable charges than the Tumblr post, but in this post I’ll only focus on the accusations that Fish is a pedophile. 

The child porn accounts on Twitter

The “child porn accounts” it refers to are @krskiii, @Karbuitt and @kamawanu__. The last one is actually safe for work, provided you work at a place that’s cool with you being on Twitter, and the second-to-last one sort-of is, depending how your boss feels about suggestive pin-ups and sex jokes. 

Kamawanu posts fanart of various fandoms, but mostly fanart of Rick & Morty and Into the Spider-Verse. Kamawanu is an incest shipper, although they keep that content to a separate, adult-only and locked account. Karbuitt posts artwork of various Nintendo characters, but in particular Viridi from Kid Icarus. Neither of these accounts can be argued to be "dedicated to child porn" in any capacity.  

Although some Tumblr users would argue in earnest this is child porn as well.

Krskiii is the only account to have posted questionable content. While the vast majority of their feed is cute, safe for work anime art, they posted lolicon back in januari this year. Both callouts include a second screenshot from a tweet made in 2016 as well. 

Was this something Fish reasonably could’ve known about? According to the callout in the Google doc:

This is straight-up untrue.

Not only is it perfectly possible to follow Twitters without checking them first (and many follow-for-follow Twitters operate this way) but even if you do vet accounts, there is no archive or tags like Tumblr has to conveniently show you what kind of content you can expect. You have to manually scroll through a person’s timeline or media tab to see what they post.

You’d only see their most recent tweets, not ones they made almost a damn year ago.

Fish followed this account in a follow-spree that had him hit the follow limit for the day on November 12th, almost a whole year after it was made. Fish's claim that he didn't know about these pictures is not only perfectly believable; it’s unlikely that he would’ve even known about it unles he'd dug through this person's media tab quite far.

This is not the behaviour of someone who curated their following list and carefully vetted everyone on it. 

Was this irresponsible behaviour of him, towards both himself and his followers? Sure, you can make that argument. But it’s not evidence for anything more sinister than that.

The Pornhub joke

If you’re still on Tumblr in 2019, you were probably around for the porn purge of 2018, the one that had everyone scrambling for a new online home. With how few alternatives there are of social media sites that allow NSFW content, people started discussing, mostly as a joke, the possibility of moving to Pornhub. It was enough of a Thing that Pornhub's social media department caught wind of it.

I-am-a-fish decided to get in on the joke and created a Pornhub account and posted about “relocating” on Twitter and Tumblr:

How zany! A goldfish on a porn site!

People voiced discomfort over it, so Fish deleted the links from Tumblr and the Twitter bio, but didn't delete the tweet. The Pornhub account itself seems to have never been used.

The sex joke

Part of the callout post is the claim Fish “deliberately exposes minors to porn”, this + the Pornhub thing is what they're referring to.

At some point in late 2018 or early 2019 Fish decided this wasn't the direction he wanted to take his blog into, changed the original post, deleted the reblogs, and hasn't posted nsfw content since.

Also this happened a year ago.

The Discord server

Fish briefly ran a Discord server with a strict no-bullying policy that applied to everyone. This is not a political stance, but it was turned into one. This counts as “believing in reverse oppression”:

Most of the mods were adults, which is supposedly creepy:

One of them thought shipping characters who have been aged-up into adulthood isn't paedophilia:

Someone on the server thought “pedophilia” is a sexuality:

One thing to note here is that none of these actually involve Fish's own thoughts or actions, just those of people he's vaguely associated with (is Mother Allspite a close friend? An acquintance? Someone who volunteered to help moderate the chat?), as well as complete strangers. He's being associated with statements people have made who have no connection to him whatsoever.

Here are the claims I’ve seen making the rounds about the Discord server of which I’ve seen no evidence:

That the mods supported pedophilia

That the mods themselves were pedophiles

That pedophilia was treated as a sexuality you could tag yourself with

That the server was full of pedophiles

The claim that the server mixed minors with adults and didn’t section off nsfw content/discussion is at least a believable one, so I’m not including it here. It’s not proof of anyone being a pedophile, however. It just means the Discord server was poorly managed.

What to make of this?

