#media accusations

[mexicanistnet]

In AMLO's morning conference, he battles media accusations, touts progress in the “Internet for All” project, and takes a swing at conservative foes. The stage is set for a global tour, promising more political theatrics on the international stage.

#amlo #media accusations #Internet for All #global tour #international stage

[spartanlocke]

every time i say tumblr staff (and tumblr itself let's be real) made social media worse by never punishing harassment, allowing people to get comfortable pushing cancel and callout culture so they could harass and dehumanize anyone (especially minorities) they want without ever having to worry about consequences, an attitude they brought with them to other websites like tiktok and twitter after the 2018 porn ban....

This is what I'm talking about. tumblr staff doesn't give a shit if you're stalked and harassed, but if you're a trans woman posting selfies? instant ban.

tumblr staff has NEVER done anything to protect its users, but now they're actively participating in doing the harm.

#jem blogs #tumblr #staff #transphobia #social media #and if all that shit isn't annoying enough i now have to constantly hear about how tumblr Is The Only Good Website Now™ #like no the FUCK it's not #tumblr's been harassing people for fucking ages and now staff is *openly* jumping in on it too #stop trying to revisionize tumblr into your perfect uwu website and acknowledge the bullshit going on right now #and no i'm not saying tumblr invented callout culture obviously the act of digging up dirt on someone to punish them is nothing new #i just say that on the internet? i have pretty good reason to belive tumblr's been doing that longer and more actively than other websites #john green and xkit guy being two of the oldest examples of people being accused of being predators/pedos with no evidence #and having to leave the website to protect themselves

[summerlinenss]

here’s the thing.

if you’re one of the people celebrating our flag means death’s cancellation for whatever reason right now, i need you to realize that this is just a sign that whatever you love is next.

and i’m not saying that out of spite. having your favourite show cancelled is awful, i wouldn’t wish it on anyone. but if our little-gay-pirate-show-that-could can’t get its third and final season, the future of queer media is extremely grim.

ofmd was the definition of a sleeper hit. hbo max had no faith in it when the first season came out. it gained popularity purely through word-of-mouth. but it became one of max’s biggest shows, and it’s since been marketed as their flagship series.

it was the #1 most in-demand series in the world for 8 weeks (7 of those weeks consecutively). it’s currently in the 99.7th percentile of the comedy genre, meaning it’s in higher demand than 99.7% of all comedy series in the u.s. it has a 94% audience and critics score on rotten tomatoes. it’s the most in-demand hbo original series even above euphoria, succession, and the last of us.

it was nominated for 16 awards for the first season alone, including a GLAAD award and a peabody award. the second season was just nominated for an art directors guild award, which it was previously nominated for and won in the same category for season one.

besides awards, ofmd is critically-acclaimed and praised for its representation (including a cast of majority queer, bipoc, and disabled characters) and themes of anti-colonialism, challenging gender norms/toxic masculinity, and self-discovery/acceptance. it also has a diverse team of directors and writers consisting of several bipoc, women, and queer/trans/non-binary people.

on top of all of this, the plan for the show all along was only ever for three seasons. david jenkins only wanted three seasons for the full romcom structure to tell ed and stede’s story. that’s it. nothing more.

this isn’t an attempt to make you care about the show. but ofmd’s cancellation isn’t just a loss for the fanbase and the cast/crew. it’s a sign that it does not matter how successful or profitable shows highlighting lgbtq+ (or otherwise inclusive) narratives are or how many big names are involved. ofmd would not have been cancelled if it were a straight romcom. they would’ve magically found the budget. but corporate greed doesn’t care about us. they have no respect for queer people or queer media. and in the age of streaming, it’s only a matter of time until we lose all of it.

