Ominous Messages From The Void

Five fanon Yuuji’s versus one canon Yuuji

Whuh

My friend it pains me to say that you asked this to the 1 empty headed bimbo on jjkblr that hasn’t thought about power scaling literally ever

I’m also like a sheltered little kid in this fandom because i exist exclusively in goyuu tumblr territory with occasional ventures to goyuu event discord…

🤔

But i guess canon Yuu-chan would win? He’s very impressive but people have that uhh aura they call it? They have this image that powerful = aura and Yuuji doesn’t confirm to that because he is simultaneously cool, cute, thoughtful, impulsive, kind and scary

Unlike Satoru whose silliness in fights very much is because he is so much stronger than his opponents that he doesn’t even need to take them seriously. + he silliness in his day to day feels quite calculated from certain angles 🤔

as has been said before, people like to act like yuuji’s canon intense focus and drive and, frankly, jujutsu genius (he did all that in six months!!!!) are all down to luck. even black flash, there’s a collective fandom hallucination that it’s some sort of luck stat. it’s not, it’s a very specific thing that comes down to having insane focus and mastery over when to apply CE to blows - and yuuji HAS THAT.

The main reasons are obvious—a lot of fanon is centred around Yuuji's softer traits in a way that both actively nullifies his canon strength and utterly defangs his psyche. In shipping fic, he's essentially shoved into a standard romance role that ranges from "he needs a man to save him" to the "safe" sort of power that Curu describes where he's textually stated to be strong but shown to lack strength and agency. In genfic, the former becomes "he needs the power of friendship to save him," and the latter manifests in different ways while retaining the core issue. I'm explicitly including "dark" Yuuji and "OP" Yuuji as subsets of fanon Yuuji because those takes also often just pay lip service to his strength or his craziness while narratively undermining them. Assorted woobification at its finest!

Five fanon Yuuji’s versus one canon Yuuji

Whuh

My friend it pains me to say that you asked this to the 1 empty headed bimbo on jjkblr that hasn’t thought about power scaling literally ever

I’m also like a sheltered little kid in this fandom because i exist exclusively in goyuu tumblr territory with occasional ventures to goyuu event discord…

🤔

But i guess canon Yuu-chan would win? He’s very impressive but people have that uhh aura they call it? They have this image that powerful = aura and Yuuji doesn’t confirm to that because he is simultaneously cool, cute, thoughtful, impulsive, kind and scary

Unlike Satoru whose silliness in fights very much is because he is so much stronger than his opponents that he doesn’t even need to take them seriously. + he silliness in his day to day feels quite calculated from certain angles 🤔

as has been said before, people like to act like yuuji’s canon intense focus and drive and, frankly, jujutsu genius (he did all that in six months!!!!) are all down to luck. even black flash, there’s a collective fandom hallucination that it’s some sort of luck stat. it’s not, it’s a very specific thing that comes down to having insane focus and mastery over when to apply CE to blows - and yuuji HAS THAT.

The main reasons are obvious—a lot of fanon is centred around Yuuji's softer traits in a way that both actively nullifies his canon strength and utterly defangs his psyche. In shipping fic, he's essentially shoved into a standard romance role that ranges from "he needs a man to save him" to the "safe" sort of power that Curu describes where he's textually stated to be strong but shown to lack strength and agency. In genfic, the former becomes "he needs the power of friendship to save him," and the latter manifests in different ways while retaining the core issue. I'm explicitly including "dark" Yuuji and "OP" Yuuji as subsets of fanon Yuuji because those takes also often just pay lip service to his strength or his craziness while narratively undermining them. Assorted woobification at its finest!

I tried to pirate a game and did so wrong.

The thing about hackers, scammers, fraudsters-- is that they cast a very wide net knowing they'll get a few suckers caught in it. Let's say 10,000 people get an email saying "YOÜVE W0N!🤩 CLiCK N⁰W!?!" 9,997 of them delete it. For the three people who get sucked in, it's life ruining.

They rely on the fact that, at some point, they are going to get you while you're not thinking clearly. Maybe you're sick. Or tired. Or work is stressful. Or you just had a fight with someone and you're mad. Your kid is going through something, your dog is at the vet, your car broke down, you got fired. Or you're in the middle of planning a big event, or you're so super excited for a convention-- and something comes across your desk. Maybe it's an email, or a phone call, a link, a text, a file. But for whatever reason you're not thinking 100% clearly and you don't question it, you trust for a minute and that's all that they need. You are now one of those three caught in the net.

And now you're actually on their list of suckers! They will return to you over and over and over and over again for more, because hey! You fell for it once. They're counting on that your grandma who answered a scam call and provided her credit card number once WILL be scammable again. Maybe not right away, maybe not the same way, but they'll get her. (And more often than not, they're right.)

I think most people are inclined to want to trust one another. Or sometimes we're curious. Or we think, "Wow, I didn't know it would be this easy!" not stopping to ask WHY it's so easy to get something good for free.

I work at a financial institution and I help people all the time who have been hacked and lost hundreds or thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars. They are always terrified- will I get my money back? Am I safe?- but they are also consistently ashamed and embarrassed. They feel guilty for having trusted and for not having stopped to think for a second longer. They verbally berate themselves. "I'm so stupid. How could I have fallen for it?"

Currently I'm only out about $300, which I'm being told I'll get back. That number could go up-- I'm still working on securing everything. Do you know how many passwords I had stored in my browser? 192. I have no idea how many of those had a valid card attached, but so far one account was plenty to steal a couple hundred bucks from me. And I do feel stupid, and embarrassed, ashamed, humiliated. Scared. The hacker messaged everyone I had recently messaged on discord as well as every channel in every server to @/everyone with instructions to download their Spyware. Every single person I talk to knows I fell for something dumb.

It's embarrassing, it's upsetting, and I dont even know the full scope of what more is going to happen. I had tax documents on my computer-- how much of my identity is now in their hands? I've locked my credit and placed fraud alerts everywhere, but how safe am I? Who else is at risk now because of me? What other files do they have from me?

In this case, I happen to know that a number of people did what I did. I've seen a number of threads from others who ALSO tried to download tomodachi life from github. (For the record, this was not the floralith link.) I was excited, I was in a hurry. I thought, "this is so quick and easy and now I can play!" I didnt question why in the hell it would EVER be so easy. I haven't had a virus on my computer since I was a young teen, and then I went and installed a bunch of Trojans whilst going "la la la." Incredibly stupid stuff.

i almost did this exact same thing in january of this year. i'd just applied for SSA disability and a day or two after i got an legitimate looking email saying they needed additional documents. i check my email first thing in the morning so i was physically tired and stressed in every way possible and in pain from still being post-surgical and i was scared of screwing up this process.

i downloaded the attached file. the only thing that saved me was my computer asking if i was sure i wanted to run this program.

what program? i thought this was a pdf?

no. turns out the icon was a pdf but the file type was something i wasn't familiar with.

i went back to the email and sure enough the sender was some stupid gibberish.

i dodged a bullet by an unspeakably slim margin. it terrifies me how legit the email had looked, it was properly formatted with correct spelling and grammar and had all the right logos and headers and it went to my focused inbox. this was not designed to filter people out. it terrifies me how they even knew i'd just applied and to try this.

i've had friends who've lost thousands to scams that got them at the wrong time.