There is no proof that Fish is anything worse than a young adult (despite the callout posts all making a huge deal out of him being an adult, he's still only 19 years old) who got too popular too fast and didn’t understand the responsibility that came with that. Even for his “worst” offenses there is no proof of ill intent behind them. At worst there is poor judgment, irresponsibility, and impulsiveness. There is certainly no proof that he is attracted to children, much less that he ever acted on it. 

Nevertheless,

(I have no idea where the “20+ Twitters dedicated to child porn” claim comes from and found no evidence whatsoever to support it)

This post is meant for you, Fish!

It really says something when you block every single person opposing you, make your acount private after your dirty laundry is shown by someone who has a titanic following on twitter that shadows your own, then bring it back up with a half-assed "response" to your allegations that do nothing but fail in it's attempt to just pass the blame onto others

Like, you don't even bring up the cp blogs you followed, or your hand-chosen moderators being MAP supporters, or you still following other creepy fucks like Gaud even though you state how much you "hate" pedophiles

Wtf do you even mean by the "raid" on your discord? Did the people that do the raid become moderators who used their power to support MAPs and ban anyone who said it was gross? Was the singular person who took those screenshots the raid? If not, the raid must've been the people who were talking to the mods to get them to expose themselves as freaks. Okay, why were they supporting MAPs in the first place and condoning the open discussion of sexual content before then?

You didn't even push the lame "it was an ACCIDENT I followed those pedo blogs" excuse like you did last time, because everyone saw through that as fucking stupid, and you yourself know that was a stupid thing to say

Also, I LOVE that little self-promo at the end of your explanation! "i hate pedophiles because i post positivity, check out my account for proof", that is probably the lamest fucking attempt to save one's self I have ever seen in my life. Saying you hate pedos doesn't fucking vindicate you.

The evidence in support of your defense is even "weaker" than the sources in my, and OTHER people's posts. Word-of-mouth isn't fucking credible. The excuse that you accidentally followed 20+ freaks because of "follow for follow" makes no sense because

Those blogs never followed you in the first place

It's not fucking hard to skim through someone's page to see if they post problematic material in the first place. One of those accounts openly says "shota" in it's header.

There is no way that you can spend all your time on social media and not ONCE see one of these accounts post something bad, especially when they post their content at least once every day.

You never "follow-for-followed" because before you nuked your following list, you followed around 2,000 accounts, contrasted to the estimated 20.2k followers you had at the time.

I follow some 2,000 blogs spread between here and twitter, it's not that fucking hard to notice someone posting abhorrant shit.

The best thing about last night, I think, was when you openly just dropped my blog right there at the beginning. You knew full well that some of your followers would get outraged and come right after me, which they have. If your ship is sinking, might as well take the people who blew it out of the water down with you too, right? I guess I wouldn't say I completely beat you down there though, as it appears your twitter follower number grew some 200 people after Veggietales Facts dropped your ass in front of a quarter of a million people and you briefly went private to hide in guilt. It's pretty fucking telling that the people sending me hate mail aren't even doubting the authenticity of the accusations anymore, but trying to debate how I'm wrong because drawn cp is totally okay because "hurrrr it not real child being exploited", or people calling me evil because I Hate Positivity >:(((. Even in my callouts about you, I asked for people to restrain themselves and not harass you with dumbass suicide bait shit that was neither funny or necessary in the first place.

Wonder why those 200 people would follow you immediately after you got outed for your scummy antics by an extremely popular twitter account? Maybe it's because pedophiles will rush to defend other pedos like flies drawn to pig shit?

the FUNNIEST part though is how you dead ass refered to me by "they" rather than She. You mean to tell me that you could remember my blog name that people constantly slip up, but not remember/care about my gender? Didn't you write an essay for college about the MAGICAL POWER of "preferred" pronouns? Maybe that was you just trying to get more clout online from kids, because nobody would fucking turn a piece of dog shit like that in for a grade.

like, if you're gonna send your groupies after me while you cower and pretend none of this shit happened, at least fucking nut up and unblock me so I can directly tell you why you're a grooming, performative, weak schmuck rather than cast this out there like a bottle in the ocean and hope it runs across you while you search yourself online to see if it's safe for you to come back yet

I don't expect you to delete, I never did in the first place. Right from the beginning you seemed like one of those people who relies on self-gratification and the adoration of thousands to even function. You just can't give it up. You're not some perfect little angle who just wants to "spread positivity", you do it because it fuels your own self worth. You're fucking addicted to social media, and you use and target your content towards kids because lord fucking knows no grown-ass adult would want to hear your lame "ur a smol potato... who has RIGHTS" gimmick.

