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[waterolivecoffiyeh]

Reminder to not support Puppyluver256

It's come to my attention that this user is still complaining about being called out for their passive-aggressive stance on Palestine and is continuing to play the victim online on other people's posts in the tags. Click below for a summary of the timeline of events.

First and foremost, Puppyluver256 was called out for their so-called “free verse poetry," which reduced the Palestinian Genocide to a religious war and martyrdom versus the reality of it being a violent mass execution by colonizers. The poem is filled with “oh woe is me” lamentations and what I later described as “melancholy platitudes,” where they used the situation as a soapbox to air their personal grievances. They complained about how they were both unable to escape all the terrible news coming out of the region and how they were being made to feel bad for not caring enough. They assert (in the tags) their personal (and in my opinion, manageable) problems held more weight and significance. The entire piece is utterly tone-deaf in nature and spoken from a place of both ignorance and insensitivity. I’ve said this before, but I’ll say it again:

You, as an individual, get to choose your level of involvement when it comes to the news. Whether you stay informed or stay in the dark is ultimately up to you. However, the core of my criticism against this person is three-pronged.

1) If they wish to remain disengaged, they can’t have an opinion on the genocide because they are actively choosing to not follow recent developments. You’re either participating in the discussion or not. There is no middle ground, especially with genocide as the subject.

2) By interjecting their own personal spin on a situation they lack a critical understanding of, they are aiding in the spread of misinformation. Anyone who has been watching the news on Palestine knows this is not a religious war. This is Puppyluver256’s own biased opinion.

3) Anyone is allowed to take breaks for the sake of their mental health. That was never debatable. But if your main complaints are seeing this subject discussed on other people's blogs or seeing others engage in online protests, you are overstepping. You are trying to assert your personal boundaries on others. That is not fair. You have no right to criticize how others participate in their own protest against online censorship.

I sent them this anonymous message about how bad their poetry framed the Palestinian Genocide. From there, they continued to make passive-aggressive posts on social media and reblogs with tags that were obviously pointed at genocide news. (As a side note, even though this person claimed otherwise, each post they made has coincided with dates of breaking news coming out from Palestine.) They even ranted about seeing more news on Christmas Eve. At that time, Bethlehem was being bombed. Here is said screenshot (which they have since deleted).

In response to their endless complaints and selfish mannerisms, I also finally tagged their mutuals about their problematic behavior, as it was evident they were attempting to jump on the bandwagon to avoid losing face by suddenly reblogging a pro-Palestinian post (and tacking on their own self-righteous tags).

But even now, nearly a year later, Puppyluver256 continues to portray themselves as a victim to anyone who will listen. Even when they finally addressed the callout, they continued to just ramble about themselves and their “superior” victimhood, refusing to acknowledge how they framed the Palestinian Genocide in their previous post. Instead, they took the opportunity to make their personal discomfort the most important subject. They went off on wildly absurd tangents, including criticizing people who were making pro-Palestine Pokémon fan art, yet in the very same rant, attempting to promote their own Fakémon projects. The irony of this is not lost on me, and it’s appalling that this person would try to use that discussion point for their own gain.

The rest of their over-bloated response was filled with false claims:

Stated that they knew about Palestine for 20+ years, and yet in one of their previous tags they admit to having NOT seen anything of Palestine until recently.

Making random snide remarks about religion, including calling the Bible a “bizarre storybook”. As if their anti-religious bias was important to the topic of the Palestinians (It's not. Especially when many Palestinians still look to their own faith in this ongoing holocaust.)

Trying to retroactively prove they supported Palestine by unknowingly boycotting certain pro-Israel corporations (Starbucks/Walmart/McDonald's) long before news broke.

Claiming I misgendered them to discredit me when their pronouns had been fully displayed on their social media as she/they for years prior until they swapped to full NB they/them two whole weeks before their initial response.

I replied to their rant and broke it down point by point HERE, finding numerous holes in their arguments. Everything else in that rambling mess had no cohesion or focus. All it did was confirm to me that even in the response, they couldn’t give Palestine the proper attention it deserved.

To be frank, this person displays a great deal of ignorance in the subject by interjecting their own emotionally charged opinions into the discussion while refusing to consider the censorship the West has imposed or how damaging mislabeling a genocide on social media can be.

Now that I’ve summarized everything, I need to address the tags in the most recent screenshots that Puppyluver256 is using to make more petulant remarks. (Take note, they often try to latch onto posts of different contexts as a form of validation for themselves.)

On these last two posts, I have no issues with the OP's. My criticism is with Puppyluver256's tags on these posts. To go back to my earlier statement on their behavior, I only have this to say: The answer is no.

Puppyluver256, you don’t have the right to criticize people trying to fight back against Western censorship over a genocide that our USA politicians are backing. For someone who proudly calls themselves a secular humanist, you should be more supportive against this government-sponsored holocaust and its censorship.

You are completely capable of curating your online feed to avoid all this discussion yet you are either too lazy or too self-absorbed to make an actual effort. I strongly suspect it’s the later and why you made that poem in the first place, why you continue to talk about Palestine in a roundabout way.

You are egocentric and want everyone to listen to you, even if you have an uninformed opinion about a subject you claim stresses you out.

You want to act like the smartest person in the room with a nuanced opinion on everything, but not do any serious critical thinking because you have “the emotional constitution of an improperly set flan” (Your words, FYI).

You hide your true thoughts behind passive-aggressive posts and "vagueness" to avoid being criticized because you want to say anything you want without consequence, but I’m here to tell you that’s not how free speech works.

And I also didn’t twist your words. I took your words and detailed where you got it all wrong:

• You reduced the Palestinian Holocaust to a religious war. • You have made continuous snide remarks about news appearing on your dashboard, refusing outright to take control over what you see, something you even admitted in your own post.

• You tried to cover your ass by claiming to be informed when everything has demonstrated otherwise.

I don’t back down from calling out your rotten behavior. In this day and age, when Gaza is still suffering, people shouldn't be using the Palestinians as an excuse to masquerade as a first-world victim online or trying to complain about how other people are fighting censorship on social media. Yet here you are, a year later, still talking like this online in your tags.

The only one trying to twist things around is you. You are 100% in the wrong. You’re only upset that your actions were met with consequences. You’re a two-faced jackal who cries "harassment" while trying to downplay your own actions and hide/block everything to avoid taking any personal responsibility for your immature behavior.

On your blog, you list the year you were born.

1992.

You’re in your early thirties. Grow up.

To everyone else, Puppyluver256 is not someone to support. This post is not an endorsement to harass, I am only calling out this artist because this is a continuous pattern of troubling behavior. Please consider supporting other artists, especially Palestinian creators, and stay informed about who you follow on social media. There is still an ongoing genocide. Even in online spaces, how people react to this continuing news can truly be telling of what type of person they are. Especially if they use it for sadfishing.

[waterolivecoffiyeh]

This is a reminder for artists for Artfight 2024! Please do not engage with an artist under the username Puppyluver256!

This artist has been found to make tactless posts about Palestine and recently was found out to be trying to save face by lying about their support for Palestine in a recent post. (This response to the initial callouts is filled with excuses and arguments contradictory to their supposed stance on Palestine. This artist's passive-aggressive behavior and claims of support were found to be full of holes. There are also a few accusations about this blog as well that have been fully scrutinized and dissected in this follow-up response here.)

Once again please be mindful of what you engage with during Artfight 2024. Especially those who use the Palestinians as a soapbox to spew biased opinions or steal attention away for themselves rather than actually support people who are suffering under genocide.

Do not support this Artist

Hello. I'm writing this post to remind people to be mindful of who they follow in this social media climate as more news comes out about Palestine. It's important to consider who you follow online, especially when you discover someone you once followed is a truly two-faced person.

If you belong to the following fandoms:

-Smile for Me -Splatoon -Xenoblade Chronicles -Pokemon -NiGHTS into Dreams/NiGHTS Journey of Dreams -Engelbaum

Please be careful and do not support an artist on Tumblr/Twitter/Bluesky named Puppyluver256.

