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triviallytrue · 1 year

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Were there Russian Chaos Agents on tumblr in 2016?

First things first:

Things I got wrong in earlier posts on this:

@ms-disinformation didn't identify these accounts ahead of time, this blog started posting in 2019 and is focused on accounts that are likely to be bot-run

Relatedly, the accounts accused of being Russian state actors were accused of being trolls, not bots - they were almost undoubtedly human-run

Tumblr didn't announce the mass ban of these accounts until several months after they did it - they banned the accounts in fall of 2017 and announced them in March 2018.

What actually happened?

The Internet Research Agency is a Russian company accused of creating fake social media accounts to attempt to influence the 2016 presidential election in favor of Donald Trump. On March 23, 2018, tumblr posted a list of accounts they claimed were linked to the IRA that they had terminated the previous fall. On November 16, 2018, they posted a second list of accounts given to them by law enforcement of other IRA-related accounts (unrelated to any election interference) that were also terminated.

How did tumblr identify these accounts?

tumblr has been extremely vague about the methodology used to find these accounts, but we do have another source: the Buzzfeed News journalist who wrote about the termination of these accounts back on February 6, 2018 (over a month before tumblr's post) identified them by cross-referencing tumblr accounts with twitter's list of IRA-affiliated accounts, finding similar or identical usernames and profile pictures.

Unfortunately, this only kicks the can further down the road - how did twitter identify these accounts? These sites don't want to reveal their methods, but this study offers some insights into the behavior of these accounts and possible tools used to identify them.

Why should we believe tumblr's narrative?

There are a lot of reasons I'm convinced that tumblr is being honest with us about this, the simplest of which is that they don't have a good reason to lie about this. tumblr nukes accounts all the time without disclosing its reasons - if they wanted to get rid of an arbitrary list of accounts they dislike, they could do that and none of us would know. They deleted these accounts months before posting any explanation at all, and the only backlash they received was in articles like the Buzzfeed News article above slamming them for not talking about the Russian troll problem, instead of accusing them of terminating activists.

It's also not like this is some tactic that tumblr has employed frequently - the list of IRA-affiliated accounts has been untouched since 2018. This was a once-off, not part of any organized strategy to suppress certain types of posters.

Moreover, tumblr users with similar post content were left untouched, including many that reblogged heavily from the IRA accounts - the Buzzfeed News article identifies one such blog (alwaysbewoke) who posted more or less the same type of antiracist, pro-Sanders activism (albeit without the eventual support for Trump) who wasn't deactivated.

It's also worth noting that the IRA is a real company and not a US boogeyman (even if some subsection of liberals use the phrase "Russian bot" as such) - recently, the leader of the Wagner group came forward and confirmed that he founded it and still finances and runs it, and he's relatively direct about the fact that it was used to interfere in US elections:

“Gentlemen, we interfered, we interfere and we will interfere,” Prigozhin said in November, one day before the US midterm elections.

Finally, and most convincingly in my opinion, no one behind any of the over a hundred accounts on the tumblr IRA list or the thousands on the twitter one have come forward in the past six years to claim that they were wrongfully associated with the IRA and banned as a result.

Isn't that fascinating? Can you imagine what a story it would be, if social media sites were not only terminating activists but lying about why they were doing it? Do you think that not a single one of these hundreds of alleged activists thought of calling a sympathetic journalist, showing them their US driver's license, and asking them to a run a story? What about messaging their old mutuals, or making a new account, or finding a federated platform that won't delete them on sight? I can't find a shred of evidence that any of this ever happened, and that's pretty telling.

The funny part is, there's no real evidence that these accounts ever achieved anything, and indeed, reasons to doubt that they did. They operated in preexisting echo chambers and circulated mostly true stories with a specific slant to them, with the occasional dash of outright lies. Certainly, it's hard to argue that they were less reliable or more biased than your average Fox News article. But arguing that they weren't Russian propaganda seems pretty difficult.

