@Background Bat #4758
What I don’t understand is why this image all of a sudden? I mean, images of that tier are uploaded pretty frequently and drawn elsewhere, even on twitter! I don’t understand why this of all the others have stired a battleground. Chopsticks didn’t even have much engagement on twitter and it didn’t go viral.
Both sides were being very unreasonable back then, and I’d prefer not to return to that.
More strongly anti censorship but, yeah. Problem is this fandom’s core communities are operating still under a civil libertarian context. So many of our peers fandoms have switched, or the in case of younger fandoms, never even known anything other then a more “leftward” social justice twitter or whatever you call it and it is increasingly unacceptable in our present culture and society. What I fear most is a collapse of civil libertarianism in totality as there is a lot of folks who are very much products of our relative cultural isolation and it’s paradox who might not do so hot in a Twitter moderated safe space or a full on free speech zone and anarchy zone Though I will note that most of the various alt and splits off sites aren’t to that level, just more edgy then here, but I have seen what can happen to some places that suffer full on polarization.