They have reduced the genocide in Palestine to a "religious war" between two Muslim countries. They have also continued to make critically tone-deaf vague posts in response to getting news of Palestine through their social media and had the audacity to post a distasteful rant during Christmas evening as Palestinians were being harmed. You can read her first response about Palestine and see its news here on her blog. Her so-called vague posts are here , here , here and here. (The dates are concise with major news on social media about Palestine). Edit: More of her posts on Palestine at here, here, ,here here, and here. As a former follower, I can say she only did this as an excuse to rant and perform a woe-as-me bait post to garner sympathy and attention because she can't "handle" the guilt of seeing stuff. Yet, she did not have the dignity nor the motivation to learn about even the most basic information about the Palestine genocide before commenting on it in such a tone-deaf manner. This is harmful because it furthers the spread of misinformation.

Her tags are also disgusting as she's focused on "escapism" and believes the news out of Palestine disturbed her peace of mind. Rather than being considerate of her social media life, she chooses to post where she's the true victim. Having the double standard that her peace of mind is more important than being considerate about the censorship of genocide because she "can't" handle it.

Seeing a genocide recorded in screenshots and videos is hard, but it doesn't cost much to be mindful of social media rather than blaming people who are trying to fight the algorithm and censorship.

I've called her out on it due to how disgusted I felt about her rants and her lack of accountability when it comes to cultivating her own social media and minding herself. If she truly didn't want to see such things she could easily disengage by minding her SM life, yet she doesn't. She makes it everyone else's problem and tries to correct other people's behavior while refusing to do anything to change her circumstances.

As of this time, she has not seemed to educate herself on the situation nor apologized for such a tone-deaf take. As someone who has been paying attention to Palestine news and seeing such a response from someone like her, I feel the need to warn people that this person is not someone you want to support, commission, or engage with.

I would hope people in their fandom spaces are mindful of the people they follow. Be they an artist, writer, actor, or anyone else online. Especially if they decide to have these misinformed opinions on social media that contribute to larger problems. Be mindful of who you support.

[waterolivecoffiyeh]

Replying to Puppyluver256

Well, I see I finally have your attention. @puppyluver256

You'll have to excuse me if I couldn't reply sooner given the waterfall of word vomit I had to slog through for anything relevant. It was incredibly hard to pinpoint your actual response when you're simultaneously rambling about everything and nothing at all.

Additionally, it's hilarious that you think sprinkling random videos into your reply makes your points more valid. If anything, it just makes you look like you can't formulate a proper rebuttal without turning this into a dumb meme. Way to demonstrate how little you actually care about the topic.

But since you’ve decided to finally acknowledge what I’ve written, I will address everything you wrote, irrelevant as some topics may be and unlike you, I will not be lazy and ”skim through”. If I don’t cover a specific thing, it’s because I’ve either already stated my opinion elsewhere or I didn't care enough to discuss it.

And by the way? Confessing that you just skimmed through my blog shows me you still don’t understand a single word of what I’ve been saying as your response is so tactless, disorganized, and rife with paranoia.

Oh, and if you’re going to be "using my words" actually take time to read what I said vs "what you remember”. In fact, here's a link. Anyone who's reading this post can see exactly what I said. I'd have added a quote to this post but my response to you is already far too long and my old post is possibly even longer.

But I’ve stalled enough. Let’s comb through this mess together, shall we? Do try, and extend the same courtesy I’m giving you by actually reading my reply this time. Perhaps you will learn something.

Firstly, I’m going to get this out of the way since it really stuck in your craw: The misgendering.

1. You have not been going exclusively by they/them pronouns for years. I had been a follower for years prior to my departure and even when I returned when this whole debacle started, you still had she/they listed as your preferred pronouns on your blog and on other socials. You had she/they up for years. It was only within the past two weeks you made the switch (at the time of this post’s original upload). 2. I've paid enough attention to you to know this was a recent change, so if my older posts still say "she" that's because you still had female pronouns displayed on your blog at the time they were originally written. Trying to retroactively accuse me of transphobia is completely disingenuous. 3. Furthermore, if you wanted to be known exclusively by they/them you should have nixed the "she" stuff long ago. Additionally, my recent post doesn't even use "she" so stop trying to rage-bait anyone reading this with the narrative of me being transphobic. I'm LGBT+ too and frankly, I’m disappointed someone who’s in the same community would stoop to such a level.

Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, let's get right to the heart of things: Addressing the holes that make your argument about Israel VS Palestine null and void.

I’m going to straight out call you a liar about you having known about Palestine for 20+ years.

1. If that was truly the case it would infer you knew how sensitive this subject was the entire time and still choose to believe your own interpretations of events instead of the actual facts. 2. You wouldn't have worded your so-called "freeverse" poetry so vaguely at a time when news of the genocide was breaking. Yes, you could have still said you felt helpless, but you chose to spin the current news of Israel vs Palestinian as a consequence of religious dogma, which it is not (more on this point further down). 3. Your “freeverse" poetry is nothing more than a bunch of melancholy platitudes where you lament your ineffectiveness and wail "Oh, woe is me! Won’t someone please comfort poor little me?” Frankly, that's the majority of your posts. They have always been tiny soapboxes for you to stand on to whinge and whine about how a specific situation affects you selfishly, treating your personal discomfort as more important than any actual victims of said situation. 4. This claim you care too much? It's a load of BS. You’re insincere to others and lying to yourself. If you truly did care, you'd take a hot second to actually read my blog. Leaving the poem up is just you not wanting to admit it's tone-deaf and a poorly uneducated take. If you truly learned anything you would have either removed it or added an addendum about why it was harmful, but you don’t want to do either because then it would draw more attention to you and you might actually be held accountable for something for once. 5. All of the posts that I archived coincide with dates of big news coming out of Palestine and they are either passive-aggressive or purposefully vague. I told you before whatever you're complaining about you're not the least bit subtle. If you didn't want people to scrutinize what you wrote, you wouldn't post certain things online and quietly keep your certain thoughts to yourself. 6. Don't use the excuse of "Well it's my blog!" to dodge accountability. When you use social media like a personal journal, everyone can see your opinions and since this is SOCIAL MEDIA, emphasis on the word “social”, anyone can respond. It's like reading your diary out loud to strangers in a crowded room. Everyone can hear you and they may have an opinion about what you wrote and it may not be what you want to hear. People can and will call you out. You are not free from criticism or rebuttal just because it’s a personal opinion. Consequence free speech does not exist. The moment you open your mouth, you are opening yourself up to a response from someone else be it positive, negative, or neutral. Trying to hide behind a shield of “Don’t reply to me! This is my personal space!” makes you appear weak in conviction. 7. Touting your atheism and your “secular humanism” as if makes you intellectually superior or more empathetic is self-aggrandizing and frustrating to watch. Pretending to be more intelligent because you don’t believe in God does not make you better than those who hold faith in their hearts. Playing this role as the untouchable enlightened who has seen the truth unlike the “masses of ignorant sheep” who believe in a higher power is what egotistical jackasses do and it’s a bad look. You’re every bit the Strawman archetype for the “Insufferable Atheist”. You’re almost at parody levels of cliché.

Just look at this paragraph you wrote without a shred of irony:

“I may be an atheist, but more importantly I am a secular humanist, and before knowing the latter term and taking on that label I was still an atheist even at the time, so the religious argument of “god gave them that land, they own that land” would never have worked on me the way it seems to with so many people. And tbh I don’t even know if that’s an argument that the Israeli government themselves put forward (it’s a terrible argument no matter who put it forward), but I do know that Christian fundamentalist extremists say things like that in their push for “god’s people” to return to "their god-ordained homeland” so they (the Christian extremists, I mean, just so we don’t get confused here) can try to usher in the end of the world based on the drug trip of a final volume in their bizarre storybook and no I am not kidding that is literally what they believe.”

Way to give yourself a pat on the back for a way of thinking millions of other people also share. You’re not the only atheist living in the Bible Belt. You’re not that special or unique.

If you were knowledgeable about the conflict in the Middle East you would speak from the socio-political perspective and not reduce this tragedy to a simple religious war (as if those too aren’t also extremely nuanced and complicated). Do you want to know how I know this? You contradict yourself in the very next paragraph:

”You must inform anyone you come across of this travesty. You must not let them look away either. But the suffering will continue regardless. They are all convinced they are in the right, all fighting for the will of a god that they will never confirm to be real, in fact the same god in wildly different interpretations. All the while, the innocents caught in the crossfire will continue to die, glorified in the disgusting “honor” known as martyrdom."

