I actually see it as a good thing. Let's be honest: Queer women and trans* people at large but especially transmen get the shaft a lot in mainstream media. This is especially true of such people who are not white, middle class Americans. So they take what platforms they are afforded and make themselves known. Tumblr is a good platform for that.
I knew the Doge meme was a part of it, but it's interesting how it has become its own thing. They are very cute, cool dogs, however. A friend of mine was babysitting one and it fell in love with me in less than an hour.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
What Naney said just hammered in how much of our Tumblr experiences is defined by selection bias.
You will see nothing you don't want to. If you don't like something, you can just choose not to follow the people who post these things. Hell, there are even programs that allow you to block words.
Though I'd say that if you happen to be interested in something that has a proportion of idiots and/or assholes associated with it, it's hard to ignore. I'm sure MLP fans have a lot of trouble filtering out both the obnoxious in their own fandom and the obnoxious anti-fandom, for instance.
man the mlp fandom is something else even by wacky fandom standards
like, i've been involved with / following the furry fandom for like 5 years now and in all that time i have not seen as much drama as i saw in any given month of the 2-odd years that i was a brony.
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
Sometimes I feel ashamed for having been involved in both the MLP and Sonic fandoms
I still like Sonic, but I am very tired of the whole "everything has to live up to a very specific ideal we've built up or it's garbage" mentality
Though they're not identical cases...the Sonic franchise is a train that a lot of fans have been on since childhood, and it's changed over the years, and not always for the best. MLP hasn't even been relevant to nerd culture for four years yet, and the G4 fandom is wacky in a different way.
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
To be honest, I feel kind of bad for people who were fans of MLP before G4 was introduced, considering how vocally disdainful G4 fans are towards anything before then.
also the brony drama was consistently higher level than other stuff that i saw. Like there would be regular eruptions of death threats against people (serious ones, not "im gonna kill you" tumblr anon ones), people drawing gore/rape porn of other people's OCs as retaliation against them for doing things they didn't like (i've never seen anything like that happen before ever), and i can think of at least three instances of notable bronies sexually assaulting or raping minors. (i can only recall the name/handle of one of those people though)
stuff like that happens in the furry fandom from time to time, but on like a once-or-twice-every few years basis and people actively try to distance themselves from those involved with such ghastly things.
I think that the whole MLP fandom has it worse because it's insecurity over being a teenage or adult male and liking something explicitly meant for young girls. It's a hangup that a lot of men have taken to an extreme by a number of other factors.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Honestly, the funniest thing about this DashCon thing is that it turned out pretty much exactly how you'd expect a convention run by the kind of people who say "Tumblr should have its own convention!" would go.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
From what I've seen so far it looks like a little of both
At least insofar as some greedy people realized they could exploit naive teenagers
Yeah, though I'm reserving judgment as to the accusations of outright fraud. People are pissed off it was a mess, so I'm not sure I trust accusations of worse.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Yeah, I'm not quite ready to call it an outright scam, but I definitely get the impression that some people involved are deliberately taking advantage of others' naivete.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
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They'll either be your BFF, FF, FR or they'll eat your ankles.
like, i've been involved with / following the furry fandom for like 5 years now and in all that time i have not seen as much drama as i saw in any given month of the 2-odd years that i was a brony.
i guess i was trying to say that the MLP fandom is a definite outlier in terms of wackadoodleness
stuff like that happens in the furry fandom from time to time, but on like a once-or-twice-every few years basis and people actively try to distance themselves from those involved with such ghastly things.
so starting with that 4chan + furries base, and accruing people who love to find reasons to be persecuted (I'M COMING OUT AS A BRONY) in large numbers
yeah
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
I honestly can't find much funny about this, it's just going to lead to a lot of embarrassment and regret, which is fun for no one.
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