You may not actively diddle them or DM them for nudes like the more aggressive sexual predators that got outed on here before, but you knowingly consumed cp material. You knowingly alligned yourself with MAPs. You still are friends with Gaud. You made that creepy "use me as your fucktoy, oops wrong blog don't let me stop you tho!" post because it's how you get your sick kicks. Even if you weren't, you'd still be guilty of wrongdoing by exposing minors to this content because of how irresponsible and arrogant you are. You're a stupid fucking putz who got caught being careless, and you're paying for the price.

You're an adult, you have fucking responsibilities to the people who look up to you. Act like one for fucking once rather than your childish "im just a small fish who luvs u!!" schtick

TW: GROOMING/PEDOPHILIA AND SUICIDE MENTIONS

recently @i-am-a-fish got suicidal baited off tumblr for the most bullshitted accusation post I've seen so far.

apparently I-am-fish is a pedophile/ potential child groomer, as said by @ratsofftoya

All because he made a joke on twitter about moving to pornhub, and follows artists that draw lolicon/aged-up smut of fictional underaged characters.

but there are some major fallacies in @ratsofftoya 's accusations (as if it wasn't obvious enough).

moral appeal:

ratsofftoya's commentary on goldie's pornhub and sex toy posts were very moralistic despite the posts clearly being a joke.

Humor is subjective so it's okay if you didn't laugh at this post, but that isn't an excuse to take away its humor to demean someone by making hasty generalizations about his fanbase. We can't confirm his fanbase is mostly kids, but because this claim is based on a hasty generalization, it is an inappropriate appeal to emotion. Trying to imply that goldie willingly exposes kids to child porn, classic "but think of the kids!" argument.

• There is no data we have on I-am-fish 's audience age demographic.

• there is no proof that majority of the fanbase are minors. that's just a hasty generalization.

• I-am-a-fish does not claim to be a blog for kids, not including "18+" in your bio does not make you a blog for kids.

I can't believe i have to point this shit out, but tumblr and twitter are not for kids. Nobody on these two platforms should have to put "18+" in their bios because nobody below that should even be on these two platforms. I-am-a-fish is an adult making adult jokes on an adult platform, to imply he could be a child groomer because he makes sex jokes that minors see is unfair because thats beyond his control. Tumblr and Twitter are adult spaces and yet we are not responsible for kids being in a space where they don't belong, that responsibility goes to the parents. All we can do about minors in online adult spaces is REPORT them.

2. cherry picking:

ratsofftoya specifically picked TWO sexually suggestive artworks by japanese Twitter artist Krskii. problem is ratsofftoya uses these two posts to portay this artist as a highly lewd/fetish account, when that isn't the case. In actuality, krskii's twitter page is a fanart page for a duo from IDOL MASTER: cinderella girls starlight stage anzu fubata(the blonde loli) and kirari moroboshi. it's a fanart page for other IMCGSS characters as well. i use to play game, its alot of fun but its japanese exclusive so i couldn't play much due to language barriers. the fanart page is almost all SFW, but ratsofftoya pick TWO out of dozens of sfw pics to solidify her claim.

you can go on Krskii's twitter and see for yourself:

and my personal favorite:

(ooh lawd this is cute i might have it as a PFP with credit!)

anyway, ratsofftoya ignored these possibilities:

• There is no proof goldie liked the two photos, or any engagement at all.

• there is no proof that he had seen it, especially out of dozens sfw art.

• just because he follows this artist does not automatically confim he has a sexual attraction for lolis or kids. especially due to how the page is mostly sfw.