…Do you not see the irony here?

Tell me you didn’t imply this is situation is a religious war right there. Your words alone are tell me you believe it's solely religiously motivated and nothing more.

Let me tell you something. It's not.

The genocide of Palestinians can be rooted in the fact that Israel is basically an illegal colonization and occupation of land. People were forced to leave their homes, losing them in the process and then having Israel settlers move in and take over. Anyone with half a brain and a lick of common sense knows for a fact that Israel is trying to kill off the natives to take this land. Don't you dare blame the Palestinians! Most of us do not blame the Jews or the Muslims for this conflict.

Also? "Crossfire?" Please enlighten me where the crossfire is because most of the time it's Israel causing the destruction and killing. There is no crossfire when the Palestinians are the intended targets. Or are you gonna bring out Hamas as another excuse for calling it a crossfire…if you even know who or what Hamas is.

And the most insulting thing of all is that you sit, comfy and safe thousands of miles away from the horror of this reality, blaming both sides simply because they have faith in the same kind of God. Their religious texts may not be the same as the Christian fundamentalist extremists but they have the same roots. Calling any religious text a “bizarre storybook” is a disgusting insult. For someone who claims to be a “secular humanist” you seem to lack a core component of humanity. Your inference that if only both sides dropped their beliefs and chose logic & reason over faith & God, the blinders would fall off and they would instantly come to their senses, stop fighting, and be at peace.

That is not how real life works.

Religion is not the end all be all seed of all evil that sows discord all over the globe and it’s repulsive you believe it could ever be that simple. Even if EVERYONE in the Middle East adopted your perspective, there would still be pain and suffering. It would still be a genocide in that region. You have a lot of audacity to reduce this down to such a trifling matter, much less say and believe it.

You think you’re the smartest person in the room because you can’t be “fooled” into believing in God? In reality, you’ve shown your ass to the world with how callous and apathetic you are. And I’m not interested in your grandstanding of how decent you are.

And if you want to continue to deny it? Look at your own damn tags:

Side note? You should take the advice listed and grab a snack and a drink because we’ve barely scratched the surface. We’re going to talk about your justifications and excuses for why you can’t handle this news (Spoiler: none of them are valid).

“This is something that is not going to surprise anyone who knows me to hear: I have the emotional constitution of an improperly set flan.”

Tell me something I don’t know. In fact, how about you tell me how you’ve made it to your age without learning how to strike the proper balance between staying informed and not being burnt out from information overload.

You claim you want to hide from “the horrors of the world while online for the sake of your own sanity”. I have some very bad news for you: that environment no longer exists. The internet is no longer a niche little ecosystem that only a few people have access too. Everyone and their mother has a Facebook, a Twitter, an Instagram, etc. and that includes news organizations and major corporations. These days information travels faster. We live in a world where we can get live updates happening in real time which is absolutely paramount when so much news is actually being censored. But I’ll go over that later. I want to focus on this part specifically:

“Every single post about it, tweet about it, insertion into a video I was watching that gave no prior indication it would even remotely talk about it, it kept breaking my heart little by little, especially as I could do nothing to help and the charged language of everything was written to basically shame anyone who didn’t do anything regardless of whether or not they were actually capable of doing so.”

Of course people are talking about this! Its major news that has a global impact on so many things especially your country! We are potentially about to get involved in another so-called “war” that will last 20+ years and cost trillions of dollars! There are people who still don’t know if their loved ones are alive or dead because they’re being held hostage by amoral monsters who will kill them without second thought. Everyone is afraid for the future. Try to step outside yourself for a few seconds and look at the big picture.

No one is asking you to donate everything you own, join all the boycotts, or get involved in every debate and discussion. You always had the ability to choose your level of engagement, even none at all. Yet what you fail to grasp time and time again is that if you want to have an opinion on Palestine, you have to stay informed. You can’t reject information because it upsets you and then turn around and state your opinions on said subject even vaguely. You can’t have it both ways.

And you can tell me till you’re blue in the face your “freeverse” poem and all those other posts were not about Palestine. I do not believe you. You are trying to sneakily weasel your way into the discussion in a way that prevents anyone from replying because the slightest pushback leaves you running scared, blocking to avoid any productive conversation.

Also? I just have to ask: Where are these pictures of dead bodies you’re talking about? I have been plugged into multiple news outlets and even some accounts right at the source and I have not seen even a fraction of this “gruesome injury and death” you speak of. You phrase it as if it’s just a 24/7 parade of gore to mentally scar you. You’re the one in control of what you see. No one is holding your eyes open as you oh so dramatically put it. The onus is on you to enforce your boundaries, which by the way, are for your protection not to correct or change everyone else’s behavior.

Don’t like what someone posts? Unfollow them.

Don’t like when a video starts talking about Israel vs Palestine? Skip ahead or close out.

Don’t want to read posts about it? Keep scrolling part.

Try to actually learn how to properly use the tools you have instead of complaining that total strangers who wouldn’t know you from Adam aren’t catering to your incredibly specific sensibilities. Maybe take a look at your block list and see if some of the things on there are really worth losing sleep over.

As for the rest of section 2?

“All of this on top of my more direct struggles–adjusting to a new house I never wanted to move to in a location I never wanted to even visit again.”

It’s been a year and half since you posted you were moving. You’re telling me you still haven’t adjusted to your new home?

“learning to care for a new dog and never getting enough time to get anything done as a result, constantly getting bitten by said dog”

You are seriously blaming your dog for contributing to your “heartache”? Really? That’s the level we’re at? Frankly? You don’t sound like a responsible pet owner either. You adopted that dog last September and you’re still struggling with training? In my opinion, you could benefit from spending even more time with him. Less opportunities to get mired in the news and decompress mentally.

“the brand new house constantly falling apart either due to shoddy workmanship or because of Dog”

Old houses need a lot more work but in general you need to follow basic upkeep so things continue to run smoothly. And if your dog is destroying things, he’s not getting the proper attention/training.

“never getting enough sleep anymore (admittedly through no one’s fault but my own)”

You are quite literally your own worst enemy.

“pulling my hair out over all this stress and then stressing out over that in a vicious cycle of bald”

If that is the case, you seriously need to seek help to figure out a proper way to manage your stress levels. It should never get this bad. However, everything else before it? The move? The house repairs? The dog? These are just the daily routines of everyday life. If this is the “worst” it gets then you’re already doing better than most. You should feel incredibly blessed you even have a home, a pet, and a living family. The Palestinians don’t even have the remains of their loved ones to properly bury. Try to keep things in perspective. It’ll keep you humble and grounded.

Now, shifting gears to things that are only tangentially related because you're incapable of staying focused on the main topic, your "Fandomazation of Tragedy" section is ridiculously over-bloated with random nonsense totally unrelated to my criticism but I will address it since you felt you had to include it. I’m only doing this because there is one specific paragraph that truly enrages me so I’ll cover that first.

1. I know and have seen people show support for Palestine via edits, gifs, cartoons, or game characters because that was what they felt they could do to show solidarity and support. And if not that, they are boosting other support posts.

You want to claim it's tasteless and wrong for people to make Fakémon for Palestine? I'll tell you what's truly tasteless. This right here:

“I’m sure you can gather what Fakemon is through context, fan-made Pokemon, something I’ve heavily gotten into myself via the Cantessy project and at least three planned future Fakemon projects, and have been following plenty of artists and collaborative creators in the field for years now.”

Using genocide as a springboard to plug your fanfics and art? This is NOT the time nor the place to promote your fan projects! There is ZERO reason this should have been included! How dare you try to siphon attention away from an actual genocide and turn it into an opportunity to get more attention, followers, and feedback. How dare you try to milk this for your gain. And finally, how dare you criticize people using art as a means to express viewpoints or work through the emotions associated because it intrudes on your precious little playground while you try to poach new followers. That's true hypocrisy right there.

2. Cartoons and game characters have been used to make political statements for years (WW2 shorts via Disney and Loony Toons anyone?) This is not a new trend. FREE HONG KONG was just a few years ago after the controversy with Blizzard siding with China. This sort of thing isn't new and it’s not going away.

