@wigglytuffitout Reasons why I haven't been back to Tumblr since last winter. People will get absolutely vicious about the most petty things, then pretend it's about a political cause when it transparently is them just nerd-raging.
@wigglytuffitout Omg. The shipping wars.
I used to enjoy seeing lots of people talk about trashy pop culture from a political perspective, but somewhere along the line it something like the 1980s Satanic Panic over D&D.
@wigglytuffitout At some point, a bunch of people were trying to get a 19 year old fired from a show because they had been "hired" at 14 by Kickstarter scammers Tumblr threw money at (the officer and bear cub thing).
When I expressed concern, I got a bunch of nerd-raging trolls screaming at me that I cared too much about cartoons at my age and needed to shut up.
Meanwhile, they're out there trying to ruin a teenager's career before it even got started. They see everything as about fandom.
@wigglytuffitout They were just adamant that this person needed to be punished by being fired, even though they had very little to do with the scam, and got duped by the scammer as well.
Obviously, the only reason I would defend this person was because I was...obsessed with a cartoon that I'm not even sure was out yet?
@wigglytuffitout Tbh I had multiple instances of Tumblr trolls screeching at me that I was a superfan of things I either had a mild interest in, or didn't even care about, and most of the times it was completely irrelevant to the conversation anyway.
Especially anime avatars screaming at me that I loved anime too much & wasn't really trans
They could only understand passionate opinions as being something attached to video games and cartoons and things like that. Not, idk, nonfictional things?
@wigglytuffitout That's amazing.
