So, to make a long story short, I quit Tumblr. Here's why.
- Tumblr has made me a more cynical person. In the half a year I spent on Tumblr, I have never seen more hate, bigotry, nastiness, and sheer bitterness aimed at other people anywhere else. Only on Tumblr would you find someone who is insulted in reality because of their gender identity turning around and launching similar insults at others, in some faulty belief that these others somehow "deserve it". Only on Tumblr would you ever see someone say only a certain type of abuse victim matters, fuck every other victim out there - their trauma and pain clearly don't matter. Only on Tumblr would I see people I thought were my friends disparage and attack myself and others, directly or indirectly. Only on Tumblr would I see someone who is extremely sweet-natured get shit on because she said something a few people disagreed with. Only on Tumblr would I see the kind of bigotry that I'm supposed to apparently be seeing in the real world. Call me nuts, but I thought Tumblr was an accepting community? Right. I've seen so much misogyny, misandry, transphobia, biphobia, cisphobia, homophobia, heterophobia, racism, sexism, and general bigotry towards others on Tumblr that I'm beginning to hate people now, and that's sad, because I really, really like most people and really, really don't want to become a bitter asshole like everyone else on that site already is. And the worst part? The damage has already been done. I no longer trust people, and it's going to take a very, very long time and a lot of hard work for me to open back up again.
- Tumblr has made me doubt and hate myself. Let's put it this way. I have been cyberbullied in the past, as I've stated before on this blog. Here? I feel totally safe sharing my opinions with others. I don't mind others reading these words, and I would never for a moment be scared to share something that might leave me vulnerable or be unpopular, even if others disagree with me. In short, here, I don't have to walk on eggshells around people. On Tumblr, I do. Because if you mention just once that you are upset by something that happened, if you feel an injustice was done to you and you vent as many people do, and you're the wrong subset of person, you will be attacked, bullied, harangued, and generally made to feel like shit. Try to find people who will listen to you? They disagree on something else, and make you feel like shit. Try to show righteous anger? You're scum/shit/worthless. Try to give resources or support people, or explain what you really meant to say? Nope, you're just an asshole, or you're faking it for attention, go kill yourself. I was literally so afraid to say anything about any issue I find important, because I knew someone was waiting, just around the next corner, to attack me again. To the point it began to feel like cyberbullying all over again, which actually made me have anxiety attacks on multiple occasions. To the point I began to tell myself, "Maybe there's actually something wrong with me. Maybe my opinions are wrong. Maybe they're all in the right." It started coming out in real life too, when I would snap at my mom for shit she didn't even do, and downplay or disparage myself, my talents, and my achievements in real life. It got to the point I felt I couldn't even speak my mind unless I cloaked it in a veil of sarcasm and snark, one of the masks I always use when I'm in self-doubt. This is a common problem on Tumblr, low self-esteem of users, and the problem is that Tumblr users are contributing to it in others, to the point they feel they can't even speak their minds about stuff without the fear of being judged or yelled at. That's not only forced self-censorship, it's abuse. Emotional abuse. And yet, somehow it's okay, because my opinion is one you disagree with. On Tumblr, abuse is okay if you don't like someone's opinion. Sorry, but this emotional abuse survivor will always, always disagree on that one, guys.
