#i hate antis

Do NOT use the "tw: Csam" when you are talking about fictional content.

Do NOT call fictional content csam.

Do NOT reference fictional content as "vcsam"

Do NOT report fictional content for being "csam"

Do NOT tell victims of csam that a drawing is comparable to what they went through.

Do NOT try to scare minors into leaving their coping mechanism with an outdated law.

Do NOT refer to csam as "cp".

Do NOT try to argue with me when I say "cp" isn't the right term. It doesn't matter that predators see it as erotic. It doesn't matter that predators see it as "pornography". You're defending them by saying that.

Do NOT be like antis.

Credit to: @frienderbee on tiktok

There’s no civil conversations like “please don’t do this for this reason.” If you believe your friend is genuinely in the wrong, why don’t you try to get them to see your side? The fact that you already have a bond with each other will increase chances of changing their mind.

But no, its straight block/unfollow. I agree that more people should block and unfollow if they see someone who posts stuff you don’t like, but that’s not how you should approach it with a friend. If someone is unwilling to compromise, then that’s fair. At that point, you have closure.

Even worse: they make a callout post about you behind ur back and they “warn” other people to unfollow you. Suddenly you’ve lost half your friends and 3 quarters of your following because people don’t want to be cancelled for being associated with you. And you may or may not be harassed off the internet.

And the thing is, even if you don’t stop the friendship, i feel like there will always be this tension on the topic. It reminds me of how politics are a taboo subject in the us among friends and family because no one is willing to earnestly hear each other out and be civil.

And why antis should stop saying it is...

First of all, I need to define lucid dreaming for you guys. I'm copying this definition off of Wikipedia for simplicity sake, but feel free to look it up for yourself.

The definition of a lucid dream is "a type of dream wherein the dreamer realizes that they are dreaming during their dream. The capacity to have and sustain lucid dreams is a trainable cognitive skill. During a lucid dream, the dreamer may gain some amount of volitional control over the dream characters, narrative, or environment, although this control of dream content is not the salient feature of lucid dreaming."

By definition, a lucid dream REQUIRES a person to recognize they are in a dream. From there, they may or may not be able to control their dream. Controlling your dream isn't the defining feature of a lucid dream, though. The defining feature is the lucidity, when they become aware that they are dreaming.

If you compare this to shifting, you can EASILY see why shifting cannot be a lucid dream. If someone claims that something was not a dream, that what they experienced was real, that means that what happened CANNOT be a lucid dream. Because, again, lucid dreaming BY DEFINITION means that they were aware of the fact that they were in a dream. If anything, it would be called a vivid or realistic dream, not a lucid dream.

I honestly don't even care if people don't believe in shifting, it's the misuse of terminology that they clearly know nothing about that bothers me. I'm definitely not an "expert" by any means, but it's extremely frustrating for people to say "it's just lucid dreaming" as if that's not insulting to BOTH the lucid dreaming AND shifting communities.

So, long story short, shifting CANNOT be lucid dreaming. If someone says that it is, they very obviously don't know what they're talking about and are just parroting an argument they heard from someone else without even looking into what they are saying.

These jokes are NOT FUNNY. Diddy and Epstein were men in power HARMED REAL CHILDREN, and have caused more harm to children than some internet user who ships Object Show ships that you don't like.