I am not usually up to reblogging fandom-related drama on my blogs but this one affected me personally, as I was also targeted by this hate blog a few days ago.
I wasn't going to give it another thought since they deleted the initial confession, but the damage was already done since I was tagged in a post that claimed me to be one of those people who sent gore to minors. The post was deleted before I could screenshot it and I did not understand what it was referring to at first. I know who posted it, but since they're a minor and deleted the post, which I greatly appreciate, I will not name them.
What was my sin to be name dropped on this hate-spreading blog? Reblog a post that Dana mentioned above, with a vague tag for me to look at it again later because it was getting so many sub-threads under the reblogs.
Here's the screenshot of me asking the hate blog to clear up my name after being put up on their targeted harassment wall. And what they replied to me. The "evidence" they're talking about, was the post I just mentioned. Or idk, just being mutuals/friends with the people this blog is targeting the most.
I don't understand where these people got the understanding that some people were claiming the gore anons are not real? The post I reblogged about the discussion pointed out that these gore anons needed to make burner accounts to send or submit gore to anyone's inbox or send a copypaste link on anon (hyperlinks don't work, unless these anons were like the recent scammer anons who figured how to post hyperlinks) I don't think any of my mutuals have said "gore anons are not real".
^ Correct me about this if I'm wrong, I obviously don't keep up with posts that don't really have anything to do with me or my interests.
Pointing fingers and blaming innocent people for sending gore to minors is not the right way to approach a situation like this, and I feel so bad for the actual victims of these gore anons that are probably just watching this shit show of their trauma being used as a weapon to harass other people and creators.
All of my blogs are, and will remain safe places for victims of harassment, bullying, and any real-life crimes. I try to keep my online spaces positive most of the time, because this is where I go to enjoy my whimsy fictional stuff to escape the harsh reality irl. But sometimes I have to address more serious things like this.
I've also seen the argument of the harassing being justified because my mutuals and I are aphobic for shipping Solar and Nexus (from Tsams) and "forcing" it to the canon.
First, no one is literally forcing the ship to be canon? I don't understand where this argument comes from. Just because someone reblogs a silly shippy post to their blog and tags it with "canon" doesn't mean they're actually pushing it to the canon? It's just another way to say "I like this so much, it makes me happy".
The suggestion thread of getting Alex to help with the show's writing was not trying to push the ship to be canon. Alex doesn't even ship it. She's just neutral about it but supports her friends who like the ship. I wouldn't wish a heavy shipper to help write the shows. Part of the happiness that comes from shipping (for me at least) is the fact it would never be canon, so I can explore so many different things with it. I don't usually ship canon ships at all, because they already have content in canon. I wanna create stuff that gives me the freedom of using already existing characters and making silly little puppet shows with them for my own entertainment.
Second, shipping canonically aroace characters with someone is not aphobic. Fictional fanworks and fandom have nothing to do with the canon, and they do not erase the canon aroaceness. It's the same thing as shipping a canon bisexual or homosexual character with a character of the opposite sex. Or shipping a canon straight character with same-sex character. Does this make the character any less straight, bi- or homosexual in the CANON? No!
Canon and Fanon are two very different things:
Canon: what the official writers do with the characters
Fanon: what the fans in the fandom do with the characters
If you prefer seeking for fanworks where the canon aroace character is represented as sex/romance repulsed aroace, then do it! Create and engage with works that fit your needs! But don't call other people aphobic for making and liking fanworks where the aroace character is sex/romance favourable, demi, or even figures out they're not even ace.
I am a sex favourable ace, and I like to write characters from my personal point of aceness, most often demi. You can do the same, with whatever headcanon you like.
You should enjoy and engage in fanworks that make you happy, and what suits your needs for the characters. But don't force everyone else to suit your interests. Every single person behind the screen is their own individual who enjoys things in their own way. Just because you're not into shipping something, doesn't mean you can police about the ship to those who enjoy it.
I am posting this on my main here, instead of just my name dropped side-blog ( @kuuchaos ), because the post reached this account too and I had to make a post here before as well.
To my followers who read this: please be aware of this blog and what it does. They claim to fact check the claims they do, but as far as I'm aware, they don't. They just want to hate people they don't like.
Stay safe and block the blog. No one deserves to be harassed by simply being friends, mutuals or followers of someone just because someone else doesn't like them or has an argument with them.
To my friends/moots Alex, Dana, Ceph, Bruja, Polaris, Z and others affected by this hate campaign; I'm so sorry you guys need to read shitty stuff sent to you by anons and other sources this blog associates with. Your words have been twisted and you have been painted as the villain for something you had no business with, other than being a shipper of something these people disagree with.
I am really sorry especially to the starter of this thred, Z, as this hate blog gave Z's irl stalker a platform to continue stalking and harassing Z. That is so scary. The hate blog deleted the post made by the stalker, but as I said, even if you delete it later, some damage has already been done. Giving a real stalker who is an actual threat to someone a platform to spread their harm is really low, even from a fandom hate blog.
You are endangering real people in the name of ship-hate, or to 'avenge' the victims of the gore anons. I haven't spoken to any of the victims myself, but my DMs are open and safely sealed if someone needs a shoulder in all of this. As a victim of something horrible too (not internet gore, but some other nasty stuff) I'd honestly feel really disgusted if my trauma was used to bully others and put them in real danger over it.
Any further discourse can be sent to my tsams side-blog: @kuuchaos , but I don't think I can say anything else since I wasn't even in the fandom when the gore anons originally happened. I just feel sorry for the gore victims and I hope they'll be able to recover. I also feel hate towards the group who would do something so awful just in the name of a ship.
But pointing fingers at innocent people is not bringing justice to the victims, it's only making things worse as now you are just cyberbullying people who literally could not do anything, because none of them knows who the gore anons are.