- Tumblr has ruined other media for me. I literally cannot watch, listen to, or otherwise consume any media anymore without noticing social justice things in it. "But Sugary!" you might say, "Isn't that a good thing? We should always notice when there are problems with the way people are portrayed!" You're right. It's a good thing to be aware of problematic tropes, portrayals, and stereotypes involving minority groups in fiction. It's also 100% important to do things like trigger warn and discuss the issues various minority groups face. Social justice is hella important, so important, because tolerance and awareness for issues others face is something that more people need to have. The problem is, it's not good to start seeing issues where there aren't any, and it's not good to obsess over anything to the point you cannot feasibly live your life anymore without being offended by something. Tumblr, for example, is the sole reason I am now scared to talk to men at parties - after all, says Tumblr groupthink, men are all horrible rapists in disguise, waiting to hurt me. This line of thinking even had me so scared when I was at a party and some guy I just met ordered me a drink, to the point I was scared that he'd put alcohol in my Pepsi when he actually didn't (and I had watched him order the drink for me, so I know the bartender didn't). All men in fiction, therefore, must also be horrible pigs, without exception - especially if they're white men. Tumblr is the sole reason I can't enjoy certain things anymore. For example, my mom is a huge fan of the older HBO show Queer As Folk, a show about LGBTQA+ individuals living their lives and dealing with the stigma they face on a daily basis. It's apparently a hugely successful show and very good, but now I can't stand the idea of watching it and probably never will end up watching it, because I would never be able to see it any other way but through a Tumblr-distorted lens of bigotry. I can't stand to listen to the actually pretty awesome electronic-heavy soundtracks of the series, either, because all they remind me of now is the nasty behavior of LGBTQA+ activists (and especially the trans* rights activists) on Tumblr.
- Tumblr has made me cry. I'm serious. During my time on Tumblr I have felt so insulted by the actions of others, so bullied, I started to cry. In real life. Actually cry, because some of the behavior I saw made me flash back to when I was bullied off deviantART when I was 17. That event, as I've related before and above, actually so traumatized me that cyberbullying or percieved cyberbullying such as anon hate mail actually triggers anxiety attacks for me now. It actually makes me cry uncontrollably, and it fucking hurts. Oh, and it's not just me, either. I have witnessed people say they were made to cry and asking others to leave them alone, but still being attacked by these people. I have seen others being made to leave by nastiness, because the attacked person was made to cry. I have seen children, little 11 to 13 year old middle school children, made to cry by people on Tumblr, all because they mistakenly or innocently said something that someone else didn't like. None of that's right or okay, and if you think you have that right because someone else made you cry, just stop. Get off the internet and back the fuck away from the computer, because no. That's bullying, it's unacceptable, and nobody has the right to make someone so upset they fucking cry. And anything, anyone, or any place that makes you actually, physically cry or feel emotional pain in real life? Is obviously not as safe a spot as you thought it was, and should be cut from your life for good. You're a damn great person and nobody needs that shit in their life, ever.
- Tumblr has ruined fandoms for me. Oh god. Oh my God. The fandoms on Tumblr are so ridiculous. The Homestucks are fanatics to the point of being rabid and aggressive. The Bronies are sexist, rape-apologetic pigs whom the other MLP fans are afraid of and don't want anything to do with. The Creepypasta fandom is a mess - it's torn between people who are elitist snobs, and people who think Masky and Hoody are Creepypasta characters and want cute bisexual bishie Jeff the Killer to have sex with their blatant, shitty Jane the Killer ripoff (who was in and of herself a lame ripoff of Jeff, meant to be his literal opposite). The Black Butler/Kuroshitsuji fandom has made talking about the gender identity of my favorite character from that anime, Grell Sutcliffe, so toxic that the character themselves can start a flamewar just by walking into an episode and using a certain pronoun. Superwholock? They're sexist towards characters and actors both, of any gender; either fanatically worship or have raging hate-boners for creators; constantly try to suck every other fandom into their swirling maw of stupid; hate anything that gets in the way of their precious and nonsensical non-canon yaoi ships (and they are always, without exclusion, yaoi; lesbians are fictional creatures and do not exist in Superwholockland); and generally support theories and crossovers that make zero fucking sense for any of the three shows the fandom encompasses (for example, "angels in heat". Call me nuts, but last time I checked with Biblical canon, angels didn't fucking breed. Come on, even the anime about the demon butler got that right). You think that shit's bad? Let me tell you a few horror stories from just the Slenderfandom on Tumblr:
