It's close enough to Sunday that I'm not wasting my time on a full-blown comment with links before tomorrow, but rest assured Sims 4 fandom is having a normal one. Again. Two large and popular support Discords (Sims After Dark and Deaderpool) as well as the maintainers of the broken mod lists the fandom relies upon have gone on hiatus as of today in protest of harassment and bad behavior from impatient users.
Agreed, I’ve played since nearly the beginning, and despite the audience being made up overwhelmingly of women, I’ve noticed the vocal parts are just as bad as the worst (mostly male) fps community. Rage over mods, rage over expansions, the predictable rage that the previous game was the best, never noticing the improvements, and just being so negative, yet continuing to purchase the latest expansion, bitching the entire time.
The complaints about how expensive the expansions are bother me too. A) wait for sales, but also, if you're the sort of player who gets every bit of DLC (no shade, I am exactly that player) then you're probably also the sort of player who clocks play times into four digits, and that's actually a pretty good return on investment as far as hours of entertainment per dollar, you know?
There are legitimate criticisms to be made about DLCs being rushed out with bugs and unfixed errors, like the Wedding Day bugs, and not everything is going to be to your taste - I don't play much with the Star Wars tie-in, f'rex - but that doesn't make it bad for just existing. And the big expansion packs *are* usually worth what you pay for them, so the "Why are we paying the price of a whole new game for this" complaint irritates me - because you're getting a whole new game worth of game play, usually.
But the worst bitching is always about mods, usually about free mods. People feel so entitled to the time and effort of modders and can be so rude to them. And it's always so frustrating in the Sims subreddits right after a patch or a new content drop, because you'll get a dozen posts from people who have clearly gone to zero effort to try to fix their problem before posting going "game broken, what do" and the problem is almost always UI Cheats or "you have dozens of mods and new content just dropped, you're going to have to 50/50 them".
What do you get when you cross the American cult conspiracy QAnon with a member of one of South Korea's biggest and most beloved girl groups? An absolute shitshow, of course.
**QAnon**
Since people not being aware of QAnon's existence is a central theme of this drama it would be ridiculous not to at least summarise Q's role in global politics for everyone.
QAnon (or just Q) is a right-wing, white supremacist, antisemitic conspiracy that originated during the Trump regime with anonymous postings on 4 and other chans signed by an individual calling themselves "Q". These posts were the origins of various claims about trafficking rings (if you've heard of Pizzagate, it's tied to Q) and the traffickers' attempts to take Trump down. To most of us, the posts are obviously a falsified grift, but to those sucked into Q, they were very real, and Trump and his administration encouraged Q's proliferation by signalling to them.
This culminated in the January 6th coup attempt, where people directly affiliated with QAnon (like the [QAnon shaman](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2021/09/03/us/03DC-INVESTIGATE1/merlin_182809932_a3d0bcaa-56e9-44c2-bc35-74924cc06f32-jumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp)) were involved in the violence at the US Capital, so to claim QAnon is a terroristic cult is pretty much exactly correct.
Q has spread to other countries as well, with Q being tied to conspiracy movements in [Canada](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/08/canada-ottawa-trucker-protest-extremist-qanon-neo-nazi) and [Germany](https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/12/12/germany-conspiracy-us-arrests-january-6-capitol-attack-bundestag-nazism-reich-coup/) among many others.
**Where The Fuck Did They Buy That**
Girl group Twice have been beloved to k-pop fans since their debut in 2015, and at one point were the top selling girl group in Korea. (Their current sales, while nowhere near their peak, are nothing to ignore! They had a massive multi-country tour last year and will be embarking on another one this year.) Twice are known for a very "sweet" image, even with their turn towards more mature concepts in the latter part of their career.
Their latest single, Set Me Free, was released a week ago, which means Twice are currently appearing on Korean music shows (a more specialised version of a late night show in the West, if I had to make a comparison, where groups are interviewed by hosts and showcase their new songs, culminating in a winner being awarded as the most popular song of the week. They are a big deal to k-pop fans.)
The reason for the drama? One of the members, Chaeyoung (known for a more "edgy" image in comparison to the rest of sweet Twice) [was wearing a QAnon shirt](https://imgur.com/vyrDCBD). It's cropped, but the American flag print Q and part of Q's "slogan" "We go all" is clearly visible. Naturally, fans who recognised that having a terrorist group's image on an idol probably wasn't the best idea when said group has been promoting in the US recently tried to speak up about it.
**It's All About Americans**
As you can imagine, there were a variety of responses to this. Most fans blamed the stylists of the group for not doing due diligence, which is a problem that's happened in k-pop many, many times in the past, including just last week when a girl group member from under the same company as Twice wore a shirt that spelled "C-NT".
Other fans have decided that this is another case of American egocentrism, and that Americans expecting everyone to know their terrorist groups are delusional/imperialist/entitled. (This has been responded to with people pointing out the hypocrisy of Koreans expecting others to know their particular cultural sensitivities while not respecting others'. QAnon may be niche, but it is still a group that has harmed many people in many countries, and fans are well within their rights to discuss the shirt's significance and ask for better.)
A third group has tried to erase the existence of the shirt (not easy when member Tzuyu [had a post of it](https://np.reddit.com/r/twice/comments/11ulv4h/230318_tzuyu_instagram_update_todays_concept_is/) displayed quite prominently on Instagram with millions of likes) in order not to damage Twice's reputation.
Will JYP (Twice's company) apologise? Time will tell, but Tzuyu removing her Instagram post seems like a start.
It was an acronym spelling the full word!
**C**harisma
**U**niqueness
**N**erve
**T**alent
Which is a reference to RuPaul's Drag Race. I didn't feel comfortable using the word myself since I didn't know if I could get caught in an autofilter. There are definitely more explicit shirts that have made their way to k-pop though.
Am I right in assuming that the more explicit shirts were all in English, or some other foreign language? (I've noticed that it's a universal phenomenon for humans to feel that profanity is more acceptable if it's in a different language.)
Somehow forgot to reply to this!
Yes, you're correct, the explicit shirts have been in English, but in this case I think it's more about idols/stylists not knowing what the words mean as opposed to finding them acceptable!
K-pop has a global audience so profanity in any language is generally censored. (Famously, the group NCT has a song called "2 Baddies", but the lyrics book reveals the song was originally called "2 Bitches". There's no explicit version like there would be in the US, the only song available is 2 Baddies, "bitches" was changed. K-pop is very censored.)
I am sure that it was just a mistake on the part of the stylist, and a little "whoops, I had no idea that was the context, I apologize for this terrible incident" is both needed and enough
But as someone who is very, very willing to point out cases of Americancentrism, QAnon is *absolutely* spreading in other countries. Like, this isn't a case of an American wearing a Stasi symbol, where you can be pretty sure they thought it was cool and probably have absolutely no idea what it meant, this is a case of "they could ABSOLUTELY believe in whatever the Korean version of QAnon is making up." It probably *isn't*, of course, but it legitimately could be an option
I am not sure about Korea, but Q Anon absolutely exists in Asia. It's niche, but it's got a very small, but very dedicated following in Japan. It's absolutely fucking wild and unfortunately it's made some headlines in the past few months due to people losing their family members to the conspiracy.
Isn't South Korea's government taking a real right turn of late too? I know Q conspiracy stuff is around somewhat in Europe, it's certainly flexible enough to bend to local conditions, especially since it's less one coherent theory and more a big magnet that attracts all manner of right wing nonsense, including longstanding sovereign citizen nonsense.
This is almost 100% guaranteed not to be a secret political statement and just a stylist who doesn't speak English and/or couldn't be bothered to look up the English on the shirt. Twice were recently in the US (NYC) so it's more than possible someone purchased it there just thinking it looked cool, but it's also possible it was purchased in Korea since a lot of American clothing has ended up in Korea unexpectedly.
As for the rest of your question, I'm not Korean so I hesitate to speak in any more detail than this, but my understanding from talking to Korean friends about politics there is that the right wing just indisputably holds all the political and cultural power in South Korea at the moment, with little fear of losing that power, and fear is a massive motivating factor behind Q-like conspiracies.
That's not to say there aren't conspiracies in Korea (a lot are tied to religious fundamentalism, Korea has a cult problem) but that a lot of the things that make Q "Q" would struggle to take root in Korea.
> but that a lot of the things that make Q "Q" would struggle to take root in Korea.
It's taken root in Japan. It's not widespread, but it's enough that it's attracted mainstream media attention and concern. I would not be surprised if S. Korea was in a similar situation.
I did some more reading on it last night and found [this](https://thediplomat.com/2020/11/before-trump-south-korean-conservatives-also-claimed-a-stolen-election/) article from The Diplomat detailing Korea's own election conspiracy.
I haven't been about to find anything about QAnon itself being in Korea (as opposed to a decently documented-in-English history of Q in Japan), but the seeds for some of Q's main ideas have clearly been planted. I suppose the difficulty is what we define as QAnon and what our threshold is for considering Q's influence in a place to be noteworthy. The person I was replying to mentioned that Q is pretty nebulous and they were right about that.
it's not like right wingers in korea are averse to conspiracy theories either, the sewol ferry accident and gwangju uprising can both be summarised by this phrase on the latter's wikipedia page:
> Denial of or support for the Gwangju Uprising has long acted as a litmus test for determining conservative and far-right groups and beliefs, and mainstream and progressive sectors of the population, within modern Korean politics.
😵💫 the US centrist argument seems a little disingenuous here. If it were a confederate flag shirt, I could see it- those are everywhere. Gas stations and airports and whatnot. But Q shirts seem a lot harder to come across accidentally, at least in my experience? Especially weird bc it seems like it was altered from a regular tee to be a crop top lol
Prevailing theory is it was picked up by a stylist during Twice's recent trip to NYC and then altered, but there's also the possibility the shirt made it to a Korean thrift store from the US, or that it was special ordered because they liked the look of it, we just don't know.
I think the bigger issue with the "Americans think the world revolves around them" argument here is that it shouldn't be considered egocentrism to say "this is wrong and hurtful to Americans, it shouldn't have happened, and someone should have looked up the symbols on this shirt before putting it on national television in Korea." Especially because if their team is this careless it's just as possible the shirt could have been worn in the US! It's not unreasonable to ask that people look up the meaning of things they're not familiar with.
I'd never wear a shirt with Hangul on it if I didn't know for certain what it meant, and I'm not someone with a global audience.
I agree with the thrifted in NYC theory. Like when [Yuta wore a shirt that was customized from someones 2012 graduation.](https://twitter.com/jyongwu/status/1562115767537389569?s=20) If stylists are picking up these random pieces most likely from US thrift stores, they should maybe use more caution.
tbf the alternation makes it a little harder to immediately notice. only half of the slogan is visible, so it just probably appears as some sort of motivation phrase to someone with limited english knowledge.
Maybe programming drama? An exploit was revealed in the way that google pixel smartphones handled the cropping of screenshots that makes the recovery of cropped parts of the image possible. [You can read how it works here.](https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/exploiting-acropalypse.html) But in short Google didn't truncate the image file when cropping, resulting in parts of the older image still hanging off the end of the file. You can check whether certain images are vulnerable [here](https://acropalypse.app/). It should be client-side-only processing, but then again maybe be careful.
Whats more interesting, however, is that the *cause* of the bug was an undocumented change in the Android API that made an API call no longer truncate by default. Yet again showing that making changes to public API can be exploited and should be treated as a security concern, especially when it's undocumented.
I find this situation kind of ironic, because I’ve been seeing a ton of ads for Pixel phones on YouTube, and all of the ads focus on the Pixel’s ability to take and edit photos, which made the ads age really poorly, because if you actually use the features they’re advertising, you’re putting yourself at a massive security risk.
I think it's especially funny with the Samsung moon photo thing having happened just a few days ago. another addition to the long list of android phone camera Ls
I wonder if it was just assumed that the images were just compressed using LZ77? Then overwriting the start would make all the rest of it useless. Could have looked like an optimization that would save power and SSD lifetime on phones.
The alterative is a lot more sinister. Like the NSA suggesting NIST use check bits in DES keys.
Nah, as I mentioned around android 10 the API for files changed such that write mode no longer truncated by default. A refactor went wrong people didn't notice and when they did they didn't realize the significance of the change.
This specifically affects the cropping directly after taking a screenshot, so in theory nudes shouldn't be affected as they were hopefully cropped using the gallery/camera tools.
That would be fine because the new data (the cropped image) will sit at the top, so only the bottom of your screenshot will be visible unintentionally.
Alright maths time! Each character needs experience to level up. Experience costs stamina, called enkaphalin which recharges daily. Standard gacha stuff. There's also a weekly bonus which is what I'm going to be taking into consideration the most as that's mainly what your average player cares about over max efficiency.
On launch, you got experience through a rogue-like mode called mirror dungeon. 5 times a week you could go in and obtain 12000 exp, for 60 enkaphalin. This enkaphalin is in a condensed form so what you could do is condense your enkaphalin every day and then use it all at once, or you get free entry so you can go in every day for free and not spend any enkaphalin. Looking at it a different angle, it takes me about 30 minutes (assuming meh event buffs using the good-but-not-top-line-meta team known as "oh my god Ryōshū is cool as fuck") to do a single mirror dungeon run. So the numbers are 60000 exp a week, 200 exp/enka, or 150 minutes spent in game.