#also if you’re happy that ‘taika waititi’s pirate show got cancelled’ because of baseless accusations against him #1) it’s not taika’s show. it’s david jenkins’ show. #taika is just an actor/director/EP #2) even if you don’t like him celebrating the cancellation of a show because someone was falsely accused of zionism #especially when that person (like it or not) is a huge voice for minorities and is the reason so many of them get to tell their stories #is gross and makes you a gross person! #ofmd #our flag means death #ofmd season 3 #save ofmd #renew as a crew #fuck david zaslav #queer media

[prokopetz]

Frankly, the secret to surviving having a widely read blog is cultivating the capacity to find it funny when people tell you to kill yourself. Like, really, my friend? You created a burner account on the world’s shittiest social media site because you didn’t even have the stones to nastygram me under your primary fake disposable identity, and that’s all you’ve got? The last one randomly accused me of being a Communist sleeper agent, which was at least entertainingly appalling. Step up your game!

#tumblr #blogging #social media #death mention #suicide mention #suicide baiting #swearing #i think the most perplexing one is the one that accused me of being a fake lesbian #which #i mean #as a cis dude i grant that i would in fact make an exceedingly poor lesbian #but

[wiisagi-maiingan]

"If you point out subtle but invasive forms of bigotry then maybe YOU'RE the REAL bigot 🤔" I am biting you and I am killing you.

#this shit always fucking happens every single time #when you talk about racial coding in media #or dogwhistles that a lot of people don't recognize #it doesn't matter how horrible or even obvious it is the people talking about it are always going to be accused of being bigots #because we're supposedly the ones associating those traits with [insert group] #instead of pointing out established patterns of bigotry and violence

[kelluinox]

I "love" how leftists are saying "but this time, this time for sure jews are evil! This time for sure!" And think they're any different from every single other group that has tried to exterminate us over the course of history

#like buddy do you know how many times we've been down this road #no nothing's different this time around you're just like every other antisemitic movement that has ever come before you #you're rehashing all the tired antisemitic accusations just changing them up a bit to fit the modern times #nothing new #zionist controlled media? - jews control media #zionists killing palestinian babies? - jews kill christian babies and drink their blood #zionists poison palestinian land? - jews poison wells #zionist doctors harm patients? - stalin's doctor's plot #literally nothing you're saying is original and once again you're part of a movement that seeks to exterminate jews #jews weren't at fault then they're not at fault now and history will once again remember you as the antisemitic dumbass who tried to kill us #and failed spectacularly #antisemitism #leftist antisemitism #jumblr

[raviosprovidence]

i got blocked by someone over this but critiquing media that has sex in it/critiquing the sex itself is not automatically puritan. Sex negativity is not pointing out that most popular pieces of media that have sex in it are overwhelmingly white, straight, cis, and able bodied. Sex negativity is not pointing out that it is a problem that swathes of people (usually younger women) cannot read fictional books without there being some sort of ~spicy~ scene in it. What IS puritan is someone saying all sex is bad INHERENTLY/there shouldn't be sex depicted anywhere in media at ALL.

#anti booktok #booktok #booktube #media talk #media critical #media criticism #purity culture #purity wank #might expose them for being unable to read my argument after they accused me of not being able to read #and go off about what my actual argument is #but i need to keep to the art of being an ethical hater

[afrenomes]

“It’s the Jews Zionists that control the media!”

Yeah, that’s still blatantly antisemitic. Also, those famously antisemitic radio talk show hosts are also saying literally the same “Zionists control the media” schtick, so instead of parroting them maybe you need to rethink what you’re saying and where your values lie 🤷‍♀️

#also when a majority of jews identify as zionists in at least the loosest definition of the term #maybe you also need to rethink your own approach to zionism and antisemitism regarding zionism #and i’m saying this as someone who doesn’t identify as either zionist or antizionist before anyone accuses me of such #antisemitism #the jewish experience tag #also I can’t talk for the other actors who’ve been punished for what they’ve said on social media bc i really don’t know the context #but at least for susan sarandon the issue isn’t that she’s pro palestine #the issue is that she’s blatantly antisemitic #hope that helps

[athina-blaine]

genuinely don't understand people who gripe about someone getting into dunmesh for m/m pairings as opposed to f/f when none of them are even close to being the main point of the series

