#hatemob

[dreastmilk]

yeah no don't even look at twitter rn

[viobearr]

btw fucking crazy how a few of my old mutuals have dropped me silently for being a drm fan like its so stupid and petty? 😭😭😭 like im sorry me minding my own business and enjoying my silly minecraft guy was such a dealbreaker for u that you'd just throw away our friendship like that !!!

whatever tho idgaf i dont want to be friends with drm antis anyway yall r so unnecessarily hateful and ignorant abt the shit he has to go through

[ravenamethyst]

Ich habe etwas nachgedacht.. und ich bin zu dem Entschluss gekommen, dass ich dir unbedingt mal sagen muss, was du mir in dieser kurzen Zeit bedeutest. Du bist nicht nur meine beste Freundin. Du bist wie eine Schwester, die ich nie zuvor hatte. Du bist immer für mich da, wenn mein Lächeln versagt und munterst mich mit deinem Sonnenscheinlächeln auf. Du bringst Licht ins Dunkle und erhellst mir den Tag. Es beginnt meistens mit einem 'Guten Morgen.' von dir. Zwar antworte ich nicht direkt, da ich selber noch nicht ganz wach bin aber das weiß ich jedes Mal sehr zu schätzen. Mit dir erlebe in dieser kurzen Zeit Dinge, die man sich nur erträumen kann. Jilly. Ich bin genauso sehr auf für dich da, werde immer meine schützenden Hände um dich halten und werde die bösen Schatten weit, weit weg befördern. Du bist sehr wertvoll, ohne es zu wissen. Ich bin wirklich glücklich, dass ich dich als 'beste Freundin' betiteln darf und dass du mich ebenso auch als 'besten Freund' siehst. Es gibt keine andere Frau an meiner Seite, die nur annähernd an dich ran kommt. Du bist mir mit das Wertvollste, was ich habe. Mit dir an meiner Seite fühle ich mich vollständig und kann bedinnungslos lieben. Du gibst mir das Gefühl, wichtig zu sein, etwas Besonderes zu sein. Etwas, wofür sich das Aufstehen lohnt und egal wie schlecht es dir geht, werde ich dich in meinen Armen wiegen, dein blondes, langes Haar streicheln und dir immer wieder sagen, wie wundervoll und wertvoll du bist. Ich werde immer dafür sorgen dir zu zeigen, dass dein Dämon dich nicht bekommen wird, denn jeder, der dich in den Schatten stellen möchte, wird von deinem Licht, von deinem Feuer übertrümpft. Du bist so eine starke, junge Persönlichkeit und du hast Charakter. Viele Leute hier haben angst vor Charakter, weil sie selber keinen besitzen! Sie sind neidisch. Neidisch, dass du Freunde hast, die immer für dich da sein werden. Sie sind neidisch, weil du nicht nur eine tolle Persönlichkeit hast, sondern auch ein verdammt gutes Aussehen! Lass die Leute neidisch sein und je mehr diese etwas Böses machen oder sagen, umso schöner macht es dich! Denn du bist Unersetzbar und das sind nur noch Wenige. Das wollte ich dir kurz mal mitteilen, weil mir das den ganzen Tag schon im Kopf rumgeschwirrt ist. Ich werde immer mit einem Auge bei dir sein und aufpassen, dass dir nichts Böses begegnet und dass du niemals mehr verletzt wirst. Das nächste Mal musst du auf mein Segen warten, damit ich schauen kann, ob die Person es wirklich ernst meint und dir nicht wieder das Herz bricht, denn das ist asozial. Wahrscheinlich mache ich mir selber damit jetzt Feinde aber weißt du was? Es interessiert mich nicht, weil diese Leute nichts in meinem Leben zu suchen haben! Lass dich nicht von diesen 'Mobbern' unterkriegen, sondern leuchte umso heller für sie, damit sie sehen, dass dir das gar nichts ab kann! Du solltest wissen, wie wundervoll du bist und in meinen Augen die perfekteste, beste Freundin, die ich mir nur wünschen kann. Denn keine ist für mich so da, wie du es bist. Mit dir an meiner Seite fühle ich mich unbesiegbar und mutig. Lass dich nicht unterkriegen und was dich insgeheim trifft, macht dich umso stärker! Hörst du? Du bist so verdammt stark, Jilly! Nie, nie, niemals lass ich dich mehr aus den Augen, lass dich nicht mehr aus meinen Armen und lass auch nicht zu, dass sie dich brechen! Bitte bleib so offen, liebevoll und warmherzig, wie du jetzt bist. Baue niemals eine Mauer um dich auf, denn das wäre schwach. Stark ist da weiter zu machen, wo man aufgehört hat und sich nicht durch Andere verbiegen zu lassen oder sich zu verändern, denn du bist in meinen Augen die Allerbeste hier! My favourite One! I love you to the moon and back and you're always on my mind. ♥

