like. cards on the table: at first, i thought, hey, maybe the framing and recounting of the predstrogen situation is (understandably) biased because this seems really fucking weird, even for tumblr.
but, for real, it does just look like a series of repeated mass-reports drew staff attention to her and inevitably got her accounts flattened for entirely normal edge-case posting.
like, repeatedly, mass-reports happened, she’d appeal and get it reversed, and then it’d happen again, until finally it stuck. oh boy, did it stick! permanent lifetime ban.
the “death threats” that got her banned were cartoon-violence grumblings (responding to getting stung by bad-faith mass reporting) and the “harassment” seems to have just been pointing out specific user accounts that were needling her or outright harassing her. neither are against rules unless you’re taking a bizarrely bad-faith reading of things.
and of course, all of this was her direct response to repeatedly being falsely reported and having to wade through the drawn-out, unresponsive appeals process while far worse content and accounts remained untouched, despite being reported.
also there was the whole “incredibly obvious and malicious rape/pedo-jacketing mass-anon disinfo campaign” run against her.
deeply uncomfortable that the CEO of tumblr took to posting about the mean anon threats he was getting about the situation, but didn’t say a peep about the *genuinely malicious* threats and harassment predstrogen was getting. like. that’s not worth a quick callout, lil buddy? you can’t see why people are pissed?
anyhow. car hammers, or whatever.
Wow, an actual explanation of what happened
If you’ve already rebloged stuff about this situation, then I recommend you reblog this as well