Epstein and co did such a good job of kneecapping Occupy Wall Street by fabricating The Culture Warโข that both sides are still convinced THEY weren't manipulated. We will never be free. It is hopeless.
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github mass-suspended a bunch of developers making mods for popular erotic games, without warning or explanation. even when users try their best to stay withing platforms' rules, they get fucked www.404media.co/github-ban-s...
Another thing worth mentioning is how โweird isnโt badโ is not a winning argument to like a site where 75% of the userbase was shoved into a locker in high school for being weird lol
I do think folks took things WAY too far toward Parker
But I think a lot of liberal and left media folks fail to comprehend the anger and resentment people feel after the Collective Shout situation, OSA, Texas SB 20, age verification laws, the bad internet bills, and so on. Of which thereโs a lot
Letโs talk turkey. The media has not taken this issue seriously for years. Few ppl defend pornography in left media. The end result is increasing resentment. Thatโs it. People did take things way too far toward Parker. But anyone paying attention knows there are intense emotions in play rn
We just going to ignore the fact that the original mod creator is recieving harassment and death threats and accusations of sexual abuse because of this?
it is insane how for a time on twitter people were INSISTENT that nsfw artists needed to be kept under constant surveillance and every single time they'd be shocked when the artists who were called out for actual sex crimes were the quirky PG-13 cartoon guys who were always in the vicinity of kids
I've been told that it's a false equivalence to say this BUT IT IS CORRECT. The difference, as always, is that people on the left aren't as *organised* as people on the right. We don't have a group like collective shout or moms for liberty. But we have a lot of people panicking morally everywhere.
Reminds me of a queer internet space i was in where i left with a statement of like โyโall are all prudes now and i cant stand itโ and someone was like โsomeone made watersports jokes how can we be prudesโ and just convienently forgot that the person in question was bullied out of the community
At some point we have to look at 2014 - 2021 as a period in which leftist media basically gave up and caved to anxiety around pornography
This entirely and itโs why a lot of games journalist consistently dropped the ball on censorship discourse
The 2010s gave birth to this cringe culture obsession where people fixate on whether people mod their video games to be sexy. The reality is a lot of people are quietly huge perverts and no amount of public discourse nor shaming will stop people from wanting Isabelle to have fat tits
Thereโs also the simple fact that politicians are actively trying to repress online sexual expression, at some point youโre doing their work for them. Like they are in fact trying to take away the porn
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I think that site burned out my nervous system in the same way my time in the imageboard world did, sadly no one wants to admit maybe Tumblr fucked up the internet a bit
I think Tumblr was the original seed of this, it really was 4chan for people with progressive and faux-progressive reactionary politics (โerm im a KINK CRITICAL feministโ), a website that permitted visiting abuse on other users if the context was deemed morally justified, 4ch with pronouns
Cannot be stressed enough: The bipartisan S230 repeal bill in the senate is not the only internet bill to pay attention to, in fact I suspect itโs been deployed as a lightning rod for a lot of the other awful internet bills proposedโฆ like this one
but for real I genuinely hope during this year people finally fucking stop taking face value of smear campaigns and moral panics over simple kinks of (mainly) queer people as the world wants to erase us.
Anyway Tumblr was the original seed in the sense that it rewarded antisocial behavior in progressive / seemingly progressive communities, I think a lot of people have internalized that visiting severe abuse on another is fine as long as they do it in socially acceptable contexts
A bit depressing left & liberal media figures immersed in online culture fail to grasp why, for example, furries might take offense to having furry stuff put on blastโฆ everyone over 30 remembers โyiff in hell, furfags.โ Internet culture literacy is super important in todayโs environment
A lot of people on the left fail to reckon their role in making all the paypros stuff worsen, all the porn moral panics hit state and national legislatures. Like, yeah, a culture of treating goonery shit as indefensible created this current climate of social and financial censorship
early 2010s tumblr experience was so effective at shaming me out of making my art or character designs even a little bit sexy. thankfully I grew out of that mindset but so many others didn't, and those people are directly contributing to the oppressive and censorious environment we're living in now.
One final point Iโll add here, Iโve considered wrapping up my journalistic content entirely and officially moving on to adult content creation only โ not because of RW harassment, but because of some of the behaviors Iโve seen on here. Huge โitโs not safe to do the work anymoreโ vibes now
Really do feel like the problem was so many people going "sexism is bad, ergo, boobs are bad, because they're just absolutely sloshing and overfull of sexism" rather than catching on that the Real Sexism is in the way women are casually depersoned and shoved into narrow boxes in a lot of scripts
like yeah the teeth gnashing about boobs in games got us here. resetera doing calculus to determine miriam bloodstained's cupsize and screech about us got us here. Jed Whitaker importing DOAX3 to cry about it got us here. The 'controversy' about Dragon's Crown got us here. Sorry!
like during trump's first term with violent games, we've reached a point where rwers are saying identical things to a lot of lib/left gaming people in the past, so now we're seeing sad attempts to thread the needle of 'ok well they're wrong now but I was right back then'
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I wear being blocked by Jason Schreier for bringing up his role in this with his crass Dragon's Crown comments as a badge of pride.
We've never moved past that Schreier era of "Sorceress from Dragon's Crown is lolicon fantasy" and it fucking sucks.
This was one of the things that frustrated me a lot during the gamergate era. It was only "girls support girls" from the mainstream feminist girlies until you liked any media with over the top fanservice, and it was okay to victim blame literal children because they played "gross" video games.