[n-x-black]

the thing is using ai for stuff is like silly but the mass Social Shaming about it like freaks me out

[jelreth]

oh my god i nearly fucked up big time. thank god for social anxiety making me reconsider every fucking action i make before i make it.

[alharringtonfan]

With Ty leaving the series I hope Alex changes his mind about the whole "AI replacing VAs is bad" thing.

This is EXACTLY why AI is making so much success nowadays. Artists of any kind are entitled cunts who think they're doing you a favor by working with you. AI doesn't bitch about politics, AI doesn't turn against you when it's most convenient. AI certainly doesn't make "exposed" docs on you about absolutely fucking nothing and show the world the deranged fetishes you've explicitly said you wanted to keep private. AI doesn't infringe on your boundaries. AI is awesome. AI is love, AI is life.

ChatGpt, NovelAI and OpenArt are BASED as fuck and I'm tired of pretending they're not. Use them, git gud, or else you're going to be left behind in the progress machinery.

And then these idiots wonder why they can't get a job LOL Um yeah I wonder why retard. Something about digital footprints eh?

[honeyrisuke]

Hazbin Hotel has been out for barely 48 hours and I‘ve already seen the most vile and stupid takes on here by people who absolutely did not watch any of it

Yall are so stupid, i guess its a free block list but by god if you dont like it shut tf up and live your life

[momentomori24]

I swear to God, Twitter being able to accumulate so many brain-dead, malicious, pseudo intellectual low lives all in one place at the same time is a phenomenon worthy of being studied under a microscope in a science lab. And no, that is not a compliment.

Thankfully people have already spoken out against this bullshit-- the fact that people needed to is already maddening to think about-- but as someone who got the basic gist of what happened literally yesterday I'll also put my voice out there: Don't you fucking dare try to paint Hbomb as a murderer over this situation.

Somerton may be a lying, misogynistic plagiarist and conman, but he obviously doesn't deserve to die and while I do make fun of the guy, I genuinely hope that he continues to have a life after the dust has settled on everything. Not on YouTube or any social media platform for a long time at least, but just a life nontheless. I don't wish what he's potentially going through on anyone, and I hope that he makes it through this. But regardless of if he does or doesn't-- and God forbid he doesn't-- none of this is Hbomb's fault. It's not his fault, or Kat's fault, or Jessie's fault (because apparently there's people blaming her too cuz WHY NOT), or anybody's fault. All they did was call out his actions, hold him accountable for the harm he's done. They have done nothing to deserve having to carry this on their shoulders should the worst happen. They did nothing wrong. They didn't kill James (he's not confirmed dead yet either btw). They are not murderers. And to the people saying they are: say those words out loud, listen how they sound like, and re-evaluate. Just cease.

And to people like this:

''Oh I'm not blaming him for anything I'm just blaming him for what his audience did because according to HIM you're responsible for your audience'' Yeah, you people can shut your mouths too. Of course you're responsible for your audience, and that includes Hbomb too. However, your tiny, godless little monkey brain can't see why your argument is still rubbish even with that in mind. The difference between James, Internet Historian and Hbomb is that Hbomb never promoted problematic behaviour to his audience. If you promote problematic shit like harassment or misogyny or racism, then yeah, you're absolutely responsible for how your behaviour influences your audience. But that's not what he did. He made it very clear where he stood on those things, literally stating that ''if anyone were to harass Somerton on his behalf they are worse than him and will not see the light of heaven''. He's done his part in making it clear that harassment is wrong, so if someone went out of their way to go against that and harass James anyway that doesn't reflecf on him at all. Also, what the hell do you mean ''hatemobbed'' to suicide? I don't doubt there are people who went to extremes because those bad apples always exist, but most of the things I've seen are valid critisisms, memes and call outs about that guy. If holding people accountable for their actions and poking fun at them a little counts as 'hatemobbing'' (which has Filip calling his critics a ''lynch mob'' energy tbh) what the hell do you call actual hatemobbing then? Do we just let people continue being shitty because calling them out ''damages their mental health'' or ''drives them to suicide'' then? Is that a world you want to live in?

