DNI Translation

What does the DNI (Do Not Interact) mean? i will tell you.. Not affiliated with any DNI authors presented here. I am only here to educate. Pinned post with more information under construction.

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What is this blog?

This is a blog dedicated to translating the various hyper-specific fandom/community jargon and terms that are often seen in DNI lists. I wish to explain the meaning of the terms used as well as provide context for why the term might be present in a DNI in a neutral way.

What's a DNI?

DNI stands for Do Not Interact. Other variations include DNF (Do Not Follow) and DNFI (Do Not Follow If). These are lists that you might find in a profile bio or within social media posts, typically by someone who is active in certain groups on Twitter, Tumblr, or TikTok. They are very common on Carrd, a mini-website builder used to present extended biographical information on one's social media.

These lists are intended to tell the reader to not interact with the author of the DNI if they have the traits indicated in the DNI. These traits can be one's bigoted beliefs, political alignment, religion, racial identity, fandom activity, mental illness, sexuality, stances on various community drama/discourse, and more.

Are these written by minors?

DNIs are most commonly written by teenagers and adults in their 20s, based on my knowledge. These lists can seem extremely stupid, trivial, or harmful, but it's important to keep in mind that a lot of the people who write these are teenagers. Please try to remember what kind of stuff you said and believed when you were a teenager, and then imagine if you had to deal with the modern internet at that age.

I bring this up not to be dismissive of this behavior, but to encourage readers not to equate these beliefs with the communities that these people identify with. Still, I have seen some pretty uncritical, childish and harmful behavior from people who post like this that are in their mid 20s, so it's not entirely teenagers.

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i sent an ask in the translation box lmao, please disregard that. i still want to know what 'irredeemable media' means. thx!

No worries. Irredeemable Media is a term used to refer to a subjective category of media that is morally reprehensible to the point of being "irredeemable". This term is used in DNIs to refer to "fans of irredeemable media", usually with an example piece of media. Some commonly attributed works in the early 2020s included Hazbin Hotel, Homestuck, Harry Potter, Attack On Titan, and South Park.

What makes something irredeemable? Sometimes, the word "problematic" is used to refer to this group of media instead, which is a little more understandable. Common threads between the works (usually) attributed are one or more of the following:

- (Textual): The work contains depictions of bigotry towards minority groups in a light hearted way, abusive or unbalanced relationship dynamics, and/or dialogue with derogatory slurs

- (Authorial): The author of the work is morally reprehensible in some way (bigoted, predatory, sexually deviant, etc)

- (Genre): The work is contemporary, targeted towards children or young adults, and has an online fandom presence. (This is just a commonality, not an irredeemable quality on its own)

- (Social): The work is commonly cited by peers to be "irredeemable", so one will also deem the work "irredeemable" to maintain their presence in their ingroup.

Why would someone not want fans of irredeemable media to interact with them? dude I dont fucking know so many people online only engage with childrens media and pray to build a world with the only things familiar to them; media made to exploit children, and the perpetual fear of chaotic arbitrary punishment and crushing subjugation of the schooling system. they hate not having any more limbs to gnaw off in the traps they keep setting because it's literally all they know. a different mode of existence is hopelessly unknowable and frightful. a fellow crab in the bucket helps ease the worry with a familiar nostalgic vicegrip.

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what are “minor supporters”, as in dni minors and minor supporters

Someone with that in their DNI is probably just messing around, referencing how "(...) supporters" is common in DNI (examples: Trump supporters, AI supporters, bi/pan lesbian supporters). They are probably serious about not wanting minors to interact though.

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What does pro/neu/comp contact in dni list mean?

It refers to someone's "contact stance" in self-identified pedophile and zoophile communities; so someone who is pro-contact, neutral-contact, or has complicated opinions towards contact. In these communities, "contact" refers to a paraphile's interaction with the target of their attraction (eg children or animals).

The extent to what "interaction" means in this context is not agreed upon both within and outside these spaces. So depending on the person, "contact" could mean sexual contact or it could refer to benign non-sexual interaction.

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saw some random therian kid on youtube say "🍊dni" wtf does that mean

I've found people using "🍊 supporters" to mean Trump supporters in some DNIs. I can't find anything that would be specific to therians or fandoms in general, so that's my best guess.

