To everyone running here for refuge from Twitter since they are selling it to Elon Musk, welcome! In order to survive here, you must sacrifice one of your monsters or discard your entire hand.
Been seeing a huge number of posts lately like “hey if you’re new here don’t have a blank blog otherwise everyone’s gonna think you’re a bot and block you :(” all with like 90,000 notes.
And I’m like ?????? yall are paying attention? yall block like that? personally if I gained 1,000 followers overnight I don’t think I’d notice and I definitely wouldn’t go through them all. personally I only block people if they come for my life. I just kinda can’t be bothered otherwise.
If you followed me and have a blank blog, I have not noticed. You can just chill there. Right next to the foot-fetish blog and hotkathie937478 who have also followed me and I also have not noticed.
my favorite video game quest trope is “HELP US, THEY ARE STEALING OUR ANCIENT ARTIFACT. THANK YOU FOR HELPING US, AS A REWARD YOU MAY HAVE OUR ANCIENT ARTIFACT”
one piece of early internet culture that I think we need to bring back is “don’t feed the trolls,” but like, for fandom.
it used to be common knowledge that if you engage with people who are just looking to start shit, you’re only encouraging them to continue to do that. modern fandom, however, seems to have this idea that you can do something about it if you just respond the right way, make the right points, or counter their argument well enough, but that only works if these people are acting in good faith, which they aren’t.
someone talking shit about your favorite show is not looking to have an informed discussion about your respective opinions.
someone deliberately mischaracterizing your favorite character for the sake of their argument does not actually care what the text says about them.
someone telling you all their reasons why you shouldn’t ship your favorite ship isn’t really trying to get you to change your mind.
it doesn’t matter how masterfully you can deconstruct any of these arguments, because what they’re after is validation and attention. no matter how you respond to them (yes, even if it’s a simple “fuck off”) you give them what they’re looking for. there’s no winning against these people, so don’t bother engaging with them in the first place. just delete their asks, ignore their comments, and block their blogs.
don’t feed the trolls, because it only encourages their behavior.
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