Side note? I've seen you complain about seeing Palestinian stuff in Splatoon 3 plazas, yet at the very bottom of your response to me is a manta ray character with a watermelon design. You wouldn't be using that to support Palestine if you honestly believed using fandom in political talking points was so "wrong".

And since Pokémon is your favorite fandom judging by your recent fanart series, need I remind you that when PETA tried to take potshots at this franchise for promoting animal abuse, there was a slew of pushback from its fandom in the form of fanart? They openly mocked PETA for trying to push their agenda on a fantasy game and claimed Nintendo and Game Freak supported animal abuse. Does that count as “unsettling” to you because it brings in real-world issues to light-hearted media…or does this one get a pass because it aligns with your personal system of ideals?

3. People do this sort of fanart to come to terms with stressful situations or to show solidarity with others because if there is anything we all have in common it’s the cartoons we watch, the comics we read, and the video games we play. Fandoms cross international borders. Those artists who make pro-Palestine art do so to connect with others to say, “Hey, I see you. You’ve not been forgotten. We’re with you.” And maybe, just maybe, those things can provide a little bit of comfort and support for people trapped in the middle of this nightmare. God knows they deserve a moment of levity and solace.

That being said if that sort of thing really doesn’t gel with you, that’s fine. But you need to understand other people feel differently. Furthermore? There is still plenty of non-politicized fanart out there. Yet you get so worked up when you stumble across anyone who posts pro-Palestine related fanart in your wanderings that you obsess over it and then sulk for hours before going online and crying about how you can’t escape “The Current Bad Thing That’s Been Happening Lately”. It’s absolutely pathetic for someone your age to act this way.

Now that we’ve gotten all that out of the way, let’s get back on track: Your so-called "state of decision paralysis”.

That is a weak excuse for why you haven't do thing one to demonstrate your supposed support despite asserting it multiple times in your response. Saying you don't know what to boost? You don't know what's actual real vs fraudulent?

Well, Mx."I've known about the Palestinian conflict for 20+ years" you'd know if you were actually tuned into the issue, did a tiny bit of research to see which posts were gaining traction, checked their authenticity, or even followed Palestinians online. So yeah, that argument? It doesn’t track. And it’s contradictory too. For someone who claims to have over two decades of knowledge on this subject, you seem to know only two things: Jack and Shit.

1. Saying delving too deep into this subject would shut you down entirely? Apparently not since you had knowledge of this conflict before anyone else? You must be an oracle if you were able to see 20 years into the future! 2. Hesitant to donate because you’re weary of malicious scams? While understandable you can still find established charities like the UNRWA to provide relief or if you truly can’t spare the money, look into the backgrounds of those funds to see where the money is going so you can include links in your bio or boost posts that have them listed. 3. Can’t attend a protest? No one said it was required. I don’t know why you’re letting the charged language of more vocal or active supporters have so much influence over you like this. Can you really not weed out the impassioned from the manipulative? And don’t delude yourself into thinking getting arrested would have any impact on your parents. You’re over 18. You’d be responsible for you.

Oh but wait! The protests you are involved in are coincidental! Well, that balances out!

…I’m being sarcastic by the way if you can’t tell.

Saying you unknowingly have been joining the boycotts cause you avoided Starbucks/Walmart/McDonald's up until recently? That doesn't count if you weren't aware of the movement when it started, so stop trying to score brownie points from your followers.

The simple truth is you didn't want to boost anything because it didn’t fit the aesthetic of your blog so don't come online claiming you can't make a decision. I've said it before and I'll say it again: You only recently reblogged that one post to try and save face. If you truly cared about this situation then your blog would reflect that fact.

And now the last paragraph in section three and the entirety of section four: That I ”misrepresented your posts" and your issues with how people write "censor tags."

If you’re concerned about people misinterpreting your posts, you need to consider reviewing what you wrote before it goes up. With how much you complain over the news, anyone who watches you would assume you were making more digs at Palestine. And when you add that to the passive-aggressive posts you’ve already made, it's not hard to draw certain conclusions.

“I was being vague for the purposes of letting anyone fit in whatever thing they’d find upsetting and needing to filter, and that was deliberately taken as me dismissing a very specific travesty.”

Yeah. No. That does not line up with the timeline of breaking news and when you posted.

“In my case, I often times forget entirely to clear out my filters when I’m in a mindset to not need them anymore.”

Then why are you getting angry at being, in your own words, “tragedy-jump scared” when you’re the one who took the filters off in the first place? Why are you upset other people are still talking about an ongoing situation they want to know about instead of hiding themselves to protect your sensitive soul? And that leads me into the second paragraph…

Your complaint about how people misspell tags to get past the censors.

…I’m going to give you a quick crash course in Internet History because you either don't seem to understand the why: People wouldn't need to change the spelling of those tags if it wasn't being seen as something to already censor. The reason that type of "misspelling" began was because POCs were being censored for talking about their trauma and personal experiences by non-POCs. They became uncomfortable with POCs talking about racism, rape, suicide, gun violence, police brutality, abuse, drugs, alcohol. The POCs used purposeful misspellings so they could stop being harassed by non-POCs for making them uncomfortable or getting their stuff taken down. But before long, this practice migrated outside of Tumblr and has now been adapted by people who did not understand the original origin and it snowballed from there.

People like you always cry about how you hate seeing certain topics brought up but then turn around to complain about misspelled tags and how it trivializes serious subjects. People like you create these conditions and then act clueless about why it so. And why? Because you try to push your boundaries on other people to change their behavior instead of taking yourself out of the environment causing you stress. THAT is what true boundaries are.

However, tag censorship is your own personal pet peeve to deal with and I've wasted too much time on this tangent. It is seriously so hard to stay on message when you go off random topics unconnected to the core issue. Can’t help but feel that’s intentional to obscure things. I guess it works for you though. If you can’t counter an argument, just wear the other person down into giving up. Brevity must not be a word you’re unfamiliar with.

Too bad for you I’m actually willing to pick your response apart sentence by sentence so let’s get to the conclusion which for some reason is the longest section! I’m going to be jumping around a lot. Try to keep up.

1. I said earlier that Palestinian news is being suppressed as hell online here in the West. Getting news straight from the source is very important in situations like this. Suppression of information is detrimental to us as a whole so if people need to circumvent mass media censorship to tell the world what's really going on, so be it. I will stand in support of them. That will always matter more to me than the whims of advertisers or the lobbyists who have these companies in their pockets. Or in this specific case, the emotions of one sad blogger. 2. Just as I have the right to this information, you too have the right to burrow your head in the sand and remain blissfully unaware. You're an adult. You have the power to just close a tab or block anyone you wish. You have a lot of tools to curate your feed but you can’t do that and it’s not because its everywhere you look. It’s because if you truly cut yourself off, you’d have nothing of substance to say…not that you had much substance to begin with. You need a reason to complain. It helps you feel self-important. 3. The fact that a huge portion of your response was tangents about tag censorship, using fandom as a platform for political discussion, and retroactively joining boycotts demonstrates that you can't even give Palestine the attention it deserves, miring the issue with personal anecdotes or mindless prattle.

To put it bluntly, you're not someone who can have a mature conversation with me.

“You carefully made sure there was no way I would find your blog and your targeted harassment under normal circumstances–even with that one instance of you commenting directly on my post that led to me blocking you.”

The reason for this is right there in your very own words. I confronted you outright rather than trying to hide in your DM’s and you instantly block evaded me to avoid any further conversation. I had to resort to these backward measures of archiving because you cut all communication instantly. How can any effective communication be had when the other person chooses to run away rather than address the issue?

“You’d tagged all of your posts with tags you either knew or suspected I would have filtered via vanilla Tumblr so that I could not see it while logged in even if I unblocked you or told Tumblr to show me your blog despite my block, or perhaps you blocked me on that blog and Tumblr finally fixed the issue of blocked users being able to view the blogs of those that blocked them.”

Considering your block/filter list probably goes into the hundreds? I’m not surprised you couldn’t find me initially. And by the way, you’re still not blocked on my blog. You’re welcome to respond at any time. And unlike you, I won’t try to hide.

“Hell, I only found out about this in the first place from a mere google fluke, trying to make sure my own inattentiveness on a completely unrelated issue didn’t lead to someone doing exactly what you’ve done on that issue and just so happening to be on an incognito window while doing so.”

Gotta say that’s a hell of a coincidence. Also gotta say I don’t believe it for one damn second.

