Not to be salty on main, but this shit on dumblr is exactly why I was pissed that someone earlier this year was saying they won’t talk to children when they’re acting like fucking little assholes, and that was such a ridiculous ass position to have I just fucking couldn’t wrap my head around it. Like, sorry but no one old enough to use a computer or a phone app to navigate this site is a fucking innocent baby.
Surprisingly, this was well before I’d even set foot into VLD and from a fandom with people who were far old enough to know better, OP included. but I fucking knew the purity policing shit and staying quiet “because they’re kids uwu” would lead us exactly to where the fuck we are now. It’s just like how people excuse racist crap kids say cuz they don’t know any better. Well, gee, dingus, I’m black and it took me one whole time of a Native American classmate telling me not to greet her with “How” during our California mission project to stop doing that shit. Maybe if ya spoke up to the little snots and blocked them, we wouldn’t be here đ
For anyone in any fandom who is still “neutral” on this issue….how? I think @zarabithia or one of the other Dreamwidth expats pointed over there that her dash today was dead as a doorknob. And sure enough, nearly 90 percent of my dash has been filled with Purge Discourse and Strikethrough history.
We’re nine days out from the end of VLD, the single largest fandom most defined by this site and it’s barely a blimp on anyone’s radar. Well, except the walnuts who are too busy celebrating the banning of Those Gross Sheithers™ to notice their own posts getting flagged. But then, they never did shut up, even after they’d “Moved On Forever” to other fandoms they’ll continue to ruin after we’ve all moved on. But yeah, the finale is a week out and…comm silence. And my other smaller/older/quieter fandoms are even worse.
If you’re on the sides as the “friends” you follow are getting shadow blocked, purged at random (as I and several accounts were) and overall losing visibility and safe space while racists and TERFs and antis skate along as they always do, you’re part of the damn problem. And just like the “friends” I cut out of my life after the 2016 election , fandom will soon have no use for the “give it a chance” folks either. It didn’t work for LJ, ff.net, Deliciously or any message board I’ve been apart of that’s gone down this road and it won’t work here.
For the muturals who want to ride it out, I want to be wrong for your sakes. I really do. But history has shown me otherwise.


