#no hate to the ppl im vagueposting abt

[wettestwraith]

Ppl be acting like Hunter wouldn't be Rapunzel in a Tangled AU like yeah sure as if Belos couldn't be perfectly slotted into the role of Mother Gothel

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

I'm seeing a lot of online creators I follow falling into increasingly toxic styles of Online Brainrot "Discourse" and its making me really sad. They're getting that flat-behind-the-eyes, closed-mouth-wide-smile look where you can SEE the empathy, kindness and connection to reality dying.

I want to comment and tell them I'm worried abt them but ik it comes off as condescending. at least one of them is a lot younger than me (19yo) and as someone who went through a version of this at that age, it breaks my heart. I know I may just have to unfollow and let them hit rock bottom on this themselves, but.... Christ! Fuck!!!!

and the worst part is that they all seem totally convinced that they've ESCAPED The Brainrot, that they're COMBATTING it, that they've found the "truth" behind the Brainrot and are the ones (sometimes ~The Only Ones~) who are brave enough to tell the world. its not conspiracy crap, just really REALLY bad takes like

"fandom is inherently anti-intellectual, discourages analysis and understanding of texts and needs to be slowed/stopped/actively fought against BECAUSE FANDOM IS DANGEROUS!!!1!!!1!!!1"

or

"being the CEO of a children's clothing brand automatically puts you at suspicion of being a P3d0 because why else would you look at little children's bodies so much" (this one baffles me fr, like??? where do you think all children's clothes come from if not from people designing and making them?)

like just bad, stupid takes that border on paranoia but also you can kinda see how they escalated from other less drastic Terminally Online mindsets

but these ppl used to be saying stuff that was smart, or at least funny and interesting, and in a lot of cases these opinions/styles of content are 180-degree shifts over a week or even a day

like honey. i mean this with all the care and genuine respect I can give. you're not serving hot takes, you're wrong- but more importantly your behavior is really concerning. you're starting fights in your comments and then putting them on blast in main posts/reels. "the haters" have become a stock character for you. you're doing 180 turns on things that used to be core beliefs. please get offline, like FULLY offline, and re-discover the world for a while- and maybe really do seek help. not in the funny online-insult "seek help". I Am Really Worried About You.

god. fuck. so many of these content creators are like 19 years old, and honestly I wish I could magically be in a role/place/physical location to help them because I'M WORRIED. worried like checking-their-feed-now-scares-me-because-im-worried-they-will-have-harmed-themselves. not because they've made any threats but bc their regular content has shifted so drastically and quickly to be angry, cynical and that kind of smiling-with-nothing-behind-the-eyes self-centered Righteous Hate that is indicative of

well

of something going deeply wrong inside

fuck im sry this is just rly upsetting me rn

(ALSO TO BE CLEAR. THIS IS NOT A VAGUEPOST TO ANYONE ON TUMBLR. THIS IS HAPPENING PRIMARILY OR ENTIRELY ON OTHER PLATFORMS. TUMBLR IS THANKFULLY, FOR THE MOST PART, FAR PAST THIS. TUMBLR IS FOR ALL ITS FAULTS A WELL REGULATED ECOSYSTEM THAT KEEPS THIS KIND OF BS LIMITED TO CERTAIN SMALL ECHO CHAMBERS. ITS WHY IM ON HERE AS MY PRIMARY SOCIAL MEDIA.)

[kisskissgotohell]

ok ik im bitching abt ppl on discord who won't see this, and vagueposting on tumblr prob isn't the healthiest way to go about this, but. WHY are yall holding grudges over trivial shit until you start hating someone in the server but never telling the person ur issues so it just snowballs when i literally just politely asked them to stop specific behavior bc it was making me uncomfy and they apologized and said they would be more mindful in the future. it's literally not that hard okay

[22degreehalo]

I appreciate that there probably are people out there saying shit about Heart/stopper like 'ugh FINALLY queer rep that is actually positive and not all perverted and about sex 🤢' which I'm not seeing but the way some people are talking about it feels like they're assuming all relatively sex-free queer rep is like inherently assimilationist or whatever and just uh. I wish I could remind them that Heart/stopper is written by an aro/ace and that these sorta less sexual queer reps are actually really important to a lotta gay/bi aces?

It's almost starting to feel like this is a Good Omens discourse all over again which I'm certain is unintentional because the people complaining about people praising Heart/stopper are largely the ones who defended Neil Gaiman lmao.

[doebt]

i may be ugly and mentally ill and broken but at least i dont hurt people. at least i WANT to be kind. at least i try. so many of the ppl i know irl, like ppl ive met at school, are like. unfathomably selfish. ive been watching one incident of this unfold for the last couple months and it is like. astounding how selfish ppl can be

[carnival-phantasm]

hey theres like one thing ive never understood abt the sixpenceee drama? like obv what they were saying was totally fucked but ive never understood like... why it seems like ppl blamed her for the slavery? like im sorry if im being an idiot it just seemed to me at the time like if i went to my cousins house on another continent and told them i hated what they did they would be like "whatever fuck you"

It’s less that people blamed them for the slavery, and more that they were hated by how they downplayed it. They made a sequence of excuses and implications to defend their family after casually bringing up their 8 year old house servant and being met with the “hey, your family is fucked up. That’s fucked up. Have you told your family that’s fucked up?” replies.

