The whole fight sequence between Vilkas and WereDragonborn in Chapter 02 of The Sunder Hunt comic.
Looking back at all these panels is really fun for me as this whole sequence was drawn back in 2020. This is a scene I had played out in my head for years since 2014 and it’s a wonderful feeling to see it realized.
I have a number of asks about this, so this is to address all of them, I won’t do each individually.
We generally do not comment on individual cases, but because there seems to be mass misinformation around this, I will make an exception and comment on predstrogen.
First, Tumblr has a number of LGBT+ including trans people on staff, and they see things from the inside fully, and they’re not protesting this case.
Why do we wrongly have a transphobe reputation? We did have an external contract moderator last year that was making transphobic moderation (and also selling moderation, criminally). As soon as we were aware that person was fired, and we later terminated the entire relationship with that contracting firm and have brought almost everything in-house (at great cost). I have previously commented on this publicly, several times.
I am not aware of any Automattician (people who work at Automattic and Tumblr) who has made any transphobic moderation actions. If it’s reported it is investigated immediately, if anything were found that person would be terminated for cause immediately.
In predstrogen’s case in addition to some mistagged sexually explicit posts, which on its own wouldn’t be that bad, we have documented cases of harassment against other users. Most importantly, and why she is banned from Tumblr for life, is she made threats of violence against Tumblr staff.
That is never okay. Threats of violence is not protected speech. We will work with police and FBI where appropriate. I just got a death threat yesterday from someone mad about predstrogen, and that account was immediately terminated.
So regardless of whether you still think Tumblr staff is somehow a bunch of transphobes, know that threats of violence or death are still not acceptable and will result in immediate and serious action. Know that when you rile people up, they can do dumb things with possibly permanent consequences.
(2 hours later update: I have changed instances of the pronoun “they” or “their” to “the account” because I am unaware of pronoun preference in this instance and don’t want to misgender anyone. Thank you for the people who reported this as an issue. Update 2: “She” is apparently better, the post now says that. Sorry for the mistake.)
Here’s one (of many!) examples of the harassment violations, this one targets me but there are others targeting other users on the site.
The second part seems to indicate she wanted to be suspended, I’m unaware of why, perhaps to create this sort of uproar.
lol
you should probably see a doctor about how your skin is paper thin my dude
Incredibly intelligent maneuver by tumblr ceo to make a post that boils down to “if you want to deserve staff looking into preventing your months of harassment as well as explaining why your accounts keep getting scorched-earth deleted when you’ve made a point to follow TOS, you have to avoid hurting OUR special feelings or we’ll call the FBI on you. This is totally not transphobic despite only happening to trans women btw” and then delete the same trans woman’s account again. Excellent work sire you’ve reached new depths of spinelessness and ineptitude