- Milogate 2013: So, TribeTwelve. Awesome horror series in the Slenderverse with fantastic special effects, and my absolute favorite Slenderseries ever. Around November, there was a new entry uploaded called "Milo's Tape". The entry showed, as you'd expect from the title, what really happened to Milo Asher, Noah's cousin. Part of that unfortunately also showed a self-harming scene, by cutting with a utility knife in a manner that (through special effects of course) looked extremely convincing. Let's put it this way - it made me cringe to the point I couldn't watch it and actually had to cover my eyes. Self-injury is a very serious and heavy topic, and unfortunately, scenes like these can accidentally trigger someone with a self-injury addiction. Also unfortunately was the fact that there wasn't any trigger warning attached to the video in the description, a fact that quite a few people on Tumblr took umbrage with. To the point that people were asking the creator, Adam Rosner, to remove or blur out the scene, to never use self-harm in his series again, and even to take the video down outright. In other words, because some people became offended by something that could easily have been fixed with a trigger warning, they wanted the creator to take his hard work down, sanitize and censor it, and put it back up. Effectively, they wanted him to compromise his own work. A Tumblr flamewar ensued, many tears were shed, and a lot of people I thought were my friends were lost that day. Despite the fact that most sane people would think, "Gee, this Slenderseries has shown gore and a dead body at a murder scene in the past, and often deals with psychological horror, as do many Slenderman series. This series has also crossed over with the notoriously gory and bloody EverymanHYBRID and DarkHarvest00. Clearly, I should take care with this series, and expect potentially triggering content to appear in it." But no, people didn't want to take a little initiative, and a flamewar resulted. Eventually, Adam did put a graphic content warning in the video's description, and the issue was finally laid to rest.
- EightyGate 2013: Meanwhile, in a different part of the fandom and circa about Januaryish, Marble Hornets had just launched Entry #80, which as most of you should know by now is the entry where Jay dies. The fandom was left in shock and tears at this development for several months. To the point it became ridiculous. To the point that ignoring the canon became more important than moving on. To the point we seriously had people giving Jay bluebird wings and Tim cardinal wings in artwork as a form of denial of what just happened. Literally, people were sinking into fanon to avoid accepting the death of a fictional character, to the point they were ignoring theories and speculation about characters that were still alive. Let that sink in a moment. People were so consumed by this fake story they could not seperate themselves back into reality, would not accept the fact that the character was gone, and could they stop grieving about it for three months. I'm sorry, but at some point you gotta pull your head out of the sand and face facts. That didn't happen until three entries later, when we specifically see Jay's body in Entry #83 (most recent entry as of this posting), the same as with the white-shirted man and Jessica before him. And even then, people were still, still denying that Jay was, in fact, an ex-Jay. And the worst part? Now they've moved on to doing this same process with Hoody, saying that clearly, they must be totally fine and okay after they dropped off a balcony and fell onto their back from a height of at least 10 feet. That's from the roof of my house to the ground at least. Their skull would have hit the ground and they would have at least one fracture somewhere on their body falling in such a position from such a height. At the very least, they're knocked out, have a broken bone, or broke their spine and they're paralyzed, meaning they're now out of commission. At the absolute worst, they landed on their neck, broke it, and died. And, lest we forget, Hoody also landed on a cement floor, which really aren't known for their softness.