#long #have an effortpost

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g-0thschlampe · 10 months

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Heyo! My main account @g0thschlampe was wrongfully deleted! Follow me on this new account 🖤

Please share this so I can find all my murals again! 🖤

#g0thschlampee #alternative goth #tattooed #tattooed women #alt gf #big round butt #big bootie #i sell content #spicy content

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rahiwatching · 2 months

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Bionicle Tumblr people - @kanohivolitakk wanted to let everyone know that they got their account wrongfully deleted due to a vent DM getting picked up. Hopefully they will get it sorted soon.

#bionicle #bionicle tumblr #kanohivolitakk

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roxynmae · 10 months

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Announcement

A quick announcement from me, a disappointing one for those who have excitedly followed along with my stories in the Avatar fandom. After some upsetting experiences with plagiarism, I won’t be posting any more works in the Avatar fandom on Tumblr or AO3.

This is because my one shot “Stolen Laughs” about Spider and Quaritch was plagiarised by another person on Tumblr. My original ideas and writing were copied word for word, butchered, then reposted by someone else. This person knows who they are, and has been called out by my friends and followers in this community.

What made it worse is after this person was rightfully called out, instead of doing the responsible, respectful thing by apologising and deleting my stolen work (and stolen works from other creators they plagiarised) they decided to harass me on Tumblr by sending me anons and messages and deflecting the blame.

I, and other creators in this fandom are the victims, but this person has wrongfully painted themselves out to be the innocent person. They hurt me and others deeply by stealing art and writing that take a lot of time, energy, and creativity to make.

Then, they wanted ME to forgive them for stealing said writing, and asked me to stop telling people to be mad at them. I did not make the call out post or ask my friends to send them polite messages to take down the stolen works from their blog. But I am so, so grateful to my friends for standing by me and supporting me through this difficult time. It’s very appreciated.

It’s incredibly disheartening to see that this person is antagonising the creators they have stolen works from and won’t accept responsibility by admitting their blame and righting their wrongs. This could have easily been fixed by an apology and deleting the stolen content and refraining from reposting stolen works again. But no, they chose not to do that.

I know this because the original account who stole my writing actually blocked me instead of apologising, and as mentioned above, chose to send my anonymous messages to harass me into making me feel guilty for their faults.

For the people waiting for the next chapters of “Live And Let Die”, I am sorry but I won’t be continuing the story or writing any new works in the Avatar fandom. Otherwise, I am done sharing my work here. English is not my first language. I put a lot of hard work, time, and effort into writing something good and improving myself as a writer.

I won’t be going anywhere and I’m still writing because I’m passionate about it and not going to let this experience put me off what I’m passionate about. In the future though, I won’t be posting any Avatar related works on my blog.

I’m very excited for the next thing I will be creating, only the future will tell what that is, and for those of you who have supported me as a friend and as a creator, I cannot wait to show you what it is.

Thank you for reading and understanding❤️

#avatar #spider socorro #miles quartich #personal post #Roxy’s life update #roxy talks #announcement

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sophieinwonderland · 3 months

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r/systemscringe user denies harassing people. Includes evidence of harassment in post.

You randomly popped in out of nowhere to say "hey shitass," after a month of no talking, was told to leave them alone, and kept interacting with them anyways!

Maybe you only used one account and they wrongfully think you're someone else... but really... "I only harassed them a little bit and not as much as they think I did" isn't the great defense you think it is. 😤

Anyway, this post should probably be deleted soon if the r/systemscringe mods are still pretending to care about their rules. It's pretty obviously breaking rule 5, "don't touch the cringe."

