The Tumblr Files - Official Thread (Case I: Steven Universe) - An exposé on the media and people that destroyed the Internet

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She was being pulled into the void while I was increasingly repelled by the increasing authoritarianism and lgbbq nonsense. Haven't had any contact since we split, looked up her Facebook a couple years later and it was gone. I strongly suspect she's an enby or pooner now.
Reminds me of how Homestuck (along with the equally plagued Superwholock fandom, which I think deserves a mention along with the general British obsession around the same time which had a considerable amount of overlap with the SJW pronoun pushers) basically ruined the closest friendship I had back in the day. Said former friend is now a she/they non binary witch and still a rabid fujoshi, and she's pushing 30. Many such cases I suspect.
 
I meant that the ending of the game came to him in a dream, not that the game is a dream
Well, that's less worse. But he must have gotten a fucking fever then. Sorry about the misunderstanding still.
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What an unapologetic way to phrase it, it got a genuine chuckle out of me. Your series needs to get featured at some point, you have a real knack for writing.
Real talk: I don't like how "soft" Asgore is seen and how he lost his pulse with Toriel. Sure, he wants to be seen as someone who understands and has feelings, which is a nice way to see things. That I approve and indeed think is sensible. What I don't like is how it seems the fandom forces him to be a "no balls" and make it seem like Toriel "owns the pants" in the house.

Don't get me started on how he's seen like a homosexual icon to some retards... somehow? I guess it's that bear/bara crap.
 
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It's definitely the bear/bara crap. Just look at how big of a deal Dream Daddy was when it came out.
Just as I fucking feared. If it isn't fujo-doodoos, it's homosexuals shitting up a character just because he's fit or has a beer gut. And just because he HAPPENS to not be married anymore it's because "he's a homo", nevermind because he probably did something wrong with others who fell down Ebbot and is sorry for what he did and sees himself as someone irredeemable (This is why I say that the Dreemurrs are the only redeeming characters in the game - traditional family with a tragic story). I guess because they aren't as annoying as fujos, they are """less annoying""". Keyword: LESS.
 
If it isn't fujo-doodoos, it's homosexuals shitting up a character just because he's fit or has a beer gut.
I feel this is a major example of "fatherless behavior", only this time it's with boys who never had a prominent father figure in their lives growing up, so they search for a Daddy BF to fill that void. A major example would be Chaofanatic's lust over Hyperchaotixfox.
 
I will say in the later years of Tumblr was basically when all of the fucking men left. In the very early years of Tumblr, you actually could still find people who were pretty right-wing or Christian or anti LGBTQPEDO on there. You had enough people disagreeing for there to be some dissonance. You had posts that were not done in the classic Tumblr style of writing. You had stuff that was really funny that was "non politically correct".

I even remember seeing a post on how non-binary is invalidating to trans people because it's just saying that gender doesn't exist and that you can choose. This particular post had well over a million notes at the time in the early 2010s. This post stuck with me mentally just because of how much the meta has changed a few years down the line.

The earliest era after Steven universe was superwholock. But Steven ruined a lot of shit. There was a bunch of people coming on from other fandoms and again it was a good enough mix of people that it didn't really matter... But post superwholock and in the era of undertale homsetuck whatever when TROONS began taking over all the straight men and otherwise fun and varied people left.... Imagine that...

The total fall actually happened after they banned porn. Every site that gets big enough will have some gay fucking retard post CP. Tumblr decided to SHUT IT DOWN and kill all porn rather than worry about legal shit or being sensible humans..... This was solely for the reason of the number of drawn NSFW art on the site.

A lot of artists (normal and NSFW) relied on Tumblr for a point of income through arranging in DMs and free advertisement for their work. After the ban, they basically all fucked off to Twitter...as did their fanbases. This was the final media nail in the coffin And basically when the site fully died and memes like female presenting nipples came around.

Might I add, the bans on "porn" images basically seemed to be a matter of just trusting whoever pressed the button as 100% true and honest. I saw images reposted that were banned that were of women that were fully clothed and covered and perhaps just in a short skirt/bathing suit. It was basically the most retarded solution to a respectively common issue on big sites.

Cartoons ruined lives. Sad. Many such cases.
 
I feel this is a major example of "fatherless behavior", only this time it's with boys who never had a prominent father figure in their lives growing up, so they search for a Daddy BF to fill that void. A major example would be Chaofanatic's lust over Hyperchaotixfox.
Very likely indeed. They fill their void with pornography and fetishize it as well. It's sad.
 
I agree with many points that @Meiwaku said, specially with the ever cringe and unsuferable superwholock fandom, i remeber how derranged the people in that fandom could be going as far as to create legit cults (go check out stuff related to the Final Fantasy house), what kind of mindvirus does english media has that makes people be that way?
 
It's definitely the bear/bara crap. Just look at how big of a deal Dream Daddy was when it came out.
I feel this is a major example of "fatherless behavior", only this time it's with boys who never had a prominent father figure in their lives growing up, so they search for a Daddy BF to fill that void. A major example would be Chaofanatic's lust over Hyperchaotixfox.
You know what? I think this might be why Tumblr was okay with Greg Universe, despite him being a straight white male who married a formally gay woman and had a kid.
 
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You know what? I think this might be why Tumblr was okay with Greg Universe, despite him being a straight white male who married a formally gay woman and had a kid.
Straights are so hecking icky and le boring that you have to have some homo in there for retard tumblrinas or libshits to be okay with it. In fanworks it mutated into one side of the straight couple is trans then it devolved to the point that many GAY fan works now is just straight with extra steps.
I've also seen fanfic summaries and tags that is just lesbian sex but labeled gay
:stress: the kweer retards' never ending pretzel logic is always baffling.
 
