Toxic Tumblr

[NellieEllie]

Thought this article was interesting in relation to young people and how the tumblr “community” affects critical debate. 4thwavenow.com/2019/03/20/tumblr-a-call-out-post/

It's an interesting article. I'm there for fandoms, so just don't engage with trans stuff there as I know the most fence sitting questions would get me blocked from everything. Cowardly, I know.

I encountered a post about Meghan Murphy right after she was banned from twitter. I can't find it now so this is from memory!

Started with - "woman banned from twitter for posting the truth about JY". And screenshots of "those" messages, and her tweets.

Went on for a round of comments condemning the messages and saying the person is a paedophile.
Then someone comes on naming Meghan and telling the SJW angle and the narrative changes to "oh it's just a poor confused TW", "this is T*RF post, don't interact", "she should be banned".

People tried to challenge the changed story, but it gets bulldozed over and they are probably labelled and blocked.

I've never used Tumblr, but have been aware of it for years, as one of the most inward-looking sites out there. In my mind, perhaps unfairly, it's like a 4Chan for SJWs. What I hadn't realised is its lack of timestamps and how that influences debate, if you can call it debate at all. What I learned from this essay is that discussions get stuck or screenshotted at a certain point, and everyone responds to the poster (with hostility) despite the fact that their thougths may have moved on. I await the second part of the essay.