Then again, it's been up 7 hours and u/Goat_Alter recently encouraged people to start mass reporting the newest entry to their hitlist, so really all bets are off. 🤷‍♀️

#syscourse #r/systemscringe #systemscringe #hate groups #hate group

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yellowmonday · 16 days

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ok i have to make a disclaimer here too since someone just accused me of running scams + called me pathetic and then blocked me before i could explain anything lmao.

to clarify: yes i’m currently actively boosting multiple crowdfunds for 3 separate people (mutuals and friends who need financial assistance for various reasons), through my main blog yellowmonday and my fandom sideblog thylaseraph (wrongfully terminated and still unrestored rip.) i am fundraising through dming blogs, because that’s the easiest and most effective way to reach out. these are all verifiable requests, they are legitimate, these are all unrelated people who i have chosen to support because i care about them.

if this makes you uncomfortable and you choose to ignore/block me that is fine, especially if you’re a minor or can’t interact for some other reason. PLEASE do not report me i just got my account recovered !! above everything else please be kind.

long post so more details below the cut

my method of crowdfunding: i am on a few other social media sites but tumblr is the easiest to crowdfund on, but censorship and sitewide prejudice against crowdfunders still present barriers. my goal is to get as many people to reblog these aid requests as possible. to do that, i take screenshots of post notes with usernames — i use posts that have over 1k notes so i can reach a lot of different people.

based off the screenshots i direct message people, i type out each individual username, i can share the post with only 4 blogs at a time. many people have dms turned on private. for every dozen usernames in a screenshot, i can successfully message probably half of them. i usually don’t know any of these blogs, i don’t look at their bios, i often don’t know if i’ve messaged them before unless i recognize the username.

it is an imperfect method and i inevitably dm people who get upset which i am sorry for, i always apologize when somebody says they don’t want to be dmed and won’t share. i apologize and try to be polite because i understand the reasonable suspicion, and i don’t want anybody to feel financially obligated especially because so many people are struggling rn, and also because it would be fucking awful if my friends got accused of or reported for being scammers just because of me trying to help! many people do end up reblogging, some people respond to my message with confirmation or words of support, which is always appreciated.

about my scripts: the messages i send are scripted and copy and pasted, saying what the reason for the request is, and i am basically asking for whatever they can contribute even if it’s just a reblog and it’s fine if they can’t etc. it may also include things like, sorry for bothering you, sorry if i have previously dmed you/if you have previously reblogged, thank you, have a nice day etc etc.

i have revised the message a few times and i rewrote it for each person i am crowdfunding on behalf of to give more personal details. i copy and paste that and i think i can mass dm about 50 blogs per day. i talk about my script a little more here (deleted post rip.) in a post trying to gather support for my spn mutual’s ongoing crowdfund — i encourage other people to do the same script + mass dming to gain visibility.

this method of individual outreach has been effective which is why i’m doing it! i share crowdfunds as often as i can on all of my social media platforms, but directly reaching out to people results in more traction and emphasizes the importance of small affordable donations from multiple people. and i think that someone vouching for somebody else’s crowdfund also establishes more trust and credibility in other people’s eyes, which imo is incredibly unfair especially considering how isolated, unsupported, and mistrusted many crowdfunders are.

Black and brown people who crowdfund or rely on other people’s funds for survival are intensely scrutinized, disbelieved, criticized, harassed, ignored, and otherwise marginalized. crowdfunds are generally prioritized based on how relatable, aesthetically pleasing, or friendly they present themselves to be; and how “achievable” or “feel-good” they are, and how well-known, connected, or put-together the crowdfunder makes a huge difference in whether their goal gets met. it turns into a desirability game so the most vulnerable and marginalized people are often abandoned.

i have seen chronically ill people die with unmet medical funding goals. the necessary social capital to meet a lifesaving goal is so inaccessible, and the project of crowdfunding is so impossible. from what i know, over my few years of observing and supporting crowdfunds, and attempts at crowdfunding for myself and my ex-partner in desperate times over the past year, the single most critical factor in meeting a goal (which again is so. so uncommon) is the active participation, interaction, and endorsement of other people. including privileged and moneyed people, but mostly just lots of caring people being vocal. community literally saves lives even online. even a comment on a post or a decision to sponsor one person’s crowdfund can make a huge difference, i strongly encourage people to do this more often and just become more active and VISIBLY supporting crowdfunds.