Same thing goes for people like this:

Criticing someone for their objectively bullshit content and wanting them dead are two seperate things. What the actual hell is wrong with you. The plagiarist in question is a person. Those ''harshest critics'' are still people. And because we're people, we care. I'd rather James pump out more plagiarised slop than commit suicide. I'd still hate him for it, but I'd prefer him being alive over the alternative any day. We all do. None of us would sleep easier knowing he's dead just because he wouldn't be ''committing the cardinal sin of putting out a 'pure content mill' video'' because someone taking their own life is horrific-- especially Hbomberguy, how dare you even try to imply that?

And this gets me to the reason I'm furiously typing all this out in the first place: Hbomb is the fucking victim here, so stop treating him like he isn't. He tried making things as right as possible by compensating those that were burned by James through a video where he revealed everything there needs to be known about the guy so that less people fall victim to his actions and lies. To just ignore the harm James was causing while he had the evidence to prove it and platform too big to threaten into non existence should he speak out would've been bad. So he didn't. He did the right thing by sticking with the people James had stolen from, giving them a voice and making them known after they've been scrubbed from the picture by decidedly being uncredited for their works or bullied into silence. He shouldn't have to deal with this for doing the right thing. He shouldn't be labelled a murderer for doing the right thing. He shouldn't have to have the death of a man on his conscience for doing the right thing. People claiming otherwise are obviously wrong, but I can't imagine what all this must feel like right now. Because even tho they're wrong, guilt isn't a rational thing, and I know that if I were in his position I'd still feel like a morally bankrupt individual were the worst to happen even if I knew that it was not my fault. This isn't a funny story. So to add to this dumpsterfire by using it as a prop to bash on a creator you don't like and immediately write Somerton off as dead even when he's not even been confirmed dead yet to do that shows how little these people actually care about the thing they're talking about. They don't care a guy potentially killed himself-- what they care about is using it to paint Hbomb in a bad light because they don't like him. Here they are, posting memes and ill jokes about this very delicate situation while barely a day since the news broke out had passed. It's opportunistic, it's sickening, and literally the exact thing he criticised in his video when talking about 'content mills'. Like, I know none of these clowns bothered to actually watch it, but have some self-awareness. And some shame too, while you're at it.

This long story short: I'm writing this to contribute to the narrative not getting twisted to make Hbomb out to be the villian. Same goes for everyone else. Don't let these people paint them as the villians. If I see another person pull this shit again I will literally bite you and shred you into salad and spit you back out because I hate you so much and I mean that wholeheartedly.

To Hbomb: you will never see this but if you do, take care of yourself.

To the asshats this post is about: Delete your account. Cease all together. Stop talking about this. Just leave him the fuck alone.

[dailyadventureprompts]

Villain: Mavros Arator, Voice of the Ascendant

The demagogues seem everywhere these days, putting their words to the tune of the populace's nebulous worries: this week it's the impiety of the realm's leaders, last week it was the barbarians infringing on the borders, before that it was the decaying morality of the youth. It's the same old song, just with new lyrics to fit with the times. No one's sure just when the crescendo will hit or how, but everyone who's been paying attention know they're going to try to bring the whole house down when it does.

Setup: A charismatic figure has risen to prominence channelling discontent in the wake of an unfavourable war. As a gifted orator and veteran of a conflict remembered for being more "glorious", the words of Mavros Arator carry weight with both the military and common people. He agitates on behalf of those who resent the diplomatic capitulations used to secure peace in a losing war his own rulers started, and argues for a revival of "national spirit" to strengthen the homeland so it does not allow such a disgraceful defeat to happen again.

What separates Mavros from any other blowhard protofascist is the fact that he's looking to summon a demon to purge his homeland of those unsympathetic to his cause. Scoured clean of all those unwilling to fight and die and obey, he and the other true believers will form an unstoppable army that will march out under the banner of conquest to settle at spearpoint every historical grievance in the realm's long history.

It's up to the party to stop this instigator and the hatemob he's made of their neighbours before he enacts his plan and ends up ascending to full dark lord status.

