Community Knitwits in the Fiber Arts Hobby - Drama in the fiber arts

[CivilianOfTheFandomWars]

You know what arts and crafts needs more of? SWJs and hipsters.

This will mainly focus on knitting, but there is the same deals with crotchet and needlepoint.

Spoiler: Ravelry

Ravelry is a forum/shopping site where users buy and sell knitting patterns and hang out on the forums. They recently banned all pro-Trump disucussion and patterns. Here is the article:
https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/ravelry-bans-donald-trump-posts/ (https://archive.li/WDzbJ)
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Spoiler: Reddit thread, long

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Here's my favorite part.

Do you want to know the horrible, evil patterns being shared?

Spoiler: WARNING: NSFW KNITTING

Hateful.

In response to Ravelry banning MAGA, some people decided to raid.

Spoiler: RAID

NOT PORNO!

Due to this raid, Ravelry has been on lockdown, no new accounts are to be created.

This was the front page for a while.

But, this isn't the first drama from the knitting community.

Spoiler: RACISM

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/2/25/18234950/knitting-racism-instagram-stories (https://archive.fo/h6bh0)
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Now, lets take a look at some of the people in the community.

Spoiler: Various people who look funny

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But wait, there's more.

Spoiler: Assorted drama and goofery

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I think this is a case of politics invading a hobby and making it less fun for everyone involved.
If anyone has or knows more, please share.
http://www.reddit.com/r/yarntrolls (https://archive.fo/5w3Ll)
https://www.reddit.com/r/knitting/ (https://archive.fo/Rm0tC)
https://twitter.com/ravelry?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author (https://archive.li/9guV8)
And remember, take care of yourself, and each other.

 

[Guts]

What a wicked waste they weave.

 

[mr.moon1488]

The culture war has literally even hit the knitting community... So when does the civil war start?

 

[Lackadaisy]

Some of your screencaps aren't embedded, but when I click through them, they're fine.

This is a good OP, but are there any links to active communities/groups we can laugh at and farm screenshots from?

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

This is really not surprising since softy shit like knitting has been always hip with hipsters and hippy types who put the ☪☮⚥✡☥☯✝ bumper sticker on their cars. I'm just surprised they haven't tried to politicize Wicca, Taro Cards and Ouija Boards at this point.

 

[CivilianOfTheFandomWars]

Some of your screencaps aren't embedded, but when I click through them, they're fine.

This is a good OP, but are there any links to active communities/groups we can laugh at and farm screenshots from?

I added some, but Ravelry is on lock down. I was going to wait, but I figured i might as well, if anyone else had some hot goss.

 

[Clop]

It was only a matter of time until knitting as a whole got its own thread. I hope those menopausal little knitters are proud of themselves.

Do they count as witches when their weakness is fucking water?

 

[CivilianOfTheFandomWars]

It was only a matter of time until knitting as a whole got its own thread. I hope those menopausal little knitters are proud of themselves.

Do they count as witches when their weakness is fucking water?

You need water to block your work. It's very important.

 

[PsychoNerd054]

The culture wars hit everything the light touches! Next thing you'll tell me is that basket weaving will get involved.

 

[Otterly]

YES!! Oh I’m so happy you’re made this because there is so much delicious SJW outrage at the moment.

The current issue du jour regards a bloke with the handle sockmatician. He apparently coined the #diversknitty hashtag and is a gay HIV positive bloke for added woke points. BUT he SINNED, my friends, he sinned. He wrote a post saying ‘hey let’s all be nice to each other’ and was turned on by The BIPOCborg. The funniest thing is all the people who initially liked the post frantically backpedaling after this. He then flounced and was admitted to hospital, and then went to the yarningham yarn festival and was involved in a shouting match with a British knitter. This has now been turned into WHITE CIS MALE PHYSICALLY ATTACKS BRAVE BIPOC and the mi.lk is flowing.

Let me go get screenshots of all this. It’s a fantastic source of insanity.

I’m hoping someone will create a crossover with the fat acceptance/sewing community because they are absolutely barmy.

Happy days. I’ll be back to this with screenshots.

 

[2.D.]

I never thought I'd be interested in idiots in knitting, but damn, this is a really well made post. Great job OP. I don't see this being very active, since of course knitting is kinda niche, but I'm interested in how this goes.

 

[GS 281]

@CivilianOfTheFandomWars archive nigger

 

[Recoil]

They fucked up street art, too.
ETA - there's a fair amount of cultural crossover between hipster twats who knit & hipster twats who put up wheatpaste & graf.

KNITTA PLEASE: Graffiti You Can Cuddle Up To

Hugging trees is all good, but our arboreal buddies get a lot more snuggly after a visit from one of Houston's most notorious graffiti crews. Knitta Please, a team of 11 women and men who bomb urban landscapes with remnant knitting projects, are definitely

inhabitat.com

that fucking name tho

 

[CivilianOfTheFandomWars]

@CivilianOfTheFandomWars archive nigger

Oh. Are screenshots not archives?
Sorry, I’ll get on that.

 

[GS 281]

Oh. Are screenshots not archives?
Sorry, I’ll get on that.

Use archive.is. you load webpage links into the top bar and then press the button and you get an archive link. thats all ya need.

 

[adorable bitch]

God I love fucking love reading through niche hobby drama.
(despite hating having to deal with it myself )

 

[CivilianOfTheFandomWars]

God I love fucking love reading through niche hobby drama.
(despite hating having to deal with it myself )

It's fun. What hobby drama are you dealing with?

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

This is really not surprising since softy shit like knitting has been always hip with hipsters and hippy types who put the ☪☮⚥✡☥☯✝ bumper sticker on their cars. I'm just surprised they haven't tried to politicize Wicca, Taro Cards and Ouija Boards at this point.

They probably already have

 

[adorable bitch]

It's fun. What hobby drama are you dealing with?

I don't want to derail the thread, but I like alternative fashion. Fashion, being what it is, always attracts the worst people, and doubly so for autistic niche fashion.

Somewhat related to the topic, let me tell you how sad it is to watch a hobby of yours get mixed up in the culture war. It's having something pure, escapist and fun snatched away from your hands because some smug, pushy asshole desperately needed the clout from being on the right side of history. Then you get fucked over and your friend groups split because you expressed the slightest bit of disagreement or even neutrality.

I feel bad for all the people in this community who just want to fucking knit.

 

[CivilianOfTheFandomWars]

I don't want to derail the thread, but I like alternative fashion. Fashion, being what it is, always attracts the worst people, and doubly so for autistic niche fashion.

Somewhat related to the topic, let me tell you how sad it is to watch a hobby of yours get mixed up in the culture war. It's having something pure, escapist and fun snatched away from your hands because some smug, pushy asshole desperately needed the clout from being on the right side of history. Then you get fucked over for expressing even the slightest bit of disagreement or even neutrality.

I feel bad for all the people in this community who just want to fucking knit.

The IRL people I know in fashion are exactly who you would expect.
I think it has something to do with the type of people who are into traditionally "feminine" crafts, even though for a long time men were the tailors. Mix that idea with arts and crafts, and that's who you attract.