- PorcelainGate 2014: Once upon a time, there was a group of Slenderverse fans who were also LGBTQA+ Rights Advocates. One day, they came together, noticing that, as with most media, there is not a lot of queer representation in the Slenderverse. To rectify this, they all decided to create a series with a specifically LGBTQA+ cast, announced that the title of this series would be 'PorcelainSpiders', and the fandom rejoiced. However, this group of fans unfortunately made a grave mistake. You see, instead of creating their own, unique Slenderverse tale, they decided to create a remake of another series, and a very popular series at that - Marble Hornets. The SJWs in the fandom continued to rejoice, however, most Slenderfans were confused and skeptical. After all, remaking or taking too many things from other series is seen as a pretty big taboo in the Slenderfandom, and series that do so are usually seen as gamejacking attempts and therefore almost never do very well. These suspicions were only confirmed to most when the series finally went live, showing a lack of editing skill, a lack of attention to details like camera ratio and font placement/choice, poor audio quality, poor film quality, poor acting and unfortunately, an overall unsound remake of Marble Hornets. The SJWs, blinded by the fact of "OMFG QUEER FEMALE REPRESENTATION!!11!1!1!!!", still continued to rejoice, occasionally stopping to attack anyone who decided, for one reason or another, that they didn't like the series. Other Slenderfans, including yours truly, later pointed out a few more things: For one, KeratinGarden did minority representation much better than PorcelainSpiders. For another, there was absolutely no reason an LGBTQA+ person couldn't identify with the MH characters, because sexuality and sexual orientation are pretty much never even brought up or discussed in that series. For yet another, by having so much poor attention to detail in the process of remaking MH, PorcelainSpiders almost came across as a huge slap in the face to Slenderfans, and especially to MH fans. Not only that, but PorcelainSpiders fans behaved in an abominable manner towards anyone who disliked the series, making those on the fence about the series even less likely to want to be associated with that series and by extension, its rabid, nasty, and in some cases bigoted fanbase. In fact, a bisexual Slenderfan who did a podcast on the series was even called homophobic and subjected to anonymous hate mail over saying he disliked the series, despite the fact that he never said anything else negative about it (others in a podcast did give some kinda mean opinions, however). And finally, as I pointed out later on, there was absolutely no indication of the crew of PorcelainSpiders having asked the creators of Marble Hornets for permission to use or remake the series, and since the MH creators actually sell DVDs of their series for money and have actual permission from Slendy's creator to use Slendy's likeness, PorcelainSpiders may very well be plagiarising Marble Hornets. Which is, you know, kind of illegal. Yeah, it was not exactly well-recieved by Slenderfans, and in fact the vast majority of the Marble Hornets fans I know have rejected this series as another terrible remake of something that didn't need to be remade. And meanwhile, the SJWs continue to rejoice, proving once and for all that you can literally remake anything if you put minority characters in a main role and you don't in fact have to remotely try to make a good piece of fiction with minority characters, because these people will literally consume anything for the sake of spiting the eeeeeevil white cishet male majority. Good job, PorcelainSpiders. You didn't even try at all.
- Tumblr encourages hiveminds/groupthink. The nature of Tumblr is such that it encourages the fast, easy spread of blog posts, images, GIFs, videos, audio, and etc. by reblogging. Reblog and post enough, and you can end up with thousands of followers in no time flat. I was on the site only six months, and I somehow managed to accrue almost 200 followers. And that? that's not even a remotely respectable amount, that's barely any. This means that commenting on reblogs is a good way to get your voice heard as well as gain followers of a like mind to yours. The unfortunate, nasty flipside to this is that all your posts are extremely public and can be widely dispersed, so if one person in a group happens upon your comment and reblogs it, then everyone they follow sees it, and so do their followers' followers, and their followers' followers, and so on, ad infinitum. This means you have to constantly walk on eggshells, or someone, somewhere, will become offended and you will accrue hate mail and nasty comments at some point or another. The other side effect of this? People begin to rely on the opinions of others to determine their opinions, without doing their own research or trusting their own thoughts on the matter - and everyone, everyone on Tumblr, including yours truly, has fallen into this trap at least once. Let's put it this way - every single person on the site agrees bunnies are cute, and even if they don't like bunnies they will say they're cute when others pressure them in the comments. Every single person on the site talks the same way, uses the same lexicon ("hella", "[insert huge number here]% done", "iM CRYING/LAUGHING"), and has the same exact reactions to things. If one Marble Hornets fan becomes upset over a series event, then all the Hornets that hear about it simultaneously become upset. If one MLP fan is hurt by something a Brony says, all the other MLP fans will come to the rescue and soothe/defend them, regardless of if that MLP fan was in the right or not. You accidentally upset one trans* rights activist, then you've suddenly upset them all. You tell off one bad Atheist, now you have to tell all of them off. It is distressingly easy to rile the mob into disproportionate anger. People on Tumblr will swarm the fuck out of you like angry hornets the minute you grab their attention, and that's bad, because when people get in groups, they don't listen to reason. They don't think. They don't look at all sides of an argument, creating assumptions and strawmen rather than looking at the actual issue. They succumb to groupthink rather than thinking for themselves. Tumblr encourages these things by the nature of how you blog and share things on the site when these things are already amplified by the fact that you have a degree of anonymity online unless you choose to make your face known to others. I find that extremely frightening, and more than a little dystopian...
