#'it's like cancel culture!'

[anthropologist-on-the-loose]

I’m calling it now, “I bet you did numbers on twitter” will become a new insult on tumblr.com.

#normally i wouldn't mind new users if they're willing to understand the cultural norms here #but if it's those same incredibly toxic users who left in 2018 coming back then i'm not super excited #i very much like the lack of cancel culture and unnecessary discourse in my feed these days #in which i say things

[azulashengrottospiano]

while playing the masquerade event i was hit with the realization that the students from nrc are quite literally the terrible tourists rollo was talking about. and im almost CERTAIN they've been just as bad every other event. like you have ruggie who was about to steal a shops hard earned money, you have epel and deuce that were saying their bread wasn't special before even trying it, you have ruggie AGAIN saying that the historic toys they make are just chunks of wood and don't have any value. these people suck and should not be permitted to travel. all they're doing is making a nuisance of themselves.

#auburn's rambles <3 #twst #twisted wonderland #disney twisted wonderland #glorious masquerade #not to be an asshole but it's starting to piss me off #like what happened to ENJOYING a trip with an OPEN MIND to EXPERIENCE THE CULTURE #instead of voicing all of your doubts and insults to your TOUR GUIDE while the shopkeepers are RIGHT THERE #nrc is so fucking annoying when they travel #and before anyone gets upset im not saying these characters should be cancelled or that you're not allowed to like them #im saying they're being rude to the people of fleur city

[barkyboybeloved]

My blog is welcome to all people who would be considered cringe.

Quadratic cat mask wearer? Welcome friend! Let's rest those joints I've got some dog beds in here!

Neopronoun users with 8 different xenogenders? That's so cool!!! Come tell me about what drew you to them!!!

You're autistic or have an intellectual disability or generally neurodivergent in any way (I'm talking to you bipolar dogs, schizophrenic deer, lizards with ocd, etc) you are welcome here anytime. I see you and you're doing amazing!!!

Dress visibly therian/furry in public with tails and ears and other things? You're so brave and so cool and you inspire every child who passes you on the street.

And to the young therians. The ones who are so afraid of joining this community due to other members being mean or gatekeepy. You are welcome here. Figure yourself out. Be "cringe" or whatever. You got a very brave little bird dog here to protect you against anyone who's being mean.

If you identify as an animal, no matter what else you do about it, you're a therian. Congrats.

#cringe culture is dead #lowkey this is about the post lukanthropi made because it left a terrible taste in my mouth #this is a safe space for everyone #i mean like dont cancel or harrass him or anything. I just left a reply and unfollowed him #we believe in kindness #do no harm but take no shit #caninekin #alterhuman #otherkin #therian #barks at queue #duckdog barks

[arcanegifs]

#BRUHHHHHH I NEED ANOTHER TEASER I BEG YOU RIOT #ITS BEEN THREE YEARS I CANT WAIT TO USE NEW CONTENT FOR GIFS LMAO #personal tag #dont look at me im just here to complain about content drought lmao its really not good in fostering a healthy fandom ngl #because ppl will just hyperfixate and consume media for like a month and then the fandom goes poof right after lol #i miss all the people scrutinizing media every week i miss all the essays pumping out when content arrives #these days its just.... nothing lmao i only really still have arcane in my mind because of fanfiction and a lot of fics have been inactive #ik we're getting new stuff in a few months #and ik we're not in canceled shows hell but like #i really hope that if theres season 3 we're gonna get it a bit more regularly #i really miss it when content was like weekly or every 2 weeks because ppl and the fandom are wayyyy more active during those times #binge culture and netflix sort of changed it lol #i miss it when fandoms were huge!!! i miss it when it was so CHAOTIC lmaooooooooo #I MISS WAITING FOR LONG ASS HOURS WAITING FOR CONTENT TO RELEASE EVERY WEEK!!!! I MISS IT!!!! that was like what 12 years ago LOL #I KNOW arcane is special with their 3 year drought because it takes time to make arcane #but like..... idk man i miss content lmao #iirc they took too long to make s2 bc they have no idea if s1 would be even renewed #so i hope s3 will be a bit more regular now #anyways im gonna go bye bye