Background: Mavros loved his homeland, as a young man he went to war to defend it, spent decades bleeding for it, and that love endured even after his homeland spat him out with nothing but a soldier's pension and a lifetime of traumas he had no words to explain.

That was the point of course, empires are built on the back of men like Mavros, shaped from their earliest days to believe that their homeland is singularly great and beset by threats on all sides, or that war is the measure by which a son may prove his faith and loyalty rather than an enterprise made to expand the holdings of the powers that be.

The problem for those powers is that Mavros didn't die like he was supposed to, he soldiered on driven by a manic dedication that persisted despite his comrades getting scythed down around him. When he was too old for soldiering he turned to having a family, raising four boys and feeding them one after another into the waiting jaws of his nation.

A man less ardent in his love of home, less firm in his faith might have wavered when they brought the first of his sons' bloody helmets back in lieu of a body. He might have seen how his virtues, his loyalty, had been abused by those above him, made him question the justness of the wars and conquests and pain he had been apart of. instead that loss, made him open to change. Instead Mavros's convictions deepened, and by the time of his third son's death he had become so entrenched in the pit of his beliefs that he had unearthed a new truth: He loved his homeland, it was just being held back by the people who didn't love it enough.

It was deep in that pit where Mavros first heard the whispering of Diridaxx, the fiend known to diabolists as "He who claws from below". In ages past the demon was said to prey upon the weak, wicked, and impious, before clashing with an ancient hero and being struck down with a blow so divinely empowered that it not only buried the fiend deep underground but reduced him to ash along the way, depriving him of the strength required to ever escape. The depths of Mavros's despair and his own desire to see those "less thans" cleared from his home formed a connection between man and demon: first dreams, then visions, then a pact. Influence in exchange for escape, followed by victory in exchange for slaughter. The fact that the hero of the old myth happened to be one of the founders of the realm that handed Mavros's own homeland its recent defeat was just icing on the cake.

Adventure Hooks:

The party is likely to encounter Mavros's influence long before the man himself, as thugs, opportunists, and grifters look to take advantage of the post-war unrest to raise their place in the world and make good on his words. A troop of discontented soldiers may be shaking down travlers on the road as an unofficial "toll" to repay their service , while an enterprising merchant might stoke xenophobia to turn townsfolk against a competitor of forign origin.

It'll take more than speeches and random acts of violence to summon Diridaxx from the pit, it will take sacrifice. (un)Luckily for Mavros, he's been sacrificing all his life, and all that is required is a bit of occult-recontextualization to turn the deaths of his sons into a ritual years in the making. With fiend's magic his follower's resources at his command, it's only a matter of time before he gathers the bones of his three dead sons (and their haplessly dutiful surviving brother,) from their resting place in foreign lands and cremates them, suffusing their pyresmoke with Diridaxx's own noxious essence.

If you want to add another big bad to the mix and given similar themes of would be tyranny and xenophobia, consider checking out my genocidal fallen angel villain: Insiyah who could be very easily be using Mavros as her agent, or working alongside him to bring about his vision.

Also consider checking out my writeup on how d&d tends to mishandle matters of morality in it's game, and the simplistic way it views evil. Writing that inspired me to write a villain who was a very human sort of evil who utilized magic, rather than the all too common magical evil around which most campaigns are based.

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[pawberri]

the people you reblogged that transmasc misogyny post from are violently transphobic, and the man who wrote that article sent a hatemob towards a trans woman recently. i don't think they're people you want to share things from.

Do you have context of the author? I'm confused on the reasoning for the ops since they're trans tho I haven't gone through their blogs or anything

[desolationlesbian]

The internet has trained some people to have this hypothetical hatemob in their head all the time. You'll be having a perfectly normal and cordial discussion with a stranger online and then the other person will suddenly get this look of fear in their eyes and go "NOT that I meant [completely ridiculous bad-faith interpretation of their words no reasonable person would ever make], I DON'T want to come off that way and I didn't mean that, I just--" like bestie I'm not twitter you're safe with me

[wildpeachfarm]

if you sat these people down with a quiz describing various awful hatemob situations and asked them "did this happen to dream or q?" they're not going to like how often the answer is dream

Exactly- they have deluded themselves too far off the deep end I fear

[nothorses]

it's really funny how 'transandrophobia truthers' are accused of being both TERFs and MRAs because i'm pretty sure those ideologies are like. complete polar opposites

it's almost like they just want to lump us with any group of bad people without actually listening to what we have to say lol

it really clarifies how they think of those groups, i.e., as "people I don't like" rather than specific ideologies.

it isn't important to them whether we actually literally agree with any of the ideas there, or if those groups would even begin to consider accepting our ideas- these are just New Internet Insults that they've found to her particularly effective in the online spaces they occupy. "TERF" and "MRA" are just convenient words that make people's brains turn off and jumpstart rage & hatemobs, and that's very convenient when you dislike someone and want to hurt or punish them.