I agree with many points that @Meiwaku said, specially with the ever cringe and unsuferable superwholock fandom, i remeber how derranged the people in that fandom could be going as far as to create legit cults (go check out stuff related to the Final Fantasy house), what kind of mindvirus does english media has that makes people be that way?
My theory with the Superwholocks (and to a lesser extent Harry Potter fans pre-Rowling getting a grip and realising gender identity is bullshit) and the obsession with all things British is that the community was already infested with people who'd bought into the "cultural appropriation = bad" narrative that had begun to dominate but at the same time wanted an identity beyond "basic white girl" and since the Brits are white and colonised a good chunk of the planet their culture is fair game for latching onto, and chances are if you're white and American/Aussie/Canadian you're descended from English people anyway, therefore not appropriation at all - I remember the same friend I lost to the Tumblr madness claiming some distant relation to the royal family even. So since they were already in deep with the rest of the SJW trends, other forms of insanity were sure to follow, because don't you know, telling someone to act like a goddamn emotionally stable human being for once is ableism y'all.

I liked when those sorts were referred to as "teaboos" (tea + weeaboo) because drinking tea to seem more sophisticated and making it their entire personality was a common trait.
 
What I don't like is how it seems the fandom forces him to be a "no balls" and make it seem like Toriel "owns the pants" in the house.
It's worse than that: when he needed her the most, Toriel abandoned her husband for a topic she's equally guilty as well (the whole sacrificing humans bit), but she played the "I'm no longer a queen so it's your fault , husband!" card and all of the blame falls om Asgore. Even in the sequel he's still seen as a loser and guilty of... Something.
I suppose that was part of the demonization of the straight man that has been going on for a while, and accelerated this decade.
 
Bro it's legitimately fucking insane that you didn't start all this off by delving deeper into Homestuck and its fandom. Yeah it's a huge volume of history and content, but a good amount of the stuff you go over in Cases I and III (as well as many many many other aspects of Tumblr culture as a whole) have origins within or around it.

It's like analyzing WWII without going over WWI first. Doable, sure, but insane. And there's some missing context that veterans will recognize immediately.

That said, great work so far. What a blast to the past.
 
It's worse than that: when he needed her the most, Toriel abandoned her husband for a topic she's equally guilty as well (the whole sacrificing humans bit), but she played the "I'm no longer a queen so it's your fault , husband!" card and all of the blame falls om Asgore. Even in the sequel he's still seen as a loser and guilty of... Something.
I suppose that was part of the demonization of the straight man that has been going on for a while, and accelerated this decade.
Is that the case? I've never seen an in depth analysis of the Dreemurr family. If that's so, then Toriel really would deserve Frisk's beating at the start. "ohhhhhh you hate me?" Yeah, fucking deserved, bitch.

But I don't know - maybe she suppresses the guilt? She takes care of strangers who make their way into Ebbot to cope and sneed over the fact she lost her son, while Asgore went "I DON'T DESERVE PITY, NIGGER!". Whichever it is - I truly hope in the pacifist that Asriel comes back. Everyone ignores him, which is sad.
 
Bro it's legitimately fucking insane that you didn't start all this off by delving deeper into Homestuck and its fandom. Yeah it's a huge volume of history and content, but a good amount of the stuff you go over in Cases I and III (as well as many many many other aspects of Tumblr culture as a whole) have origins within or around it.

It's like analyzing WWII without going over WWI first. Doable, sure, but insane. And there's some missing context that veterans will recognize immediately.
This thing was already taking long enough as is, and any substantial research into Homestuck would arguably be enough for an entire case in of itself. Given my frame of reference was mainly 2015/2016, I didn't want to talk about Homestuck too much, since it's popularity had already mostly passed by then, but I definitely understand why people would want a more in-depth analysis.

There is a pretty sizable thread about Homestuck, Hussie, and his company, so I would recommend reading that for the time being.
 
All of this hans't answered the real enigma: who or what is toby Fox?, so far we know that:
  • He is or was an edgelord
  • Loves to troll people
  • Likes to pander progressives
  • He's smart
We still don't know much about his background, motivations, real name, hell there isin't even a basic dox which is usually standart for any internet celebrity
 
All of this hans't answered the real enigma: who or what is toby Fox?

We still don't know much about his background, motivations, real name, hell there is in't even a basic dox which is usually standart for any internet celebrity
And trust me, I tried to research those things. I think I kind of got an idea of what his motivations are, and his real name might be Robert Fox, but outside of that, I couldn't find anything. Soyjak.party claimed to have found his dox, but we don't know whether or not it's concrete. A lot of it has to do with his Starmen.net forum posts being hidden, and the MSPA forums being nuked.
 
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You know what? I think this might be why Tumblr was okay with Greg Universe, despite him being a straight white male who married a formally gay woman and had a kid.
Stick with me here. I wrote books at one time, tried submitting them to agents. Long tedious process. Basically every cover letter has to be tailored to the agent.

Now the writing industry is full of woke bullshit. You could probably draw a line from Tumblr if you squinted hard enough. But one thing I noticed, among all the requirements and requests for gays and BIPOC characters; alot of them liked dads. For whatever reason, a father figure was a win among otherwise woke agents. This has always stuck with me as strange.
 
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