[benisasoftboi]

Alright, I see why people fancy him now

#mathew baynton #mat baynton #horrible histories #bbc ghosts #six idiots #god if this wasn't refreshing to hear #very very tired of listening to comics discuss 'cancel culture' like it's gay rights in qatar #i think there are some comedians who genuinely consider 'comedian' to be an oppressed minority #the full interview is on the oxford union's youtube and it's worth watching #won't spoil the end but it's ADORABLE #not described

[copperbadge]

For the past week or so there's been Ray Bradbury quotes circulating on Tumblr, and while I don't like Ray Bradbury as an author or a person, I don't mind the quotes, because I know how violently he would hate that his words were published and circulating online, and that knowledge gives me joy.

#ray bradbury was anti-censorship the same way Elon Musk is #he said e-books 'smell like burning fuel' #and 'we've got too many internets' #which mind you is a baller meme waiting to happen #anyway he blamed cancel culture and wokeness for censorship #so my time for him is limited

[kthulhu42]

went to a work Christmas party where I didn't know anyone except the person who invited me, who was talking to her boss so I just kinda hid on a couch in the corner

And there was a TIF sitting nearby who asked about my shirt - I said "It's from a TV show from the 70s, super dated now but I loved it as a kid so my partner bought me the vintage shirt"

And this fucking person IMMEDIATELY unlocks their phone and starts searching up any "drama" or "problematic" aspects (it's a show from the 70s, there are. So. many) and begins to LIST them to me in this "how COULD you support this" voice

And I'm just chilling like "well this is fun, got into an unintentional purity spiral of judgement from this fucking dweeb" and my friend comes over and immediately clocks the situation and drags me out of there before I start some shit on this idiot child

And like, how do you fucking live on this earth while being like this. How do you move through your day-to-day without collapsing. Like you had *no idea* that this shirt or this show existed, and you went and looked it up *just* so you could give me shit? Do you have *any* friends? Is this why you were sitting alone in the corner at your OWN work Christmas party? Because you have approximately zero social skills? Because you think a great way to connect with total strangers is to give them a lecture?

#Christmas parties suck #Purity spiral #Cancel culture #This idiot didn't start on the big dude wearing a rap artist shirt because that could be scary #That guy might not react well to criticism #So let's bug the total stranger lady sitting alone to make ourselves feel like we Did A Thing

[momentsofamberclarity]

this might come as a surprise to some people ... but the question is not are you "pro-ship", "ship neutral", or "anti-ship" ...

the real question is do you support artistic freedom or do you reject it in favor of compliance to the standards of mob mentality?

#anti censorship #anti callout culture #anti cancel culture #proship discourse #anti discourse #also 'ship neutral' doesn't make sense lmao #like if you're genuinely calling yourself this you've completely missed the starting point of this whole moral argument. #ambers.txt

[somedreamlove]

The reason the rhetoric around ‘victim blaming’ is so insidious—and the reason people are still attacking George as an ‘abuser’ despite the situation having been cleared up as a non-issue—is because that phrase, the way it’s currently used, is quite literally intended to be a thought-stopper.

It’s intended to eliminate the possibility for nuanced thought and conversation because it’s a convenient catch-all intended to silence anyone who doesn’t conform to the scary demands of total denunciation.

It functions as a radicalised demand that either demands total loyalty—‘she’s a perfect victim stripped of all agency’—or else cancels you for seeing nuance—‘you’re a victim blamer’.

You need to be very, very careful of any phrase that is intended to cut off any possibility for nuance or further discussion because these are classic tools of increasing radicalism.

Once that scary word is brought out—no matter how inappropriately—can have no more thoughts, no discussion or middle ground; everything must be black and white.

That just widens the mental divide between ‘good person who can do no wrong’ (even when they do) and ‘bad person to blame for everything ever’ (even when there’s ever-present human nuance).