First they claimed little kids as house servants was the norm in Asia and that made it ok because cultural relativism or something, but it didn’t work because other people living in Asia said “no, it’s really not”. Then they played the good ol’ Happy Slave Rhetoric and claimed that by letting little kids work there, her family was sparing them from “dangerous jobs” and that they talked to “OUR 8 year old” and the kid said they loved working there and all that noise. Then sixpenceee just stopped responding to it and started making vagueposts about how judgmental and mean everyone on tumblr is and all that. 

Overall a shit person more worried about their family’s image than the actual kids working for them.

[cryolyst]

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[shigarakitomura]

ok im like done with drama bc im tired of seeing mutuals and ppl i admire vagueposting abt me and knowing they hate me

[hazelcallahan]

I just don't like how you're consistently hating on two characters that are comfort characters for many just because they're popular

1. i am not “consistently hating on” them i vaguepost abt how i dont like them every so often and i only bring them up when ppl come at me asking abt them

2. i know theyre comfort characters for some people but literally every character in existence is a comfort character for somebody out there

3. i wouldnt hate them so much if they just stayed in their lane but the beau/yasha tag on ao3 is just FLOODED with them also their fandom is obnoxious af like have u SEEN the anons ive gotten from them in the past

4. the unfollow button exists my friend im obviously not the blog for u

[daveisverydeactivated]

man okay so reading callout posts is so fucking difficult i saw one abt s/ix/pen/ce/ee and i read through,,,, most of it? but it was all links which turns out to be a lil taxing on my brain and stuff, idek why. and then, a lot of it was good points and stuff ppl shouldnt do, like steal stuff or defend bad stuff. but some of it was just, tiny little things? small slipups, things like that. being perfect is a nice concept, but everyone accidentally says something is "crazy" or something on occasion. a while back, i accidentally offended ha/rv/ey/ch/an (i think thats the right url idk ill go check) by reblogging a jo/hn/da/ve post they made and saying something along the lines of "this isnt my otp (ja/da/ve) but its rlly cute!!" turns out, that was rude. this was in like, spring 2015, alright? i was like, 11. (yes, a rare mention of my age. this is how u kno im serious as i make this post.) i was new to the homestuck fandom, and also slowly realizing that i was pan and somehow managing to both accept and shy away from anything remotely-un-heterosexual, because thats what being split between a loving accepting family and a cruel, unaccepting society through all of your formative years does, besides make u need therapy. anyways, i made this comment, and then harvey replied to me in some way. i dont honestly remember if it was by reblogging the copy of the post with my comment on it or by sending me an ask or what, but i cried. (that was around the same time that i realized i definitely had depression, by the way, cuz this somehow made me suicidal. harvey, if yr reading this, i 100% do not blame u for any of my mental issues, i mostly blame my childhood trauma, and im fully aware of the fact that u (almost definitely? i mean i actually dunno) didnt rlly mean me any harm. i hope.) anyways, i cried a fuckin lot. i deleted my reblog of the post and sent harvey an ask basically begging for forgiveness, cuz, okay, again, i was 11 and had never pissed somebody on the internet off before and honestly kinda scared for my wellbeing because id heard horror stories abt ppl being like, physically hunted down for huge mistakes like the one i thought id made. i have anxiety issues, in case u havent noticed. bad ones. but anyways, they said it was okay, if i remember correctly. i actually dont remember at all. im just really hoping they said it was okay because i prefer to give people benefit of the doubt. they vagueposted abt me around that time, ranting abt how "if it isnt ja/da/ve it shouldnt matter" or something like that. ig they were the first person to vagueblog abt me, so thats pretty cool. i guess. and that experience has stuck with me for these two fucking years. slightly more than two years, actually. im still following them out of guilt. i havent looked at their blog in like, forever, but sometimes a post they reblogged floats across my dash and i get hit with a fresh wave of guilt. i actually think this is why i have such bad associations with johndave. well shit. i just realized that. but basically, a few months later, i saw a post of theirs that stated, among some other stuff that i dont remember, that they had bad associations with da/ve/ja/de (or something). i already felt guilty, mind u, as i feel guilty every time i make someone feel unhappy, unless i rlly hate them, but that made me feel even more guilty, since u never kno whatll make ppl feel bad. anyways, if a callout post was made abt me, and it included something that small, id probably end up pretty screwed up. if someone called me out for constantly vagueblogging abt my ex, thatd b different. i mean, she vagueblogs abt me, too, but if somebody told me to stop because i was making them uncomfy, i would stop. and btw, if smthn i do makes u uncomfy, please speak up! anyways, i just dont think including such tiny little things in callout posts is a good idea. i mean, it makes u look a little desperate and unfounded, and it makes the person yr tryna call out feel like everyones out to get them (or it makes them feel like yr completely unfounded and just lookin for drama, prolly). basically, b careful with yr callout posts, alright?