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[feotakahari]

There are some people on Tumblr where I know everyone hates them, but every time I see their posts get reblogged, they actually have decent takes. I’ve heard in passing that one of them has a sexual fetish other people don’t like, and another one “owns a child slave.”* But there’s a third one where I have only the vaguest idea of why people hate him, and honestly, it’s a lot more fun watching everyone flip the hell out at someone who seems completely innocuous.

*I have never seen any context for this. Ever. People just say not to reblog this person because she “owns a child slave.”

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[wolffyluna]

(If child slave person is who I think it is, I actually have some context for the child slave thing?)

[stardust_rifle]

It isn't just that her family owns a child slave, but that she said something along the lines of "It's OK because It's Their Culture and white westerners can't understand"

She also tried to get people to pay her for psychiatric help over the internet while having no credentials aside from being a popular blogger.

[yvannairie]

(Preface: most of this comment ended up going places that might sound like I'm throwing shade at other people in this thread. I'm really not, and I'm sorry stardust_rifle for hijacking the thread, I just couldn't work my thoughts into a separate comment after they were all out.)

I've never seen entirely conclusive proof of the child slave thing, but I did see the "[name redacted] Heals" posts going around, so I can vouch for that second part. And considering how much of that person's horror content had that "Creepy Mentally Ill People" vibe, it really set me off at the time, too.

I'm just... like, just for my part, in a post that's already about how some people seem to be inexplicably hated, I wasn't sure if "but there are actual reasons, tho :/" was a comment I should make. I just finished watching the new Peter Coffin video about, well, essentially callout culture, and it left me with a sense that even if someone is bad, what... really is the point of enforcing that sense of bad even among those who never interact with that person?

Of course, we did recognise the one person described as someone who is legit someone who's tried to take actual advantage of others before, so that muddies the point even more. When does "I don't know" imply "but I want to" and when can it just be left at that?

[zenolalia]

The slavery thing, I was present for. Some of her relatives employ illegal child labor for housekeeping, and 6p goes out of her way to talk about how this is actually good for the kids because otherwise they would be factory laborers instead, how everyone does it, and how it's totally normal for people in Asia to have children working as housekeeping.

https://sixpenceeeharms.tumblr.com/tagged/slavery

I was never keen on 6p (her writing is all either fucked up levels of ableist, or just straight up plagiarism), but that whole incident basically destroyed my fucking worldview for like a week.