#online behaviour

[selfbiased]

What makes people behave badly online?!

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[aurorangen]

Since coming out of the hospital and learning of the spy, Vincent has been more vigilant of his surroundings. He felt uneasy that someone might still be following him...even in another country. After resting he was a bit more alert, so just to be cautious, he asked Jay if he had any hats to wear to hide his face, especially in the busy town centre.

Some paintings in the building caught Renee's attention and she took some photos. One stood out in particular. It had a plane statue and she could see some people in the background. Armed with weapons.

Transcript:

Renee: Jay do you know what these paintings are of? Jay: These are of Chestnut Ridge and the plane one…I dunno. Maybe the next town? Or made up? Renee: Oasis Springs doesn't look like that. I wonder if that's Strangerville.

#ts4 #sims 4 #ts4 gameplay #ts4 legacy #postcard legacy #postcard gen 3 #renee reichmann #vincent kingsley #jay pollock by duusheen #miracle holm by duusheen #this post is here to summarise two important things for the future #renee taking a picture of the paintings and vincents behaviour now #rmbr no one outside knows the existence of strangerville nothing online! only important ppl like detectives and all that do #and thats it! you can check duusheens posts for the fun stuff lol mine are mainly for my plot since theyre in chestnut ridge #and just a perfect opportunity 😂 #an excuse to put him in that hat #honestly he still looks drowsy here let him sleep the whole night #just for fun i played them a bit with the horse pack gameplay and #vincent looks so out of place lmaooooo #im like WHAT R U DOING #london boy visits a ranch

[originalaccountname]

This is a sensibilization post, not a callout post, so this is intentionally very vague.

A month ago, I made a bsd character analysis post.

Yesterday, I saw another bsd character analysis post on the same subject.

If you read them back to back, you would notice my arguments, structure, pacing and screenshots were reused a LOT. Entire sentences were barely rephrased, the same comments were left on the screenshots (which were directly copied from my own post), and even the title of the post was barely rephrased from my opening line. It's literally "copied your homework but changed it enough as to not raise suspicion" (I still noticed)

Which makes me really sad, because OP had interesting things to add! Sandwiched in the middle, things that were not from me are expanded upon, many of which I agree with! I would have loved reblogging their own arguments and observations!

But because they plagiarized my own analysis, I am both hurt and wary. If half of this analysis is plagiarized from me, who's to say the other half isn't plagiarized from someone else? I have no faith in any of their thoughts now, it's over.

I worked hard on that analysis! Reread some manga and light novel sections, structured my essay, edited it over a few days, found relevant and interesting manga panels and light novel sections to include! I had fun doing it!

So seeing my hard work half-chewed and spit back out going around without any mention of me is disheartening.

I don't know what kind of reach I can have like this, but this is a message to both the OP and everyone else: don't do this. We're supposed to be a community. You can build upon someone else's thoughts, use the reblog button or cite them in your own original post. It's very simple.

I didn't link the post because I don't want OP put on blast, but I needed this issue adressed, because if it happened once, it can can or could have happened twice. This is a learning opportunity: plagiarism feels real bad. I don't want this for anyone else.

Have a good one all of you 💖

#op also had reblogged my analysis. i checked. #plagiarism isn't cute in any context except for your own private use y'all #this is public #i didn't want to do this at first because of the inherent danger of putting op on blast (which i do NOT want) #but i've been seeing their notes going up and i don't want this kind of behaviour rewarded without warning #and i won't be able to be online much in the next couple of daya to see how things go so this is prehemptive damage control #again if i see any agressive behaviour you're getting the boot you're blocked you're out i'm removing you from my artblog too #bsd #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs #bsd analysis #bsd meta #apparently i talk sometimes

[communistkenobi]

tumblr’s understanding of boycotts is so ridiculous lol. wagging your finger at people on social media to not buy a product is not a boycott. If it’s not organised and centralised its not any more effective than random people yelling at service workers about how they just lost their patronage and will not be returning here again

#I feel like veganism has done a lot of damage to the understanding of how powerful individual consumer behaviour is #or actually no that’s not correct I think it’s just people buying into individualism and ‘vote with your wallet’ type sentiments #veganism is just a particularly mainstream example of that #to be clear I have no problem with people being vegans I think they just need to be very realistic about #the incredibly limited power of individually abstaining from certain consumptive behaviours #I think this is also reflected in broader media discourses online generally #about consuming the correct tv shows and so on #we laugh at the right for this behaviour and rightfully so!