many people crowdfund this way (through mass/individual outreach) for themselves or others, i don’t think it’s as common on tumblr and it might be harder to distinguish authentic dms from bots and scams on tumblr but. it is still a method that people regularly use to survive. and it takes up a lot of time and is not always fruitful and sometimes you get shitty responses but personally id rather have that be aimed at me than the people who are pleading for support for themselves.

its hard enough to make a post baring the most personal, intimate, painful details of your life, and have it not even generate $20; so how hard is sending that to people and be explicitly ignored or called a liar? i am glad to do this for my friends because it SUCKS!!! i have been directly asked by at least one person to do this for them, and for the others i just started doing it because they had not been getting the visibility they need. it’s not so fucking easy to get visibility on posts without directly begging for it, and many of the people who are crowdfunding do not have the time/energy/resources to do that. it is work, it is draining, when you have to do it for yourself.

i do this as often as i can, like i said there’s a daily limit of blogs i can dm before tumblr restricts me, and some days i do not have the energy which is something i feel bad about. i have had my own requests for affording things like masks for work, or groceries and rent before i moved back with my parents, but i have not dmed people for my own crowdfunds because i am somewhat secure rn. im in debt lmao and im working and contributing literally my entire disposable income to sustaining other people as much as possible. and that’s a privilege because i don’t have to worry about where im getting my own meals as i do this.

i have been fortunate enough to meet my small goals or have large goals partially met by mutuals or friends of friends which i am so grateful for, and which is painful to know knowing that daily my own friends are struggling with much less support or bigger, ongoing goals. i know it is a hundred times worse for people who are crowdfunding this way for themselves every day even if they do not have the energy, because they need to, to survive. that’s why i do this when i can, i have the time to help people in this way, in addition to directly donating if i can afford it, and because i have been in that position, and because people i care about are in that position, and because strangers who are in that position also deserve every ounce of support anybody else can spare.

i believe in the practice of mutual aid and since i do not have the ability to directly donate or get involved with irl organization myself at this time, crowdfunding for other people online is what I can do right now. i think society is fucked up idk what else to say! i don’t just mean the social inequity that causes people to become financially unstable and alienated in these ways, but also the attitude of mistrust and anger toward everybody asking for help that develops because of it. anyways.

if anybody has any questions about legitimacy, of me or the requests im boosting, i am fully willing to answer. some tips i would give if you’re trying to discern between a scam and an authentic crowdfund (these are not always definitive but may be helpful):

blog history and activity to see how old the blog is, if they have mutuals, if they post updates, if they blog about other things or talk about their life. sometimes real people create blogs on tumblr just to crowdfund so you can’t always tell based off this, it MIGHT be a sign of a repeat scammer.

having a conversation with the person. do they seem like a real person whose story checks out? if you’re going to report someone for scamming you should at least talk to them first. otherwise you could be endangering their platform and cutting them off from support. tumblr is known for doing this to marginalized people.

checking out the links they provide — if it’s multiple and usernames/face id is consistent across platforms, if they sell goods or services which could verify them as a real person, selfies and photos etc. most scammers are not putting that much effort in, they’re usually ripping off somebody else’s story and photos. use reverse image search. if you’re not sure, it is your right to ignore but please be aware of how many sincere people get harassed for this, like please don’t be cruel or endanger somebody’s income.

and it’s fine that people ignore me or block me, please do so if you feel uncomfortable with a stranger reaching out like this, but above all else i don’t want to get any of my friends in trouble or make people doubt the validity of their crowdfunds, i just want people to know these campaigns can be verified if you take a few minutes. like im truly sorry to bother people because i know scams go around all the time but if you care that much it is not generally extremely difficult to find out if something is a scam or if it is genuine. and in the worst case scenario if you’re unable to decide for certain, you can. just ignore. and block.

ok thanx bye

#mine #posts made moments before tumblr killed my blogs #but im back still campaigning hi.