#dungeon meshi #fandom wank #cringe! cringe! none of us are free of cringe! #yall i ... i dont know how to say this but #falin and marcille aren't a canonically romantic pairing #like there's good shit there and i happily invite you to spam my inbox on why it fucks so great as a ship #but it's not canon #and it's not even the focus of the series as a whole #gosh i feel like im saying santa isn't real #the absolute psychic damage ive been taking from these takes i stg #calling laios an “irrelevant male character” #the main character ... #insisting that every single interaction between the men in the series is underbaked and boring #do they think the concept of narrative foils was made up by fujoshis to peddle yaoi propaganda #do they think ryoko kui can't write #allow us a moment to appreciate the irony of accusing m/m shippers of tunnel visioning on one pairing and discarding the rest #that's how you know dunmesh is progressive media because the yuri shippers get to be just as obnoxious as the yaoi shippers lmao #if there's any One Relationship i would consider The Relationship it's laios and marcille since they experience the most growth #and it could not be a more obviously platonic one #yall had better not be saying you ship farcille just for clout!! #you ship it because you want to see marcille choke on falin's monster cock like a normal person

[theriu]

Sometimes people criticize popular media because there are actual things that may be bad or need addressing, and sometimes people criticize popular media because they have a personal grudge against either the media or the creator of said media and just want to have something to be angry about. And it’s important to analyze our own motivations each time to make sure we haven’t slipped into the second one, which isn’t healthy for anyone involved.

#river ponders #media #criticism #this probably applies to other things too #just thinking about stuff like video games or movies getting randomly accused of bad representation based on circumstantial evidence #heck sometimes the thing being accused reflects more on how the accuser's mind makes associations than on any actual associations made by #that media #anyhoo

[redvelvetwishtree]

#every single shit they accused Palestinians of was shit they were guilty of themselves #so that their fake lies would come up in search results and their own crimes would be buried #cos they control 100% of the big media out there #where tf is everyone who was yapping against Palestine when Israel made up all these lies #we have concrete evidence of Israel's crimes day in day out you're all silent #where tf is everyone #israel #fuck israel #palestine #free palestine #gaza #gaza strip #middle east #free gaza #al shifa hospital

[yuridovewing]

tbh... re: my last post, i feel very similarly about moonkitti's spottedleaf video. like yeah it's entirely possible that spottedleaf's love was a retcon, but considering how weird the authors are about romance, the things they'd write later, and the way they write women...... idk if i believe that the authors 100% meant for firestar's love to be unreciprocated as much as i believe that spottedleaf has so little agency in arc 1 that her not verbally agreeing that she loves firestar reads more like the erin's just dont think that she needs to do that.

#like i think its a little unfair to accuse the fans of not picking up on body language and seeing things where there arent #when the erins have a history of this sort of thing #like especially when she gave firestar a life for love in that scene. im sorry vicky knew exactly what she was doing. #if spotty didnt reciprocate then THAT was the moment to make that obvious #like. literally have her give him any other life #and irregardless.... ngl i can't really blame ppl for being uncomfortable w spotty when yes later media does insist #that spotty was in love with someone who was an apprentice when they met. retcon or not i can't get angry at someone #who's just uncomfortable with her character. the same way ppl are uncomfortable with thistle

[kvaradonaa]

Fernando Torres and Andriy Shevchenko

#andriy shevchenko #fernando torres #listen #i really hate to be that person but their stories are so much alike #phenomenal strikers brought to chelsea for an obscene amount of money #failing to meet the expectations #both were described by their chelsea teammates as surprisingly quiet and work focused never socialising etc #sometimes these descriptions did not match the impression that their teammates from other clubs had #both were portrayed in media as abramovich's favourites and had to constantly defend themselves from these accusations #but also they both spoke very positively of him in this 'only person that trusted me and was always so kind to me' manner #i'm not saying that they were both victims of something dark and twisted and manipulative at chelsea but

[idolomantises]

ngl, the more I think about it, the more I feel conflicted over how people sexualize my characters.