[aalghul]

I don’t think it makes sense to assume that Jason was mocking Mia’s past. At all. The thing that got jason painted as violent back in the 80s was his anger against rapists…how does that turn into mocking a victim? and that entire story was written by winick. Do we honestly think winick intended to communicate that? The same writer who made Jason’s first kill a man who was trafficking children? Who had Jason pause in his mission of madness to make sure those kids were found by the right people so they wouldn’t be in further danger?

#let’s knock on our skulls and kick our brains back into gear okay? #you can maintain that it wasn’t well executed or that the role mia played here bothers you #but you can’t say jason was mocking her for that or even seriously trying to hurt her physically #he was bsing like 90% of the story with his constant ‘we should all kill anyone who inconveniences us! speedy and GA should try to kill me #if they want to win’ like we understand that yes? #but that last part of his convo with Mia was the one serious part #he was wrong! of course he was wrong about ollie. but this was also Jason’s first time meeting ollie #it was ridiculous and unnecessary on his end and it put mia thru the emotional wringer for nothing #but that wasn’t the Intention. it was a stupid thing done by someone who never expected anything to come of it but still said what *to him* #was a way of offering advice #and as for the ppl who go ‘stop reaching abt jason being a victim and just read Mia instead’ #a) there’s more to Mia’s character than her past. anyone who thinks that fits Jason’s past wouldn’t necessarily like mia bc they’re not the #same character #it’s the same way that if jason was confirmed to have been a victim of SA as a kid then all of Mia’s fans wouldn’t love him like they love #her? this is common sense. anyways stop being assholes online and just recommend characters too ppl nicely #b) more than one character can have experienced a similar form of abuse. also common sense #c) it’s not an unreasonable hc #d) it doesn’t hurt you personally. none of this killed your grandma #once again: hate whoever you like but choosing the interpretation that doesn’t make sense just to make up a #‘valid’ reason is serious loser behaviour

[thedeafprophet]

I get really annoyed at the way some people behave with a level of entitlement in fan spaces. The minority of people who act like everything should be made For Them and treating fanartist and fanwriters as people who should be making what they want, and complaining when they don't.

People in fan spaces are making stuff for free, and sharing it with others on increasingly less friendly websites. A lot of work and effort goes into it, and me and many people I know are also disabled and dealing with chronic pain at the same time.

And then people have the audacity to demand fancreators time or expect them to cater directly to them? If yall want something specific: pay for it. Folks have to balance this with jobs and/or school already, they're not spending their free time on some random stranger on the internet

#this isnt really about the tag im just commenting generally about behaviour ive been seeing online #people being mad that not everything is fan spaces is For Them #and yes ive seen this behaviour in the fl community too #ok rant over #the prophet speaks

[baby-girl-aaron-dessner]

The amount of misogynistic insults Swifties are writing under Alison Oliver's post has caused her to turn off the comments.

#this is how bad it’s gotten #everytime new music gets released it’s always followed with a wave of online harassment from swifties #this is why being a fan of Taylor’s music makes me feel ashamed #swifties have the reputation of being crazy and it’s honestly deserved #insane behaviour #taylor swift #taylorswift #ts #the eras tour #the tortured poets department #ttpd #joe alwyn #alison oliver

[thefloatingstone]

A cautionary tale observed from the outside;

There is a youtuber I used to watch. They mostly did reviews on fictional media which I will not specify. Now and again they would mention a difficult childhood in a passing sentence while reviewing things.

At some point, their reviews on completely fictional stories started getting laced with bitter resentment and cynical comments about US politics, global warming, homophobia, sexism, literally a bingo card of topical issues. It made their content rather unpleasant to listen to. Because you would click on to hear their thoughts about characters and story only to be smacked with a lot of 'well we're all doomed because the planet is fucked and everybody hates us' nihilism.