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crumb · 8 days

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So just out of curiosity, and I know it's been a while 😅, but exactly how many side blogs did you have before Tumblr shadow banned you? Asking for reasons 👀

LOL oh uh, many. I don't remember the exact number, but a lot. I've been using tumblr since like 2008 (though this is like my third acct) and had been just collecting urls from every fandom I moved through. Some I used, which is fine. But not using a considerable amount of sideblogs is considered hoarding urls which... yeah that's fair lol. So if you have a bunch like that there's always a chance tumblr will strike you down. Though to be clear, they first shadowbanned me wrongfully, which they admitted. It was some security algorithm that like automatically flagged my account and suppressed it for some reason. And then when I reached out for help, they almost fully nuked my account because they saw how many sideblogs I had lmaooo. I never even really thought about it because most were ones I made literally like 5+ years ago. and then it was another whole ordeal deleting all the unused sideblogs and then reaching out to support again and again trying to get them to fix my blog. Which they eventually did, thank god. If you're going through the same thing I would suggest getting rid of urls you don't really want or need, to be safe. if support has explicitly told you that's why your account has been nuked, they will tell you that you need to delete every single sideblog you have that doesnt already have a post(s) made on it. And you can't add a post to a sideblog at that point to try to save it from their wrath/radar. So yeah 🥲 Good luck!

#im-his-druidess #ask

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timaeuslover001 · 21 days

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Quicksilver Headcanon #1

Peter became a P.E. teach/cheer coach at the school.

Which he loved because he could be energetic and the students found him fun as well.

He would put on music for warm ups and sometimes during dodgeball fights.

As cheer coach he would choreograph some of their stuff and as stunting became more popular , he even helped with hose too but jubilee became Cheer captain would mainly take on choreography as well.

[sorry if yo0u saw this post before my account got wrongfully deleted and hTumblr hasn't restored it for the past 3 months. 🙃]

#quicksilver Headcanon #Quicksilver #Peter Maximoff #x men #marvel #x men films #Xaviers school for gifted youngsters #X mansion #coach #gym class #gym teacher

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gtsypodcast · 5 months

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No TikTok clips this week because TikTok wrongfully banned and deleted our account!

We are hoping it will be restored and we can provide you with video clips again soon!

#gtsypodcast #getting to show you #podcast #tiktok

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creepingsenseofdread · 3 months

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really need to know more about how a contracted moderater was selling moderation and accepting bribes, and if anything was done after that to restore accounts wrongfully deleted?

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silkendandelion · 1 month

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I can't find where in Google's terms they're using A.I. and not allowing graphic content. Do you remember where you saw it? Also, I keep stopping and starting when it comes to choosing a encrypted email because the thought of changing my email on all my accounts is daunting. Thank you for your advice.

Hi! Good to hear from you again. This got really long so look below the cut:

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We have to do a little digging here. On the outside, google’s TOS front page boasts that your work belongs to you—that is true. But that’s not the issue, the problem is whether your work is allowed on their Drive service. Google reserves the rights in their TOS to remove content from their servers they believes violates their policies, so let’s visit that. They state—

“Do not distribute content that contains sexually explicit material, such as nudity, graphic sex acts, and pornographic material. This includes driving traffic to commercial pornography sites. We allow nudity for educational, documentary, scientific, or artistic purposes.”

Most people read that last line, “artistic purposes” and think “oh I’m safe”—maybe. The word artistic has no definition within US Law (bc thats where I’m from, users from other countries will have to brush up on their countries laws), the only thing the law decides is who owns the material.

If something happened to your account, maybe you get reviewed, maybe the moderator handling your case believes your content is explicit or isn’t artistic. Likely? Not really, that’s what we call the “spotlight effect”.