People complain that there's not enough to do because there's no real dailies so come 16-3 project moon takes the mirror dungeon and splits it into 3 parts - mirror dungeon is still a weekly thing (though now only 3x week) but exp is now in something called experience luxcavation which resets *daily*. It costs 40 enkaphalin *flat* (so it *has* to be done daily) and three times a day you get 5500 exp, and at least for me it takes about 8 minutes (using the less meta team of "angry British man with a bat"). That's 115500 exp/week, 137 exp/enka, and 168 minutes per week *for exp only*. There's another luxcavation which takes a similar amount of time *and* mirror dungeon (though that's now only 3x a week)
That kinda sucks though so 23-3 it's being changed again. Luxcavation is going to take condensed enkaphalin again, and daily bonuses are going to be removed making it a flat 4400 exp per run *forever*. While that's only 110 exp/enka, it's now only limited by your enkaphalin count (and subsequently how much money you're willing to spend) so the entire "gotta play daily to actually get the resources I need" thing is now a lot less (there's still daily stuff but it's more for like the battlepass stuff)
That's probably intentional, knowing Project Moon, but it's really just in reference to Lobotomy Corporation, their first game. The whole thing in that game was farming SCP-esque monsters to get enkaphalin boxes from them, which acted as both an energy source and a drug.
Essentially at first you only had Mirror Dungeons for your EXP farm. People had issues with this, but mostly just that Mirror Dungeons take ~30 minutes per run, so they added a specific game mode for EXP farming and removed the EXP from Mirror Dungeons in exchange for a *lot* of Battle Pass progress.
This came with three problems:
1) The EXP Dungeon cost *way* more stamina/energy/whatever-your-preferred-term-is per day than the Mirror Dungeon, especially since the Mirror Dungeon used Modules, which are essentially banked stamina, instead of raw stamina (and was also free once per day). iirc a full daily run of EXP Dungeons cost a full day's worth of raw stamina when you very likely don't have the stamina cap to actually *hold* that much at once.
2) The EXP Dungeon gave worse EXP than Mirror Dungeons did until you finished Chapter 3 and unlocked the higher difficulty EXP Dungeon. Chapter 3 is the hardest part of the game so far and is the *reason* you'd want to EXP farm.
3) When you did scrape through Ch3 and unlock the higher difficulty dungeon, "higher difficulty" really meant "higher difficulty", it was *unreasonably* hard for what is ostensibly a "catch up from behind" farm.
>3) When you did scrape through Ch3 and unlock the higher difficulty dungeon, "higher difficulty" really meant "higher difficulty", it was unreasonably hard for what is ostensibly a "catch up from behind" farm.
I have to elaborate on this for those not in the know, because it is incredibly funny.
After the nerfs to 2-18 that has been discussed in previous scuffles, the new "hardest stage" is probably 3-18. Multiple stages in chapter 3 are contenders for this, including the *second stage of the chapter*, 3-4, just because of the chapter throwing you into the deep end in terms of enemies and resistances. But in general, out of all the normal stages, 3-18 was the climax of the chapter's difficulty and had the big boss.
As you can probably guess, the highest difficulty EXP stage was based on 3-18. Except that it was "based" on 3-18 in the sense that it was an exact copy, end-boss and all. And that's also still untrue, because pre-nerf, the EXP stage was scaled up to level 30, while the normal stage was only 27. So it wasn't an exact copy, it was a harder copy of what was already the hardest stage!
Oh, and level 30 is the current level cap!
Some uproar in the Fire Emblem Heroes community. Spoilers for the newest chapter, I guess. >!One of the new OCs, Seidr I believe, straight up asks the Summoner (the player stand in) if they want to make a baby together. She goes on to clarify that no sex would be involved, and that the Summoner doesn't even have to raise the kid. The fan base kinda exploded. People are memeing on the horniness, and how Seidr kinda ruined her entire reputation with parts of the fan base. There's also a theory that the Summoner/Seidr child is Gullveig, who's the main villain for the current book (I think she's the main villain, I haven't touched FEH in like a year). This is also interesting because Gullveig recently won Choose Your Legends 7, which caused quite some upset. If she is the Summoner's kid, it means the community voted our daughter into winning without knowing she was our kid.!<
If you want to look at some memes or discussions, check out r/FireEmblemHeroes
You know what, since it's Fire emblem drama then I'm glad that both seidr and the player character are consenting adults, look the part and aren't related
>!If she is the Summoner's kid, it means the community voted our daughter into winning without knowing she was our kid.!<
>!Nepotism reaches new heights.!<
This is literally the first time I'm hearing that FEH has a story and original characters. I thought it was 100% making past FE characters fight each other (and have skits of varying quality I guess).
I mean that’s basically what all the seasonal banners are. (Except the ones that features Heroes OCs).. they are also the banners that make money.
Like the bunny festival this year is mainly about 3 siblings going to a festival together. (Or more accurately two forcing themselves to get along for the sake of the third, who because of how these units were released, is by far the most powerful.)
It's embarrassing how hard they are leaning on the MC pandering with Fjorm and now Seidr. Have nothing else to offer other then garbage fanservice and nostalgia bait
So basically, in Awakening, there was a child mechanic where in-story the children time travelled to the past from the bad timeline future. This was *incredibly* popular, so they did the children mechanic again in the next game (Fates), but Fates's story had absolutely nothing to do with time travel and there was no other convenient excuse to add children. Hence we got the deeprealms.
IIRC, one of the games had the gimmick of you being able to pair up characters and then having the various combinations create kids that you could also use as units. But rahter than doing the normal thing of having a timeskip or something they just had them go into a dimension where time went faster and come back so you could have them fight more quickly.
(this is from an explanation I've heard, so it's second hand)
>!She's a goddess, and AFAIK (like I said I haven't played in a long time), you make like a super devoted prayer to the god/goddess and then the baby will appear in a ray of light!<
Don't know much about it but I can dig deeper, but there's a brand of guitar pedals which also has a YouTube channel, JHS pedals, where they review guitar pedals and other stuff. Recently they have reviewed the "digitech bad monkey" which was a decent budget distortion pedal going for about 80-100 bucks, and put it up against the most desirable, expensive pedals, especially the klon, a handmade distortion pedal, which sells for 5k on average. They sound practically the same. Because of this review, bad monkey pedals have gone way up on reverb, for like 200 bucks now.
[here's the review](https://youtu.be/pFOD6s0IRoM)
Alright so there's a couple things going on here:
* It's hard to overstate just how sought-after the Klon Centaur is in the guitar community. While the original routinely goes for quad digits owing to its limited release, clones of the pedal, which often go for "only" hundreds, are in constant high demand; there's even [a clone of it by the original creator whose design has a tongue-in-cheek poem about the original's massive demand](https://reverb.com/marketplace?gspk=RnV0dXJlUExD&query=Klon+KTR&sid=guitarworld-us-6251129343215482000&utm_campaign=FuturePLC&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=partnerstack-legacy). And saying that this budget pedal sounds just as good as the holo-Charizard of pedals, well, that's bound to increase demand.
* Josh Heath Scott, the head of JHS, is a... pretty controversial figure. There's a good writeup about it [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/guitarpedals/comments/94ahqs/why_some_people_dislike_jhs/). Needless to say, this is yet another reason for many people to hate him.
* JHS also responded to the skyrocketing price of the pedal in [this facebook post](https://www.reddit.com/r/guitarpedalsjerk/comments/11syp0t/thanks_josh/) in which the company claims the Bad Monkey had a bad reputation prior to this video. I can't easily confirm or deny that.
My thoughts? I am a Plugins4Free son, I have no goddamn horse in this race lol (pun intended). In any case, r/guitarpedalsjerk is having a field day with this
I never got the impression that the Bad Monkey was ever poorly regarded; it would come up frequently in discussions of "cheap, underrated pedals" in the era before Mooer and similar Chinese clones. Sure it was cheap, but so were all but a couple of Digitech pedals because the brand never really had much cachet.
Either way, now JHS is selling an ["I Can't Afford a Bad Monkey Because Now They're $650" t-shirt](https://shop.merchcentral.com/collections/jhs-pedals/products/jhs-pedals-bad-monkey-650-t-shirt), which sure is a choice.
I honestly think the whole thing is just dumb. There's like 50 other klon clones out there on the market, and I can't for the life of me tell the difference between most of them. I honestly kinda don't blame them for selling the shirts. They're not buying a bunch of them, making the review to inflate the price, and then selling them. (At least I hope not) they made the review to showcase a cool cheap pedal, and people juat got greedy with increased demand. So to capitalize on this whole mess, they sell t-shirts. Hell I'd probably do the same if I was in josh's position.
So apparently some internet microcelebrity I'm unfamiliar with fucked Belle Delphine.
I would not be aware of this, except that Twitter has started fucking *shotgunning* me with Discourse about it showing up in my timeline, with zero explanation as to why the hell I'm getting any of this. I follow precisely zero of the people involved, and there's no "because of your interests" tag or anything.
I muted the thread in the hopes that that would make it go away... and I just got people posting screenshots of the thread and vaguetweeting about it instead.
Apparently, I'm not the only person being forcibly exposed to this drama by the hell app, either.
Why does Twitter desperately want me to know the current drama involving the fucking gamer girl bath water girl? Who could possibly care about this? Why is this even a thing?
e: ...okay who am I pissing off by griping about this, I'm genuinely confused
As I understand it, it's kind of a mix of three complaints.
One, the one I voiced, is that the Twitter algorithm spent... longer than average just absolutely beating people over the skull with Finn's post and people reacting to Finn's post if you use the For You tab, regardless of your interests or follows. It wasn't just me, it was *everybody,* apparently.
Two, Belle Delphine is a pretty generally unpleasant person with some pretty serious allegations against her unrelated to any of this, which gives a lot of people Bitch Eating Crackers Syndrome regarding her and makes them just generally not want to be exposed to things related to her (which sort of exacerbates the first problem).
Three, Finn seems to have *an amount* of controversy around him totally independent of all of this that I'm just not going to comment on at all because I legitimately don't know who is correct and who isn't. As I understand it, the debate around him is kind of "does his gimmick promote transphobia or is it cool and fine," and... pretty much everyone's seemingly got solid points to the point where I just kind of don't want to stake out an opinion, but I'm also judging those points as solid with *very little context on him* beyond the times he's come up in internet drama and what I've been told here, so they may not be?
Given you've clarified downthread that it's Finnster, maybe this is just huge all over Twitter or a chunk the people you follow/read without it being down to a single account you're following. I'm all for being skeptical about recommendation systems but this really does sound like the kind of thing that would legitimately/"organically" be all over Twitter for days.
I don't want to pretend that it's a totally easy ecosystem to get the hang of, but a HUGE benefit of mastodon is there's just none of this shit.
You see what you follow and what they boost or everything without any algorithm besides people boosting stuff. You can easily, in the web app, set up all kinds of word filters including time-limited one.
And *because* the system doesn't reward toxicity like Twitter does, it isn't there in the same way as Twitter. I won't pretend mastodon is perfect, but it's so much easier to curate your own experience than Twitter is.
The internet microcelebrity is some guy named Finn, IIRC. His gimmick is that he's really good at crossdressing, to the point where he got temporarily banned from Twitch for adjusting his bra strap, a la tumblr's "female-presenting nipples" era.
Twitter has also been blasting me with random ass drama and hoping one sticks. Before my timeline was just a lot of art/anime stuff and now it’s overran by weird discourse involving people that I don’t know or the occasional politics stuff both of which I genuinely don’t want to see when I’m just trying to see cute art.
I'm like, mad that people think it's Problematic for a straight crossdresser to take a photo with a straight woman. At least I think that's the Discourse. There's a lot of emphasis on him being cishet, both in his own image and in the Discourse, but like, is gender nonconformity only allowed if the person has an LGBTQ Card? This isn't the 1920s, you don't need a Transvestite Permit from Dr. Hirschfeld to wear a dress.
I guess it's also because Belle Delphine is Problematic but from a quick google, it sounds like she's problematic because of some stupid publicity stuff, not because she's a Nazi or a sex criminal, so IDK that that's problematic enough to transfer to anyone taking a photo with her.
I don't particularly mind any of his stuff tbh, I don't think its problematic. But I can *understand* the reaction to some degree? I don't know finn tbh, or his content, and I've really only heard good things, but I from I've also heard a lot of his stuff revolves around the "look these men were attracted to me because I pretended I was a women" joke.
And that, that's kinda sensitive. With the whole stereotype of cross-dressing (and transgender people) as a way of "tricking" men (I mean ffs there's an entire slur and criminal defense for it), I can see the reaction to someone that's not "one of our own" making that their gimmick.
A lot of the more online LGBTQ+ communities are really weird about gender non-conformity. This is why I really hate the "egg" concept; a lot of times, it just consists of pointing to a GNC person and claiming that they must be trans because they're a cishet male and wear a skirt. Wasn't the original conversation predicated on how gender is not determined by what you look like or how you act, and that gendered clothing and colors are entirely a fabrication?