As far as I've witnessed, you’re extremely reactionary and simply unable to tolerate it when you get called out so don't try to hold me to a standard you yourself don't follow. I've seen how you interact with people who challenge you or disagree with you, including going out of your way to pester folks in their online space to provoke a reaction before you block evade, and then congratulate yourself as if you outwitted them and laugh "haha another hater”. This has always been about your attitude and your ignorance on subjects you don’t truly understand, putting your personal spin on things because of your own internal biases.

You’ve stated in your response that I’m guilty of harassment and running a smear campaign. I have to ask: What harassment? Pointing out your hypocrisy is not harassment. Informing other people of your true nature is not harassment. I’ve never used slurs or insults based on your identity. I’ve never doxxed you. I’ve never threatened to physically hurt you. Not liking someone is not harassment no matter how much it hurts your feelings.

If this was an actual smear campaign, why is it everything I’ve linked back to your blog still the same as when I first took the screencaps? If you consider sourced words with proper links a "smear campaign" that tells me you’re actually very afraid everything you’ve ever said coming back to bite you in the ass. This isn’t cruelty as you described. It’s pointing out all the holes in your arguments and letting your followers decide if they want to follow someone with such a judgmental view of the world.

“You don’t intend to make the world a better place by doing this, not in the slightest. No, instead you’ve just berated the “snowflake trigglypuff” for trying to keep their “safe space” intact, while painting that sentiment in the language of the social justice warrior you believe yourself to be rather than that of the crazy altright loser I believe (or at least hope) you’d find as repulsive as I do so that no one would clue in that that is in fact what you were doing.”

You really are projecting a lot.

Saying I’m co-opting the language of a social justice warrior? Suggesting I’m alt-right? You’re grasping at straws more than a choking sea turtle.

And calling yourself a “snowflake trigglypuff” even in jest? Who still uses edgy SJW terminology like this anymore? I think this says more about who you are than anything it could about me. I don’t need to reduce myself to dated insults like those. I can come up with far more effective wording to describe how callously ignorant you are.

“Clearly someone who thinks it’s in any way appropriate to tell someone, and I’m quoting mostly from memory as it’s been months, “I’m sure all those dead kids are glad you’re protecting your mental health” has NO sense of shame whatsoever. If I were to stoop to your level, I’d tell you that those same dead kids are probably really proud of you for harassing someone who has, at worst, made some tactless statements out of frustration.”

You are right about one thing, however. Those same “dead kids” don’t care about your mental health or about me calling you out. But this isn’t about those “dead kids”. It's about their families and friends who may still be alive. It’s about the other children who have been lucky enough to not been slaughtered. It’s about people who will suffer generational trauma and PTSD for the rest of their lives. It’s about the same people who may end up dying by their own hands because they can’t live in pain any longer. They’re the ones I’m concerned about.

The dead don’t care. The living do. The opposite of caring is not hatred. It’s indifference. And that’s why I’m speaking out against people like you who take the suffering of others and make it their platform to soliloquy about their first world hardships. So, to borrow a very old Tumblr-ism, I would check your privilege.

“I don’t believe for a second that you actually give two shits about the plight of the Palestinian people beyond some vague sense of "clout.”

Clout? Seriously? If I was interested in immaterial nonsense like that, do you think I’d be posting on Tumblr exclusively where things like “clout” don’t matter to anyone? No. I would be posting this everywhere to reach more people. The reason it’s only on Tumblr is because it’s where you primarily spend your time. It’s the only place you can be reached, where you can’t ignore me.

“I looked at your blog, its layout themed around the symbols of Palestinian liberation, and as far as I can tell it’s all just window dressing.”

And your poetry and posts are just soapboxes for you to puff yourself up or use as “cudgels”, as you say, to pester people into reading stories about your fan-made Pokémon region. Yet you want to accuse me of clout-chasing and using dead kids to bully you? Yeah. Okay. /s

Do you truly believe I’m doing this for attention? For some imaginary internet points to “win”? Win what exactly? What game do you believe we’re playing? There are no winners, only one loser talking out their ass.

Oh and as for this?

“Hell, with the vindictive nature of your blog, you’d think you'd’ve even had posts targeting other peoples who are at best trying to get on with their lives through the 24-hour news cycle of death and destruction or at worst actively supporting the deaths of innocents. (I still wouldn’t encourage such things, but it’d at least make sense given your general vibe).”

There’s nothing vindictive about cataloging these posts and making sure you can’t hide your judgmental nature behind that paper thin veneer of wholesomeness you try to fool people with. The reason I called you out specifically is because you’re a two-faced jackal. That’s the true core of my dislike of you: Presenting an image of niceness while hiding the vileness behind fluffy words and emotionally manipulative language to make people feel sorry for you.

You're not someone to support as an artist. Frankly, you're not a wholesome person either. You're judgmental, emotionally immature, and have a lot of issues, issues you couldn't even pay me to address. I don’t know what you need but it’s something well above my pay grade to diagnose.

And finally we’re going to close this disaster out by talking about your suspicions of my identity. I’m going to summarize because a lot of it is repetitive from earlier points or in the section itself.

You’ve identified me as “H” and for a short while believed I was someone called “A”. You believed that “A” was upset by you and took their frustration out on you, leading you to unfollow “A”. You later realized that wasn’t the case and are now referring to me as “H” (for Harasser). Clever.

I'm not “A” or “H” or any other letter of the alphabet. You’re just upset you don't know how else to address me because I’m smart enough to not leave so much of my personal details online. Whatever happened 4 years ago with whoever? That's not me. Try and not be so quick to assume before you start pointing fingers. You make yourself look paranoid. If you’ve got beef with other people, make sure you're addressing the right person at the least.

I already said multiple times I was a follower of yours and only called you out about the Palestinian stuff because I was appalled that someone I once saw as a good kind person morphed into a self-centered jackass who had no problem using a tragedy as a means to emotionally manipulate people into paying attention to them. If you don't believe me, that's on you. But if anyone uses this genocide as bait for their own little pity party, I'm not afraid to draw attention to it. And since you claimed to have known about the Palestinians for more than 20+ years, I’m holding you even more accountable to get it right and act gracefully.

“Maybe you’ve gone after more than just them, but these are the two I know of for certain. M told me directly, and I saw C’s post about getting an anon “warning” her about someone with an “anti-religion agenda”, and because I’m not a complete moron I could put two and two together because that’s the kind of bullshit religious people spread about atheists all the damn time.”

The only person talking about religion here is you. What I’m doing is pointing out how your animosity towards religion has given you a bias towards the Israel vs Palestine situation because you can’t see past the faith of people in that region. I merely pointed out your concerning behavior to your mutuals because “M” and “C” have the right to know your true character. Friends should not be complicit when one of them is acting poorly.

“Like I’ve said numerous times, I’d take a dozen progressive theists over one asshole atheist.”

Those same progressive theists? They want nothing to do with you. Not even other atheists would want you. You are the asshole atheist in this scenario because you are incapable of thinking critically and simply write off the whole genocide as religious zealots fighting over the Holy Land because God told them to. It always comes back to this. You keep making the genocide about martyrdom so it's easier to maintain your hatred of all things religion. “But you are no hero, nor am I a villain, and I would not be so gauche as to claim the reverse is true either. We’re just a couple of randos on the internet, one who has an unhealthy level of vitriol toward the until-recently clueless other.”

And finally, we come to the point where you try to appeal to my sense of empathy by a generic “we’re all people at the end of the day” sentimentality, going even so far as to say that you’d never claim I was the villain. You’re not going to placate me this way. Stop trying to minimize your actions and act like they are inconsequential. They’re the earmarks of a person with poor morale character. You asked what I hope to gain from doing this?

I want you to drop this façade and either do better or start being honest. You’re full of false sincerity and niceness, pretending to be the bigger person while also muttering your petty disdain for people who don’t think like you, like what you like, or share your exact beliefs. You hide it subtly in the way you write. You think you’re above reproach. You’re the judgmental rotten soul you see in everyone else.

The only reason you'll end up as a "Persona non grata" is because how you present yourself online will eventually catch up with you. At some point, everyone will grow tired of watching you spinning your wheels and gaining no traction anywhere. They will move on to something that's actually worth their time. But until then I will continue to warn others about you and show them your true personality. Take the advice you gave me: Fix yourself and do better or disappear into irrelevance and be forgotten.