On the one hand, it would be silly to deny that I don't go out of my way to create aesthetically pleasing/attractive characters because I love to draw what I enjoy, and I love it when people simp for them.

But on the other hand, sometimes it does bother me that people are so fixated on sex and their own arousal that they miss important lore/plot information that I get a bit frustrated

#txt #i dont really mind that people missed the fact that powers had horns but i do have issues with people thinking the scene would lead up to #sex??? lili had a very clearly shocked face but people were expecting them to just. have sex and fall in love #twitter and instagram is pretty respectful to my works but i think webtoons and especially tiktok (good lord tiktok) is where people are #just. like they're not even paying attention because they wanna fuck my ocs lol #its a lot of work to try to give these incredibly short comics decent pacing and dialogue and it sucks when people ignore gestures or #verbal communication because they saw powers muscled chest and went 'oh yeah. its sex time' #i started posting my bugtopia comics to tiktok and these people are so goddamn obsessed with sexualizing everything that i read comments #where people were expecting arachne to peg her FOUR YEAR OLD SON #and its like. hey guys. im glad you enjoy my work but i dont like how you cannot perceive my characters as anything #but something to whack off to #anyways i dont see myself discussing this on twitter because unfortunately people have 0 fucking reading comprehension lol #to this day i get rude messages accusing me of hating people who enjoy lesbian media or finding my characters hot #because i asked people to not call me a fucking f*ggot when i draw to men kissing

[charcubed]

post written by someone who either watched BBC Sherlock with their eyes closed or has bought into prevalent revisionist history about it

#‘honestly most of the moments are crumbs’ bitch WHERE? WHERE #the absolute fucking audacity. #they’re not wrong about SPN obviously but if people could talk about destiel or other ships without shitting on sherlock constantly… #it would be fucking nice #all roads stem from / lead to the fact that people have been told TJLC is some wild feral delusion rather than just group media analysis #breaking news: analysis of SPN? analysis of Sherlock? same methods! surprise #also how are you going to say it’s ‘crumbs’ and ‘bait’ in the same breath? pick an accusation #not to be this bitch but supernatural used bisexual lighting for queercoding because sherlock and TJLC invented it.

[peachcitt]

actually if goncharov were real it would never live up to the standards the insane tumblrinas have built it up to be. there is a triangle of homoeroticism, political commentary, and inevitably tragic in which any live, real adaptation would only conceivably be able to achieve two of to their fullest extent. added on to the fact that this is a film that supposedly is filmed and takes place in the seventies makes the possibility of it truly containing all aspects of what we have made it out to be even more far fetched. however, tumblr has been able to spin gold on far more real and disappointing media than goncharov through its analyses of media such as supernatural, sherlock, and a secret third piece of media that the subsequent creation and analyses of the ‘greatest mafia movie of all time’ goncharov is simply a natural step that tumblr as an ecosystem is willing to take. in this essay i will,

#goncharov #unreality #peach stuff #goncharov 1973 #someone accused me of being an english major (true) (god forbid women do anything) so this is also the natural step to take i suppose #anyway i do think i have a point in that we’re all already so used to performing in depth media analysis on media that simply. is bad. that #creating media from almost literally nothing and performing media analysis on it is just . i mean how can anyone be surprised #also before anyone says anything about it i didn’t mention doctor who in my list of bad media because well ive actually never seen #any episode in its entirety and i do know (as an english major) that science fiction is a fantastic way to deliver political commentary #ive also heard that the most recent season has been doing important work (at least from a meta standpoint) in gender politics #sherlock is. well. other iterations of sherlock holmes have certainly been better. and we all know supernatural is bad #i only listen ‘a secret third thing’ because traditionally it’s good to list three things to cite in your thesis. oldest trick etc #and anyway. that’s all my disclaimers. expect the essay never because im already overworked and underpaid<3