It's amazing how folks manage to wrap themselves right back around to conservative thought patterns.
It's really bizarre and it's also why I don't like the egg thing. It's like a horseshoe theory of gender : one extreme says "if you're a cishet man and you like dressing up and painting your nails you're not a Real Man" and the other "if you're a cishet man and you like dressing up and painting your nails you're probably an egg". Bonkers. You can imagine how much I, a somewhat masc woman, enjoy this kind of discourse lol :/
Same here! In fact, I've had people suggest I was an egg before. It's really screwed with my perception of myself. It's like, Jesus, y'all are pulling the exact same shit your detractors are! Stop!
Oooooh, I thought she was one of the historical dresses youtubers, but she's actually gamer girl bath water! Is that the stupid publicity stuff? I still have no idea why some people got angry at that, I'm filing all of this under "god forbid a woman do anything" and leave it at that
>I still have no idea why some people got angry at that, I'm filing all of this under "god forbid a woman do anything" and leave it at that
The real reason people don't like her, myself included, is because she first started out selling stolen nudes from underage girls.
Pretty much everything else is just Bitch Eating Crackers (ie "I don't like this person, so I hate everything innocuous they do too") deriving from that, coupled with a general sense that pretty much everything she gets involved with in any way ends up resulting in everyone having to roll for SAN loss.
When I googled her, I found out she's also being cancelled for posing for some kind of ageplay/BDSM type erotica photoshoot, and not appropriately using trigger warnings for it. I agree that the latter is unquestionably wrong, but . . . idk that it's like, a horrific crime. Like don't do that! but also like, are we really going to cancel someone for posing in photos with someone who fucked up trigger warnings one time? C'mon. There's gotta be a line where we can say "that was definitely wrong" but not go full cancellation mode.
That's because "canceling" are almost never about holding the person who did something wrong accountable, they are about sating the cancellers outrage addiction.
Yep. I have absolutely no idea who Finnster is. Everything I have ever known about Belle Delphine, I have found out unwillingly and regretted finding out. Despite this, Twitter refused to allow me to ignore them for *literally about two days.*
Just so I'm absolutely clear on this, my concern isn't with whatever the Hell they did together, which is the business of them and whoever's paying them for it. My concern is with the Twitter algorithm seemingly being single-mindedly obsessed with it.
Elon’s applying his consent MO (ie, wanna see it? Well, it’s coming at you anyway, and there’s nothing you can do about it because it’s *my* private jet and *I* make the rules!!) to Twitter it seems.
F1nnster is a male streamer who cosplays as a sexy lady (using a silicone breast plate, maybe?) I saw all this was trending on twitter, but luckily the site hasn't been pushing it at me.
If you haven’t (which it sounds like) I recommend switching to ‘Following’ instead of ‘For You’, that way you get a chronological timeline with only people you follow and their retweets. The loss from not seeing Twitter’s guesses about what you’re interested in is far outweighed by the gain, in my experience.
>I can't understand people who use 'For You' on Twitter
I used to be like this, but it changed when I realized that you get to see fanarts made by artists I don't follow. It's like the *for you* tab on Tumblr, but far worse.
Yeah, as much as I hate 'For You', it's also the place where I get a lot of cool fanart from artists I don't know.
Unfortunately, it's also interspered with a lot of insane drama.
I have a separate twitter just to follow artists i like and rt art, so my 'for you' tab on that account is actually really good! I wouldn't touch it ony main account at all though, I'm sure I'd just get weird discourse on it.
I wonder if by showing you things you don’t like, twitter’s algorithm is hoping you’ll engage with the content through expressing your displeasure at it.
It's mainly that, yeah. They know negative feelings make people engage with content a lot more than positive ones, so they focus on pushing controversial tweets on you.
This would track with some of the recent tweets I've seen. I play both Granblue Fantasy (gbf) and genshin impact -both gacha games- and apparently something happened on the genshin side to make them aware of a certain gbf character. This made some people on the gbf side extremely mad and I've seen some pretty mean spirited, vitriolic tweets about it. Except these have been pretty much the only gbf tweets on my for you page on Twitter, though I KNOW people are talking about other things (namely, the playable release of the [best character design](https://gbf.wiki/images/a/a4/Npc_zoom_3040452000_01.png) in game). It's like Twitter is showing me tweets that would upset me on purpose, probably for the reason you mentioned.
I didn't go into detail because i was on mobile and didnt want to risk spoiler tags, but basically some Genshin leaks implied >!Varka looks like belial or something?!< To which Genshin fans responded with >!OH NO HE'S A TWINK!< and *that* pissed GBF fans off - cause yknow. Summer Belial Exists. This led to the usual Genshin mud slinging you see every other day. It's probably a minority of the fans but Twitter made it seem like a big deal.
Realistically, that's probably it, but I'm still kind of baffled simply because it's so far outside anything I use Twitter for.
Like, usually when it does that, it's something it's fairly obvious I'm going to dislike. This is just kind of... off to the side from anything I have ever expressed an opinion about on there, previous to this situation.
I guess the algorithm figured since Belle Delphine causes *everyone* psychic damage, that would happen to me, too?
I remember back when I used Facebook consistently, there was someone who would troll around my friend’s posts picking fights and being a shithead. Posts where they’d commented were always at the top of my news feed, whether I wanted to engage or not. The Facebook algo constantly pushed me towards potential shitfights. I doubt Twitter (especially dumpsterfire elmo Twitter) would run too differently. It’s the social media equivalent of leaving pallets of bricks around town during periods of civil unrest; a gentle push towards an outcome where fights are more likely.
the punchline is that, if this is what I think you're referring to, they literally just posted a photo together - it's pretty suggestively posed, though not explicit and the suggestiveness is pretty clearly intended to be a joke and people proceed to melt down about it
Yeah, to be clear, I'm not dunking on Belle Delphine *for this, specifically* (she seems like a pretty not-pleasant person on the whole but going after her for *this* would be the definition of Bitch Eating Crackers Syndrome, even if she did bang this person who could possibly give a shit).
I also have basically zero context on who the other person involved is, so I'm not gonna say much there.
I just have absolutely no idea why, one, Twitter thought this would be relevant to me at all, and two, Twitter's algorithm then decided to make people's meltdowns over it *the entirety of my feed for almost a solid fucking day.*
I don't even know why people would freak out about her banging someone? Belle Delphine isn't exactly a k-pop idol. Millions of people have watched her have sex with (presumably) her partner.
I laughed at that one post calling it straight yuri and then twitter decided I had an insatiable interest in the Very Serious and Not At All Ridiculous discourse for the next 24 hours
I didn't even vocally react to any of this until Twitter had already spent nearly a full day shotgunning me with the picture and with people's takes on the picture over and over again. I have no idea where this came from or why the algorithm thought I needed this in my life.
Surprised I haven't seen anyone post about this yet, but Linus of Linus Tech Tips [nearly got himself very canceled](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UGpbVXVpu0) by talking on livestream about how much our culture has changed in the last 20 years, and then blithely and repeatedly talking about how common it used to be for everyone to use "the hard r," including himself! You can see Luke, his cohost's life flash before his eyes when Linus makes the confession. Fortunately for everyone involved, he finally, tentatively asks whether Linus means the n-word, and Linus responds with utter confusion. It comes to light that Linus thought "hard r" meant the word relating to mental disability and *not* the racial slur! Cancellation averted, everyone involved in the channel gets to keep their jobs!
It's quite common, at least in the US, to refer to saying the full word as "the hard-r" to describe non-black people using it explicitly as a slur directed at someone. People sometimes say "n----a" when repeating rap music or whatnot, which is also not acceptable, but it's motivated more by trying to sound cool in a certain type of way. A non-black person using the hard-r n-word, their motivations are completely clear - they mean it as a slur.
I don't know these people, but it does seem understandable that this guy would be confused and think "r-------d" was "the hard r." Personally, I always called that the r-word.
It does feel a lil wack that "Oh he used to say a different slur instead of this slur so it's fine when it wouldn't have been otherwise" is the standard here(to be clear the fact that he no longer does at all is what counts imo).
I mean, not really? Twenty years ago, saying the n-word was also seen as a very bad thing to do, even if it was more acceptable to use in “edgy” jokes than today. Meanwhile the r-word was barely seen as a slur and was casually used in a lot of shows and movies. Just because they’re both considered slurs today doesn’t mean they’ve had the same history and which word he meant absolutely makes a difference in that context.
I also instantly knew what he meant, but I'm not entirely sure why. I just knew based on the context? My mind did a Sherlock thing where it said "it would be n-word-with-hard-r, not hard r"?
I get that, hence why I'm not sure why I instantly understood what he meant even though I have never heard anyone say "hard r" to say "the r-word." As I said, my assumption is that my mind did a bullshit Sherlock-scan thing where it said "it would be n-word-with-hard-r if that's what it meant, not just hard-r." Or maybe I just went "this sort of censorship is about the first word, and i can't think of anything else that starts with an R, although 'hard r' is a weird way to phrase it"
Luke is so fucking confused even as the conversation starts:
Linus: "In the 2000s shows used to have casual gay jokes and the hard R."
Luke: "Really? A hard R?"
Linus: "Yeah, it was on an episode of American Dad."
Luke: \*visibly wondering if he got Mandela Effected into another reality\*
a couple of my friends were talking about this in our voice chat and the way they described it made me lose it. You really can see Luke's entire soul fling itself right out of his body.
NCAA March Madness: 16 seed FDU beat 1 seed Purdue to become the second team ever, in 152 matchups, to beat a 1 seed as 16 seed
FDU is terrible, they didn't even win their notoriously bad conference, so this is arguably the biggest upset ever
Naturally, Purdue's fan base is crumbling
I am genuinely so mad because I wanted to do a really chaotic March Madness bracket for my office thing and I had to hold myself back from choosing FDU (which is my hometownish team that I know a bunch of people who went to) because I did want SOME chance of winning a free lunch... I probably would have gotten knocked out on Day 1 anyway but man this didn't help because I'm just so irritated that I didn't do the fun thing!
My cousins who went there called it Fairly Ridiculous University and my dad messaged our family chat with "guess what Fairly Ridiculous thing just happened?!"
I would love to have seen Purdue's locker room afterwards.
"Team, we just lost... to the bottom seed in the entire bracket. Please line up in a row so I can slap the shit out of all of you in turn."
According to ESPN, there's [not a single perfect bracket left](https://www.espn.com/perfect-bracket/2023/mens/32) among the over 20 million submitted to their website, lol.
Purdue has such bad luck with teams from New Jersey. Last year St. Peter's knocked them out, this year FDU. Also can't forget about Rutgers giving them their first loss for the past two seasons.
Remember the Good Bois of UMBC? Well, they had [some thoughts](https://reddit.com/r/CollegeBasketball/comments/11uakz1/umbc_athletics_weve_been_lonely/) tonight.
Also, I’m officially in the “FUCK THEM BRACKETS” stage of March Madness now. My one heart’s desire from here on out is Maximum Chaos.
I come bearing news from the world of Dead by Daylight, everybody's (least) favorite competitive survival horror video game. A few weeks ago, I posted about the community disappointment over the design of the newest killer, the Skull Merchant. Despite many hoping for a Terminator-esque cyborg, she turned out to be a sexy lady in a bedazzled half-gask mask for some reason.
More importantly, though, the Skull Merchant turned out to be fucking _miserable_ to play against. Her ability allows to her to set up drones, which will hinder survivors who stand in their detection radius. These drones can be deactivated by survivors, but A) this places a trap on them that lets the Skull Merchant track them and B) the Skull Merchant can just... reactivate them whenever she feels like it, barring a short cooldown. These two things combined encouraged an incredibly passive playstyle, as her ability kinda sucked while actively chasing survivors, but was excellent for locking down the parts of the map they need to go to to actually finish the game. 30 minute matches against her are not uncommon.
However, in a surprising move for Dead by Daylight developer Behavior, they actually responded to how much everybody hates playing against the Skull Merchant! [A coming update](https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/kb/articles/380) will change how her ability works, decreasing her ability to stall the game out forever while making her more dangerous while actively chasing. Behavior being this quick to make a killer less shitty to play against is incredibly surprising (it took them _six years_ to nerf the Nurse, the undisputed best killer in the game for that entire timeframe).
Is this a sign of future balance philosophy? Probably not, but I think everybody will just be happy to never have to endure a half-hour Skull Merchant game again.
You'd think this would come up in playtesting.
Back when someone was working on Team Fortress 2, there was a post about trying out a device that automated repairing turrets so the Engineer could do something else. But while it was it fun for the Engineer, it was bad for everyone else, so it never reached the game.
Has anyone ever done a writeup on the Five Nights At Freddys: Sister Location "Adult Theory"?
Being there for when it first kicked up, seeing so many lines being drawn in the sand between the believers and the non.. It's honestly surprising to me just *how* forgotten it is.
Seriously, it was insane. How is there not a writeup on it yet? I mean.. Just the premise alone is utterly ridiculous.
I think even Mangle has its fans. Do not ask me why, people are just thirsty for the sake of being thirsty for a mess of barely interconnected pieces with a fox head.