Then they did some self reflection, and they came to the realisation that they were queer. And the difficult childhood came into better focus for them as did the large amount of self loathing. But then something happened.

That self loathing turned to anger. But not in a constructive way. and instead of coming to terms with who they were, they instead merely turned this childhood desperation for love into purposeful instigation of the audience.

"If the world will not love me then I will have its hate" this person seemed to say.

And they reviews became.... incredibly toxic. Anger, resentment, open hostility to the audience, purposefully instigating and daring their audience to hate them and get angry at them. Constantly picking fights. Constantly "Come at me! I dare you to start something with me in the comments! If you are x y and z then I hope you die in a fire!"

And so, people unsubbed. Because why wouldn't you? Who wants to watch someone who is constantly insulting you and daring you to fight with them all the while reminding you "the earth is fucked" and "humantiy is awful" when all you wanted to know is what their opinion was on x piece of media. I wasn't one of the early unsubbers however. It takes a lot for me to unsub from someone mostly because I am lazy.

And then this youtuber started a new road of "haha look how much your hatred fuels me!" Because suddenly their videos became;

"Ever since I came out as queer my sub count has been dropping rapidly. This is to be expected because the world is full of BIGOTS and the ALT RIGHT. So of course me coming out as queer is why my subs dropped! It just proves how RIGHT I am in saying people suck and the world is an awful place!"

.....that's when I unsubbed from them.

I don't know what the lesson is here. Other than I tend to be cautious when I recognise this kind of "I'm such a victim despite doing NOTHING wrong!" behaviour from others.

And it finally taught me to recognise that looking for hate because you realised you cannot get love is a lateral move in recovery, not progress. And it is not self worth in any way because you are still relying on outside opinion to make yourself feel like you have worth. You've just switched where you're getting validation from for an easier source with a better guarantee.

#text post #Posting this because this happened years ago and I still think about how I watched this play out in real time #Especially since I see a LOT of identical behaviour online

[thefirstknife]

Some important stuff in regards to the harassment of developers came from Bungie today. They won a lawsuit against a guy who repeatedly harassed a community manager and his family (not fully confirmed in the official document, but people are fairly certain this is about A_dmg and his family). This is a twitter thread from the lawyer who went into some details about the situation. The court document is also available to read (featuring some of the horrific harassment tactics that were motivated by racism and also used racism as part of the harassment so be advised if you want to read).

This isn't just a win for the individual community manager and Bungie, but also has potential to set a bigger precedent in the future. It's basically the first time this has been done to this extent and some ruling in this case made it clear that companies can pursue this sort of legal action in the future if their employees are harassed and threatened. This is HUGE because the protection of employees in the gaming industry has been abysmal otherwise. This case will allow for the company to file a lawsuit on behalf of their employees in cases of harassment.

Before I add some of the more heinous stuff about this situation below, I want to say that the majority of reactions to this are positive. People are happy that this happened as it did and a lot of people are excited about potential big influence this will have in the future to combatting harassment of this type in the gaming industry.

Extra details and thoughts below (racism tw):

This started because the community manager highlighted a black content creator, Uhmayyze, who is himself a victim of harassment more often than not (usually of racist nature). He is most often harassed because he is unapologetically positive for which people have continuously sent him awful shit and comments. Because he enjoys the game and isn't jumping on the hate train. Just recently he commended Bungie for a ban wave and had hundreds of people hound him on twitter for his comment, including Gladd who started it by specifically replying to Uhmayyze and putting him on blast (warning for a lot of gross comments, including photoshopped screenshots of fake discord texts to make Uhmayyze look bigoted, nsfw images, r slur, suicide baiting and so on). This is important because the incident of real life harassment was fuelled over a community manager highlighting a content creator that is himself being harassed and despised online for the crime of... being positive. And you know, for being black. This situation isn't an isolated incident. The community, including other content creators, are absolutely horrible towards this one person that they feel, I guess, does not follow the content creator NPC questline of hating Bungie and Destiny.

