Queen just for a day

Let me just start by saying how happy I am that she’s alive. That had been eating at me for days. Now, getting to the “problematic” shit she has done….

Actually, you know what, no. I’m not gonna do that because I’m not going to ream out a girl who just attempted to take her own life because some of you don’t know how to voice what you want to say. Like, I understand that you may have had issues with the things she has done or the way she’s gone about things, but that NEVER advocates driving a person to suicide. That’s so many levels of messed up.

And to the people that support Zamii and are harassing the people the people that were calling her out: you’re not helping either. Some of these people have the right to be upset, even if they contributed in driving zamii to do what she did. Am I defending their actions? Absolutely not. That shit was abhorrent. But you guys aren’t learning anything if you’re doing the same thing that they’re doing. Callout culture is important. I believe letting the public know of shitty behavior of a hate group or a gathering of people is a great. But if you’re advocating for the death of someone because they’ve done some problematic things that they could learn from, then you probably need to reassess your life.

That’s it. I’ve fucking had it.

I am so ashamed to be an SU fan after what you “social justice” fans did to Paige. I am trying so hard not to swear. So hard not to scream and punch a wall.

People are actually saying they are sad she is alive. Others have resumed back to running their shitty hate blogs once they heard she is okay.

They learned nothing. They lied through their teeth each time they said “I didn’t mean to do it. I feel bad” BECAUSE THEY ARE JUST DOING WHAT THEY DID BEFORE!

I know it’s not the whole fandoms fault. And I love all of you who said nice things.

way to taint Steven Universe forever, guys. I’m not gonna call you sjw trash, or tumblrinas, or any of that. I’m going to call you what you are. Bullies. You’re all bullies, and someone tried to kill themselves because you wouldn’t stop bullying them. You are exactly what you hate, there is no difference between you and any other bully that has ever existed. It doesn’t matter what you believe, your harassment is just the same. 

as an artist, i dont feel safe on tumblr anymore. At first i used to upload my art in here all the time. Now, with all these fandoms making the rules for how to draw a certain character, how black do they have to be, and how fat, us artists are not making art for the sake of it anymore.

Everything on this site has to be appealing for them, the so called fandoms. You get behind walls and walls of texts naming each and every thing that makes you “oppressed”, you feel like you’re empowered enough to tell artists how to do the stuff we love. And you’re capable of harrasing us to the point of making us commit suicide, just because we didn’t make our character an obese sapiosexual transdemigirl.

Oh and dont we dare call you out on this bigotry. You’re just a mentally ill seventeen years old child, and somehow telling you that bullying people it’s not okay makes us child abusers.

If you’re old enough to get on this site and tell people to kill themselves over a fucking drawing, then you’re mature enough to take responsibility for your actions.

Like, whatever friend, you keep doing your thing: harrasing, doxxing, bullying, making yourself look like the victim over a piece of art that wasn’t made to offend you; but at least don’t hide behind a “i’m just a kid omg uwu” when people call you out on your bullshit.

And i didnt really make this post for me here. I have less than 200 followers, i havent even made friends on this site, tumblr isnt my safe haven or my happy place, I could delete my blog like it was no big deal. But for many other artists this is the place where they come to be who they really are, in this site they’ve met the friends that had kept them going when things were hard in school or in their homes. This was their favorite site, a place where they could take a break and have fun, without being judged for liking ponies or homestuck or whatever.

Alright, so here on tumblr, users seem to be obsessed with being progressive and unoffensive. Great, right? Maybe not so much. In all the dreaded years I’ve been on here, and through all the times I’ve deleted and remade, I’ve come to see a rather prominent issue that seems to infest this dreaded hell hole of a website. 

The issue of callout culture and receipt blogs.

Now, I’m sure a few know about the zamii070 drama. This girl likes to draw, and draws fandom stuff for Steven Universe, Gravity Falls, homestuck, ect. However, she apparently drew “problematic” stuff, and well, harassment and bullying began.

Now, I do not know the full extent of the zamii drama. I do not know zamii personally. I’ve never watched her or interacted with her, but what I learned was that a lot of the accusations thrown at her were ridiculous, and that she was bullied and harassed enough to where she posted about how she was going to kill herself.

Thankfully, zamii is indeed alive.

However, this is where I would like to bring up what this post is about, and why this utter insanity really needs to take a hike.

Callout culture is obviously not about “trying to educate people”, but rather, it is an excuse to harass and bully those while making oneself out to be this Holy Messiah of Truth and Smackdown, which frankly is pathetic. We’ve seen this with the doxxing of plebcomics, the harassment that drove xkit guy off here forever, and now with the attempted suicide of zamii070.

Does this seem very moral to any one?

Where do receipt blogs come into play? Well, let’s take a look at the most recent string of events. A girl, very obviously not in the soundest of mental states, is bullied for stuff she draws of fictional characters. This girl who is probably going to be extremely depressed, and presumably has been for a while considering she, well, tried to kill herself, is not going to easily get away from her past mistakes, which she may in fact feel remorseful for at some point if she doesn’t already.

Why won’t she be able to get away? Because of this almost permanent archive of all the “horrible” things she has done. Think about that, for a moment, would you? Imagine being constantly reminded of all the horrible things you’ve done (which let’s be honest, you have done horrible things. We all have.) Imagine that being displayed for everyone to see and judge you for, even if it was 3 years ago and you were a stupid 13 year old.

I doubt anyone would very much like that, and understandably so, right? Who would fare well with new people every day learning about your mistakes and judging you harshly for them? So much so that some may go out of their way to bully the other person. 

I don’t buy into that “this is to protect others from hurtful people” excuse I see used to justify these blogs. The actions of tumblr and who they target clearly make that not seem true in the slightest. 

So, what do we have on our hands? We have a mentality that people use to be horrendous without having to feel guilt for their actions because they are “on the moral high ground” in the situation. 

It’s petty, it’s childish, it’s hurtful.

Im so tired of artists being bullied for not “"following the rules”“ set by the fandom. She’s not that fat, she’s not white, he’s not that, they’re not this, like shut the fuck up.

Im gonna draw whatever the fuck I God damn well feel like and you don’t have any right to police me or anything I do. You’re not fucking artist gatekeepers– half the people who try to police artists aren’t artists themselves!!

So yeah draw that character black, white, purple, yellow WHO GIVES A FUCK ITS ART NOT A KNIFE DIRECTED INTO YOUR CHEST PEOPLE CHILL

SOMEONE ALMOST DIED

BECAUSE YOU CANT STAND ARTISTS NOT CONFORMING TO YOUR LITTLE FANDOM GATEKEEPING RULES