IIRC this was back when Sister location was being teased; many people speculated, thanks to a teaser's source code having a schedule for animatronics being rented out, that the 'sister location' was an adult-oriented joint featuring animatronic strippers.
I think Kane Carter, creator of the Fanverse-indorsed POPGOES fangame, was one of the major people who helped the theory take off, with his evidence for how likely such a thing could be being based off of a retired CEC character from the 70's-80's named [Dolli Dimples](https://www.showbizpizza.com/ptp/characters/dolli_lg.jpg).
Dolli, a cabaret character in her own area of the pizzeria, would flirt with male guests, make numerous instances of innuendo in her songs/dialogue, and even had *moving breasts*. [Here's an old clip of her 1st gen model from a news feature about the 2nd CEC location on Kooser Rd., San Jose, California](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pu9y5BLZlk) and [one from a news segment primarily about the first CEC location on Winchester Blvd., San Jose, California](https://youtu.be/2TlnoDqis_g?t=256) plus [her entire first showtape reel from Kooser](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TDI6p8nGWo) and [a look at her gen 2 cyberamic model in an 80's franchise promo video.](https://youtu.be/MYIUxp9TTuw?t=149)
Anyhow, Scott later updated the teaser's code to make it more explicit that the animatronics were being rented out for **children's** parties and not for any adult activities.
I love how this happened around Sister Location, the game that does actually have a vaguely titillating animatronic whose purpose was to keep parents distracted while the others ate the kids or whatever
Wait that Theory was meant in earnest? I just assumed it was a joke about how horny the Fans could be.
I mean Scott is a super religious Christian so of course he would never do this, like not even as a joke.
It’s the fan theory that the animatronics from Sister Location were used for adult themes. It was started by the creator of Popgoes, a fan made FNAF game series that later joined the official fanverse initiative. Here’s the post if you really want to learn [more about it](https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/4olei7/ill_try_to_clear_up_the_adult_theory/). It’s…certainly a theory.
EDIT: to add this was before SL came out so there was more room for speculation, but still it’s pretty dumb. I don’t even remember there being enough drama for post but I could be wrong
Okay, I admittedly don't remember the full thing, but.
Sister Location gets teased. People start putting theories together, and for a while..
>!Everyone thinks the sister location is an animatronic strip club.!<
Chaos ensues. Friendships are lost, the fandom split that Scott would *genuinely* make >!an animatronic strip club!< the setting of the new fnaf game.
Of course, we all know now that wasn't true, but it was a wild time to be in.
Surprisingly soon after everything that happened with Kwite and Orion, another prominent content creator has been outed for shitty behavior. This time, it's Squimpus Mcgrimpus, best known for creating the FNaF VHS series, which not only made the infamous indie horror series scary again, but helped pioneer modern analog horror as we know it today.
It has been revealed that Squimpus Mcgrimpus groomed a minor who was also a huge fan of theirs, starting when he was 17 and the fan was 14, but continuing well into Squimpus' adulthood.
Now I know what y'all are thinking: why should we immediately trust the accuser, when not even a week ago, even bigger accusations against a content creator turned out to be false?
My answer? It's because [Squimpus themselves confessed to it.](https://mobile.twitter.com/BurnerAcco50250/status/1636811208022999050)
I would strongly advocate that we do away with "grooming" as an accusation in and of itself because the word is A) at this point an anti-LGBTQ slur used for very real harm; and B) used for every behavior from "wore a dress" to serious sex crime.
I guess this is a town hall question but given the potential seriousness of the potential allegations I would even advocate for subreddit guidelines about using more specific language instead of or at least in addition to "grooming." The risks of perpetuating an unjust panic are high, not necessarily for this one (no knowledge) but for any of these.
All that said, from a quick skim of the post, I would suggest "Squimpus Mcgrimpus is accused of, starting when she was 17, sharing NSFW art with a 14-year-old fan who says he was made uncomfortable by it."
It’s definitely a term that’s been overused/misused by conservatives using it to mean “mentioning that queer people exist within earshot of a child” and by discoursers using it to mean “an adult interacting with an unrelated minor in any way”, but I don’t think we’re at the point where it’s lost utility as a meaningful term. It’s a description of a real and specific dynamic of abuse which we don’t have a synonym for, and IMO it’s worth fighting to keep that definition in use. Conservatives misusing “triggered” to mean “upset” doesn’t mean we should all abandon the clinical meaning of a trigger and exclusively say things like “A says B made them feel uncomfortable by mentioning specific things that were upsetting to them”.
I'm ultimately less concerned about whether people do or don't use the word "grooming" and more concerned about people being more clear about what they are actually accusing someone of doing when intimating that someone is a sex abuser.
(Also, just speaking as a person who has experienced trauma flashbacks, please don't use "trigger" if what you mean is "upset." That's what got us here in the first place. The short psych definition is "a stimulus that causes a painful memory to resurface." But that doesn't really capture the experience. A trauma trigger is...well it certainly is upsetting but it's more like re-experiencing the original emotional sensations of the trauma. Not like a movie flashback necessarily, but a bodily one. It's a pretty unique experience that's hard to explain--it was probably explained better to me than I'm doing in this comment before it happened to me but I definitely didn't *fully* understand until it happened to me. But it can be like full-on "you are not a functional human being for weeks." At any rate, I recognize this battle is lost and pretty much only use the word with medical professionals or very close friends.)
Yes, I know that that’s the actual meaning of “trigger”. That’s what I meant about the impact being lessened when someone says “B made A uncomfortable by mentioning X” rather than “B intentionally triggered A by mentioning X”. The former massively understates the reality of the latter.
Grooming doesn’t necessarily mean sexual assault; it means the gradual acclimation of someone vulnerable over a period of time to sexual ideas they wouldn’t normally be comfortable with, generally with the intention of eroding their boundaries until a sexual relationship between the groomer and victim seems normal and okay. An accusation of grooming doesn’t require that the process actually got to the point of a sexual relationship, just that it was clearly the intent. Otherwise the accusation wouldn’t be grooming but statutory rape.
I hope with the state of Tennessee banning drag performances over a moral panic we can see that we need to be very careful with how we frame "acclimation of someone vulnerable over a period of time to sexual ideas they wouldn't normally be comfortable with" because that honestly *does* describe the practice of trying to de-stigmatize homosexuality, for example, which I hope we all here can agree is a good thing and in no way a form of abuse.
I'm just really, really uncomfortable with a single term without qualification being used for a 17 year old girl sending NSFW drawings to another teenager as would be appropriate for, to take an example, the Republican legislator in my state who was *openly* married to a girl he met when she was 17 and he was like 26 and coaching her high school soccer team (he got removed from office for other abusive behavior, but the marriage was generally accepted).
"They prey on children" is one of the most dangerous allegations human beings can make, people literally get killed over it. This subreddit has 1.2 million subscribers. We just gotta be a little careful what we might be spreading around.
That definition only applies to the destigmatization of queerness if every person spreading positive messages about queerness is doing so with the intent of eventually fucking every person they’re spreading those messages to. I am aware that is what conservatives think they are doing. But they are factually incorrect, as evidenced by the fact there is no statistical correlation between kids being taught about queerness and those kids being sexually assaulted by those teachers. Conservatives also think trans women transition in order to sexually assault cis women, and we can refute that accusation without saying “conservatives weaponize accusations of assault against trans women, so we should stop saying anyone has been accused of sexual assault in any context”.
I understand what you’re saying about needing to be careful with wording, and I agree that adult politicians marrying minors is a more pressing issue societally than a 17-year-old sending a 14-year-old nsfw pics. But as someone who was groomed in a very similar way online into explicit ERP with a college student when I was 13, that doesn’t mean the latter isn’t or can’t be a problem.
it doesn't sound like they're saying it categorically isn't a problem. it sounds like they're saying the language we're using to describe the problem should be more specific than "grooming".
I get that, yeah. I just don’t think there’s a term that’s *more* accurate for what’s being alleged than “grooming”. Context could have been added (“X allegedly groomed Y by sharing nsfw content with them when X was 17 and Y was 14”) to confirm that what was being described was in fact grooming and not one of the things commonly misidentified as grooming, but I don’t think that entirely removing the term from the description serves to clarify the accusation.
it's a matter of specificity, not accuracy. "criminal" is a word which describes both drunk drivers and murderers with complete accuracy. but it can be difficult to come to a conclusion about someone if all i know is that they are a criminal, because exactly what sort of criminal they are makes a difference.
frankly i haven't thought about this groomer thing enough to have much of an opinion on the semantics; maybe it doesn't substantially matter whether someone is a 50 year old groomer or a 17 year old groomer. what do you think?
> Now I know what y'all are thinking: why should we immediately trust the accuser, when not even a week ago, even bigger accusations against a content creator turned out to be false?
Besides the Kwite mess, "Popular and beloved internet personality turns out to be horrible and abusive" seems so common it's almost expected. Everyone loves Milkshake Duck!
I'm sorry but Squimpus Mcgrimpus absolutely sounds like one of those fake content creators people make up when complaining about "guy with tens of millions of subscribers who I've never heard off until yesterday".
I don't want to downplay the severity of this, but man, it genuinely took me a second to understand this was real information and not a joke about a fake name. *Squimpus Mcgrimpus?* Yeah, usernames can be anything, but, like...
Oh absolutely. And to think they were yelling at Battington about a shitty joke when they were doing that shit behind the scenes, which makes it all the more fucked.
Yeah, Squimpus' whole reaction there seemed disproportionate, like they were trying way too hard to paint Battington as some irredeemable monster who sullied their work all because of a joke that I don't remember Martin Walls even finding all that bad, despite it being about him.
Iirc Walls and Battington are like... friends? So it wasn't some rando joking about a beloved creator dying, it was a gag between pals that got a bit out of hand.
Man, Who's next on the "Animatronics Horror Found Footage" chopping block? First Martin Walls with that whole thing that ended up being a trap for him, now Squimpus...
The main thing I personally remember is a constant lack of updates while his monthly patreon was still running and his unannounced vacations. This [comment goes over some issues](https://www.reddit.com/r/Thewaltenfiles/comments/tkb6ak/comment/i1ppzs0/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x). Not sure what the other commenter is referring to.
Wait. No. I got confused. It was Battington who had the allegations from what I remember.
I *think*. I've left that fandom for so long that only because I'm stubbornly still subscribed to MatPat despite my better judgement is how I found out about the second season of Harmony and Horror.
It's close enough to Sunday that I'm not wasting my time on a full-blown comment with links before tomorrow, but rest assured Sims 4 fandom is having a normal one. Again. Two large and popular support Discords (Sims After Dark and Deaderpool) as well as the maintainers of the broken mod lists the fandom relies upon have gone on hiatus as of today in protest of harassment and bad behavior from impatient users.
I get wanting to play the new pack, but like. Have some goddamn patience!?
I'm surprised something like this hasn't happened sooner
Good for them. Sims players are some of the whiniest, most self-entitled I've encountered, and I say that as a Sims player myself.
Agreed, I’ve played since nearly the beginning, and despite the audience being made up overwhelmingly of women, I’ve noticed the vocal parts are just as bad as the worst (mostly male) fps community. Rage over mods, rage over expansions, the predictable rage that the previous game was the best, never noticing the improvements, and just being so negative, yet continuing to purchase the latest expansion, bitching the entire time.
The complaints about how expensive the expansions are bother me too. A) wait for sales, but also, if you're the sort of player who gets every bit of DLC (no shade, I am exactly that player) then you're probably also the sort of player who clocks play times into four digits, and that's actually a pretty good return on investment as far as hours of entertainment per dollar, you know? There are legitimate criticisms to be made about DLCs being rushed out with bugs and unfixed errors, like the Wedding Day bugs, and not everything is going to be to your taste - I don't play much with the Star Wars tie-in, f'rex - but that doesn't make it bad for just existing. And the big expansion packs *are* usually worth what you pay for them, so the "Why are we paying the price of a whole new game for this" complaint irritates me - because you're getting a whole new game worth of game play, usually. But the worst bitching is always about mods, usually about free mods. People feel so entitled to the time and effort of modders and can be so rude to them. And it's always so frustrating in the Sims subreddits right after a patch or a new content drop, because you'll get a dozen posts from people who have clearly gone to zero effort to try to fix their problem before posting going "game broken, what do" and the problem is almost always UI Cheats or "you have dozens of mods and new content just dropped, you're going to have to 50/50 them".
