Before You Follow (BYF)

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Oglooger said:
so what happens if you just follow them without their consent?
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For a while blocking did basically nothing, but now it will force them to unfollow you, bar them from sending you messages, make your posts un-rebloggable to them, etc.
But before that, around a few months ago, all someone could do if you broke their "rules" was make a callout post about you and repeatedly send asks that just said "unfollow me".
 
http://stayawayfromkatie.tumblr.com/post/140480838703/yet-another-callout-for-katie-frenchwife
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This would actually be really boring if not for this little tidbit.
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Rascal Hawk said:
No, can totally check your follower list and see the urls of the blogs following you. Blocking someone also forces an unfollow now, though for a long time it didn't.

The 'safety' of a BYF/Do-Not-Follow-If concept is still dumb with more 'security' holes than a sieve, though.
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You also have an activity page which tells you all your recent followers, likes, and reblogs. So yeah, pretty easy for them to catch. :/
Frankly, BYF are also pretty dumb from a business standpoint. A blog with a lot of followers means more revenue if you have a donate button or patreon and can land you a job in running social media accounts for businesses. It's in their best interest not to have a BYF page, not that tumblrites are very logical.
 
I swear these snowflakes are copy and pasting these lists from a single source. It's just so samey.

The "don't follow if your name is [whatever]" is hilariously petty.
 
kittie said:
It's dead and I don't want to get yelled at for posting in it almost a year later
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It's really not that big a deal. I can merge them if you like.

EDIT: I WENT AHEAD AND DID IT ANYWAY

Fiddleford said:
byfcringe is always a good place to start.

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I like how arbitrary this one feels. Like they're just going through the motions and you expect to read "blah blah blah, yadda yadda yadda."

moorhen said:
http://stayawayfromkatie.tumblr.com/post/140480838703/yet-another-callout-for-katie-frenchwife
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This would actually be really boring if not for this little tidbit.
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It seemed like the typical byf shit but then I saw the deadpool thing at the end
 
the "don't follow me if you're the same kintype" reminds me of that thing that I don't understand, that gets made fun of/portrayed in movies/TV but which I've NEVER seen or encountered IRL, where women allegedly get mad at other women if they show up at a party wearing the same exact outfit. I don't even know if that's a real thing or if it is, why it's a thing.
 
Koby_Fish said:
the "don't follow me if you're the same kintype" reminds me of that thing that I don't understand, that gets made fun of/portrayed in movies/TV but which I've NEVER seen or encountered IRL, where women allegedly get mad at other women if they show up at a party wearing the same exact outfit. I don't even know if that's a real thing or if it is, why it's a thing.
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I enjoy your explanation. It paints a picture of teenie boppers pulling hair over liking the same boy, which is basically what kintypes are.
 
Calling said:
I enjoy your explanation. It paints a picture of teenie boppers pulling hair over liking the same boy, which is basically what kintypes are.
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Oh yeah. Most regular people would be like, "Oh same kintype, we have something in common! Friends!" The rejection of the something in common as a basis for friendship mentality speaks to a deeply, deeply disturbed and warped psyche.
 
Koby_Fish said:
Oh yeah. Most regular people would be like, "Oh same kintype, we have something in common! Friends!" The rejection of the something in common as a basis for friendship mentality speaks to a deeply, deeply disturbed and warped psyche.
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>"regular people"
>"kintypes"
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Koby_Fish said:
the "don't follow me if you're the same kintype" reminds me of that thing that I don't understand, that gets made fun of/portrayed in movies/TV but which I've NEVER seen or encountered IRL, where women allegedly get mad at other women if they show up at a party wearing the same exact outfit. I don't even know if that's a real thing or if it is, why it's a thing.
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In all my years of life, when ending in the same outfit as someone else or seeing two people in that situation... nobody ever catfights over it. Or maybe I just missed it, in which that case: damn.

Tumblrites tend to justify the "same fictionkin" thing as them "disassociating" when someone else is "also them." Which goes against them claiming that being "kin" with something isn't actually being that something and thus fictionkin just relating. Supposedly. But obviously not.
 
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