But don’t you deserve better? Nothing in google’s terms of service protects you if that ever happened. I know that I want better, I want clear and legally binding terms of service that hold companies liable for when its users are wrongfully purged or deleted. I want them to protect my information because that’s their job.

As for the AI thing, it’s public information Google is creating multiple AI engines for different purposes, engines that need scraped information. As of this post, googles current rule is “publicly available” information from your Google docs or adjacent accounts is fair game for scraping, including anything you’ve posted to personal websites or social media. So far, the rule is to set your stuff to “anyone with a link” to opt out (not that they told anyone to do that).

While that does protect some users and looks good splashed across a tweet from their corporate account—I don’t believe it.

For a billion dollar company that wants to make money and save money, where is the cheapest information they can get for their models? Their own servers. If I had a dollar for every time a company says one thing and then gets busted years later for lying and doing the thing they promised they weren’t doing—well I wouldn’t have to work.

(Rant over)

Wow, this got way too long and a little angry, but that’s okay. Hopefully, you learned something, and I learned a little more from doing new research.

Choosing a new email is always hard, it takes awhile, and I only moved over accounts that I use creatively, and my job. Try creating an account with a service as a trial period, see if you like the user interface, how the apps run, if you like it: switch over. If you don’t like it, you can always close the account and try a different service.

Cheers to a better internet, emyy, one day at a time 🩵

#google drive #Google #google docs

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localeldritchhorrornamedgar · 10 months

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For ppl trying to view this blog rn. My old blog was deleted wrongfully when I tried to delete an old co-blog a moot and I wasn't using anymore. I didn't pay attention and read and deleted my account on accident so all my old messages I have are gone :( But my moot still has them! :)

I'm not a bot, im just trying to get back to the tumblr experience.

So this blog is going to be the central portion for trying to figure out a fic blog and an art blog!

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nndefunctlolgoawaypls · 2 years

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i was wrongfully harassed by several accounts over the fact that my snake I shipped (named Arson) to a very lovely person who wanted to take him in made some posts suggested I scammed them out of $100. but that isnt the case and we worked out details privately. Long story short the delivery truck transporting Arson was involved in a highway wreck, rerouted to another city and his shipping box was wrongly packaged with all the non-live animal shipments on that particular truck to a storage facility/local PO. Idk why they didnt have him in a temperature controlled van or truck or whatever when I paid $53.47 for overnight live reptile shipping but whatever i dont work in a PO thank god. so anyway please disregard any further posts on the subject as i have always been a very private person who wants my privacy back since the matter is settled between me and the other party involved. If Arson is alive then they are coming to pick him up in person to avoid anything like this further. Im also trying to pay back the $100 anyway since there's a chance right now hes dead in storage and I feel its very wrong to take money without handing over the final product (what people sent me death threats over and accused me of doing) etc etc. So that all said I'm not making any other donation posts or rehoming posts on Tumblr either for my mental health should something like this occur again and the information gets twisted into something it just isnt by random followers of the main ppeoole involved, yknow before its all on the table by all parties, which I fins weird because i NEVER, EVER assume guilt (though perhaps I'm too navie idk). I think it was a mistake at all to try to rehome a live animal on this site and im sorry for any drama, hurt, or anything else I caused in this intentionally or not. It isnt my fault the PO didnt immediately inform me the truck wrecked but Its my mistake for not sharing that I didn't know what was going on with his shipment before it got out of hand.

I wont be posting here again either, I'm not "running away from drama" so mucb as I have servere PTSD and shit, and I cant really find peace on a blog I got sent multiple very highly specific death threats and messages to. And was told I hope I do end up homeless on, after I have been traumatized by being homeless as a kid And as an adult. So its a tough decision but a final one, this blog will be deleted soon ✌️

Peace out, I wont be around and you'll never find me unless you know me

#snapjock #moonbearfarm

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