#(Once it turned to antisemitic hate speech? YEAH)

[izzyizumi]

"Wow, you've been venting a lot about D02 Fan base Issues lately, I wonder what happened???"

"Well you see ever since post-Kizuna dropped, which is extremely suspicious TIMING in itself..." (While DigiAdv 2020 was also airing BUT.....)

In the last section of caps, when I proceeded to politely (hyper-formally) request this person stop harassing me by spamming me with multiple rude comments early in the morning when I wasn't even AWAKE to answer, and mentioned I was away because I was observing Shabbat (noting to them politely what it was), they proceeded to flip out, "turn" on me and start accusing me of "betraying" the pair. "Okay I beyond messed up" was their failed ""attempt"" at an blatantly insincere apology (they since continued to spam/harass a handful more times) and acknowledging they WERE HARASSING ME.

Except here's the thing. a. The Taishiro tag, by all means, is still for a rare pair ship. b. I am very aware of which fans follow me for my O.T.P. and actively post about it and who doesn't (including people who have lurked before). c. When the harassment started up I reached out to multiple other Taishiro fans (and people aware of the ship fan base being active) actively posting at the time and we were keeping aware of the situation in case they went about to target others. d. THIS PERSON WAS NOT AND NEVER A "FAMILIAR FACE" HERE / IN KOUTAI OR ADV+02 TAGS and posted fully and competely mainly on Anon (before "de-anon"ng using multiple account names; this was just before A.O.3 introduced comment blocking as a feature almost immediately after I began contacting them about it.) e. The timing of this is STILL highly suspicious to me considering the harassment mainly began in 2k20:

What was happening in Oct. 2k20 (aside from it also being my bday month, which was fantastic timing to harass someone??)

It was around the ending of DigiAdv 2020 Ep 18, when a lot of long-time fans would have returned to (if briefly) see the end of the Devimon arc involved, including past long-time Stans who dropped off partly keeping up with "canon" post-Tri (also especially if they hated ALL said new canon since...)

Kizuna was already out, but hadn't debuted in some countries (however, long-term Adv-02 fans were pretty aware of Kizuna developments due to notable leaks) and a lot of Stans also came back to actively "talk" / rant about Kizuna and the ""timeline"" since.

The person started out using a handle referring to a well-known N.S.F.W trope that I have absolutely 0 interest ever engaging with, and they likely knew that I might be semi-aware of it if just due to its sheer popularity. This was the first clear "hint" something was immediately wrong with the persons' commenting style, but I humored them at first by responding seriously and politely, giving a simple answer to the question ("plrease read all author's notes and tags clearly before reading".)

They since moved on to create multiple accounts and handles to spam / harass me ("Tales" might have been a reference to "Tales of" fan base, which I'm not involved in but was also suspicious in itself), pretending to be ""different"" people each time but using the exact same speech patterns / ~~accusations~~ and basically failing massively at "obscuring" / hiding themselves, almost to the point all of this was INTENTIONAL. (Also failed at making me take them seriously once I realized their intent to spam.)

The second (literally right the nights when I posted it, showing they actively WATCHED ADV-02 SECTIONS) I introduced more Daisuke into the storyline, (I had already finished the thing a bit earlier on, it just wasn't on A.O.3 yet...) they "turned" and "flipped" on me, "pretending" like they actively hated him and disregarded him, but my suspicions are really high that this was all an ACT. Because THE HARASSMENT DID NOT RAMP UP AS MUCH UNTIL I BEGAN "TOUCHING" DAISUKE / USING HIM IN MY THINGS AT ALL. (Very Suspicious)

I have seen similar long-term behavior from certain 02 Stans in this fan base who act like they have ownership over Daisuke head-canons and interpretations or something... including from a former person-I-briefly-interacted-with who used to (and STILL, as recently as the last weeks, though I won't name names but...) often acts really possessive over him and their interpretations. (You know, there's no rhyme or reason for why these kinds of things happen, right???) I long since hard-blocked the person on all DigiAdvs related accounts over it.

^ The conclusion made by A.O.3. was that it WAS harassment.

So, I'm just saying.

But you know what pissed me off the MOST? (MORE THAN THE FACT I WAS BEING ACTIVELY HARASSED AND SPAMMED ABOUT MY O.T.P WORKS AND FAVS?)

When I very formally informed this person (during the time they attempted fake-"politeness"/creepy fake "praise") I was (mentally) away noting Shabbat during the time they sent like 6 harassing comments in a morning, they proceeded to make the "turn", accusing me of multiple times (since) of being a "traitor" and INSULTING SHABBAT TO MY FACE AND ACTING LIKE THEY DIDN'T KNOW / ""GET"" WHO JEWS ARE, EVEN WHEN I SPECIFIED IT WAS A HOLIDAY.

Which IS ANTISEMITISM. Regardless of any fan base involved things it's to the point of antisemitic hate speech and religious harassment. I'm not even sorry to point it out but it IS.

{I finally let them know I was aware of the kind of spam tactics they were using against me. They proceeded to say this and continue acting "clueless" about what they were doing, while also half acknowledging it all the same} (Like seriously????) Anyway, if you (anyone posting in Adv or 02 sections, especially Koushiro or Daisuke involved fic!) ever get harassing spam comments from any of these user-names, REPORT THEM TO A.O.3.

I also don't mean to ~~call out~~ another "response", but...