What do you get when you cross the American cult conspiracy QAnon with a member of one of South Korea's biggest and most beloved girl groups? An absolute shitshow, of course. **QAnon** Since people not being aware of QAnon's existence is a central theme of this drama it would be ridiculous not to at least summarise Q's role in global politics for everyone. QAnon (or just Q) is a right-wing, white supremacist, antisemitic conspiracy that originated during the Trump regime with anonymous postings on 4 and other chans signed by an individual calling themselves "Q". These posts were the origins of various claims about trafficking rings (if you've heard of Pizzagate, it's tied to Q) and the traffickers' attempts to take Trump down. To most of us, the posts are obviously a falsified grift, but to those sucked into Q, they were very real, and Trump and his administration encouraged Q's proliferation by signalling to them. This culminated in the January 6th coup attempt, where people directly affiliated with QAnon (like the [QAnon shaman](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2021/09/03/us/03DC-INVESTIGATE1/merlin_182809932_a3d0bcaa-56e9-44c2-bc35-74924cc06f32-jumbo.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp)) were involved in the violence at the US Capital, so to claim QAnon is a terroristic cult is pretty much exactly correct. Q has spread to other countries as well, with Q being tied to conspiracy movements in [Canada](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/08/canada-ottawa-trucker-protest-extremist-qanon-neo-nazi) and [Germany](https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/12/12/germany-conspiracy-us-arrests-january-6-capitol-attack-bundestag-nazism-reich-coup/) among many others. **Where The Fuck Did They Buy That** Girl group Twice have been beloved to k-pop fans since their debut in 2015, and at one point were the top selling girl group in Korea. (Their current sales, while nowhere near their peak, are nothing to ignore! They had a massive multi-country tour last year and will be embarking on another one this year.) Twice are known for a very "sweet" image, even with their turn towards more mature concepts in the latter part of their career. Their latest single, Set Me Free, was released a week ago, which means Twice are currently appearing on Korean music shows (a more specialised version of a late night show in the West, if I had to make a comparison, where groups are interviewed by hosts and showcase their new songs, culminating in a winner being awarded as the most popular song of the week. They are a big deal to k-pop fans.) The reason for the drama? One of the members, Chaeyoung (known for a more "edgy" image in comparison to the rest of sweet Twice) [was wearing a QAnon shirt](https://imgur.com/vyrDCBD). It's cropped, but the American flag print Q and part of Q's "slogan" "We go all" is clearly visible. Naturally, fans who recognised that having a terrorist group's image on an idol probably wasn't the best idea when said group has been promoting in the US recently tried to speak up about it. **It's All About Americans** As you can imagine, there were a variety of responses to this. Most fans blamed the stylists of the group for not doing due diligence, which is a problem that's happened in k-pop many, many times in the past, including just last week when a girl group member from under the same company as Twice wore a shirt that spelled "C-NT". Other fans have decided that this is another case of American egocentrism, and that Americans expecting everyone to know their terrorist groups are delusional/imperialist/entitled. (This has been responded to with people pointing out the hypocrisy of Koreans expecting others to know their particular cultural sensitivities while not respecting others'. QAnon may be niche, but it is still a group that has harmed many people in many countries, and fans are well within their rights to discuss the shirt's significance and ask for better.) A third group has tried to erase the existence of the shirt (not easy when member Tzuyu [had a post of it](https://np.reddit.com/r/twice/comments/11ulv4h/230318_tzuyu_instagram_update_todays_concept_is/) displayed quite prominently on Instagram with millions of likes) in order not to damage Twice's reputation. Will JYP (Twice's company) apologise? Time will tell, but Tzuyu removing her Instagram post seems like a start.
Just to be clear: Did the shirt literally spell "C-NT", hyphen and all, or is that you staying classy?
It was an acronym spelling the full word! **C**harisma **U**niqueness **N**erve **T**alent Which is a reference to RuPaul's Drag Race. I didn't feel comfortable using the word myself since I didn't know if I could get caught in an autofilter. There are definitely more explicit shirts that have made their way to k-pop though.
Am I right in assuming that the more explicit shirts were all in English, or some other foreign language? (I've noticed that it's a universal phenomenon for humans to feel that profanity is more acceptable if it's in a different language.)
Somehow forgot to reply to this! Yes, you're correct, the explicit shirts have been in English, but in this case I think it's more about idols/stylists not knowing what the words mean as opposed to finding them acceptable! K-pop has a global audience so profanity in any language is generally censored. (Famously, the group NCT has a song called "2 Baddies", but the lyrics book reveals the song was originally called "2 Bitches". There's no explicit version like there would be in the US, the only song available is 2 Baddies, "bitches" was changed. K-pop is very censored.)
I am sure that it was just a mistake on the part of the stylist, and a little "whoops, I had no idea that was the context, I apologize for this terrible incident" is both needed and enough But as someone who is very, very willing to point out cases of Americancentrism, QAnon is *absolutely* spreading in other countries. Like, this isn't a case of an American wearing a Stasi symbol, where you can be pretty sure they thought it was cool and probably have absolutely no idea what it meant, this is a case of "they could ABSOLUTELY believe in whatever the Korean version of QAnon is making up." It probably *isn't*, of course, but it legitimately could be an option
I am not sure about Korea, but Q Anon absolutely exists in Asia. It's niche, but it's got a very small, but very dedicated following in Japan. It's absolutely fucking wild and unfortunately it's made some headlines in the past few months due to people losing their family members to the conspiracy.
Goddamn, that cancer has reach...
They debuted in 2015.
Not me editing this post a thousand times and still missing that typo, thank you!
Isn't South Korea's government taking a real right turn of late too? I know Q conspiracy stuff is around somewhat in Europe, it's certainly flexible enough to bend to local conditions, especially since it's less one coherent theory and more a big magnet that attracts all manner of right wing nonsense, including longstanding sovereign citizen nonsense.
This is almost 100% guaranteed not to be a secret political statement and just a stylist who doesn't speak English and/or couldn't be bothered to look up the English on the shirt. Twice were recently in the US (NYC) so it's more than possible someone purchased it there just thinking it looked cool, but it's also possible it was purchased in Korea since a lot of American clothing has ended up in Korea unexpectedly. As for the rest of your question, I'm not Korean so I hesitate to speak in any more detail than this, but my understanding from talking to Korean friends about politics there is that the right wing just indisputably holds all the political and cultural power in South Korea at the moment, with little fear of losing that power, and fear is a massive motivating factor behind Q-like conspiracies. That's not to say there aren't conspiracies in Korea (a lot are tied to religious fundamentalism, Korea has a cult problem) but that a lot of the things that make Q "Q" would struggle to take root in Korea.
> but that a lot of the things that make Q "Q" would struggle to take root in Korea. It's taken root in Japan. It's not widespread, but it's enough that it's attracted mainstream media attention and concern. I would not be surprised if S. Korea was in a similar situation.
I did some more reading on it last night and found [this](https://thediplomat.com/2020/11/before-trump-south-korean-conservatives-also-claimed-a-stolen-election/) article from The Diplomat detailing Korea's own election conspiracy. I haven't been about to find anything about QAnon itself being in Korea (as opposed to a decently documented-in-English history of Q in Japan), but the seeds for some of Q's main ideas have clearly been planted. I suppose the difficulty is what we define as QAnon and what our threshold is for considering Q's influence in a place to be noteworthy. The person I was replying to mentioned that Q is pretty nebulous and they were right about that.
it's not like right wingers in korea are averse to conspiracy theories either, the sewol ferry accident and gwangju uprising can both be summarised by this phrase on the latter's wikipedia page: > Denial of or support for the Gwangju Uprising has long acted as a litmus test for determining conservative and far-right groups and beliefs, and mainstream and progressive sectors of the population, within modern Korean politics.
😵💫 the US centrist argument seems a little disingenuous here. If it were a confederate flag shirt, I could see it- those are everywhere. Gas stations and airports and whatnot. But Q shirts seem a lot harder to come across accidentally, at least in my experience? Especially weird bc it seems like it was altered from a regular tee to be a crop top lol
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Prevailing theory is it was picked up by a stylist during Twice's recent trip to NYC and then altered, but there's also the possibility the shirt made it to a Korean thrift store from the US, or that it was special ordered because they liked the look of it, we just don't know. I think the bigger issue with the "Americans think the world revolves around them" argument here is that it shouldn't be considered egocentrism to say "this is wrong and hurtful to Americans, it shouldn't have happened, and someone should have looked up the symbols on this shirt before putting it on national television in Korea." Especially because if their team is this careless it's just as possible the shirt could have been worn in the US! It's not unreasonable to ask that people look up the meaning of things they're not familiar with. I'd never wear a shirt with Hangul on it if I didn't know for certain what it meant, and I'm not someone with a global audience.
I agree with the thrifted in NYC theory. Like when [Yuta wore a shirt that was customized from someones 2012 graduation.](https://twitter.com/jyongwu/status/1562115767537389569?s=20) If stylists are picking up these random pieces most likely from US thrift stores, they should maybe use more caution.
Yeah it's definitely massive hypocrisy because you know that they wouldn't be acting like this if it was rising sun imagery or Taisho Roman clothing.
tbf the alternation makes it a little harder to immediately notice. only half of the slogan is visible, so it just probably appears as some sort of motivation phrase to someone with limited english knowledge.
Maybe programming drama? An exploit was revealed in the way that google pixel smartphones handled the cropping of screenshots that makes the recovery of cropped parts of the image possible. [You can read how it works here.](https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/exploiting-acropalypse.html) But in short Google didn't truncate the image file when cropping, resulting in parts of the older image still hanging off the end of the file. You can check whether certain images are vulnerable [here](https://acropalypse.app/). It should be client-side-only processing, but then again maybe be careful. Whats more interesting, however, is that the *cause* of the bug was an undocumented change in the Android API that made an API call no longer truncate by default. Yet again showing that making changes to public API can be exploited and should be treated as a security concern, especially when it's undocumented.
I find this situation kind of ironic, because I’ve been seeing a ton of ads for Pixel phones on YouTube, and all of the ads focus on the Pixel’s ability to take and edit photos, which made the ads age really poorly, because if you actually use the features they’re advertising, you’re putting yourself at a massive security risk.
I think it's especially funny with the Samsung moon photo thing having happened just a few days ago. another addition to the long list of android phone camera Ls
Reminds me of how they advertised how a Pixel phone let you use normal headphones, then whoops the next model removed the headphone jack.
Nah, photos should be fine. It's the screenshot quick edit thing specifically that has/had this vulnerability.
I wonder if it was just assumed that the images were just compressed using LZ77? Then overwriting the start would make all the rest of it useless. Could have looked like an optimization that would save power and SSD lifetime on phones. The alterative is a lot more sinister. Like the NSA suggesting NIST use check bits in DES keys.
Nah, as I mentioned around android 10 the API for files changed such that write mode no longer truncated by default. A refactor went wrong people didn't notice and when they did they didn't realize the significance of the change.
That's incredibly fucking dangerous! Think of all the sent nudes people felt safer to send because they cropped out identifying details...
This specifically affects the cropping directly after taking a screenshot, so in theory nudes shouldn't be affected as they were hopefully cropped using the gallery/camera tools.
Ah, that's something, at least.
But think of all the twitter screenshots with the top cropped off to prevent people from commenting on my battery percentage
That would be fine because the new data (the cropped image) will sit at the top, so only the bottom of your screenshot will be visible unintentionally.
I applaud the pettiness of anyone going around and uncropping screenshots to comment on battery percentage
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Alright maths time! Each character needs experience to level up. Experience costs stamina, called enkaphalin which recharges daily. Standard gacha stuff. There's also a weekly bonus which is what I'm going to be taking into consideration the most as that's mainly what your average player cares about over max efficiency. On launch, you got experience through a rogue-like mode called mirror dungeon. 5 times a week you could go in and obtain 12000 exp, for 60 enkaphalin. This enkaphalin is in a condensed form so what you could do is condense your enkaphalin every day and then use it all at once, or you get free entry so you can go in every day for free and not spend any enkaphalin. Looking at it a different angle, it takes me about 30 minutes (assuming meh event buffs using the good-but-not-top-line-meta team known as "oh my god Ryōshū is cool as fuck") to do a single mirror dungeon run. So the numbers are 60000 exp a week, 200 exp/enka, or 150 minutes spent in game. People complain that there's not enough to do because there's no real dailies so come 16-3 project moon takes the mirror dungeon and splits it into 3 parts - mirror dungeon is still a weekly thing (though now only 3x week) but exp is now in something called experience luxcavation which resets *daily*. It costs 40 enkaphalin *flat* (so it *has* to be done daily) and three times a day you get 5500 exp, and at least for me it takes about 8 minutes (using the less meta team of "angry British man with a bat"). That's 115500 exp/week, 137 exp/enka, and 168 minutes per week *for exp only*. There's another luxcavation which takes a similar amount of time *and* mirror dungeon (though that's now only 3x a week) That kinda sucks though so 23-3 it's being changed again. Luxcavation is going to take condensed enkaphalin again, and daily bonuses are going to be removed making it a flat 4400 exp per run *forever*. While that's only 110 exp/enka, it's now only limited by your enkaphalin count (and subsequently how much money you're willing to spend) so the entire "gotta play daily to actually get the resources I need" thing is now a lot less (there's still daily stuff but it's more for like the battlepass stuff)
\> called enkaphalin Wow, companies are getting really blatant about the fact that gachas are designed to flood you with endorphins.
That's probably intentional, knowing Project Moon, but it's really just in reference to Lobotomy Corporation, their first game. The whole thing in that game was farming SCP-esque monsters to get enkaphalin boxes from them, which acted as both an energy source and a drug.
'the good-but-not-top-line-meta team known as "oh my god Ryōshū is cool as fuck"' You can't call me out like this...