#I appreciate the word ‘thought-stopper’ because that’s Literally what it is #and it’s so hard to put into words but it’s becoming more and more common #like I shudder whenever I see the words ‘victim blaming’ now #cause it’s just pendulum-swing so much the other way way past what it was meant to do #quite frankly the whole cancel culture thing reminds me wayyyy too much of China under Mao #and how people were ‘disappeared’ for expressing a slight transgression from Perfect Thought

[princeofcyberpunk]

i forgot that this was geniune digimon canon.

this sounds like something the daily wire would make up

#princeposting #digimon #digimon tamers #LIKE??? THIS LITERALLY SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING A CONSERVATIVE WOULD MAKE UP AKJHDKSJHDAD #grrr those goddamn libs with their Political Correctness and Cancel Culture gonna delete my social media >:(( #its my god given right to call trans people slurs on twitter >:(((( #anyway yeah who the hell is responsible for this plot point this is so funny

[paper-ish]

he’s not your uwu small bean he’s a white american comedian, stand up

#he cheated on his wife and has platformed a transphobe multiple times and called him a good friend #he’s a man like the rest #this is not cancel culture this is knocking him off the unearned pedestal #ish rants #john mulaney

[marybatson]

starting a compilation of them insulting each other

#billy batson #freddy freeman #freddy: I wish cancel culture was real so u can die #billy: kill yourself #actually this is the most like the current kid generation they’ve ever sounded #comic lb

[companionsofusall]

I feel like one of the things i really like about this season is the themes of consumption and depersonalization. The way that people can consume other people, the way that people aren’t people but only a means to an end, the way that people are only as good as what they provide to you. You are only as good as your own narrative, on Society’s terms.

#it also makes me think of like. celebrity culture/internet fame shit like that #how people idolize or villainoze people into two dimensional shadows of their actual personhood #either revered or cancelled #never allowed to grow past the story written #neverafter #the times of shadow arent just bad because bad things are happening- #but because its blurring that line between good and bad as well #(i mean yes the bad things too)

[lord-angelfish]

since this has been brought up, I'd like it to be known that I am very firmly in favor of the principles of ship and let ship, kinktomato, don't like don't read, fiction does not equal reality, and all of the attached tenets of fandom! you will never be judged for liking something here, no matter what it is, and i will absolutely never, ever condone callouts, cancel culture, harrassment, death threats, abuse, suicide baiting, spam, and any of other harmful and stupid shit the fandom tends to do.

#i like talking at y'all #psa #the anticensorship is implied #suicide baiting #abuse mention #cancel culture #anti anti

[bettycrocker]

“CLONE HIGH REBOOT IS BAD ITS ONLY TALKING ABOUT CANCEL CULTURE AND NO GHANDI”

tell me you forgot that clone high does commentary on whats happening in the current time+that its a plot based over the top cartoon without telling me you forgot

#bettycrocker speaking #clone high #i like the leaked episode #like im not expecting anything amazing from the first episode #its a good step back into it considering it WAS cancelled for its depiction of ghandi #and it has every right to make fun of that #especially since cancel culture has evolved in such a way that clone high is #incredibly tame in comparison to whats brought down nowadays #not to mention the leaked episode is clearly unfinished #theres still placeholder voice acting for abe #they showed ghandi which hints that theres going to be something going on with him #like its literally a show making fun of teen dramas of the time #since those arent popular anymore im not surprised people forgot

[thedreadvampy]

btw about Neil Gaiman I periodically agree with the 'Neil Gaiman is annoying' stuff bc I feel like both he and Amanda Palmer seem like people who I would go insane stuck in a room with bc we have very different ideas about art and suchlike. and I also do think that the career trajectory he's on lately is cynically redoing his greatest hits and pretending that was the dream all along when it clearly was not. which is at best meh.

having said which

as far as I can tell by far the most common complaint about Neil Gaiman is "Snow, Glass, Apples is problematic/gross/it's got incest and rape and frames the child as the aggressor"

which strikes me as a weird complaint to pull out of a 40 year body of work tbh when that short story is pretty clearly coming from a place of 'how far can I push this'. like you don't have to like the story. I don't really like the story. but it is. a horror story.

