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Black Lives Matter

Last week we reacted with feeling. This week we’re channeling that feeling into fuel for action. 

The ongoing protests against police brutality are not just a response to the unnecessary deaths of a few. They are a response to 401 years of racism. The unequal treatment of BIPOC was built into the blueprint of the United States, and we still see the indirect and direct consequences of that fact. 

Tumblr has a moral obligation to our community to use this platform in a socially responsible manner. Staying silent about our solidarity with the police brutality protests last week was not an option. Simply spreading our message of solidarity without actionable follow-up this week was not an option, either. 

What Tumblr is doing

Diversity and inclusion will remain an ongoing open and honest conversation within our company. This week we have come together as an organization to make sure the necessary conversations are being held. Dialogue is great, but action is needed. 

Hate speech is not allowed on Tumblr. That sort of hateful rhetoric leads to violence. White supremacists, Nazis, and other purveyors of hate can fully fuck off. They are not welcome here. As we promised last month, hate speech will not go unchecked. If you see hate speech, report it to our Trust & Safety team. They will remove all content against our Community Guidelines.  

Tumblr is a platform. The small team of <200 employees behind Tumblr are people. People who are scared, hopeful, angry, sad, and impassioned. People who care. As individuals, many of us are marching, protesting, and donating. We wanted to share some of the places we’ve donated to over the last two weeks in the hopes that you’ll check them out yourselves:

Color of Change demands justice and equality for Black people in the United States.

Black Girls Smile is dedicated to providing young Black women with mental health resources.

Equal Justice Initiative works to end mass incarceration, excessive punishment, and racial inequality. 

Homeless Black Trans Woman Fund provides Black trans women in Atlanta with housing, food, and necessities.  

Our social advocacy team is seeking more activists to do Issue Times on issues that affect the Black community. So often, the best suggestions come from all of you. Let us know who you want to hear from. As always, we will read the reblogs from this post.

Our official Tumblr for all things social advocacy, @action​, will continue to reblog posts from the community on more ways to help support the protests. 

Ways we can all help

Over the years, the Tumblr community has solidified itself as being passionate advocates for social justice. Through your posts, group chats, and messages, you educate yourself and others. If you’re not Black, commit to being a better ally. Listen to the Black community. 

Last week @theblackoutofficial​ collected a nice list of resources here on Tumblr. You can stay further informed by following the Black Lives Matter, BLM, and protests tag.

There is a place for everyone in the Black Lives Matter movement. You may be unable to march or attend rallies, but that doesn’t mean you have to sit on the sidelines. You can pass out water, masks, and hand sanitizer if you can’t march. You can donate to a charity you believe in or give money to your local mutual aid organization. 

Contact your officials to encourage our communities to invest in areas we know can prevent crime before it even happens: youth services, education, adequate housing, trauma services, counseling, and restorative justice programs. You can use these easy pre-filled form emails for a number of cities.

Just yesterday, U.S. House and Senate leaders introduced the Justice in Policing Act of 2020. This legislation may work to hold police accountable for their actions. We’re watching the developments of this closely, and suggest you do, too. Call your senators and call your representatives to support this legislation. 

Are you an artist of any kind? Or do you just like art? There are tons of artists on Tumblr who are doing commission fundraisers for charities that have an impact on Black communities. Considering buying something or starting one yourself. 

Lastly: Vote!  

Vote! Vote! Register to vote! Even if you missed the deadline for upcoming elections, register to vote now so you can participate in the next one. You deserve to have a say in what happens within your community.

[awkwardunicornmagic]

Chronicles of a Cyber Stalker-1

Celebrity Worship Syndrome is something I’ve had great concerns about in American culture for years.  The tabloids at grocer checkout isles has always made me feel uncomfortable.  Does anyone really care about the personal lives of people whose careers are in the public eye? Why does the public feel it’s their right to pry into every minor detail and criticize it? I very strongly believe that celebrity worship culture has given both celebrities and those they are worshiped by a false sense of value in self.

So anyways, one day I came across an Instagram post of the Property Brother, Jonathan Scott.  He had recently been pictured with a group of friends having fun at a concert, and one fan assumed one of the women in the group was his new girlfriend.  I’ve noticed that famous men can’t have any women in their vicinity without worshipers assuming it’s his new love.  By contrast, women in the public eye can’t gain a pound without the public assuming they’re pregnant.  It’s strange and a part of American culture I will never understand. 

In this Instagram post, a fan congratulated him on his new girlfriend and tagged her.  Seemingly innocuous, but altogether rude, and creating unnecessary drama from his female fans. That’s when Bernadette Giacomazzo made a comment about how it was rude to assume a woman is sleeping with a man just because they were seen together.  A comment that garnered her support, new followers, and ultimately resulted in Jonathan Scott blocking the fan that tagged this alleged girlfriend and thus deleting Bernadette’s comment beneath her and all those that followed.  Looking back, that’s alsothe moment I joined a long list of victims that Bernadette has catfished, lied to, bullied, threatened, harassed, stalked and publicly slandered over her obsessions of celebrities she pretends to protect.  In recent years, her target has been Jonathan Scott

“Be careful who you connect with online. There’s a lot of crazy people out there,” the exact words of a Nashua County Police Officer who laughed with me over Bernadette’s “bogus” report against me.  I posted something online that she didn’t like and “she’s just being petty,” he told me.  Hindsight being what it is, I wish I had seen the warning signs of a mentally unstable person in the first message Bernadette sent to me in direct message on Instagram.  Her own authorities delicately explained that when a mentally deranged person demands to have a case report over something in their imagination, they will give them a number to help them feel safe. “But, there’s no case and no investigation.  There’s nothing to investigate.  We can’t do anything unless there’s an actual threat involved,” he explained.