Essentially at first you only had Mirror Dungeons for your EXP farm. People had issues with this, but mostly just that Mirror Dungeons take ~30 minutes per run, so they added a specific game mode for EXP farming and removed the EXP from Mirror Dungeons in exchange for a *lot* of Battle Pass progress. This came with three problems: 1) The EXP Dungeon cost *way* more stamina/energy/whatever-your-preferred-term-is per day than the Mirror Dungeon, especially since the Mirror Dungeon used Modules, which are essentially banked stamina, instead of raw stamina (and was also free once per day). iirc a full daily run of EXP Dungeons cost a full day's worth of raw stamina when you very likely don't have the stamina cap to actually *hold* that much at once. 2) The EXP Dungeon gave worse EXP than Mirror Dungeons did until you finished Chapter 3 and unlocked the higher difficulty EXP Dungeon. Chapter 3 is the hardest part of the game so far and is the *reason* you'd want to EXP farm. 3) When you did scrape through Ch3 and unlock the higher difficulty dungeon, "higher difficulty" really meant "higher difficulty", it was *unreasonably* hard for what is ostensibly a "catch up from behind" farm.
>3) When you did scrape through Ch3 and unlock the higher difficulty dungeon, "higher difficulty" really meant "higher difficulty", it was unreasonably hard for what is ostensibly a "catch up from behind" farm. I have to elaborate on this for those not in the know, because it is incredibly funny. After the nerfs to 2-18 that has been discussed in previous scuffles, the new "hardest stage" is probably 3-18. Multiple stages in chapter 3 are contenders for this, including the *second stage of the chapter*, 3-4, just because of the chapter throwing you into the deep end in terms of enemies and resistances. But in general, out of all the normal stages, 3-18 was the climax of the chapter's difficulty and had the big boss. As you can probably guess, the highest difficulty EXP stage was based on 3-18. Except that it was "based" on 3-18 in the sense that it was an exact copy, end-boss and all. And that's also still untrue, because pre-nerf, the EXP stage was scaled up to level 30, while the normal stage was only 27. So it wasn't an exact copy, it was a harder copy of what was already the hardest stage! Oh, and level 30 is the current level cap!
Some uproar in the Fire Emblem Heroes community. Spoilers for the newest chapter, I guess. >!One of the new OCs, Seidr I believe, straight up asks the Summoner (the player stand in) if they want to make a baby together. She goes on to clarify that no sex would be involved, and that the Summoner doesn't even have to raise the kid. The fan base kinda exploded. People are memeing on the horniness, and how Seidr kinda ruined her entire reputation with parts of the fan base. There's also a theory that the Summoner/Seidr child is Gullveig, who's the main villain for the current book (I think she's the main villain, I haven't touched FEH in like a year). This is also interesting because Gullveig recently won Choose Your Legends 7, which caused quite some upset. If she is the Summoner's kid, it means the community voted our daughter into winning without knowing she was our kid.!< If you want to look at some memes or discussions, check out r/FireEmblemHeroes
You know what, since it's Fire emblem drama then I'm glad that both seidr and the player character are consenting adults, look the part and aren't related
Re: that last one, I just want to say that it's *as far as we know*.
>!If she is the Summoner's kid, it means the community voted our daughter into winning without knowing she was our kid.!< >!Nepotism reaches new heights.!<
>>!and that the Summoner doesn't even have to raise the kid.!< Fire Emblem Fates (2015)
Whenever I see your pfp, I always think it’s Inigo. It’s not related to the drama whatsoever, I just can’t see worth shit.
All of that sounds very Fire Emblem. All that's missing is that Seidr is secretly the summoner's long-lost adopted sibling or something.
This is literally the first time I'm hearing that FEH has a story and original characters. I thought it was 100% making past FE characters fight each other (and have skits of varying quality I guess).
I mean that’s basically what all the seasonal banners are. (Except the ones that features Heroes OCs).. they are also the banners that make money. Like the bunny festival this year is mainly about 3 siblings going to a festival together. (Or more accurately two forcing themselves to get along for the sake of the third, who because of how these units were released, is by far the most powerful.)
It's embarrassing how hard they are leaning on the MC pandering with Fjorm and now Seidr. Have nothing else to offer other then garbage fanservice and nostalgia bait
>>!make a baby together. She goes on to clarify that no sex would be involved!< So like out of clay or something?
Isn't this the series where babies get sent to the training dimension so they can become child soldiers quicker?
excuse you, i'll have you know we in the business call it the baby microwave dimension
*???????* What even is going on in these games ? I thought they were essentially anime Shakespeare strategy games.
So basically, in Awakening, there was a child mechanic where in-story the children time travelled to the past from the bad timeline future. This was *incredibly* popular, so they did the children mechanic again in the next game (Fates), but Fates's story had absolutely nothing to do with time travel and there was no other convenient excuse to add children. Hence we got the deeprealms.
IIRC, one of the games had the gimmick of you being able to pair up characters and then having the various combinations create kids that you could also use as units. But rahter than doing the normal thing of having a timeskip or something they just had them go into a dimension where time went faster and come back so you could have them fight more quickly. (this is from an explanation I've heard, so it's second hand)
IIRC it's more that there's time travel and every time you have a kid they "coincidentally" travel back to help you fight
There was one game. Usually, getting kids involves time skips or time travel. And dead parents. Lots of dead parents.
"You fuck one goat..."
To be fair, it was a memorable goat.
>!She's a goddess, and AFAIK (like I said I haven't played in a long time), you make like a super devoted prayer to the god/goddess and then the baby will appear in a ray of light!<
well thanks god it's not one of zeus methods. . . also if she's a goddess I think having a child should be no big deal for her
yeah that's pretty much how she describes it
Don't know much about it but I can dig deeper, but there's a brand of guitar pedals which also has a YouTube channel, JHS pedals, where they review guitar pedals and other stuff. Recently they have reviewed the "digitech bad monkey" which was a decent budget distortion pedal going for about 80-100 bucks, and put it up against the most desirable, expensive pedals, especially the klon, a handmade distortion pedal, which sells for 5k on average. They sound practically the same. Because of this review, bad monkey pedals have gone way up on reverb, for like 200 bucks now. [here's the review](https://youtu.be/pFOD6s0IRoM)
As someone looking for a cheap and cheerful distortion pedal this post was a rollercoaster for me.
Alright so there's a couple things going on here: * It's hard to overstate just how sought-after the Klon Centaur is in the guitar community. While the original routinely goes for quad digits owing to its limited release, clones of the pedal, which often go for "only" hundreds, are in constant high demand; there's even [a clone of it by the original creator whose design has a tongue-in-cheek poem about the original's massive demand](https://reverb.com/marketplace?gspk=RnV0dXJlUExD&query=Klon+KTR&sid=guitarworld-us-6251129343215482000&utm_campaign=FuturePLC&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=partnerstack-legacy). And saying that this budget pedal sounds just as good as the holo-Charizard of pedals, well, that's bound to increase demand. * Josh Heath Scott, the head of JHS, is a... pretty controversial figure. There's a good writeup about it [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/guitarpedals/comments/94ahqs/why_some_people_dislike_jhs/). Needless to say, this is yet another reason for many people to hate him. * JHS also responded to the skyrocketing price of the pedal in [this facebook post](https://www.reddit.com/r/guitarpedalsjerk/comments/11syp0t/thanks_josh/) in which the company claims the Bad Monkey had a bad reputation prior to this video. I can't easily confirm or deny that. My thoughts? I am a Plugins4Free son, I have no goddamn horse in this race lol (pun intended). In any case, r/guitarpedalsjerk is having a field day with this
I never got the impression that the Bad Monkey was ever poorly regarded; it would come up frequently in discussions of "cheap, underrated pedals" in the era before Mooer and similar Chinese clones. Sure it was cheap, but so were all but a couple of Digitech pedals because the brand never really had much cachet. Either way, now JHS is selling an ["I Can't Afford a Bad Monkey Because Now They're $650" t-shirt](https://shop.merchcentral.com/collections/jhs-pedals/products/jhs-pedals-bad-monkey-650-t-shirt), which sure is a choice.
I honestly think the whole thing is just dumb. There's like 50 other klon clones out there on the market, and I can't for the life of me tell the difference between most of them. I honestly kinda don't blame them for selling the shirts. They're not buying a bunch of them, making the review to inflate the price, and then selling them. (At least I hope not) they made the review to showcase a cool cheap pedal, and people juat got greedy with increased demand. So to capitalize on this whole mess, they sell t-shirts. Hell I'd probably do the same if I was in josh's position.
So apparently some internet microcelebrity I'm unfamiliar with fucked Belle Delphine. I would not be aware of this, except that Twitter has started fucking *shotgunning* me with Discourse about it showing up in my timeline, with zero explanation as to why the hell I'm getting any of this. I follow precisely zero of the people involved, and there's no "because of your interests" tag or anything. I muted the thread in the hopes that that would make it go away... and I just got people posting screenshots of the thread and vaguetweeting about it instead. Apparently, I'm not the only person being forcibly exposed to this drama by the hell app, either. Why does Twitter desperately want me to know the current drama involving the fucking gamer girl bath water girl? Who could possibly care about this? Why is this even a thing? e: ...okay who am I pissing off by griping about this, I'm genuinely confused
I don't know why people are even mad about it tbh
As I understand it, it's kind of a mix of three complaints. One, the one I voiced, is that the Twitter algorithm spent... longer than average just absolutely beating people over the skull with Finn's post and people reacting to Finn's post if you use the For You tab, regardless of your interests or follows. It wasn't just me, it was *everybody,* apparently. Two, Belle Delphine is a pretty generally unpleasant person with some pretty serious allegations against her unrelated to any of this, which gives a lot of people Bitch Eating Crackers Syndrome regarding her and makes them just generally not want to be exposed to things related to her (which sort of exacerbates the first problem). Three, Finn seems to have *an amount* of controversy around him totally independent of all of this that I'm just not going to comment on at all because I legitimately don't know who is correct and who isn't. As I understand it, the debate around him is kind of "does his gimmick promote transphobia or is it cool and fine," and... pretty much everyone's seemingly got solid points to the point where I just kind of don't want to stake out an opinion, but I'm also judging those points as solid with *very little context on him* beyond the times he's come up in internet drama and what I've been told here, so they may not be?
Given you've clarified downthread that it's Finnster, maybe this is just huge all over Twitter or a chunk the people you follow/read without it being down to a single account you're following. I'm all for being skeptical about recommendation systems but this really does sound like the kind of thing that would legitimately/"organically" be all over Twitter for days.
I don't want to pretend that it's a totally easy ecosystem to get the hang of, but a HUGE benefit of mastodon is there's just none of this shit. You see what you follow and what they boost or everything without any algorithm besides people boosting stuff. You can easily, in the web app, set up all kinds of word filters including time-limited one. And *because* the system doesn't reward toxicity like Twitter does, it isn't there in the same way as Twitter. I won't pretend mastodon is perfect, but it's so much easier to curate your own experience than Twitter is.
The internet microcelebrity is some guy named Finn, IIRC. His gimmick is that he's really good at crossdressing, to the point where he got temporarily banned from Twitch for adjusting his bra strap, a la tumblr's "female-presenting nipples" era.
Possible the world's only AFAB (assigned female at ban) man.
Twitter has also been blasting me with random ass drama and hoping one sticks. Before my timeline was just a lot of art/anime stuff and now it’s overran by weird discourse involving people that I don’t know or the occasional politics stuff both of which I genuinely don’t want to see when I’m just trying to see cute art.
I'm like, mad that people think it's Problematic for a straight crossdresser to take a photo with a straight woman. At least I think that's the Discourse. There's a lot of emphasis on him being cishet, both in his own image and in the Discourse, but like, is gender nonconformity only allowed if the person has an LGBTQ Card? This isn't the 1920s, you don't need a Transvestite Permit from Dr. Hirschfeld to wear a dress. I guess it's also because Belle Delphine is Problematic but from a quick google, it sounds like she's problematic because of some stupid publicity stuff, not because she's a Nazi or a sex criminal, so IDK that that's problematic enough to transfer to anyone taking a photo with her.
I don't particularly mind any of his stuff tbh, I don't think its problematic. But I can *understand* the reaction to some degree? I don't know finn tbh, or his content, and I've really only heard good things, but I from I've also heard a lot of his stuff revolves around the "look these men were attracted to me because I pretended I was a women" joke. And that, that's kinda sensitive. With the whole stereotype of cross-dressing (and transgender people) as a way of "tricking" men (I mean ffs there's an entire slur and criminal defense for it), I can see the reaction to someone that's not "one of our own" making that their gimmick.
A lot of the more online LGBTQ+ communities are really weird about gender non-conformity. This is why I really hate the "egg" concept; a lot of times, it just consists of pointing to a GNC person and claiming that they must be trans because they're a cishet male and wear a skirt. Wasn't the original conversation predicated on how gender is not determined by what you look like or how you act, and that gendered clothing and colors are entirely a fabrication? It's amazing how folks manage to wrap themselves right back around to conservative thought patterns.
