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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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[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?