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#i just rlly have been thinking abt this since phil left twitter
strandedcrow · 3 years
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Do you ever think that maybe the reason why the CCs don't come to tumblr (like, let people know they're blogs- I already know some of them are on here and are just anonymous) is because then all the negativity from Twitter will follow them on tumblr and try to drag all of us not cc blogs into the controversy discorse- so they stay anonymous so that they can be on tumblr without worrying about Twitter things
honestly i’m not entirely sure if they have come to that conclusion themselves, but i know i haven’t stopped thinking about it the past month or so
tumblr has always been notorious as the weirdest fandom space, the most obsessive, the one that breaks the most boundaries, the most aggressive, etc. and while it used to be deserved, i do think there was a noticeable shift after the nsfw ban here that’s become extremely clear in how horrible twitter has been recently (specifically march and on for dsmptwt). so on one hand, i think it’s entirely possible that they aren’t publicly on here (or on here at all) in order to avoid bringing that same aggression and parasocial behavior from twt to a more passive community. but on the other hand, they may genuinely avoid tumblr (the ones that we don’t know for sure that they’ve lurked) because they believe it remains the worst fandom space. and with twitter being as bad as it is, if i thought tumblr was worse, then i wouldn’t want to go anywhere near tumblr either.
honestly either seems equally possible to me. if it’s the former then i appreciate their staying quiet, because i don’t doubt that their public presence would not only alter behavior from the existing community here but would draw in the toxic members from twitter. and if it’s the latter then i hope they at least lurk here at some point to see that it doesn’t really get much worse than what they’ve already been dealing with constantly on twitter, and that they can breathe and realize that essentially every other community is more passive and lighthearted than what they’ve dealt with firsthand
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