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For ch?

Could be CountryHumans or China, or something else

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some notes based on my travels

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TME?

Acronym for Transmisogyny Exempt - Refers to people who do not experience or are unaffected by transmisogyny.

In a DNI, it's probably being used to mean "people who aren't trans feminine".

Counterpart is TMA. (Transmisogyny Affected)

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kind of late, but btspopper actually refers to a specific type of bts fan who thinks bts is beyond kpop and that "their music should be considered it's own genre because it's better than any other group's", they get extremely mad if you refer to their music as kpop

Thank you for this explanation

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Turigirls, fakeboys/fakegirls, transID/transX? All from one DNI

Turigirl is a label for people who identify as women/girls in some way who feel homosexual attraction to men. Apparently mostly meant to be used by people who are non-binary/gender fluid.

Fakegirl/fakeboy: Terms used as insults associated with detransition kink, also could potentially be a MOGAI gender. DNI is probably referring to people who engage in detransition kink.

TransID and transX both refer to a category of identities under the radqueer label about being "trans" for something that isn't related to gender. A common example is trans-race (identifying as a race/nationality other than your own), but includes others like trans-abled (wanting to be disabled), trans-age, abstract MOGAI-esque concepts like being trans-[an object], and other concepts/identities having to do with paraphilias.

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What’s selfcourse? “If your blog is selfcourse heavy, DNI. Stop dragging me into selfcourse.”

Most likely short for selfshipping discourse. Selfshipping is when someone ships themselves with a fictional character (or sometimes real person), imagining/writing stories/fanart of themselves being romantically involved with the character.

The kind of discourse that happens in regards to selfshipping includes criticism of fictional relationships with age gaps, the F/O ("fictional other", from "significant other") being problematic in some way, or drama surrounding multiple people having the same F/O.

If the OP isn't a selfshipper, they are probably talking about something else and there might be some context in the rest of the DNI or bio that could indicate what that is.

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What does “brownblood who claims to be a moth” mean?

As a Homestuck fan my best guess is they're talking about Tavros, who is a troll with brown blood and LARPs as a character who has insect wings early on in the story. Otherwise they could be talking about the other brown blooded trolls that actually have insect wings, Rufioh or The Summoner.

If it's not about Homestuck I have no idea what this could be about, but would still probably be about a character.

As for why someone would have Tavros on their DNI... They probably kin one of the other trolls and are trying to act in-character? Vriska teases him about his choice of character to LARP as and specifically mocks him for being unable to fly unlike his RP character, so they might kin Vriska.

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What’s baeddel? It was on the same line as “it” in quotes and “freaks” and was followed by a line about not reclaiming slurs that seemed to be about that.

Baeddel is an old English word that was adopted by some transfem tumblr users in the early/mid 2010s. The word was thought to have meant "effeminate man" or "hermaphrodite", and then later was the etymological root of the modern English word "bad" (I am not a linguist and can't verify if this is accurate). Some baeddels who adopted the label developed an ideology around the idea that transmisogyny is the root of all forms of oppression.

This ideology was expressed in different ways, but the ideas that were most associated with baeddels were paranoia and bigotry towards trans men, self-justified by the idea that all men enact and benefit from transmisogyny.

I think it's important to point out that someone calling themselves a baeddel or using the term in other ways does not necessarily mean they engage with this specific ideology. There are people that use it as a label but have nothing to do with this group.

Here's a couple articles I found if you want to learn more: article with a more charitable viewpoint

article series documenting the negative aspects

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What is pro🍇?

🍇 (Grape emoji) is used as a stand-in for the word "rape" as a product of the self-censorship phenomenon online. Someone who is "pro-rape" most obviously refers to rapists and people who would support rape culture or corrective rape, but depending on the DNI it can also refer to people who produce or consume art that features non-consent.

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Fememists? Possible typo?

Same boy said only ages 12-21 could interact so *shrug*

Most likely a typo.

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Orange washing? It was next to whitewashing?

Thank you for the work you do!

Orangewashing doesn't seem to be a common term, but they probably mean when a dark skinned character is drawn in a way where they look like a white person with a tan.

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thanks for the translation mate doing gods work

Glad to help! 🐱