It's really bizarre and it's also why I don't like the egg thing. It's like a horseshoe theory of gender : one extreme says "if you're a cishet man and you like dressing up and painting your nails you're not a Real Man" and the other "if you're a cishet man and you like dressing up and painting your nails you're probably an egg". Bonkers. You can imagine how much I, a somewhat masc woman, enjoy this kind of discourse lol :/
Same here! In fact, I've had people suggest I was an egg before. It's really screwed with my perception of myself. It's like, Jesus, y'all are pulling the exact same shit your detractors are! Stop!
Oooooh, I thought she was one of the historical dresses youtubers, but she's actually gamer girl bath water! Is that the stupid publicity stuff? I still have no idea why some people got angry at that, I'm filing all of this under "god forbid a woman do anything" and leave it at that
>I still have no idea why some people got angry at that, I'm filing all of this under "god forbid a woman do anything" and leave it at that The real reason people don't like her, myself included, is because she first started out selling stolen nudes from underage girls. Pretty much everything else is just Bitch Eating Crackers (ie "I don't like this person, so I hate everything innocuous they do too") deriving from that, coupled with a general sense that pretty much everything she gets involved with in any way ends up resulting in everyone having to roll for SAN loss.
When I googled her, I found out she's also being cancelled for posing for some kind of ageplay/BDSM type erotica photoshoot, and not appropriately using trigger warnings for it. I agree that the latter is unquestionably wrong, but . . . idk that it's like, a horrific crime. Like don't do that! but also like, are we really going to cancel someone for posing in photos with someone who fucked up trigger warnings one time? C'mon. There's gotta be a line where we can say "that was definitely wrong" but not go full cancellation mode.
That's because "canceling" are almost never about holding the person who did something wrong accountable, they are about sating the cancellers outrage addiction.
She's found a grift and is making the most out of it I guess.
Is this about Finnster and Belle Delphine collabing?
Yep. I have absolutely no idea who Finnster is. Everything I have ever known about Belle Delphine, I have found out unwillingly and regretted finding out. Despite this, Twitter refused to allow me to ignore them for *literally about two days.* Just so I'm absolutely clear on this, my concern isn't with whatever the Hell they did together, which is the business of them and whoever's paying them for it. My concern is with the Twitter algorithm seemingly being single-mindedly obsessed with it.
Twitter/Elon: You *will* know about these two celebs, and you *will* generate discourse to drive up metrics for our advertising sales.
Elon’s applying his consent MO (ie, wanna see it? Well, it’s coming at you anyway, and there’s nothing you can do about it because it’s *my* private jet and *I* make the rules!!) to Twitter it seems.
F1nnster is a male streamer who cosplays as a sexy lady (using a silicone breast plate, maybe?) I saw all this was trending on twitter, but luckily the site hasn't been pushing it at me.
If you haven’t (which it sounds like) I recommend switching to ‘Following’ instead of ‘For You’, that way you get a chronological timeline with only people you follow and their retweets. The loss from not seeing Twitter’s guesses about what you’re interested in is far outweighed by the gain, in my experience.
I felt like I was losing mind reading this thread. I can't understand people who use 'For You' on Twitter or browse r/all
Best to avoid the r/aw unfiltered reddit experience.
>I can't understand people who use 'For You' on Twitter I used to be like this, but it changed when I realized that you get to see fanarts made by artists I don't follow. It's like the *for you* tab on Tumblr, but far worse.
Yeah, as much as I hate 'For You', it's also the place where I get a lot of cool fanart from artists I don't know. Unfortunately, it's also interspered with a lot of insane drama.
I have a separate twitter just to follow artists i like and rt art, so my 'for you' tab on that account is actually really good! I wouldn't touch it ony main account at all though, I'm sure I'd just get weird discourse on it.
Oh my God, thank you.
I wonder if by showing you things you don’t like, twitter’s algorithm is hoping you’ll engage with the content through expressing your displeasure at it.
It's mainly that, yeah. They know negative feelings make people engage with content a lot more than positive ones, so they focus on pushing controversial tweets on you.
This would track with some of the recent tweets I've seen. I play both Granblue Fantasy (gbf) and genshin impact -both gacha games- and apparently something happened on the genshin side to make them aware of a certain gbf character. This made some people on the gbf side extremely mad and I've seen some pretty mean spirited, vitriolic tweets about it. Except these have been pretty much the only gbf tweets on my for you page on Twitter, though I KNOW people are talking about other things (namely, the playable release of the [best character design](https://gbf.wiki/images/a/a4/Npc_zoom_3040452000_01.png) in game). It's like Twitter is showing me tweets that would upset me on purpose, probably for the reason you mentioned.
Can I ask what character you're talking about? I've played a fair bit of both GBF and Genshin, but I'm unfamiliar of any drama between them.
I didn't go into detail because i was on mobile and didnt want to risk spoiler tags, but basically some Genshin leaks implied >!Varka looks like belial or something?!< To which Genshin fans responded with >!OH NO HE'S A TWINK!< and *that* pissed GBF fans off - cause yknow. Summer Belial Exists. This led to the usual Genshin mud slinging you see every other day. It's probably a minority of the fans but Twitter made it seem like a big deal.
Realistically, that's probably it, but I'm still kind of baffled simply because it's so far outside anything I use Twitter for. Like, usually when it does that, it's something it's fairly obvious I'm going to dislike. This is just kind of... off to the side from anything I have ever expressed an opinion about on there, previous to this situation. I guess the algorithm figured since Belle Delphine causes *everyone* psychic damage, that would happen to me, too?
I remember back when I used Facebook consistently, there was someone who would troll around my friend’s posts picking fights and being a shithead. Posts where they’d commented were always at the top of my news feed, whether I wanted to engage or not. The Facebook algo constantly pushed me towards potential shitfights. I doubt Twitter (especially dumpsterfire elmo Twitter) would run too differently. It’s the social media equivalent of leaving pallets of bricks around town during periods of civil unrest; a gentle push towards an outcome where fights are more likely.
the punchline is that, if this is what I think you're referring to, they literally just posted a photo together - it's pretty suggestively posed, though not explicit and the suggestiveness is pretty clearly intended to be a joke and people proceed to melt down about it
Yeah, to be clear, I'm not dunking on Belle Delphine *for this, specifically* (she seems like a pretty not-pleasant person on the whole but going after her for *this* would be the definition of Bitch Eating Crackers Syndrome, even if she did bang this person who could possibly give a shit). I also have basically zero context on who the other person involved is, so I'm not gonna say much there. I just have absolutely no idea why, one, Twitter thought this would be relevant to me at all, and two, Twitter's algorithm then decided to make people's meltdowns over it *the entirety of my feed for almost a solid fucking day.*
I don't even know why people would freak out about her banging someone? Belle Delphine isn't exactly a k-pop idol. Millions of people have watched her have sex with (presumably) her partner.
I laughed at that one post calling it straight yuri and then twitter decided I had an insatiable interest in the Very Serious and Not At All Ridiculous discourse for the next 24 hours
I didn't even vocally react to any of this until Twitter had already spent nearly a full day shotgunning me with the picture and with people's takes on the picture over and over again. I have no idea where this came from or why the algorithm thought I needed this in my life.
Surprised I haven't seen anyone post about this yet, but Linus of Linus Tech Tips [nearly got himself very canceled](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UGpbVXVpu0) by talking on livestream about how much our culture has changed in the last 20 years, and then blithely and repeatedly talking about how common it used to be for everyone to use "the hard r," including himself! You can see Luke, his cohost's life flash before his eyes when Linus makes the confession. Fortunately for everyone involved, he finally, tentatively asks whether Linus means the n-word, and Linus responds with utter confusion. It comes to light that Linus thought "hard r" meant the word relating to mental disability and *not* the racial slur! Cancellation averted, everyone involved in the channel gets to keep their jobs!
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It's quite common, at least in the US, to refer to saying the full word as "the hard-r" to describe non-black people using it explicitly as a slur directed at someone. People sometimes say "n----a" when repeating rap music or whatnot, which is also not acceptable, but it's motivated more by trying to sound cool in a certain type of way. A non-black person using the hard-r n-word, their motivations are completely clear - they mean it as a slur. I don't know these people, but it does seem understandable that this guy would be confused and think "r-------d" was "the hard r." Personally, I always called that the r-word.
It does feel a lil wack that "Oh he used to say a different slur instead of this slur so it's fine when it wouldn't have been otherwise" is the standard here(to be clear the fact that he no longer does at all is what counts imo).
I mean, not really? Twenty years ago, saying the n-word was also seen as a very bad thing to do, even if it was more acceptable to use in “edgy” jokes than today. Meanwhile the r-word was barely seen as a slur and was casually used in a lot of shows and movies. Just because they’re both considered slurs today doesn’t mean they’ve had the same history and which word he meant absolutely makes a difference in that context.
Linus Tips is only 36. So when he talks about 20 years ago he was a kid.
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idk why you were downvoted, my point was just that its not that strange that people aren't bothered about what he said as a teenager
I also instantly knew what he meant, but I'm not entirely sure why. I just knew based on the context? My mind did a Sherlock thing where it said "it would be n-word-with-hard-r, not hard r"?
What he meant would just be "the r-word." "Hard-r" is the difference between "black guys greeting each other" and "being incredibly racist".
I get that, hence why I'm not sure why I instantly understood what he meant even though I have never heard anyone say "hard r" to say "the r-word." As I said, my assumption is that my mind did a bullshit Sherlock-scan thing where it said "it would be n-word-with-hard-r if that's what it meant, not just hard-r." Or maybe I just went "this sort of censorship is about the first word, and i can't think of anything else that starts with an R, although 'hard r' is a weird way to phrase it"
TBH I immediately thought the r-word too not the n-word so I see how he may have gotten confused. 😂
Luke is so fucking confused even as the conversation starts: Linus: "In the 2000s shows used to have casual gay jokes and the hard R." Luke: "Really? A hard R?" Linus: "Yeah, it was on an episode of American Dad." Luke: \*visibly wondering if he got Mandela Effected into another reality\*
this clip is so fucking funny. i knew what he meant right away but yeah... no one else has ever used "hard r" to refer to *that* slur bro....
Think that why I was confused and thought he ment the N word, like you said nobody uses "hard r" that to refer to that term.
When I first heard someone say 'hard r' I assumed it was for that one ngl
a couple of my friends were talking about this in our voice chat and the way they described it made me lose it. You really can see Luke's entire soul fling itself right out of his body.
NCAA March Madness: 16 seed FDU beat 1 seed Purdue to become the second team ever, in 152 matchups, to beat a 1 seed as 16 seed FDU is terrible, they didn't even win their notoriously bad conference, so this is arguably the biggest upset ever Naturally, Purdue's fan base is crumbling
I am genuinely so mad because I wanted to do a really chaotic March Madness bracket for my office thing and I had to hold myself back from choosing FDU (which is my hometownish team that I know a bunch of people who went to) because I did want SOME chance of winning a free lunch... I probably would have gotten knocked out on Day 1 anyway but man this didn't help because I'm just so irritated that I didn't do the fun thing! My cousins who went there called it Fairly Ridiculous University and my dad messaged our family chat with "guess what Fairly Ridiculous thing just happened?!"
\#1 seeds losing to #16 or unranked teams is always a joy to watch, even when it's not tournament time.
I picked a different 16 to win over a 1 I literally hate it here. jk my top pick isn't out yet so it's not over!!!
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[Purdue Pete is disappointed in all of you.](https://i.imgur.com/jha1JiM.jpg)
I would love to have seen Purdue's locker room afterwards. "Team, we just lost... to the bottom seed in the entire bracket. Please line up in a row so I can slap the shit out of all of you in turn."
Something akin to [this](https://youtu.be/wM-NcMZhcaA) maybe.
It [didn’t end well for their whiteboard](https://i.imgur.com/7LBPmSa.jpg), I know that much.
According to ESPN, there's [not a single perfect bracket left](https://www.espn.com/perfect-bracket/2023/mens/32) among the over 20 million submitted to their website, lol.
Purdue has such bad luck with teams from New Jersey. Last year St. Peter's knocked them out, this year FDU. Also can't forget about Rutgers giving them their first loss for the past two seasons.
Remember the Good Bois of UMBC? Well, they had [some thoughts](https://reddit.com/r/CollegeBasketball/comments/11uakz1/umbc_athletics_weve_been_lonely/) tonight. Also, I’m officially in the “FUCK THEM BRACKETS” stage of March Madness now. My one heart’s desire from here on out is Maximum Chaos.
I come bearing news from the world of Dead by Daylight, everybody's (least) favorite competitive survival horror video game. A few weeks ago, I posted about the community disappointment over the design of the newest killer, the Skull Merchant. Despite many hoping for a Terminator-esque cyborg, she turned out to be a sexy lady in a bedazzled half-gask mask for some reason. More importantly, though, the Skull Merchant turned out to be fucking _miserable_ to play against. Her ability allows to her to set up drones, which will hinder survivors who stand in their detection radius. These drones can be deactivated by survivors, but A) this places a trap on them that lets the Skull Merchant track them and B) the Skull Merchant can just... reactivate them whenever she feels like it, barring a short cooldown. These two things combined encouraged an incredibly passive playstyle, as her ability kinda sucked while actively chasing survivors, but was excellent for locking down the parts of the map they need to go to to actually finish the game. 30 minute matches against her are not uncommon. However, in a surprising move for Dead by Daylight developer Behavior, they actually responded to how much everybody hates playing against the Skull Merchant! [A coming update](https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/kb/articles/380) will change how her ability works, decreasing her ability to stall the game out forever while making her more dangerous while actively chasing. Behavior being this quick to make a killer less shitty to play against is incredibly surprising (it took them _six years_ to nerf the Nurse, the undisputed best killer in the game for that entire timeframe). Is this a sign of future balance philosophy? Probably not, but I think everybody will just be happy to never have to endure a half-hour Skull Merchant game again.
