#pffu

Original post by @intersex-ionality [Link] It’s an older post but is still relevant to what’s happening now with the mod changes.

Anonymous shouted: did you see that pride-flags-for-us closed because "mogai is corrupt" and shit? gosh, i'm really sad that a resource is being closed down because "teen lesbians might id as homoflexible for a while" or whatever

Is that why @pride-color-schemes opened up? I was wondering what happened there, but honestly I just try to avoid getting too far into the hellscape that is “mogai is toxic” discourse. Like, I have to pick my battles, and I pick “the ones that actually come to me because there’s already so many, why would I ever look for more.”

Anyway, I’m not going to say I’m surprised about this. Things like mogai-archive and pride-flags-for-us get an enormous, disproportionate amount of hatred, and very little in the way of vocal support because, well, the communities they are fighting for are very small.

After a few years of being told at a rate of 97% that you’re filthy, toxic, rotting waste, you start to wonder if people are right.

They aren’t right, of course, but there’s no way to know that when it’s all you ever hear.

These things happen.

I am very sorry to see another positive resource blog get nuked, but I am very much not surprised.

[Hermy here]: Just clarifying, I originally made my DA pride-flags back when PFFU was still a great blog because I wanted to help out and keep all the flags in one place. (I actually asked several times if they’d like to add me as a mod but always got an “I’ll ask the other mods about it”). I made mogai-flags later (honestly I don’t remember if PFFU was still good or going downhill at the time I made it), but then dumped it for this since I made an entirely different account for it instead of a sideblog and then realized I couldn’t add mods to it. 

But yeah, this is another reason why I’m going to be super careful in adding new mods, so I’ll add people who already know a lot and have strong opinions already on discoursey stuff so we don’t fall for their shit and end up going down the same path if this blog gets super popular. The problem with tumblr (well, one of the maaaaany problems) is that there’s no way to kick admins so if even one mod “goes rogue” or something, they can really mess things up. 

As blah as they are now I do have some sympathy for them for all the shit they have to deal with on a daily basis and hope that one day they’ll turn back around or at least add some mods that can deal with all the negativity that’s thrown at them.

So it looks like my fears were realized and pffu has become even more “pro LGBT anti MOGAI” than it was with Dave as a mod. It makes me really sad because I knew Ita talked about hoping to fix it one day so it’d be pro-MOGAI again but then the complete opposite happened. There’s also no update on what happened to them either. 

It’s really frustrating since they still have so many followers who are now seeing their identities get erased by a blog that used to support them as well as harming new people who are looking for terms to describe themselves. 

@nbandproud replied to your post “Update on the whole pride-flags-for-us fiasco”

Ohh my gosh. 1) Thanks for the update! Really, I can't thank you enough. 2) I thought Dave had more power than anyone else there, so I was like "how the fuck did Dave get kicked", but it seems like he willingly backed off. Cool. 3) There are a lot of posts on the blog, so I can't reach the bottom. I'm curious to see if earlier posts were deleted. Gonna have to check that out later.

Yeah all earlier posts were deleted so it’s only posts from the new mods and such.

Anon message:

All I know of pride-flags-for-us is that Mod Ita and Mod Celes admitted to being trolls who joined the blog in order to get it eventually deleted. Mainly they targeted the blog because Dave wanted to convert the blog to pro-LGBT instead of pro-MOGAI (even though he was still very pro-MOGAI and yet also aphobic, he just tried to asskiss both sides, fricking hypocrite). So I think you should be safe since you're still very much pro-MOGAI!

Yeah now that I know it wasn’t actual hacking and just them taking advantage of tumblr’s terrible mod system I’m not worried anymore. (Well I do worry about some infiltration like that, but not about hackers coming for me like that first anon said)

Anon message (sent before these events took place I think):

I'm surprised that lgbtrainbowdolls person could mistake your dA for belonging to pride-flags-for-us. Especially since, yknow, PFFU decided to become anti-mogai pro-LGBT, but then they decided to backtrack and try to please both sides. Which makes them more pathetic imho, lmao. At least you're still willing to get flags and correct info out there. Me and plenty other people appreciate all your hard work!!

That whole blog (lgbtrainbowdolls, not pffu) is really questionable, I don’t know if they’re outright trolling but they post a LOT of misinformation RE: putting wrong names/definitions on flags. They are not a blog you should go to for information. They also put “controversial” on a lot of terms which is really skeevy imo.