- Tumblr is designed to be addictive. This kind of stems into all social media, but since we're talking about Tumblr here, we'll only focus on it. Let's start from the beginning...
- What is the most basic thing you do on Tumblr? Blogging, right? Since Tumblr is a blogging platform, the idea is to say what you want and speak your mind, like you would in a diary. If that's the case, why is there a limit on how many self-written posts you can make? Simple - Tumblr doesn't want you to post your own thoughts, it wants you to agree with others by reblogging them to your own blog. That's all well and good, but if the point is to blog and reblog, of course the site wants to keep you there, doing that, because that's how the site gains page views and makes money. In fact, that's all you do there. There's no games, there's nothing to gain there unless you make your own fun, all you do is click posts and hope other people click on yours. Which leads me to the next point...
- Tumblr encourages gathering lots of followers. This exploits two behaviors humans have had since they were cave-dwelling primates - the need to collect things, and the need to be in a group. This hoarding instinct comes from the need to collect food for a group long ago, and it's the reason people hoard rocks, bottle caps, comics, etc. and the reason I hoard dragon statuettes, only we call it a "collection" because "hoard" has a negative meaning. The need to be in a group stems from the literal safety in numbers idea - if a proto-human primate was left alone, they were fodder for predators, but in a group, they had more protection. Many primates today exhibit both these behaviors. Is it any wonder, then, that we as highly evolved primates have the same basic behaviors as well? Not only that, but Tumblr encourages friend collection over making meaningful friendships. Yeah, sure, you might have some actual friends on Tumblr, but how many of those do you have versus followers? Chances are, you have maybe ten friends you actually consider friends, and all the rest are people you barely even know. Oh, but you want more followers, right? Because more followers means more influence and popularity, and more popularity means you're one step closer to becoming an internet celebrity whose words actually matter. What are you doing? Do you actually really care who your words impact, or are you just saying you do because you want to be more popular and want to be noticed? Furthermore, the Tumblr hivemind encourages this kind of "false-friendship" behavior. Literally every other post on the site is someone saying that they truthfully care about every single one of their 100+ followers, which just isn't possible due to the Monkeysphere Effect - your brain can't even keep track of 100 different people and their personalities, how are you ever going to actually care about all 100 of them? Chances are, you don't. You're literally using them to be popular. Tumblr is literally teaching you and everyone else on that site that human lives are cheap, and that you should use people as needed to get where you want to be in life, hurt feelings and damaging effects be damned. And that? Is literally the most Machiavellian thing I have ever seen ever. Just... wow.
- Tumblr is blue and white. Now hold on just a second, and bear with me here, because yes, I do have a reason for pointing this out and I'm about to go all science professor on your ass. The color blue is the second-highest-energy wavelength of visible light (violet's the highest), and as such it's not easy for your eyes to see. The sky is blue, and of course, most people feel happiest when outside under a bright blue summer sky. Blue light tends to be very bright, even piercing, and of course, blue light is in white light. Both white and blue light have also been shown to keep people alert and awake for longer, with blue light doing a much, much better job at it. Don't believe me? There have been multiple studies done on the correlation between blue lights and wakefulness at night, based upon a research project that some scientists at Harvard University did. Their findings? Blue light increases melatonin, a brain chemical that boosts mood and regulates your sleep-wake cycle. You can actually reprogram your body's sleep-wake cycle by using either blue or white light, but blue light does it better. Now, once again, what colors are Tumblr? Blue and white. Tumblr is literally designed to keep you awake at night and blogging simply by its very color scheme. All just another part of Tumblr's ploy to keep you hooked on its site. Assimilate, user, reisistance is futile.