• goldie could just be a fan of IMCGSS.

this isn't a creepy pedo twitter page, just an idol fan page. but what really is illogical is the commentary ratsofftoya has in regards to loli drawings. Now with using two pics racy pics, ratsofftoya came to the conclusion that Goldie is sexually attracted to children. But lolicon isn't real children, it's not real CP and it's not even a realistic depiction of humans children, so what rataofftoya did was simply pass off her opinion of lolis as fact. I'm not trying to debate on whether lolicon is okay or not and im not gonna share my opinion, because the real point isn't the subject of lolicon but the wrongful accusation. the real fact is that lolicon is still legal, but social opinion of lolicon is very mixed, our opinions on such a complicated subject is not enough to convict someone as a pedophile. you're opinions do not hold that kind of power, especially without sufficient evidence. let's actually move on to ratsofftoya's evidenced and how insufficient it is.

3. False attribution of discord chats

the screenshots provided from the discord chats do not add up to ratsofftoya's claims, making the screencaps irrelevant more than anything.

she provided this screenshot of a mod stating their opinion on aged up fanart, and claims that this opinions makes ALL MODS in that discord MAPS and Pedo apologists. problem is that there is no real sympathy for any pedo/maps in both ratsofftoya and nestbian's screenshots. if anything, it's just some bad jokes, and Goldie doesn't even say one himself.

rattsofftoya commits the same fallacy like with the loli argument; the concept of aged up characters is complicated subject, its not illegal but there is alot of debate surrounding it. Ratsofftoya makes her opinion clear that aged up artwork of characters is wrong. she uses small and insufficient screenshots to to help make her OPINION seem like a fact, and accuse the mods of being MAP sympathizers. she's convicted these mods based on a biased opinion, the concept of aged up characters is not legally pedophilic so whether you think the subject is right or wrong, is still not enough to convinct others with opposing opinions as MAP enablers.

Another issue is how she claims minors are talking inappropriately with adults on discord, but there are no such screenshots, the screenshots provided give no evidence of such accusation. With her convictions based on biased opinions, that accusations is not going to be getting any credibility anytime soon. Many of us know how discord works, it's not unusual for adults and minors to be in the same server, it's not a pedophilic thing. But one thing that discord mods do is have NSFW chats specifically for adults, while minors are exluded and stay in the SFW chats. ratsofftoya has no screenshots on minors in a nsfw chat, you'd figure that nestbian would take screenshots of that if it was actually true.

Lastly, ratsofftoya uses these discord screenshots to further solidfy her statement that I-am-a-fish is exposing sexual content to children. But you don't see goldie or any inappropriate/sexual content in the screenshots, just problematic opinions at best.

4. Bad intentions:

from what i've said in this post above, I can conclude ratsofftoya's post overrall was very manipulative and biased. I think the most manipulative part of the post was the last paragraph:

Using the idea of child exploitation and sexual abuse to pull on people's emotions, a huge inappropriate call for emotion. yet, ratsofftoya has not proven or shown any child exploitation or pedophilia at all. we have yet to see any evidence of abuse! How can I believe ratsofftoya has good intentions when I can easily break the accusations apart and see lies?

As a real victim of child grooming, i won't speak for all victims, but as a victim I really don't like my trauma being used to witch hunt innocent people. My trauma is not for woke points, it's not a badge and it's not for your ego to exploit. It's pretty clear that ratsofftoya did NOT make this post for the well being of children and grooming victims, but the post was made for her moralistic ego. If anything, to use sexual child abuse to lie about others, is exploitive.

5. consequenses:

I commented on ratsofftoya's post, mentioning that there are serious consequences to false accusations. Of course the response was immature af so not sure if she'll ever learn, but I'll say it for those who'll hopefully listen to my advice.

Call out post with false accusations can destroy lives, and put you, the poster, in serious legal trouble.

Slander and defamation on its own can get you a lawsuit, you never know who on this platform has money for a lawyer. If this person you publicly slander is to self harm, commit suicide, or lose their job, you can be legally held accountable for it even if it wasn't what you intended to happen, disclaimers cat save you from that. Just because ratofftoya says the suicide baiting is wrong, doesn't mean that she isn't legally responsible for it, I-am-a-fish can legally use it against her. Even with the legal consequences, lying in its own has social consequences and it will be brought to light.