completely nuking like a dozen trans women’s accounts after tumblr user predstrogen got banned so hard every single image she ever posted got deleted (which isn’t how tumblr bans work), and claiming the og ban was because of threats towards him. the one threat he could point to was this

he said tumblr would work with the fbi to investigate this shit

link to his statement. he originally misgendered her, then corrected himself to degender her, then finally used corrected himself to use her actual pronouns

  • Pisha [she/her, they/them]
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    151 year ago

    I just want to note that from everything I’ve read about this, it’s specifically trans women being targeted, not just trans people in general. It’s not (just) transphobia, it’s transmisogyny. And some of the online discussions I’ve been seeing about this are using the chance to complain about how trans women talking about their specific oppression are the real transphobes anyway, which is infinitely infuriating to me.

    • Cromalin [she/her]OP
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      81 year ago

      that’s very much true, and the woman who got targeted at the start was well known for (among other things) talking a lot about transmisogyny. which makes the people bitching and moaning about how people talking about it are the real transphobes even more infuriating if that was at all possible

  • citrussy_capybara [ze/hir]
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    181 year ago

    instead of doing something to prevent harassment of trans people, he actively contributes to harassment

    he is responsible for the deaths of trans people, getting people murdered in the streets

    he has cissues cissues about a couple people making mean comments online? he thinks a couple venting comments are bad and should be punished, but won’t do anything about the deluge of the same directed at trans people on his fucking platform? let’s print out all the comments on rice paper and and drop them on the trans people, and similarly print out every harassing comment, dm, post from tumblr users and drop them on the CEO so he gets paper cuts and bleeds out while being crushed under the weight gayroller-2000

    • Cromalin [she/her]OP
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      171 year ago

      careful he’s going to call the fbi for this very real and actionable death threat

    • Cromalin [she/her]OP
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      251 year ago

      there’s a fairly strong community of communists and trans people on tumblr but like any other website that isn’t explicitly designed as a space for trans people and communists there’s plenty of reactionary horseshit as well

    • keepcarrot [she/her]
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      111 year ago

      Yeah, I would have thought trans people was a huge portion of tumblr regulars (and queer community generally)

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      like, basically everyone i follow on there is trans! like 70% of posts that make it big these days are by trans people, especially trans women! what a baffling move*

      *i mean, it’s very obvious why it’s happening, but like. if i’m the ceo of tumblr and i see this shit i go “ahh! my users are trans! i should NOT be a transmisogynistic piece of shit!” because i want money and people to use my website

      • DragonBallZinn [he/him, they/them]
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        61 year ago

        My pet conspiracy theory is that a lot of the “SJWs” who preached revenge against men or shit like that were all feds trying to do full character assassination of the LGBT identity in its entirety. This way, porky has to say that he wants to save the west from the scary rainbow people and that can instill an unshakeable loyalty to him among the lumpens.

  • laziestflagellant [they/them]
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    271 year ago

    Still fucked up over the reveal that the rampant issue of targeted moderation based transphobic harassment was, in fact, not exaggerated or imagined by the tumblr userbase, and bad enough that even the CEO (as seen above) was forced to admit that a bad actor was given keys to tumblr moderation and used it to be extremely transphobic, for months, despite many users recording and reporting the moderation actions

    and the CEO has stated that tumblr staff will prevent this from happening again by uhhh uhhhhhhhhh

    • Cromalin [she/her]OP
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      251 year ago

      it’s wild that it was literally active transphobia by tumblr moderation! i’d assumed it was all passive stuff, them not caring that terfs had figured out how to abuse the system, but no! it was on purpose!

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    321 year ago

    he originally misgendered her, then corrected himself to degender her, then finally used corrected himself to use her actual pronouns

    Then he misgenders her again in the comment section and blatantly lies about it when confronted.

    • Cromalin [she/her]OP
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      211 year ago

      yep! “ohhhh when i said ‘it hopes i die’ i meant the POST hoped i died,” did you? did you mean the post is hoping you die? or did you refer to the trans woman who doesn’t use it pronouns as it?

  • Tommasi [she/her, pup/pup's]
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    371 year ago

    Why do we wrongly have a transphobe reputation? We did have an external contract moderator last year that was making transphobic moderation

    If your website has a transphobe reputation because it did transphobic things, can you really say you wrongly have that reputation?

    • Cromalin [she/her]OP
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      271 year ago

      he literally admits in the post that the website has had transphobic moderation policies as recently as last year! that’s not wrongful! he doesn’t even mention that the website settled when it was sued for transphobic moderation policies back in 2022 as well. tumblr’s reputation as transphobic is hard earned

  • theposterformerlyknownasgood [she/her]
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    241 year ago

    Now I’m not one of them there tech guys. I’m just a humble poster, and am neither a tech or a guy. But. Were I the public face of the website tumblr.com there is precisely one group of people with whom I would not engage negatively, and it would be gender and sexual minorities. I’m just putting it out there. After that it would be homestuck fans.

    • pooh [she/her]
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      191 year ago

      Bizarre that he’s even publicly engaging other users in this way. Like, if you’re the CEO, it’s maybe not the best idea to be getting into arguments, shitposting, telling the world your shitty opinions, etc.