So of course, at some point, someone from that crowd will feel confident and justified taking things further. How dare Bungie promote this person they hate. How dare they focus on a positive creator. They're clearly biased and don't want to listen to criticism, only to "toxic positivity" streamer. How dare a community manager highlight this creator. It's a personal slight to them, and "proof" that Bungie is bad and evil and "ignoring criticism." There's someone out there (and probably not the only one) that hates this creator and the game so much they were willing to harass and threaten a community manager and his family in real life.

The community manager was first harassed by phone with text messages and voice mails featuring racist bile, including apparently a voice mail telling him to "convince Bungie to create options in its game in which only persons of color would be killed." This is the worst part for me and super concerning in general, as well as showing the dedication of this person to racism, motivated by his hatred of a black creator (which also, by proxy, technically makes the streamer being harassed as well). Absolutely ghoulish behaviour.

This escalated to also harassing the CM's wife and resulted in doxing them; the harasser somehow found their address. Most of the reports on this will say that the asshole "sent them pizza" which doesn't truly capture how horrific the incident was. First, it's a random guy who has your address which is concerning enough given that he harasses you by phone already. Apparently the pizza was made to be "inedible" and the delivery was instructed to bang loudly on the door upon arrival to maximise discomfort. The order was also deliberately made to be paid on delivery to create as much pain for the victims as possible. The harasser also kept track of the delivery and then called the family again when it was done to tell them to "enjoy the pizza." The family immediately contacted Bungie who contacted the police and provided the family with protection. There's no telling how this would've escalated had they not been in the position to call Bungie and had Bungie not reacted to them asking for help. It's absolutely crucial here that Bungie is the type of a company willing to immediately assist in this situation.

Immediately following that, Bungie organised a long and expensive manhunt to identify the harasser and bring them court. That's where most of the expenses went; finding the culprit and protecting the employee and his family. This is the money Bungie earned back by this court decision because they could prove that the expenses were caused by a person harassing and threatening their employee.

This is a big win overall for the whole industry. It's Bungie setting a precedent on how a company should protect its employees. No matter what people think about Bungie or big corporations or whatever, this is how you can use a lot of money and power to make sure that your workers have rights to decency and safety. That's huge for the rights of workers and worker protections. I hope it becomes a standard and that any future harassment is prevented altogether or at least punished accordingly.

Naturally, the commentary on the news from a big part of the community is super positive. Unfortunately, there's also a part of the community that has a lot of really awful shit to say about this. The comments on twitter are littered with people who are using THIS specific moment to yell about Bungie being a greedy corporation, how the money they won should be used to "fix the servers" and "make more pvp maps" or how Bungie will greedily put this money "into Eververse" or "into Marathon." There's comments about how time was uselessly spent protecting an employee who should expect harassment anyway, instead of working on "fixing the game."

This is what I mean when I talk about how impossible it is in the current situation to have a meaningful discussion about any sort of criticism or feedback. There's thousands of comments from people who think that this specific instance shows how Bungie is greedy. This is what I mean when I say that none of these people actually understand what they're talking about. You can't make proper criticism when you can't separate game development with a company's legal effort to stop an escalating harassment campaign of an employee. The majority of gamers are simply not fit to offer any criticism or feedback. The idea that we all have something useful to say and that employees at Bungie are obliged to give us their time of the day is simply incorrect.

I genuinely 100% stand by the claim that the recent barrage of content creators promoting the idea that Bungie is "the greediest company in the world that's scamming players and increasing costs out of greed" as well as the idea that Bungie is "abandoning Destiny for Marathon, isn't working on the game anymore and is deliberately ruining it" is the reason for these comments existing. If a big streamer said that Bungie is getting too much money but also not doing anything "good" with it, then any money that Bungie receives (including compensation for expenses they took to protect an employee from active harm) is a result of greed. The nuance of any situation is lost; when you only learn the mantra of "company has money therefore company bad" you WILL end up causing harm for people and you will most definitely not be an advocate of workers rights. That's where we're at right now.

