Prohibition only failed because it ended too soon. it would have succeeded had it lasted long enough for modern mass survielance to be implemented. We're at a point in time where almost everything everybody does can be monitored, analyzed and extrapolated from.
I liken it to the internet's very own Chernobyl. From a certain perspective, the resemblance is uncanny.
Site is built up on a stack of shoddy decisions, questionable policies and nepotistic hiring. Site gets lauded as the most Important Thing. Someone trying to protect the site from danger (danger created by their own actions), does something radical without understanding how it all works. The site explodes, spewing hazardous waste all over everything.
Okay some of that's a bit of a stretch but you get what I mean.
There's no such thing as a containment site, there never was, and all you accomplish by thinking you're containing them is establishing the ideal breeding ground.
On one hand, Tumblr was a breeding ground for the kind of thing we're seeing, but on the other it wasn't just a container for them, it also allowed more sensible people a window into the to point and laugh at the excess. That mockery was one of the things that kept stuff outside Tumblr almost sane
Mocking them has absolutely no effect besides making you feel good, which is perfectly fine and it's important to have fun, but don't confuse it with anything that's actually going to make a difference.
It certainly doesn't change anything now, the damage is long since done. Back then it helped maintain the midground between the contained crazies, the disconnected normies and the snarking right. Maybe not in all cases, but fringe madness like otherkin was safely ignored by the mundane masses as 'that weird tumblr stuff everyone laughs at'
fall of tumblr as a containment site and it's consequences have been disastrous for the human race
Tumblr's fall is a huge reason I continue to say that trying to ban porn is a losing battle.
Tumblr fell apart the instant they banned it.
I get the sentiment, I really do. But like Prohibition a century ago, the ban did more harm than good.
Prohibition only failed because it ended too soon. it would have succeeded had it lasted long enough for modern mass survielance to be implemented. We're at a point in time where almost everything everybody does can be monitored, analyzed and extrapolated from.
You got banned from ConPro.
What the fuck did you do to get banned from ConPro?
Hell if I know, I get banned basically everywhere I try to interact.
I liken it to the internet's very own Chernobyl. From a certain perspective, the resemblance is uncanny.
Site is built up on a stack of shoddy decisions, questionable policies and nepotistic hiring. Site gets lauded as the most Important Thing. Someone trying to protect the site from danger (danger created by their own actions), does something radical without understanding how it all works. The site explodes, spewing hazardous waste all over everything.
Okay some of that's a bit of a stretch but you get what I mean.
There's no such thing as a containment site, there never was, and all you accomplish by thinking you're containing them is establishing the ideal breeding ground.
On one hand, Tumblr was a breeding ground for the kind of thing we're seeing, but on the other it wasn't just a container for them, it also allowed more sensible people a window into the to point and laugh at the excess. That mockery was one of the things that kept stuff outside Tumblr almost sane
Mocking them has absolutely no effect besides making you feel good, which is perfectly fine and it's important to have fun, but don't confuse it with anything that's actually going to make a difference.
It certainly doesn't change anything now, the damage is long since done. Back then it helped maintain the midground between the contained crazies, the disconnected normies and the snarking right. Maybe not in all cases, but fringe madness like otherkin was safely ignored by the mundane masses as 'that weird tumblr stuff everyone laughs at'