"""""Cub, lolicon, whatever, is not the enemy. Predators are.""""
Yeah, no shit... and InkBunny already did a MASSIVE purge trying to sift out the VERY OBVIOUSLY BAD APPLES who were using dogwhistle language to "signal" to each other what they're ACTUALLY into... that issue FINALLY got dealt with after many years of nothing.... no reprimands and no bans, but one day the IB staff were finally fed up and tired of it. Anyway look, I am ABSOLUTELY not a huge fan of places like 4chan or 8chan or Lulz or what-have-you. Any place that tries to bait people in with Furry Art but switches to "let's get you indoctrinated into hateful beliefs" is obviously bad... I get that... but E621 pushed those people INTO those spaces... by acting like a bunch of uppity snobby jerks, handing out bans and notes for the SLIGHTEST of grievances, they have PUSHED otherwise friendly and normal users into the arms of people who will gladly accept them as long as they can convert them into 4channers or Fruit Farmers.
When mommy only ever lets you listen to Christian Rock and Christian Rap, you wish wish wish you had the freedom to LISTEN TO SOMETHING ELSE... so these vulnerable people start to hang out with The Bad Crowd because it makes them feel more free and more accepted. Who would you rather hang out with, some grumpy Ned Flanders type person who gets mad at you over every little thing, or some "ultra edgy" person who never takes anything seriously?
The new generation of e621 mods aren't the same bunch that were around back in the Myspace and Livejournal days. These are not the FUN mods from 2008, these are "Current Year" mods who genuinely believe that EVERYTHING IS PROBLEMATIC and they have to act like your grumpy Christian Mother who says "YOU CAN'T HAVE THAT EMINEM CD!"
Naturally if you get jumped on and lectured a million times by overly sensitive people, YOU ARE GOING TO REBEL.
I don't like it when someone fixates on a comment I made and blows it out of proportion.
I also don't like it when some Twitter Dork says "REEEE, YOU LIKE TAILZ PRONZ, THAT'S PROBLA-MADDIC!!!!"
I don't care, I don't care, I don't care. I've been in the fandom longer than the Twitter / Tumblr Dorks.
And in 2004-ish, nobody really GAVE A SH*T if you liked Tails P0rn or Tiny Toons P0rn.
"PROBLEMATIC" wasn't even PART of our collective vocabulary, because TUMBLR & TWITTER didn't even EXIST YET.
I am sick to gawd damn death of FICTION EQUALS REALITY freaks from Tumblr and Twitter.
I am sick to gawd damn death of delusional morons making dumb accusations OVER 2D CARTOON ARTWORK....
People who treat FICTION like it's REAL LIFE are the problem... not the ART....
"""""Cub, lolicon, whatever, is not the enemy. Predators are.""""
Yeah, no shit... and InkBunny already did a MASSIVE purge trying to sift out the VERY OBVIOUSLY BAD APPLES who were using dogwhistle language to "signal" to each other what they're ACTUALLY into... that issue FINALLY got dealt with after many years of nothing.... no reprimands and no bans, but one day the IB staff were finally fed up and tired of it. Anyway look, I am ABSOLUTELY not a huge fan of places like 4chan or 8chan or Lulz or what-have-you. Any place that tries to bait people in with Furry Art but switches to "let's get you indoctrinated into hateful beliefs" is obviously bad... I get that... but E621 pushed those people INTO those spaces... by acting like a bunch of uppity snobby jerks, handing out bans and notes for the SLIGHTEST of grievances, they have PUSHED otherwise friendly and normal users into the arms of people who will gladly accept them as long as they can convert them into 4channers or Fruit Farmers.
When mommy only ever lets you listen to Christian Rock and Christian Rap, you wish wish wish you had the freedom to LISTEN TO SOMETHING ELSE... so these vulnerable people start to hang out with The Bad Crowd because it makes them feel more free and more accepted. Who would you rather hang out with, some grumpy Ned Flanders type person who gets mad at you over every little thing, or some "ultra edgy" person who never takes anything seriously?
The new generation of e621 mods aren't the same bunch that were around back in the Myspace and Livejournal days. These are not the FUN mods from 2008, these are "Current Year" mods who genuinely believe that EVERYTHING IS PROBLEMATIC and they have to act like your grumpy Christian Mother who says "YOU CAN'T HAVE THAT EMINEM CD!"
Naturally if you get jumped on and lectured a million times by overly sensitive people, YOU ARE GOING TO REBEL.
I don't like it when someone fixates on a comment I made and blows it out of proportion.
I also don't like it when some Twitter Dork says "REEEE, YOU LIKE TAILZ PRONZ, THAT'S PROBLA-MADDIC!!!!"
I don't care, I don't care, I don't care. I've been in the fandom longer than the Twitter / Tumblr Dorks.
And in 2004-ish, nobody really GAVE A SH*T if you liked Tails P0rn or Tiny Toons P0rn.
"PROBLEMATIC" wasn't even PART of our collective vocabulary, because TUMBLR & TWITTER didn't even EXIST YET.
I am sick to gawd damn death of FICTION EQUALS REALITY freaks from Tumblr and Twitter.
I am sick to gawd damn death of delusional morons making dumb accusations OVER 2D CARTOON ARTWORK....
People who treat FICTION like it's REAL LIFE are the problem... not the ART....