- Even the userbase knows and makes fun of the fact it's addictive. One of the most commonly reblogged posts I've seen on the site is a photo of Mr. Burns, from the Simpsons, hanging a sign on the Tumblr logo that says "Don't forget - you're here forever". The problem is, the scene that image of Burns comes from is not supposed to be encouraging, it's supposed to be darkly humorous, as a way of commenting on a dead-end job one cannot break free from and pointing out what an evil boss Burns is. That means the image Tumblr passes around, essentially, is saying that the users have sold their soul to an addicting corporate shell, and now they can't escape because they're addicted. When they do quit, many of these same people come back, because they miss their fake friends and clicking pointlessly on things that in the longrun, mean nothing and do nothing. Some of these people even have several blogs, because they surpassed the post limit (some of them have even done this multiple times) and now they need a new blog. These people are literally laughing at their own addiction as they waste their time on this website, like a meth addict laughing at the fact he's going to die a horrible, slow death in ten years' time. It's almost surreal and frightening to watch these people self-destruct, and they always do, slowly assimilating into the Tumblr hivemind like the good little bloggers they are. It's like something the Manufactured Newborn would do; it's literally Fear Mythos Creepypasta material and that is absolutely terrifying.
- Tumblr's askbox system encourages cyberbullying without the fear of repercussions. As Youtube's ongoing issue with trolling and nastiness in video comments shows, the internet is full of assholes that like to use their anonymity to hurt and silence others. Now, what if you had the same exact problem, except now it's on a user's channel and anyone can leave any comment regardless of if they have an account or not and without signing their name/username, and there was literally no way to trace a person back to the comment they left in order to block or report them? You get Tumblr's askbox system, which basically allows a person to anonymously leave comments - even without an account on the site! Not only does this leave a Tumblr user open to spam and malware attempts from spambots, it also leaves the user open to derogatory comments about something they posted, or bigotry from others on the site. This kind of cyberbullying is dangerous to the chronic low self-esteem many Tumblr users seem to have, leading people to engage in harmful behaviors like drug abuse and self-injury, or even to suicide. There's even one case of a girl on Tumblr who was told she was worthless and shouldn't live so many times by anonymous Tumblr users that she eventually did take her life, leaving this final last post on her blog in response to someone trying to comfort her: "The Anons are right. You win." Is this kind of cruel, high-school level beahvior something you really want to condone by being on a website that allows it to happen without repercussions, legal or otherwise? Even with the anonymous comments feature turned off, this kind of thing still happens - I recieved no less than four signed, angry askbox comments venting frustration at things I didn't even start or say, simply because a social issue was brought up on my blog. This behavior encourages silencing others and an atmosphere that condones bullying, on a site that claims to have a userbase that doesn't tolerate bullying. Seeing the problem here?