Conversely, they aren't really interested in learning what either group believes in or how to genuinely spot someone who is a part of those groups, or whether they agree with any of those groups' ideas themselves. It's much easier to think of them as Evil Monsters who are inherently and fundamentally different from you, as people you could never ever be like or agree with, than it is to entertain the possibility that you might have flawed ideas too, or caused harm without knowing it.

TERFs are just "women who want to hurt all trans women" because as long as they say they don't hate trans women, they're never in danger of being a TERF; and MRAs and are just "men who hate cis women" because as long as they say they love cis women, they're never in danger of being an MRA.

They can twist just about anything into "hating trans women" or "hating cis women" (like "thinking trans men also deserve not to be hated, hurt, or killed" or ,"acknowledging trans men are oppressed") in order to distance themselves from, and punish, anyone they dislike.

[tumblintuck]

Yeah I understand standing in solidarity with people who've been victimized by hatemobs but is the pedo+children meetup website guy really a hill you wanna even visit, let alone die on

[winged-void]

Idk it's just kinda sickening to me how many people who should know better keep fucking falling for "no this time the hatemob I'm whipping up for a transfem is justified"

[cryptidmomochi]

did you know?

the insistence by commentary creators on treating children the same way as adults has caused ridiculous amounts of harm.

over and over i would see drama about various artists, and so many of them were just kids. some of them were younger than me, but i didnt know that. i thought they were all much older than me, because that's how they were treated.

"oh this person was a groomer" they were a child. if a child is exhibiting groomer-like tendencies, they don't just get that out of nowhere.

"oh this person pretended to have mental illness or s/h for attention" that is not a thing that normal people do. you look stupid when you say that. just because someone is doing something "for attention" doesn't mean nothing's actually wrong.

"this kid was racist" im from an extremely white, quite cishet, and very able-bodied town (or, at the very least, the town is inaccessible enough that you just don't see that many disabled people, who knows). sometimes you learn bigoted rhetoric, then have to unlearn it. sometimes you say stupid shit because other people around you say that exact stupid shit. kids in particular do not always know better. just because theyre 16 doesn't mean they're exempt from being stupid.

like.

can we stop hatemobbing fucking children. i have at least lingered online for almost 10 years. kids are one of the most likely groups to get harassed, often by adults. im glad i never developed a sizeable following before i turned 18. i wouldnt have been able to handle it either.

but im just shouting to the void, really. commentary creators dont fucking learn. they just hop onto the next bandwagon and ignore it.

do you ever wonder why so many commentary types keep getting into trouble? hopeless peaches, creepshow, daftpina, turkey tom, omnia, prison mate luke, im sure i could think of more given the time and given a little bit more research to track down some old creators i used to watch. good people don't go online and talk about kids like they should be killed. the art commentary community as a whole is rife with toxicity, seemingly always searching for small prey nobody's heard of. I remember a very long time ago there was a "drama" because an artist on deviantart didn't want their art being favourited (they misunderstood what it did) and that was a big enough deal to start making videos about. playlists upon playlists preying on kids being stupid.

if not kids, then any other vulnerable group will do just fine, too. if you remember the "tumblr art style", youll know it had a few main "characteristics"; ambiguous race, hairy legs, character depictions that weren't conventionally attractive, bandaids, s/h scars, drawing the characters with different body types, depictions of mental illnesses and disorders, the works. the "tumblr art style" was, in reality, a dogwhistle. it wasn't about the art. it was about the fact that it wasnt a white, cishet, able-bodied, neurotypical man or woman. that was a topic for a few years. "the problem with the tumblr art style", "tumblr art style cringe", i only knew of tumblr from those types of videos when i was in middle school.

commentary rarely if ever cares about justice. its just another dime in their wallet, and if they have to harass kids to get it, well, that's just fine.