When I brought these concerns up with people who I suspected may be involved in the (or possibly aware of similar) active harassment but was INITIALLY genuinely giving the benefit of the doubt, I intentionally left out about half of the comments since A.O.3 was still handling the case. One of the people I asked about if they were aware of such things actively going on in 02 sections commented very oddly and almost vaguely to me

"Maybe they're using an A.I. generator? They're getting more advanced {with text} (!!!!!) these days." (Summarized response)

A response I still find highly suspicious to this day.

Because this was blatantly NOT the work of an A.I. This person KNEW which characters they were talking about (despite trying to make it seem like they were "clueless" or "~~couldn't read~~" the MASSIVE amount of author's notes and summary and tags I left all over the fics and making a blatant show of "not actually reading" / absorbing it).

Also, in between, they NOTICED(!!!) immediately when I began up-loading my old A.M.V.s to other non-DigiAdvs sections(!!!) and began spamming those comment sections TOO (all with the same type of comments). (I did NOT give these any attention or response at the time)

So I'm Just Saying. Yeah?

This is unacceptable.

{Mocking Shabbat after I got after them for spamming me.}

So yeah, to anyone who MAY have been involved in this?:

(Kizuna spoilers!Koushiro moment Commence):

I'm still NOT amused.

(DO NOT copy or re-post my gif.)

It's been just about a year since the harassment-spam began last year (to eventually be squashed by A.O.3). All I'm saying is, yeah I'm still ticked and there were reasons why I wasn't actively posting other works, including for other not-O.T.P things...

(While it may change {with my postings} with the coming year I'm not going to deny that I'm not still majorly pissed off at the sequence of events at all.)

[wackygoofball]

From the bottom of my heart can I just say...

Fuck Tumblr.

Fuck you forever.

Now, this is actually not a new story, it’s an old story, but after I wanted to go down memory lane to queue some posts, I could not help but stumble over Tumblr and its most wondrous tiddy ban all over.

So yes, fuck it, fuck it hard, even if it’s already an old problem growing gray hairs.

Despite the supposedly “handy” tool to navigate the tiddy ban at last, a tool meant to show you which posts Tumblr is suspicious about to feature, mayhaps, a side boob or some really *perky* mountaintops one could *certainly* mistake for a lady’s bosom... I just spent the last hour going through my old posts after I already sieved through that some time back, only to find approximately 20 of my moodboards and other imagesets tagged and made invisible.

I still have to go over to see for more, apparently, because they don’t show up in the designated spot of “review flagged posts.”

And that is the old problem still putting on new clothes to this day.

You know, showing me only three posts that have been flagged but not all the others that have *also* been flagged and then sending me a notification via e-mail for having detected “adult content” on my blog only to show me those three posts I have accepted you find in violation with your tiddy ban is an old joke that’s not even funny anymore.

You know, this is your club, I am aware that by signing up to your club I have to live with your rules, even if I don’t necessarily agree with them (I really don’t because your guidelines fail to do what they are meant to do), I understand that this is the price I have to pay to keep using the services you provide.

However.

It pisses me off that you present yourself to me (and others) as providing tools that are meant to make this at least manageable. I don’t have as much of a problem with hitting the appeal button as I have with not knowing that there is a post I’d have to appeal for.

It pisses me off that you leave me in the “certainty” that I reviewed my flagged posts. You created an extra subsection for that and one should be able to assume that such a feature would show you... ALL flagged posts and give bloggers on this website a chance to appeal to abide your funny-not-funny tiddy ban. But even that you don’t manage. Instead, a longtime blogger, someone you may have a vested interest in staying in your club, has to go through months and years worth of posts to see where there is suddenly a post one would have to appeal for to make it visible again.

Granted, once someone appeals, you are fairly quick by now to have them restored or at least make a decision on the matter, but *why* can’t you seem to manage how many months into the times of the tiddy ban to make it manageable for bloggers to hit the appeal button the moment they check out *all the posts* that have been flagged?

Is it because you build on it that people don’t go back over their old posts?

Or is it because, despite your insistence to the contrary, you just don’t care?

Because yes, I am more than aware that behind this doe snot sit a team of nice fellows hoping to build a platform just for the betterment of the world. This app, this website, this service, is a platform meant to generate maximum profit, it is a corporation that has interests that have nothing to do with being there for the people they provide services for. That interest is money. Period.

I get that.

I honestly do. You are a business. I signed up to your services and so I have to live with it that your club turns shittier by the day. It’s not like you force me to stay and granted, you still provide a service I want to keep for many reasons that outweigh my frustration with the lack of services in most other areas of the tools you provide.

However, at the very least, if you can’t manage to get child pornography, hate speech, antisemitism, islamophobia, and right-wing, nazi bullcrap off your website with the devices at your disposal... is it asked that much to show me just what your funny algorithm finds wrong all at once so I can appeal it instead of playing tag? Because I find it even more tiresome than dealing with the fact that this corporation prioritizes in least effort for supposed maximum profit when it neither tackles the core problem nor aids those who have stayed with this service through better and worse... though mostly worse.

And so, from the bottom of my heart, if you write me this in nearly 20 e-mails automatically:

We apologize for the error but know that you’re helping to make these kinds of mistakes happen less often. 

Well, start making it better and find better ways for us to deal with your private club’s rules.

So yeah... get fucked and get your shit together.

Even though, I know, no one will read this, no one will care, but I just need to say it because these are the tools you grant me and so I use them, even if it is no more than a shout into the void.

Kind regards,

a user just about done with this shit.