- Tumblr encourages harmful, dangerous behavior. I can't tell you how many times I have seen people on Tumblr excuse serious problems people actually struggle with like social phobias, anxiety disorders, depression, self-harm, suicidal thought and low self-esteem as normal, natural things. I have seen people on Tumblr encourage people to go off their medicine. I have seen people on Tumblr who self-harm post images of their self-harm, thus possibly triggering other people who self-injure into self-harming. I have seen people on Tumblr "thinspire" anorexics and bulimics to continue starving and purging, because "They look great!". I have seen people on Tumblr encourage people who overeat due to a problem not to overcome their eating disorder, and decrying anyone who says otherwise as "fat-shaming" the person. I have seen people on Tumblr encourage self-tattooing, self-piercing, and self-scarification, all extremely dangerous procedures without the help of a trained professional. I've seen people on Tumblr encourage people to wish death on others, bully others, ostracize others, and attack others as a form of "punishment" for something the target may or may not have done. I have seen people on Tumblr doxx (release the personal information of) others as a twisted form of "justice" for some percieved injust thing that person did or said, thus opening an actual, real live human being to real, physical harm. All of this is considered perfectly normal and okay on Tumblr, and in fact seems to be encouraged by the Tumblr hivemind as laudible, noble behavior. Is this kind of dangerous stuff okay in your opinion? Yes? Welcome to Tumblr, you'll fit right in here, you soulless, heartless bastard.
- Tumblr encourages armchair activism, rather than real activism, and Social Justice Warriorism rather than real social justice. If I had a dollar for every time I encountered someone on Tumblr spreading a false alarm about a dangerous threat or a fake petition resolving an issue that was already resolved, I'd be rich. Now, I'm not talking about people who post lists of resources to reblog - that's actually helpful, and actually gets the message out to people who might need, say, a list of suicide help hotlines. I'm solely talking about people who rant and vent and rave about this NEWEST VIRUS OMG!!!, or post nasty, bigoted shit. These people might have the best of intentions at heart, but all they do is add to the stupidity and anger of the Tumblr Hivemind. To be sure, sending alerts about something dangerous or a missing kid, or showing concern for social justice issues, are all very noble behaviors. But people on Tumblr take it so far as to become comical, as to even become detrimental, to their causes. Let's put it this way - if you think simply spreading a petition about something gets the word out to people, you're wrong. Threatening to unfollow or hate them if they don't reblog or sign it is even worse, because now you've just revealed that no, you're not spreading it because you actually care, you're only spreading it to make yourself look good and therefore gain the privilage to judge others who don't follow in your footsteps - but God forbid they judge you, right? You signed a petition, you're clearly a good and moral person for that. And speaking of judging others but demanding others not judge you, since when was attacking and venting angrily at people considered a good way to gain civil rights? Granted, it does get people's attention, but in general it's the wrong kind of attention - attention from people who are butthurt that just makes you look like a big whiny baby and them look like assholes. Meanwhile, the people who do support your issue and do care are being completely turned off by your behavior, and won't actually reblog your stuff because you're all too busy acting like the very demons you're fighting against. And newsflash here, your bigotry and cyberbullying isn't actually helping anyone. Never once have I seen or heard of a Social Justice Warrior actually leave their computer and go physically petition or march or protest. Not once have I seen an SJW actually help someone who needed it, even if they were part of their cause - in fact, nine times out of them they'll attack someone who's in their same movement, simply for disagreeing on something. Bottom line is, Social Justice Warriors, name-calling and bigotry towards the other wise, this Us vs. Them logic? Does not work in the longrun. You can't change someone's mind by verbally abusing them until they cower in fear, all that does is silence people and make the target in question unlikely to want to help you in the future. People are getting really damn sick and tired of being verbally abused by your ilk, and there's actually a growing movement on Tumblr to promote real social justice, the kind that says "Hey, everyone should be treated equally and everyone should be given the same respect and consideration, regardless of what happened in the past." The problem is, Tumblr's social climate encourages the kind of armchair activism and nasty, bigoted behavior SJWs prefer, because these extremely verbal SJWs like to silence or discredit everyone else who disagrees. These are the people who have made "Check your privilage", something which everyone should do when they cause another offense so as not to do it again in the future, invalid because of the way they throw it around so casually. These are the people who have turned feminism and feminists into a fucking joke movement. These are the people who continue to strawman everyone they don't like. And, at the risk of using the Godwin Card, you know who else does and says this kind of stuff to people they don't like? The Nazis. The KKK. The kind of human scum that posts on Stormfront. End of discussion, I think.