#Anyone else remember when posta would circulate warning people not to check the tag

[otakusapien]

There was a post going around about how someone didn't think ace discourse is what broke up the tumblr ace community, but that it was because the ace tag was full of nothing but generic "you're valid!" posts and moodboards that didn't allow for deeper conversation but like...

Do they not remember or realize that half the reason the tag was like that was because every other day there would be numerous posts saying the ace tag was full of hate and asking for people to flood it with positivity so people didn't see aphobia first thing in the tag? That when people weren't doing this it was littered with aphobes posting about how garbage we were tagging us? Or that at a certain point a lot of people avoided the ace tag entirely because they knew it was a minefield of abuse and were too scared or tired to go back to it?

Because I remember

#Also maybe don't blame young people making generic content for a community not existing #'We fell apart because you were boring' is like. The least of our concerns #Also at the time TONS of other lesser known id tags were like that #A lot bc most of it was young people who just wanted to share validation and didn't have a ton of skils #To make art or do proper writing #So they shared what they could- which was mostly generic photosets and positivity messages #And let me tell you something some days the ace discourse sucked enough I really needed those no matter how generic #Anyone else remember when posta would circulate warning people not to check the tag #Because aphobes were spamming graphic images (usually p*rn before the ban) #?