It's very common for people to get harassed online for being blunt or saying something in a very neutral way (ie: without any disclaimers or repeated reassurances or fawning) and part of that is because tone is very hard to read through text but I also think that uh.
That excuse doesn't really hold any water when it's very easy to just remember that the people you interact with online are in fact human beings who don't always talk like they have an entire PR team whispering in their ears and checking everything they post.
If you were talking to someone irl and they said that they really like apples, you wouldn't expect them to immediately follow that up with "but there's nothing wrong with oranges and I think strawberries are great and I enjoy the cherries too and there's nothing wrong with you if you like pineapple and grapes are great in fruit salad and—" but that's the sort of behavior expected online.
And when people do add a million disclaimers and clarifications, then they're attacked for that too! They're accused of backtracking or doing damage control or trying to bury the controversy. There's genuinely no way to win and it fucking sucks.
Someone will shoot off a quick post while making dinner and then log back on a few hours later or the next day and see that there are dozens of strangers suicide baiting them or saying that they should be killed for being the literal devil because their post was worded like a human wrote it instead of a team of 10 trained and well-paid PR employees.