The dehumanisation of people who work at Bungie (and the harassment itself) is a consequence of this crap and other similar crap that's been thrown into the ether for the past year, disguised as "we're just offering feedback." People heard that Bungie is a "microtransaction hell" and that Bungie is only investing in Eververse and Marathon and they feel like this story reflects that; they feel like an employee being harassed is not deserving of proper condemnation and that this isn't important enough and that Bungie is a greedy corpo anyway so who cares about that. They do not understand how companies work, how games are made, the state of the industry as a whole (or the world as a whole), the treatment of employees or workers' rights, and you cannot meaningfully critique a company's business practices without understanding that. And they don't because they think that legal expenses used to protect victims, finding a culprit and bringing their ass to court is money that is being used for game development and that Bungie receiving this money should result in... new pvp maps or "fixed servers."

And there's even seemingly good commentary where people recognise how this is good, but they initiate the comment with "As much as I hate Bungie and Destiny and I think they're awful and greedy and destroying gaming as a whole..." : that's not the time and place. You don't have to excuse your support of a big win for potential new employee protection policies just because those policies are done by a company. Of course it is. Companies are the only ones capable of pursuing this sort of legal action. It's one good way a big company can put their power and money into a good place to actually help people and bring forth positive change. And like, you don't have to tell us how much you despise Bungie before you're "allowed" to admit that this is good news. Sometimes companies do good stuff. It's literally not that complicated.

I hope that this situation will help other employees demand the same protection, that other companies will follow suit and that this will also make potential other harassers rethink whether or not they will engage in this or similar type of behaviour. In the meantime, know that the community is largely positive about this, but that there are still absolutely detestable human beings who should feel ashamed of their reaction to this. They shouldn't feel welcome here. And there's still people doing this to the devs and I hope Bungie takes their asses to court too.

#destiny 2 #bungie #long post #this was a lot and i'm glad it had a happy ending #reading some of the comments unfortunately added to my depression tenfold #as usual the best thing to do if you feel strongly against a content creator or a video game is to leave #simply leaving would've stopped this whole thing #it's why that's my go to response to people who feel super strongly about how bungie is the worst #bro if bungie is the worst thing ever then your feedback will NOT change shit and you gotta go do something else #like if you still enjoy the game and have some criticism that's fine! i do too! #but if your entire online personality is criticism of bungie you gotta rethink your priorities #before you turn into this guy who will owe bungie 500k until the rest of his life #especially if you're a creator with a reach of tens of thousands of people or more. you gotta be careful with what you say #because your words WILL entice this behaviour. there is someone in your audience who will go too far #anyway. wanted this off my chest this whole situation has been super fucked up #and the brunt of it started around the time criticism started getting really bad last year #end of haunted-start of plunder + lightfall showcase which had massive harassment of trans employees online #we have not known peace since then and neither have bungie employees apparently #genuinely disheartening that people can act this way about a video game

[4mulaone]

charles saying he would have preferred privacy and didnt know the radio was on and then photographers taking photos of him clearly distraught before he put his helmet back on in the pit lane. congrats f1 did u get the views did u get the clicks did u get the engagement? 

#i have a lot to say about this. like when max had that bad quali (p2) and went to sit behind a bin or something bc he was clearly upset #and cameras followed him and everyone online was like oh its bc his dad will be mad. ??????????????????? #and when people took photos of pierre mourning at spa and when people filmed charles getting changed in a car #and when daniel ricciardo had to stand up and say replaying romain grosjeans crash was disgusting and radio replays of all the drivers upset #like . these are real people. stop this freak behaviour of gushing over drivers upset? even max asking if charles is okay isnt cute like #he was clearly uncomfortable post race when interviewers kept asking him about it digging for a reaction . it is all VERY weird!!!!!

[johannestevans]

like 90% of the time when you see screencaps of someone engaging in vile rhetoric against fellow marginalised ppl you go to their profile and scroll down and its just their sad venting about how they want to die or are trying not to self harm

its very sad obvs but like

also an example of why you should block and not engage. a sad and lonely person who's viciously trying to attack other marginalised ppl, esp other marginalised ppl they feel threatened by or jealous of, doing it bc they have no other life, will not learn or be convinced

like they are deep in a hole and they have to make the choice to climb out on their own. in the meantime they will attack anybody who seems in any way happy or satisfied, and they will not learn or grow bc you engage w them and try to explain you have feelings

this is a person that knows they are harming others. they want to harm others because they feel like if they can make other ppl feel as bad as they do, things might change, or they might not feel so alone. they want to feel important or powerful, because they don't feel they are