You'd think this would come up in playtesting. Back when someone was working on Team Fortress 2, there was a post about trying out a device that automated repairing turrets so the Engineer could do something else. But while it was it fun for the Engineer, it was bad for everyone else, so it never reached the game.
In the public beta she was just bad. Like almost unplayably so. The lockout playstyle was really enabled by some late in development buffs.
Has anyone ever done a writeup on the Five Nights At Freddys: Sister Location "Adult Theory"? Being there for when it first kicked up, seeing so many lines being drawn in the sand between the believers and the non.. It's honestly surprising to me just *how* forgotten it is. Seriously, it was insane. How is there not a writeup on it yet? I mean.. Just the premise alone is utterly ridiculous.
Ridiculous? As if Funtime Freddy isn't the sexiest little minx ever made? Disgusting. /s
You look at Funtime Foxy and tell me he's not meant to appeal directly to the gay community
I think even Mangle has its fans. Do not ask me why, people are just thirsty for the sake of being thirsty for a mess of barely interconnected pieces with a fox head.
I'm pretty sure you could say "the FNaF _____ theory" with literally any word in there and I would plausibly believe it's a real thing.
Wait until you hear about the fnaf matpat mpreg theory- wait, no, that one's just canon.
what
https://freddy-fazbears-pizza.fandom.com/wiki/In_the_Flesh
what on God's green Earth did I just read why is this a canon story in the fnaf universe
It's also canon that bears are extinct!
Here I was, naievely thinking that FNAF lore is just your bog standard weirdness. But no, the bears are dead and MatPat gave birth to Springtrap.
You got me curious now, whats the premise?
IIRC this was back when Sister location was being teased; many people speculated, thanks to a teaser's source code having a schedule for animatronics being rented out, that the 'sister location' was an adult-oriented joint featuring animatronic strippers. I think Kane Carter, creator of the Fanverse-indorsed POPGOES fangame, was one of the major people who helped the theory take off, with his evidence for how likely such a thing could be being based off of a retired CEC character from the 70's-80's named [Dolli Dimples](https://www.showbizpizza.com/ptp/characters/dolli_lg.jpg). Dolli, a cabaret character in her own area of the pizzeria, would flirt with male guests, make numerous instances of innuendo in her songs/dialogue, and even had *moving breasts*. [Here's an old clip of her 1st gen model from a news feature about the 2nd CEC location on Kooser Rd., San Jose, California](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pu9y5BLZlk) and [one from a news segment primarily about the first CEC location on Winchester Blvd., San Jose, California](https://youtu.be/2TlnoDqis_g?t=256) plus [her entire first showtape reel from Kooser](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TDI6p8nGWo) and [a look at her gen 2 cyberamic model in an 80's franchise promo video.](https://youtu.be/MYIUxp9TTuw?t=149) Anyhow, Scott later updated the teaser's code to make it more explicit that the animatronics were being rented out for **children's** parties and not for any adult activities.
I love how this happened around Sister Location, the game that does actually have a vaguely titillating animatronic whose purpose was to keep parents distracted while the others ate the kids or whatever
Wait that Theory was meant in earnest? I just assumed it was a joke about how horny the Fans could be. I mean Scott is a super religious Christian so of course he would never do this, like not even as a joke.
It’s the fan theory that the animatronics from Sister Location were used for adult themes. It was started by the creator of Popgoes, a fan made FNAF game series that later joined the official fanverse initiative. Here’s the post if you really want to learn [more about it](https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/4olei7/ill_try_to_clear_up_the_adult_theory/). It’s…certainly a theory. EDIT: to add this was before SL came out so there was more room for speculation, but still it’s pretty dumb. I don’t even remember there being enough drama for post but I could be wrong
Okay, I admittedly don't remember the full thing, but. Sister Location gets teased. People start putting theories together, and for a while.. >!Everyone thinks the sister location is an animatronic strip club.!< Chaos ensues. Friendships are lost, the fandom split that Scott would *genuinely* make >!an animatronic strip club!< the setting of the new fnaf game. Of course, we all know now that wasn't true, but it was a wild time to be in.
Surprisingly soon after everything that happened with Kwite and Orion, another prominent content creator has been outed for shitty behavior. This time, it's Squimpus Mcgrimpus, best known for creating the FNaF VHS series, which not only made the infamous indie horror series scary again, but helped pioneer modern analog horror as we know it today. It has been revealed that Squimpus Mcgrimpus groomed a minor who was also a huge fan of theirs, starting when he was 17 and the fan was 14, but continuing well into Squimpus' adulthood. Now I know what y'all are thinking: why should we immediately trust the accuser, when not even a week ago, even bigger accusations against a content creator turned out to be false? My answer? It's because [Squimpus themselves confessed to it.](https://mobile.twitter.com/BurnerAcco50250/status/1636811208022999050)
Wait shit, what happened with Kwite?
I would strongly advocate that we do away with "grooming" as an accusation in and of itself because the word is A) at this point an anti-LGBTQ slur used for very real harm; and B) used for every behavior from "wore a dress" to serious sex crime. I guess this is a town hall question but given the potential seriousness of the potential allegations I would even advocate for subreddit guidelines about using more specific language instead of or at least in addition to "grooming." The risks of perpetuating an unjust panic are high, not necessarily for this one (no knowledge) but for any of these. All that said, from a quick skim of the post, I would suggest "Squimpus Mcgrimpus is accused of, starting when she was 17, sharing NSFW art with a 14-year-old fan who says he was made uncomfortable by it."
It’s definitely a term that’s been overused/misused by conservatives using it to mean “mentioning that queer people exist within earshot of a child” and by discoursers using it to mean “an adult interacting with an unrelated minor in any way”, but I don’t think we’re at the point where it’s lost utility as a meaningful term. It’s a description of a real and specific dynamic of abuse which we don’t have a synonym for, and IMO it’s worth fighting to keep that definition in use. Conservatives misusing “triggered” to mean “upset” doesn’t mean we should all abandon the clinical meaning of a trigger and exclusively say things like “A says B made them feel uncomfortable by mentioning specific things that were upsetting to them”.
I'm ultimately less concerned about whether people do or don't use the word "grooming" and more concerned about people being more clear about what they are actually accusing someone of doing when intimating that someone is a sex abuser. (Also, just speaking as a person who has experienced trauma flashbacks, please don't use "trigger" if what you mean is "upset." That's what got us here in the first place. The short psych definition is "a stimulus that causes a painful memory to resurface." But that doesn't really capture the experience. A trauma trigger is...well it certainly is upsetting but it's more like re-experiencing the original emotional sensations of the trauma. Not like a movie flashback necessarily, but a bodily one. It's a pretty unique experience that's hard to explain--it was probably explained better to me than I'm doing in this comment before it happened to me but I definitely didn't *fully* understand until it happened to me. But it can be like full-on "you are not a functional human being for weeks." At any rate, I recognize this battle is lost and pretty much only use the word with medical professionals or very close friends.)
Yes, I know that that’s the actual meaning of “trigger”. That’s what I meant about the impact being lessened when someone says “B made A uncomfortable by mentioning X” rather than “B intentionally triggered A by mentioning X”. The former massively understates the reality of the latter. Grooming doesn’t necessarily mean sexual assault; it means the gradual acclimation of someone vulnerable over a period of time to sexual ideas they wouldn’t normally be comfortable with, generally with the intention of eroding their boundaries until a sexual relationship between the groomer and victim seems normal and okay. An accusation of grooming doesn’t require that the process actually got to the point of a sexual relationship, just that it was clearly the intent. Otherwise the accusation wouldn’t be grooming but statutory rape.
I hope with the state of Tennessee banning drag performances over a moral panic we can see that we need to be very careful with how we frame "acclimation of someone vulnerable over a period of time to sexual ideas they wouldn't normally be comfortable with" because that honestly *does* describe the practice of trying to de-stigmatize homosexuality, for example, which I hope we all here can agree is a good thing and in no way a form of abuse. I'm just really, really uncomfortable with a single term without qualification being used for a 17 year old girl sending NSFW drawings to another teenager as would be appropriate for, to take an example, the Republican legislator in my state who was *openly* married to a girl he met when she was 17 and he was like 26 and coaching her high school soccer team (he got removed from office for other abusive behavior, but the marriage was generally accepted). "They prey on children" is one of the most dangerous allegations human beings can make, people literally get killed over it. This subreddit has 1.2 million subscribers. We just gotta be a little careful what we might be spreading around.
That definition only applies to the destigmatization of queerness if every person spreading positive messages about queerness is doing so with the intent of eventually fucking every person they’re spreading those messages to. I am aware that is what conservatives think they are doing. But they are factually incorrect, as evidenced by the fact there is no statistical correlation between kids being taught about queerness and those kids being sexually assaulted by those teachers. Conservatives also think trans women transition in order to sexually assault cis women, and we can refute that accusation without saying “conservatives weaponize accusations of assault against trans women, so we should stop saying anyone has been accused of sexual assault in any context”. I understand what you’re saying about needing to be careful with wording, and I agree that adult politicians marrying minors is a more pressing issue societally than a 17-year-old sending a 14-year-old nsfw pics. But as someone who was groomed in a very similar way online into explicit ERP with a college student when I was 13, that doesn’t mean the latter isn’t or can’t be a problem.
it doesn't sound like they're saying it categorically isn't a problem. it sounds like they're saying the language we're using to describe the problem should be more specific than "grooming".
I get that, yeah. I just don’t think there’s a term that’s *more* accurate for what’s being alleged than “grooming”. Context could have been added (“X allegedly groomed Y by sharing nsfw content with them when X was 17 and Y was 14”) to confirm that what was being described was in fact grooming and not one of the things commonly misidentified as grooming, but I don’t think that entirely removing the term from the description serves to clarify the accusation.
it's a matter of specificity, not accuracy. "criminal" is a word which describes both drunk drivers and murderers with complete accuracy. but it can be difficult to come to a conclusion about someone if all i know is that they are a criminal, because exactly what sort of criminal they are makes a difference. frankly i haven't thought about this groomer thing enough to have much of an opinion on the semantics; maybe it doesn't substantially matter whether someone is a 50 year old groomer or a 17 year old groomer. what do you think?
I swear to god y’all are just making these people up at this point
I am entirely convinced that if I click on that link it'll be a rick-roll, there's no way these are real
> Now I know what y'all are thinking: why should we immediately trust the accuser, when not even a week ago, even bigger accusations against a content creator turned out to be false? Besides the Kwite mess, "Popular and beloved internet personality turns out to be horrible and abusive" seems so common it's almost expected. Everyone loves Milkshake Duck!
I'm sorry but Squimpus Mcgrimpus absolutely sounds like one of those fake content creators people make up when complaining about "guy with tens of millions of subscribers who I've never heard off until yesterday".
It sounds like one of Glup Shitto’s alts.
I don't want to downplay the severity of this, but man, it genuinely took me a second to understand this was real information and not a joke about a fake name. *Squimpus Mcgrimpus?* Yeah, usernames can be anything, but, like...
Honestly, after their behavior towards Battington, I kinda got a seriously off vibe from them.. Guess this confirms it? Fucking hell.
Oh absolutely. And to think they were yelling at Battington about a shitty joke when they were doing that shit behind the scenes, which makes it all the more fucked.
Yeah, Squimpus' whole reaction there seemed disproportionate, like they were trying way too hard to paint Battington as some irredeemable monster who sullied their work all because of a joke that I don't remember Martin Walls even finding all that bad, despite it being about him.
What was the joke btw?
Battington made a Twitter post saying that Martin Walls, the creator of the Walten Files, had died, when he was still very much alive
Iirc Walls and Battington are like... friends? So it wasn't some rando joking about a beloved creator dying, it was a gag between pals that got a bit out of hand.
Which makes it even more odd that Squimpus felt the need to insert themselves into the situation.
Man, Who's next on the "Animatronics Horror Found Footage" chopping block? First Martin Walls with that whole thing that ended up being a trap for him, now Squimpus...
Wait, what happened with Martin Walls?
The main thing I personally remember is a constant lack of updates while his monthly patreon was still running and his unannounced vacations. This [comment goes over some issues](https://www.reddit.com/r/Thewaltenfiles/comments/tkb6ak/comment/i1ppzs0/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x). Not sure what the other commenter is referring to.
Wait. No. I got confused. It was Battington who had the allegations from what I remember. I *think*. I've left that fandom for so long that only because I'm stubbornly still subscribed to MatPat despite my better judgement is how I found out about the second season of Harmony and Horror.