PS:

“Whatever your goal was with that, it was your final mistake, because now I know exactly who you are.”

Your threat has no teeth. If you really knew who I was, you’d name me or you'd at least open up a conversation with me. But you won’t. You never will. You’ll continue to cower away while putting on a mask of confidence and arrogance, thinking you outsmarted me until the only one applauding you is yourself.

[waterolivecoffiyeh]

I don't know what's more audacious.

The fact you actually used someone else's post to try to make your point valid in the tags, or the fact you're trying to hide what you said by posting new items like this up on your blog.

Let me reply to you then @puppyluver256

"Maybe when that individual person doesn't use the dead as a soapbox to their rant into an online space I'd respect the message or think they'd learned from their mistakes about the situation."

…But I know you're trying to spin things so you can look like someone who supports the "good side" of stuff. You still have your so-called "free verse poetry" up, along with its message of reducing the Palestinian genocide to a "religious war" rather than calling it what it is. And let's not forget all your other passive-aggressive posts about Palestine you've made since October 7th and onwards.

I called you out about it and you've still done nothing to change your tune. All I've seen you do is try to make more negative remarks instead of anything productive or helpful. The irony is not lost to me seeing you reblog someone else's post and adding tags to it to make it seem like you care. But that tracks with you. Anything to make yourself look good online, hm? Let's be honest. You didn't decide to reblog this because you actually support the issues of Palestine or any other place suffering the same types of horrors. If that were the case you'd have taken down the problematic posts, been apologetic about the distasteful comments you made, and boosted helpful links. Instead, you doubled down even harder because your image matters more to you than anything else and you don't care about the means you go about achieving that.

But I can see right through it all. This performative display of charity and grace is all smoke and mirrors. You continue to lie and say anything to convince others that you're a good person in support of Palestine and then give yourself a pat on the back, thinking you have higher morals because you piggybacked off other people's more popular posts.

But let's be serious. You're just trying to do damage control to save face and nothing else. You've been trying to do that ever since I started calling you out on your passive-aggressive reblogs. You are the one who's actually been swinging around a "cudgel", using the news out of Palestine or any other place in the world to make these situations all about yourself and how bad it is to see things online and that you can't handle it all. (when you as an adult can control what you see and how much you engage online with a given subject.) Since then? You've said a lot of truly distasteful things as well as complained about people who support Palestine online in different spaces. I was once a follower and I did respect you at one point. But seeing how you continue to make self-centered posts and tone-deaf digs, and are now using other people's posts to try and cover up all that you said previously with no admission of remorse or even an apology for the misinformation you posted?

…Well, why don't we have more people weigh in on this subject? See what they think about what you've been doing and saying? Assuming they even know or have been paying attention to what you've been posting.

@zootycutie @chelledoggo I'm tagging you two since this one is your mutual.

You can check out my blog with the screenshots or the master post with links directly to what your friend has been saying since last year.

As for you @puppyluver256? You need to stop hiding what you said and own up to it. You honestly need to reflect on your words and actions versus trying to hide everything behind other people's posts to save face.

[waterolivecoffiyeh]

Please avoid this artist: Puppyluver256 during Artfight 2024!!!

Hello everyone. I wanted to let anyone who plans to participate in Artfight 2024 to avoid engaging with an artist named Puppyluver256. This artist has reduced the Palestinian genocide to a "religious war between two Middle Eastern countries" In the form of distasteful freeverse poetry and many passive-aggressive posts. Please be aware of who you engage with in online spaces!!!

Do not support this Artist

Hello. I'm writing this post to remind people to be mindful of who they follow in this social media climate as more news comes out about Palestine. It's important to consider who you follow online, especially when you discover someone you once followed is a truly two-faced person.

If you belong to the following fandoms:

-Smile for Me -Splatoon -Xenoblade Chronicles -Pokemon -NiGHTS into Dreams/NiGHTS Journey of Dreams -Engelbaum

Please be careful and do not support an artist on Tumblr/Twitter/Bluesky named Puppyluver256.

They have reduced the genocide in Palestine to a "religious war" between two Muslim countries. They have also continued to make critically tone-deaf vague posts in response to getting news of Palestine through their social media and had the audacity to post a distasteful rant during Christmas evening as Palestinians were being harmed. You can read her first response about Palestine and see its news here on her blog. Her so-called vague posts are here , here , here and here. (The dates are concise with major news on social media about Palestine). Edit: More of her posts on Palestine at here, here, ,here here, and here. As a former follower, I can say she only did this as an excuse to rant and perform a woe-as-me bait post to garner sympathy and attention because she can't "handle" the guilt of seeing stuff. Yet, she did not have the dignity nor the motivation to learn about even the most basic information about the Palestine genocide before commenting on it in such a tone-deaf manner. This is harmful because it furthers the spread of misinformation.

Her tags are also disgusting as she's focused on "escapism" and believes the news out of Palestine disturbed her peace of mind. Rather than being considerate of her social media life, she chooses to post where she's the true victim. Having the double standard that her peace of mind is more important than being considerate about the censorship of genocide because she "can't" handle it.

Seeing a genocide recorded in screenshots and videos is hard, but it doesn't cost much to be mindful of social media rather than blaming people who are trying to fight the algorithm and censorship.

I've called her out on it due to how disgusted I felt about her rants and her lack of accountability when it comes to cultivating her own social media and minding herself. If she truly didn't want to see such things she could easily disengage by minding her SM life, yet she doesn't. She makes it everyone else's problem and tries to correct other people's behavior while refusing to do anything to change her circumstances.

As of this time, she has not seemed to educate herself on the situation nor apologized for such a tone-deaf take. As someone who has been paying attention to Palestine news and seeing such a response from someone like her, I feel the need to warn people that this person is not someone you want to support, commission, or engage with.

I would hope people in their fandom spaces are mindful of the people they follow. Be they an artist, writer, actor, or anyone else online. Especially if they decide to have these misinformed opinions on social media that contribute to larger problems. Be mindful of who you support.

[waterolivecoffiyeh]

You just can't stop talking about it, huh?

Alright first off, trying to use other people's posts to spin stuff in the tags like you are a victim of the same circumstance is so laughable that it comes off as pathetic. Especially since you're trying to hype your response to my anon like that.

Guess you must hate being reminded that you're nothing short of an apathetic ignoramus who got called out for a tone-deaf post while trying to pass it off as a righteous response to something you know nothing about.

You don't even have the decency to be honest about admitting you're in the wrong. Instead, you move the goalposts of your "victimhood" to try and justify yourself through others' posts.

You try and spin my anon as someone who sent you a photo or something of dead kids. I just told you to delete that ignorant and disrespectful "free verse poetry" because you're trying to reframe what's happening to the Palestinians with your ugly anti-religious views. It's a genocide not a religious war. Then you kept being passive-aggressive about it and made more ignorant statements when you already know how to control what it you see on social media.

You are honestly no different than a Zionist spinning the Jewish religion for bloodshed in Gaza. You are so far up your own ass you don't even see it, nor do you have any sense of decency to apologize for such horrible ideas. Hell, you can't even shut up about how you've been wronged by my "shaming" of you.

As if anyone is going to praise someone with such an ugly soul and foul personality for such behavior or a tone-deaf take. If you're going to be as ignorant and loud-mouthed as a Zionist, then by all means I'll keep shaming you. That's all someone like you deserves.

[waterolivecoffiyeh]

I sat in this for about 8 days because I had debated whether or not to comment here; but given the news coming out day by day from Palestine and the audacity you showed with these tweets, I'm going to go ahead and post this here. First and foremost, the excuse for protecting yourself is a load of shit. Because as far as I can see? You are the one that lost the plot, Jess. Guess what? You can be mindful of your "mental health" online and such without making ignorant statements in your "Free verse" poetry or making passive-aggressive posts or tweets. Literally, it's not that hard. But as far as I can see? You couldn't shut up about it all. With all your posts it was easy to tell what you were going off about. You were never vague at all about stuff. Also? Pariah? Please, you are the one who made yourself a pariah with those posts. If people can look at you and decide you are not worth engaging with that's on them. I only just made it easier for people to see the stuff you posted about Palestine since where you stand on the subject determines what type of person you are. At least you "finally" acknowledge that your post was in bad taste...