this is why like. the 4chan mentality is so cancerous btw bc this is what these ppl end up like. like angrily saying as many slurs as they can as loud as they can because maybe then someone will care about them

you might think its a pathetic or revolting behaviour, and thats fair, but its still the behaviour of a very hurt and damaged person who is too frightened to grow or change, or extend the vulnerability of care or trust to others. calling them out won't change them

you don't owe these people sympathy or anything, bc ultimately like. they are choosing these toxic spaces and behaviours, they are rejecting alternatives

but its easier to automatically block when you understand these ppl do not want to change. they just want you to be hurt too.

don't go and harass this person, if you want to search their profile just block and move on but. see how sad and hurting this person is? see how when they pivot to posting hate, they get attention when their pain didn't work?

that's the root of this behaviour. block and move on.

#musings #this person is screenshotted as an example #look out for this behaviour and consider it before you engage a trolls and abusers online

[dervampireprince]

to the anon who just sent me two asks. i am not publishing them so i am addressing you here. stop. yes you are crossing a line. yes you are making me uncomfortable. i didn't ask for help or advise. i am very uncomfortable with being given unsolicited advise. you do not know me. you do not know my situation. doesn't matter what i've shared about myself online, you don't know me. do not come into my ask box to offer me serious life advise. if this happens again i'll just not share anything anymore. do not assume things about my life, or assume worse things about my life than what i've shared. i'm not a fictional character, nor your friend. you do not know me. no matter what i share about me or my personal life, you do not know me nor do you know the details or everything that's going on in my personal life. i do not share most of my personal life because it's personal and private.

i'm sure in your mind you had good intentions, but that was so incredibly inappropriate.

#i feel so gross now #i know people getting parasocial is just a risk of being online but guys really? #the vampire vents #this sort of behaviour makes me want to close my ask box. #i feel so gross #wish i hadnt opened the askbox right before bed #going to be sharing less of me going forwards #or i'll keep it to twitch and not talk about it over here since i feel like i cant trust you guys

[thatskynews]

hello, i was wondering what joining/helping out with the blog would entail, to see if i would be fit to help since I’m interested in helping :D

Honestly mostly Anxy and me just quietly sit in our own corners and see what is needed or unposted typically, but for anyone who's curious this is quite honestly my thoughts on it:

have access to the official sky:cotl discord's news channels (news, known-issues, vault-of-socials, and quick-dev-update)

No bigotry of any sort (this is very much a strict rule: any transphobic, racism, homophobia, sexism, support of genocides, etc will not be accepted here. If you respect people it's very likely you're fine)

Be nice to people if possible (neither me or Anxy will bite- I only react negatively if you do something horrible to others.)

No beta spoilers or leaks¹ are allowed to be posted here. (I mean it, especially as someone WHO has access to beta: that is suppose to be correctly tagged and kept away from the main sky tags if possible as simple skyblr etiquette. yes this includes tagging us in them, tag me instead if it comes to it.)

These are very simple and direct things from the top of my head. Asking for help is always allowed here, I've definitely asked for help before and we do talk about our thoughts on certain details when it comes to it. We're both fairly timid as a warning, but I do believe we're fine and open about new mods.

¹In information about Sky's history: they can be mentioned, but usually do not mention leaks if possible, especially if they're still of possible future content.

-Ymir

#(I should note on why I specifically have placed down 'no bigotry' even though it seems like it should be unstated -ymir) #(I've seen some ridiculous bigotry in my time online. I do hope it's obvious why that is horrible behaviour. -ymir) #(I do not wish for skyblr to end up dealing with those issues if possible! I know I am kinda of protective of skyblr -ymir) #(anxy if you have anything to add onto this feel free to do so. -ymir) #(anywaysss.. we're usually fairly chill here since TGC basically hits us in waves with news and details ngl -ymir) #(i have nothing to add other than to disagree ymir's statement that i will not bite/j - anxy) #(yeah we're chill here and do a bunch of reposts but due to timezones and work it can be quite late - anxy) #(so we might need another mod to keep things more timely - anxy)

[flaticeball]

the idea of a Gayest Player In The NHL bracket at all is already in poor taste to some degree bc i get everyone loves to make the “they’re so gay for each other fr” jokes but the condition of the actual league and its actions right now is like. you do understand why calling these people Gay Icons (Positive) for funny haha jokes is just. at best inappropriate timing, yes? but the idea of literally including one of the guys who got pride nights cancelled with his homophobia is just. can we take a minute to realize that hockey fandom doesn’t take place in a void completely unconnected to reality and see that this is just. a Really Bad Look. at best.