And here we are, about a year and 2 months after her comment that lead me to believe I had met a like minded person who also had concerns about celebrity worship and how it negatively impacts both the public and public figure.  Boy was I mistaken.

After finding and reaching out to other victims of Bernadette Giacomazzo, talking to one of Jonathan Scott’s employees, company attorney and a family member as well as reading stories that other victims have posted online, I’m speaking out against my abuser, against cyber stalking and harassment, and the culture of celebrity worship that has given BG (as she’s known by her victims) a career writing gossip articles and blogs that only feed into and fuel the unhealthy fandoms she claims to be against.

If you really don’t like toxic celebrity worship BG, get a real journalist job. One that doesn’t involve you using a press badge as a means of stalking your target so you can gush over him in gossip articles as a means of getting his attention and affection.

[sweatydragonsoulghost]

So Jacinta doesn’t remember her eh? If someone protected me and my partner like she claims I would remember.

[awkwardunicornmagic]

Exactly!! If Jonathan talked to Jacinta about Bernadette so much, why does Jacinta have no recollection of her or thanking her for her protection? Because Bernadette lies. She pretends to know people she doesn’t to elevate her success and status in the industry.

Years ago, her verified twitter account was suspended for violating platform rules. Fans of Outlander described her behavior as terrorizing.

https://mobile.twitter.com/outlanderlover_/status/846845141629460480?lang=en

Twitter

In that thread, a guy named Paul Camuso claims that Bernadette got her account back as well as her followers which is false.

She simply created a new account and started contacting her old followers back to build her account back up. And that must have worked well for a couple years until she got abusive again...

Interestingly enough, this Paul knows Jonathan Scott as well. So Bernadette knows people who know her target, and that apparently is enough degrees of desperation to fake an entire friendship with him whereby he invites her places and pays for everything.

I don’t know anything about Outlander or what went down with their fans, but clearly Paul was appreciative of the way Bernadette attacked Outlander fans that he defended her. How much you want to bet he has no clue what she actually did to get herself suspended?

[awkwardunicornmagic]

Chronicles of a Cyber Stalker-1

Celebrity Worship Syndrome is something I’ve had great concerns about in American culture for years.  The tabloids at grocer checkout isles has always made me feel uncomfortable.  Does anyone really care about the personal lives of people whose careers are in the public eye? Why does the public feel it’s their right to pry into every minor detail and criticize it? I very strongly believe that celebrity worship culture has given both celebrities and those they are worshiped by a false sense of value in self.

So anyways, one day I came across an Instagram post of the Property Brother, Jonathan Scott.  He had recently been pictured with a group of friends having fun at a concert, and one fan assumed one of the women in the group was his new girlfriend.  I’ve noticed that famous men can’t have any women in their vicinity without worshipers assuming it’s his new love.  By contrast, women in the public eye can’t gain a pound without the public assuming they’re pregnant.  It’s strange and a part of American culture I will never understand. 

In this Instagram post, a fan congratulated him on his new girlfriend and tagged her.  Seemingly innocuous, but altogether rude, and creating unnecessary drama from his female fans. That’s when Bernadette Giacomazzo made a comment about how it was rude to assume a woman is sleeping with a man just because they were seen together.  A comment that garnered her support, new followers, and ultimately resulted in Jonathan Scott blocking the fan that tagged this alleged girlfriend and thus deleting Bernadette’s comment beneath her and all those that followed.  Looking back, that’s alsothe moment I joined a long list of victims that Bernadette has catfished, lied to, bullied, threatened, harassed, stalked and publicly slandered over her obsessions of celebrities she pretends to protect.  In recent years, her target has been Jonathan Scott

“Be careful who you connect with online. There’s a lot of crazy people out there,” the exact words of a Nashua County Police Officer who laughed with me over Bernadette’s “bogus” report against me.  I posted something online that she didn’t like and “she’s just being petty,” he told me.  Hindsight being what it is, I wish I had seen the warning signs of a mentally unstable person in the first message Bernadette sent to me in direct message on Instagram.  Her own authorities delicately explained that when a mentally deranged person demands to have a case report over something in their imagination, they will give them a number to help them feel safe. “But, there’s no case and no investigation.  There’s nothing to investigate.  We can’t do anything unless there’s an actual threat involved,” he explained.

And here we are, about a year and 2 months after her comment that lead me to believe I had met a like minded person who also had concerns about celebrity worship and how it negatively impacts both the public and public figure.  Boy was I mistaken.