...yet you also still keep your free verse poetry up. So, I know you don't fully admit your ignorance and compliance about the situation. You are just pissed off that I called you out for it. If you didn't want to be called out for being a dumbass, you shouldn't be a dumbass online. It's not that hard. Again; I'll repeat this because you didn't get it the first time around. You can be mindful and take care of your mental health without making ignorant statements or posts/tweets. As for you feeling awful? You should feel awful. Because you have a lot of audacity to be talking online about shit you supposedly don't want to hear/look at or talk about. You are safe at home with family and a pet and not being killed or starved or worse like the Palestinians. Yet here you are. Maybe work on yourself before you try and start shit online if you don't want to be called out.

[waterolivecoffiyeh]

Do not support this Artist

Hello. I'm writing this post to remind people to be mindful of who they follow in this social media climate as more news comes out about Palestine. It's important to consider who you follow online, especially when you discover someone you once followed is a truly two-faced person.

If you belong to the following fandoms:

-Smile for Me -Splatoon -Xenoblade Chronicles -Pokemon -NiGHTS into Dreams/NiGHTS Journey of Dreams -Engelbaum

Please be careful and do not support an artist on Tumblr/Twitter/Bluesky named Puppyluver256.

They have reduced the genocide in Palestine to a "religious war" between two Muslim countries. They have also continued to make critically tone-deaf vague posts in response to getting news of Palestine through their social media and had the audacity to post a distasteful rant during Christmas evening as Palestinians were being harmed. You can read her first response about Palestine and see its news here on her blog. Her so-called vague posts are here , here , here and here. (The dates are concise with major news on social media about Palestine). Edit: More of her posts on Palestine at here, here, ,here here, and here. As a former follower, I can say she only did this as an excuse to rant and perform a woe-as-me bait post to garner sympathy and attention because she can't "handle" the guilt of seeing stuff. Yet, she did not have the dignity nor the motivation to learn about even the most basic information about the Palestine genocide before commenting on it in such a tone-deaf manner. This is harmful because it furthers the spread of misinformation.

Her tags are also disgusting as she's focused on "escapism" and believes the news out of Palestine disturbed her peace of mind. Rather than being considerate of her social media life, she chooses to post where she's the true victim. Having the double standard that her peace of mind is more important than being considerate about the censorship of genocide because she "can't" handle it.

Seeing a genocide recorded in screenshots and videos is hard, but it doesn't cost much to be mindful of social media rather than blaming people who are trying to fight the algorithm and censorship.

I've called her out on it due to how disgusted I felt about her rants and her lack of accountability when it comes to cultivating her own social media and minding herself. If she truly didn't want to see such things she could easily disengage by minding her SM life, yet she doesn't. She makes it everyone else's problem and tries to correct other people's behavior while refusing to do anything to change her circumstances.

As of this time, she has not seemed to educate herself on the situation nor apologized for such a tone-deaf take. As someone who has been paying attention to Palestine news and seeing such a response from someone like her, I feel the need to warn people that this person is not someone you want to support, commission, or engage with.

I would hope people in their fandom spaces are mindful of the people they follow. Be they an artist, writer, actor, or anyone else online. Especially if they decide to have these misinformed opinions on social media that contribute to larger problems. Be mindful of who you support.

[waterolivecoffiyeh]

Right. Like it was really a fill-in-the-blank thing. You complained for over a month about the issue in Twitter and Tumblr posts. After all, in your so-called first "ramble" everything was easy to connect to what you were talking about. Again; as a former follower of yours, I didn't need to just insert anything. I picked it up from everything you were talking about. More so, you made these posts when there were a lot of attacks and news coming out from Palestine. A lot of people were spreading stuff about as they could with stuff blocking and suppressing news. It's not that hard to put 2 and 2 together. You were not vague at all. Also, I'm glad you're bitter about your Christmas morning being ruined. You don't deserve any peace of mind given how much of an insensitive person you are to others, yet dare to expect everyone else to cater to your need for a "safe space" on the internet. But, I guess you can't even do that right if you're still seeing "stuff" you don't want to see. Since we're on the topic I noticed this little bit.

Here you are complaining still about seeing stuff you don't want to see. I'd ignore this post if it wasn't for the fact you mentioned Tiktok here. Tumblr isn't TikTok. That much is true. However, TikTok is where a lot of people are getting their Palestine news straight from people in Gaza. I use it myself to keep up to date. More so, the algorithm is suppressing news. People have to try and bypass things to help spread the news. Even then, how you manage your feed is based on what/who you watch and what tags you look up. You could literally be on TikTok and not see anything. Last time I saw you talking about TikTok on a random art post you admitted you didn't get it or understand how the app worked so I wrote it off as you not being a user. But given the number of times you complained about stuff now, I seriously wonder if you're using TikTok. Either way; it doesn't change what you did in your posts and why I lost all respect for you as an artist. Your first ramble was worse off because you tried to spin it off as a "Woe as me I can't do anything to help so please don't show me stuff I can't handle." type of ramble only an overly sensitive privileged brat would use as an excuse to look away. And let's not forget you dared to reduce this genocide down to a religious war between two Muslim "countries" when it's Israel trying to wipe out Palestinians. Everything else were you complaining about seeing stuff you don't like after that coincided with dates of big news and attacks coming out from Gaza. Then you had to make that insensitive rant online while people were being killed by bombs or kids dying of starvation on Christmas eve as if their suffering was ruining your Christmas. I had every right to call you out on your bullshit because that's what it is. For someone who tries to market yourself as a wholesome and "safe" artist, you are nothing short of a two-faced privileged brat who thinks you can say anything "online" and thinks it's not come back to bite you in the ass. You are posting on social media. People are always going to see stuff. If you can't handle any responses then you shouldn't even be on here or learn to keep stuff to yourself. If you want to be a shitty person then keep your shitty behavior and thoughts to yourself or whoever is willing to tolerate you as a friend, if you even have any. But, I won't tolerate someone who seems to be compliant with a genocide happening and having issues with seeing a "few" screenshots as if they don't have the power to control what they see. That doesn't compare to the horrors people are facing right now and again it's the most privileged take I've ever seen you try and spin in your favor.

[waterolivecoffiyeh]

Let's go ahead and do another screencap because rather than reblog and show everyone on your blog who's following you what was said or at least having the guts to reply to my post we'll just continue this here. Don't lie to me about your so-called vague post being about "any event" you can insert. It's about Palestine because it's the one thing being pushed past censors the most. After all, people are trying to spread the news in different ways. You happen to see stuff you don't like, and rather than be considerate about what's going on and manage your own feed and such; your going to whine about it because your "fun" online is ruined right? That's nothing compared to what actual people are experiencing. You have zero rights to complain now that you decided to put your own opinion out there, and I'm not letting you just try and justify your posts or anything. I'm not twisting anything or misinterpreting anything. I'm a former follower who realized how much of a disgusting person you are. In fact, I'm going to go ahead and say you are nothing short of a two-faced jerk. Literally every screenshot here is you and your own words you put out there thinking no one could put two and two together. Anyone who can read those screenshots and who followed you can tell what you're talking about, but I suppose I must be the first one who called you out about it? Eh? You really do have a lot of audacity. I'm going to just go ahead and say this is a call-out post for @puppyluver256

[waterolivecoffiyeh]

First and foremost I'm gonna screenshot this so you can't edit or hide anymore, Jess.

You are the most audacious person I have had the unfortunate displeasure of watching for years. I'm also going to correct you because you are the most hypocritical, obnoxious, self-centered, and self-absorbed person I have ever seen on this platform. You have a stunning amount of gall to spout off this type of crap and do it with a straight face.

So why don't we go over what the fuck you're actually talking about. I'm not gonna let you tip-toe around this subject any longer.

You seriously think you can get away with vague posting about this subject while not naming what it is (as if anyone reading this blog couldn't figure a few things out?) Well, I'm not letting you bury your ignorant, uneducated head in the sand one second longer. That is not how this works. So let's finally talk about it. But use your actual words.

PALASTINE

You're talking about how you hate seeing news about the genocide in Palestine. As if this genocide wasn't being censored on Western media already. As if thousands of people haven't been murdered already and aren't continuing to die as we speak. As if the people of Gaza were not shot this so-called Christmas evening, leaving more then 70+ dead.