#gav gab #saw someone reblog the actual bracket intro post with among other things #‘mom come pick me up they’re calling tseguin a gay icon in 2023’ and like #LMFAO. YEAH. FOR REAL. YOUVE SEEN WHAT HE SAID ABOUT THE SEDINS YES? #anyways get outta here with that shit #people have gotten real confident with the ‘they’re about to fuck at centre ice’ thing and saying hockey is a Super Gay Sport #which is a fun joke to make with your friends online ig #as annoying as i find it generally #but you do understand this isn’t real yes #and i know the bracket is not making claims about reality #but what it IS doing is including players like eric fucking staal #in a bracket for Gayest NHL Player #and the real life actions of staal actively make the sport unsafe for queer athletes and queer fans #stop mistaking jokes about hockey players fucking each other or writing rpf about that as any kind of activism #or any kind of actual reflection of the nhl #how do you think this is an appropriate thing to do for so many reasons lmao how are you including some of these guys on this #even before you get into some of the other insane behaviour going on in this bracket existing #‘I didn’t pick the contestants!’ you did you. you’re in charge. #‘just hope they get voted out’ don’t include them at all what’s wrong with you #why do bracket creators always act like it’s some kind of mandatory moral imperative they include every single thing nominated/voted in #you have agency here lmao. use it. fucking spineless. #rpf for ts #adjacent enough anyway #homophobia cw #why would you do this #lmfao the brief scroll of that blog i took the amount of ‘propaganda’ that’s just ‘this guy has friends’ #wild. genuinely wild. #one request id like to make to the liveblogs this year too on a vaguely tangentially related note is #reign in your blatant and unrepentant amatonormativity please #from your local aro

[jarofmayonassey]

pitifulchildren.mp4

#if you even think about tagging this as ship ill fucking tell your mom about your behaviour online #be more chill #squip #bmc #the squip #jeremy heere #the pitiful children #this was too detailed for a shitpost but who caare :heart:

[heart-forge]

hey afaik this hasn't happened yet but don't feed my stuff into AIs, no matter what friendly neighbourhood corporation will put a silly hat on Crave (I routinely link to artists who can be paid to put Crave in the silly hat of your dreams). AI makes job searching, something that is already a Sisyphean nightmare, a billion times worse, and I am directly opposed to the idea of training a non sentient program (sentient probably wouldn't be better but as it is, "teach it to learn but not to think because then it might not spend 24 hours a day shitting out money" seems a little unethical) to shit out money for the most annoying people you can possibly think of. Chat bots, AI art, all of it could have a place in a better society that wasn't on pins and needles ready to exploit it in order to put people out of work, injure, maim, and steal.

This blog is unequivocally against the recreational use of AI, because it trains the AI to more robust which them allows for corporate and broad institutional misuse (because a company developing an AI doesn't care about generating fanfic for you for free, it cares about military and government contracts). AIs recognising human faces doesn't stop at making you into a silly painting, it actively harms people in war zones and at protests. AIs being able to recreate hyper realistic images from being trained on stolen art become propaganda machines for the system. At minimum, AIs being able to imitate human speech by being trained on dialogue and voice via writing will destroy jobs, if not something more insidious that it hasn't had the opportunity to showcase yet.

Stop hanging out with bots online.

#talkForge #when they ask for help that's when you can engage #until then leave them tf alone #this feels a lot like one of those stupid things people keep asking other people do not do that gets met with so much pushback #it's one thing to not have considered it until now but continuing to do so after being told multiple times that x behaviour is harmful #you'll live. find a new hobby. stop fucking talking to bots online god #so many people talking to that microsoft bot like give your head a shake