2010s Black Tumblr didn’t die organically. It was killed. Not just by staff, not just by the porn ban, but by the white userbase as well. Black bloggers were (and still are) being mass-reported and harassed off the platform constantly. White Tumblr users would post gore in problack tags, racefake left and right in Black people’s askbox, pick random AAVE to call racist/misogynistic/transphobic, etc then get the Black people who were nice enough to explain what it means to them mass reported for harassment, the list goes on.
Real quick, why hasn’t anybody come up with a fashion that doesn’t tear when you turn into a wolf? Doesn’t seem like it should be *that* hard, you just have to decide if you want it to unfold/stretch gently into a bigger garment that’s comfortable on a wolf body or strategically fall off.
Clothes are expensive! This is a tax on Lycanthropes!
you see whenever i dont understand someone’s sexuality or gender or pronouns or whatever i go “ohwell this has nothing to do w me!” and move on w my day
I wanna emphasise prev tags and ramble cuz it hits the nail on the head exactly. Exactly!!
What mr CEO is doing is fucking heinous: Revealing private information on a sex worker, placing her at risk of danger; Trying to use sexual language as a gotcha, knowing trans women are more likely to be profiled as sexual predators; Using his platform & disproportionate institutional power to amass extra attention & dogpiling on her; chasing her down, telling her that there’s no safe place that she can run to without being pursued; threatening police on her. The entitlement to do all this just to win an argument and defend himself as an “lgbt ally”. It’s disgusting. And yet, it’s so fucking common.
It’s such commonly accepted behaviour among self-proclaimed “trans allies”, among other queer people, even among other trans people. That’s what trans women have been telling everyone for the past few months, for the past few years, for as long as we’ve existed. A significant proportion of TME people think this is totally justified behaviour when disagreeing with a trans woman, when they would rightfully condemn this behaviour if it were targeted towards a man, a cis person, a white person; y’know, people who are considered by default “more innocent” than those trans women who get 500 callout posts a day.
Self-declared trans ally Matt is perfectly replicating the everyday behaviour of all the transmisogynists and terfs running rampant on his website. This is his response to all of the ignored reports of harassment campaigns and witchhunting against trans women: He’s joining in. He’s replicating their behaviour to a T.
To place him in the broader situation, he’s just one of many transmisogynists, all exhibiting the same kind of vile bigoted behaviour as him. He’s the norm in a transmisogynistic society. But as a rich and powerful CEO with authoritative powers, he’s also spearheading the current wave of transmisogyny, riling up and encouraging transphobes en masse to harass every trans women they see (many of my mutuals!) . This guy’s actions are legitimately dangerous.
An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don’t have any more info. They probably won’t have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:
I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.
Tumblr’s CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and ‘AI’ companies.
A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data… tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)
So I don’t have any extra info yet, but I’m keeping my ears open.
And I just got confirmation from a second ex-colleague that a deal with midjourney has been brewing since months ago. Not any extra details, just that’s a real thing.
Shit, I don’t see any way for this to happen that doesn’t make it an apocalyptic event the size of the porn ban. Fuck.
@photomatt if you’re going to go whole-ass manipulative statements like this, just delete the whole site because you’re going to drive away the userbase and you should KNOW we’ll absolutely leave like we did before.
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