But here you are complaining about sanitized updates. So let me ask you, Jess, did you not heed my earlier DM about how to deal with stuff if you couldn't handle it? My guess is no since we're right back where we started. And you have obviously learned NOTHING. Or perhaps, more insultingly, refuse to learn.

This was the initial post you wrote about Palestine and here is the anon I sent to you because I wasn't going to let you reduce discussion of a fucking genocide down to a boilerplate "anti-religious" rant that not even the most ardent of atheists would support.

I chose to do it on anon for your sake because I thought I'd give you a chance to adjust your perspective and adapt a little more forethought into what you post in the future. Perhaps gain a touch more empathy for the plight of others. Instead, you choose to double down with an even more self-centered opinion, whining about how your personal comfort is under attack.

I named three ways you could choose to ignore what was happening in Palestine if you really didn't want to see anything. However, I also wasn't going to let you say that shit so blatantly without you knowing what you said was one of the most tone-deaf responses in the damn world. It must be so nice to say something so abhorrently callous and not worry about the consequences. And a month later it is still the most selfish thing I have ever seen you post on on social media.

Oh, and how did you respond?

All you did was just go back, make your post rebloggable, and add a bunch of new tags in.

I decided to highlight the last bit because you wanted to just say:

"Just cuz"

How about we translate what you really meant?

"Just because someone pointed out a bunch of issues with my post, I'm keeping it here out of spite! This is a metaphorical middle finger to this anon who had the nerve to criticize me for my laziness and apathy!"

Let me remind you a bit of what the internet is, Jess, because you don't seem to comprehend your place within social media so I'm going to educate you because at this point, I've had enough of your pathetic whining.

Being on social media is just that: SOCIAL. Its other people posting online about their experiences and talking with one another about topics like the one you're trying to pretend isn't happening. Sometimes they will talk about things that make you uncomfortable. If you can't handle that reality, you can't be online. Period. The internet is far too interconnected with billions of people to be a niche thing anymore.

Can you go online to have fun? Yes, you can, but that doesn't change the fact that you're always going to stumble across something you don't like online. No method of self-censorship is 100% foolproof. It's all a matter of how you chose to engage or disengage.

But frankly, the way you choose to address things makes you look like the biggest jackass.

And to be clear? The internet was never a happy fun safe space for poor delicate souls like you to retreat to and if that's what you believe, you're about as delusional as all the religious people you harp on. All people like you have ever done is isolate yourselves to the point you can't function normally or behave decently. You're so regressed mentally and emotionally that even the tiniest bit of bad news sends you into shrieking hysterics like an overgrown toddler.

And I will say this to you directly because I know you're not even trying to actually curate your feed or dashboard or wherever you go online. It's sincerely not that hard to keep your head down if you insist on staying oblivious. You're just upset about the fact this genocide is big news and that you saw A FEW FUCKING SCREENSHOTS.

But how dare they, right? How dare people who try to fight both censorship and information suppression. How dare people help spread important information because it happened to appear on your precious feed. And by the way, those same people you get pissed at for these perceived slights, are the very same people fighting tooth and nail so YOU can voice these toxic opinions in the first place. You should be grateful you even have the ability to still do that.

You're not facing any hardships. Not real ones anyway. As far as I've seen you in your rants and rambles you have two parents who support you even though you barely make any money "freelancing". You still have a roof over your head, all the comforts of home, and even a new dog for company.

You're not being dehumanized and gunned down senselessly in the streets along with your entire family. You're not losing your home. You're not laying awake in terror every night, wondering if you'll live to see the next day, let alone the next hour. You have suffered nothing in comparison to the Palestinian people. You're just some self-entitled nobody living a mediocre boring life where you have the luxury to churn out art all damn day without a care in the world…until something bursts that delusional protective bubble of yours and makes you face reality for a few seconds. Because god forbid the people fail to cater to your specific whims and desires for one fucking moment when you can't even extend the same courtesy to them.

You're tired of hearing about Palestine? Imagine how fucking hard it is to LIVE it.

Give me a fucking break you sniveling little wastrel.

And while we're at it let's talk about how you act on other social media. This is how you choose to talk about Palestine: By sneakily going on other platforms and acting like you're under direct attack by a barrage of triggering posts and images and saying you don't need to comment on what's happening and not have a "take."

Here's the thing.

You had a take.

You reduced a genocide down to two religious groups who are "war" and now the news is invading your personal bubble, making you see things you can't "stand" because you can't do anything to help. You claim you already have "too much" on your plate.

How pathetic are you?

People every day are doing what they can in all sorts of ways to help and support Palestine even if it's not a direct hand to them. Even if you did the most basic low-effort task of simply reblogging, you would still stand there in apathy. Because you have convinced yourself of your own narrative about this being a religious war that you, the most bitter yet cookie-cutter atheist I've ever come across, refuse to even learn the nuisances of this situation. Instead, you use it as a springboard and a soapbox for your own anti-religious rhetoric.

Your argument of "I can't do anything" is just you already admitting you have no desire to understand or gain empathy for others because it doesn't further your own goal to feel self-important and morally superior. And rather than stay quiet about seeing upsetting stuff you dislike, you chose to constantly complain about it while getting upset about how things are getting through on your dash/feed.

If you really wanted to keep your feed "clean" you'd already know how else to keep tabs on people you had to unfollow to keep your precious little bubble intact. Or, maybe if you have an issue with them posting something that's not tagged properly why don't send them a DM or something? You certainly have a lot of opinions. You sure as shit have never been shy about expressing them. You must have a damn opinion about them for disturbing your dashboard right?"

Your talking about twitter and screenshots? You can still follow and mute people! Don't act like you don't know how websites work! It's not that difficult if you fucking try.

But you don't.

You bitch and moan constantly and make more posts about something you "don'"t want to see in the most pathetic passive-aggressive manners.

If you really wanted to stay ignorant about stuff it isn't that damn hard so don't give me or anyone else these poor excuses. You literally have nothing going on in your actual life that even if something disturbs you you instantly go online and post in rambles and rants.

You're a 30 year old adult (in theory, but in practice not so much). How about acting like it instead of a passive-aggressive bitch? You act like this is your first time online, like you've never even touched a social media website in your life.

Oh, I'm sorry. Do people need to curate everything for your specific needs? Is everyone else on the internet supposed to be your fucking babysitter or something? Well, sorry, because we all have actual people to worry about, Jess. People are getting killed every damn day. Children being hunted like animals and condemned to hell, dying in a pool of their own blood. Mothers weeping over their dead babies.

How about being a damn adult and doing something rather than whining and complaining endlessly online? Or is that really all you can do? Because you have not stopped bitching about this since October. You are chronically incapable of letting anything go. You could do a hell of a lot more things in life but all I see, even on fucking Christmas, is more ranting and griping about seeing news on Palestine.

All while people are still being killed.

You are nothing short of what I called you before. Your privilege is showing. Frankly, you are a disgusting person. You are no better than the extreme religious people you smack talk about. Reducing everything to something you don't care to understand. Your compliance shows me where you stand on this matter, and your unchanged take from a month ago is too telling of what type of person you are.

I would have given you the benefit of the doubt if it wasn't for the way you have carried on about this. You've had plenty of time to grow or learn some of this all but it seems you won't change in your ways and will continue to act like this.

I can see why no one supports you, your artwork, or your opinions. You are not worth it. I regret following you, supporting you, and enjoying your art.

There are better people to support, commission, and network with. I've had it up to here with you. I have decided to reblog here so people can see what type of person you are because I won't stand for you trying to post anymore about Palestine and treating its suppression like it personally insulted you when you could easily be an ostrich with your head in the ground with little effort and chose instead to act like this.

I'm going to leave this post here with the receipts. You can choose to mull over it all, talk, reply, or whatever. I'll post things here for transparency's sake. Either way, I said what I needed to say, and don't think you can backtrack and spin this off like it's nothing. There is no apology for acting like a privileged cow.

And I'll be tagging this. @puppyluver256

Welcome to Tumblr, where it's part of the site culture to generally tag upsetting things so that people can use any number of filters to filter said things out!

Except for when we don't.

Which is all the time.