After finding and reaching out to other victims of Bernadette Giacomazzo, talking to one of Jonathan Scott’s employees, company attorney and a family member as well as reading stories that other victims have posted online, I’m speaking out against my abuser, against cyber stalking and harassment, and the culture of celebrity worship that has given BG (as she’s known by her victims) a career writing gossip articles and blogs that only feed into and fuel the unhealthy fandoms she claims to be against.

If you really don’t like toxic celebrity worship BG, get a real journalist job. One that doesn’t involve you using a press badge as a means of stalking your target so you can gush over him in gossip articles as a means of getting his attention and affection.

[sweatydragonsoulghost]

I have been connected with Bernadette as well in the past. She told me so much about Jonathan Scott & his family. She always talked about his “crazy fans” when in reality she is the one that’s crazy obsessed. She never had negative to say about him until after the event she attended in Toronto where he was also at & claiming he paid for all her expenses because he “wanted to see her” after that event he went public with Zooey Deschanel & that’s when her bad talking him started on a gossip site where she prestends to be a 62 year old black woman. She said to me before that Jonathan has invited her to his house with him & Jacinta & told Jacinta how much his friendship with Bernadette meant to him & says Jacinta told her thanks for always protecting Jonathan. She is the crazy obsessed one. Why else would she travel to Canada just to take pictures of him? She also claims that in a video she posted of him that she knew he wanted her because of how he looked at her in the video. It was a 2 second glance & nothing about it said I want you. Beware of this woman! She’s nuts!

[awkwardunicornmagic]

And Btw, that glance he gave her must have been intense because she would not shut up about it. Talked about him about 4-6 hours a day for several days straight. That’s obsessive even if you know the person. Found this:

You’d think that if Bernadette actually went to Jonathan’s house like she claims and met his then GF, she’d remember right? Especially if it was someone he talked about so much. BG has no more been invited to his house than you or I have been invited to the White House.

And since this account exposed her lies, she took to her gossip site to accuse me of being behind that account. And I’m not. I’m not sure she’s aware how many people she’s abused. But considering all the blogs with her name in them, she probably doesn’t care.

[awkwardunicornmagic]

Chronicles of a Cyber Stalker-1

Celebrity Worship Syndrome is something I’ve had great concerns about in American culture for years.  The tabloids at grocer checkout isles has always made me feel uncomfortable.  Does anyone really care about the personal lives of people whose careers are in the public eye? Why does the public feel it’s their right to pry into every minor detail and criticize it? I very strongly believe that celebrity worship culture has given both celebrities and those they are worshiped by a false sense of value in self.

So anyways, one day I came across an Instagram post of the Property Brother, Jonathan Scott.  He had recently been pictured with a group of friends having fun at a concert, and one fan assumed one of the women in the group was his new girlfriend.  I’ve noticed that famous men can’t have any women in their vicinity without worshipers assuming it’s his new love.  By contrast, women in the public eye can’t gain a pound without the public assuming they’re pregnant.  It’s strange and a part of American culture I will never understand. 

In this Instagram post, a fan congratulated him on his new girlfriend and tagged her.  Seemingly innocuous, but altogether rude, and creating unnecessary drama from his female fans. That’s when Bernadette Giacomazzo made a comment about how it was rude to assume a woman is sleeping with a man just because they were seen together.  A comment that garnered her support, new followers, and ultimately resulted in Jonathan Scott blocking the fan that tagged this alleged girlfriend and thus deleting Bernadette’s comment beneath her and all those that followed.  Looking back, that’s alsothe moment I joined a long list of victims that Bernadette has catfished, lied to, bullied, threatened, harassed, stalked and publicly slandered over her obsessions of celebrities she pretends to protect.  In recent years, her target has been Jonathan Scott

“Be careful who you connect with online. There’s a lot of crazy people out there,” the exact words of a Nashua County Police Officer who laughed with me over Bernadette’s “bogus” report against me.  I posted something online that she didn’t like and “she’s just being petty,” he told me.  Hindsight being what it is, I wish I had seen the warning signs of a mentally unstable person in the first message Bernadette sent to me in direct message on Instagram.  Her own authorities delicately explained that when a mentally deranged person demands to have a case report over something in their imagination, they will give them a number to help them feel safe. “But, there’s no case and no investigation.  There’s nothing to investigate.  We can’t do anything unless there’s an actual threat involved,” he explained.

And here we are, about a year and 2 months after her comment that lead me to believe I had met a like minded person who also had concerns about celebrity worship and how it negatively impacts both the public and public figure.  Boy was I mistaken.

After finding and reaching out to other victims of Bernadette Giacomazzo, talking to one of Jonathan Scott’s employees, company attorney and a family member as well as reading stories that other victims have posted online, I’m speaking out against my abuser, against cyber stalking and harassment, and the culture of celebrity worship that has given BG (as she’s known by her victims) a career writing gossip articles and blogs that only feed into and fuel the unhealthy fandoms she claims to be against.

If you really don’t like toxic celebrity worship BG, get a real journalist job. One that doesn’t involve you using a press badge as a means of stalking your target so you can gush over him in gossip articles as a means of getting his attention and affection.