like and this is the thing with particularly 90s alt horror right? a lot of the interest is in transgression and sitting in the worst possible perspective and seeing what happens if you pull those strings. like I really like Clive Barker for example but there's a good chunk of his short stories that I'm like I'm not picking up what you're putting down Clive this seems Kinda Off. but that willingness to write some trite or Bad Message horror fiction that doesn't land is imo a side effect of being willing to try writing uncomfortable and unpleasant fiction at all. which is what horror is for, among other things, it's for creating discomfort as a form of catharsis or engagement.

like I am not a huge fan of the type of sex-horror that pops up in a lot of Gaiman's work and other contemporary horror writers - to me I don't find it upsetting or horny it just ends up feeling kind of edgy and tryhard - but I'm also a bit like. it does seem like a lot of people's beef with Neil Gaiman is that In The 90s He Was A Horror Writer

and this approach to Problematic Horror in Snow, Glass, Apples I find kind of microcosmic of how The Discourse often approaches art in this kind of 1:1 way. if you write a story which seems to line up with rape apologia it can only be because you agree with it. if you write a story about transphobia you're a transphobe. if you write a story that makes me genuinely uncomfortable you're attacking me.

but artwork, especially art like horror that's not necessarily trying to provoke enjoyment as its main response, is necessarily hit and miss. and if what you're shooting for is discomfort then whether it works, falls flat or goes too far incredibly depends on your audience. and making good art - as in art that makes its audience think, art that opens the audience up to discomfort and catharsis and sticks with them and changes them - requires the space to experiment and tbh the space to fuck up. like they aren't all going to be winners and they certainly aren't all going to work for you as a singular audience.

personally I don't see the appeal of Snow, Glass, Apples, less cause it's nasty and more cause it's hack. ooh an edgy monstrous version of a fairy tale where there's lots of rape and cannibalism? you're soooo original Neil. but like. that's fine. I don't really vibe with like 70% of Neil Gaiman stuff I've read but I still like Neil Gaiman because the stuff that works for me really works for me.

idk I think there's a lot of folk on this website who shouldn't interact with horror cause they clearly aren't interested in being horrified. that's not everyone who dislikes Snow, Glass, Apples, but it's a real undercurrent to a lot of the criticism and tbh this kinda vibe is shit for art. making standout art What Is Good also requires being ready to make art which stands out for the wrong reasons. sometimes they'll be the same art to different people.

#red said #not to Cancel Culture this but isabelle fall springs to mind in a lot of how folks talk about stuff like this #like she wrote a transgressive piece exploring her own negative feelings about transness and her anger around a transphobic trope #and she made something which i found really resonant and interesting #and she got torn apart for it because it Might From Some Angles Agree With Transphobia #and I'm not making a direct comparison. because i think attack helicopter is a really GOOD story and i think SGA is gratuitous and hack #but that's the thing right? transgression and discomfort and speaking about unpleasant things in an openended way are KEY #to making art that engages directly with your own pains and angers and discomforts #and that's hard to mediate tbh. but it's also very necessary. #i think as well thinking about Gaiman this is also a thought I've often had about Amanda Palmer #who over the years has written a lot of songs about things i find genuinely uncomfortable or offensive. #and i can engage with 'it's fucked up to tell your ex they transed their gender At You' or 'your partner's suicide is not about you' bc yeah #but #you can't celebrate someone for making confessional music then get mad because you don't like everything they confess #if you only take about your socially acceptable thoughts it's not really confessional is it? #if you only talk about discomforting things that people are comfortable hearing about its not really discomforting #and you can only really discern what's Good Transgressive and what's Damaging Transgressive through doing i think #so if you want challenging art you are going to have to get some art which challenges you and you go hmm no i still disagree #is what i think #so yeah you can hate the artwork but when an artist is specifically setting out to make challenging art it's weird to hate them #for making 50 pieces of art you like and 1 you hate