This post is wrong, and I can prove it.
This is a reblog of predator-exposed calling for evidence on Xenix/Xkit guy being a predator. The post is dated October 31st:
http://commiekinkshamer.tumblr.com/post/101460658729/potential-predator-alert-if-tumblr-user
Also, if you look at xkit guy’s personal, you can see clearly he was getting bombarded with hate. These are his most recent posts:
http://xenix.tumblr.com/post/101514648262
http://xenix.tumblr.com/post/101514648262
http://xenix.tumblr.com/post/101460191672
http://xenix.tumblr.com/post/101466031212
http://xenix.tumblr.com/post/101441585552
http://xenix.tumblr.com/post/101441200687
http://xenix.tumblr.com/post/101385262032
In one of them, someone says “how do you deal with all these people?” It seems he either saw hate in his tag/search results, didn’t post asks he was getting or deleted asks/reblogs he’d posted.
On this post, the very first note is:
The above his a screen shot of a comment on the post with the following text: “thepennyshowman said: I think I know what you are talking about and I was literally just coming to your blog to give you a heads up about it.”
This clearly indicates people were talking shit about xkit guy and some bloggers knew about it. Given how early the comment is in the notifications, it was likely added around the time the post was made.
A reblog on one of his last posts, calling people out for harassment, is dated January, as you an see with my x-kit timestamp that I pulled up using the “view” feature:
This post in April chronicled what happened states the date the predator-exposed blog posted the post as in October: http://thisissparta789789.tumblr.com/post/115996836571/are-you-fucking-happy-tumblr
This post is obviously sexist and anti-feminist, but the post was made on the day the predator-exposed blog deleted their post, and it includes a specific date, and it’s clearly accurate considering that reblogged post I showed you.
It’s also worth noting this wasn’t the first time x-kit guy got harassment and hate from tumblr SJ. There were other incidents - some I even heard about myself. This post about a year before he left in December 2013 addresses the incident when x-kit guy was accused of racism (despite being non-white):
http://rect.tumblr.com/post/69746127126/atesh-aka-the-xkit-guy-is-literally-one-of-the
I also remember when people accused him of ableism and other similar things. For example, the incident this post addresses. Most if not all of these accusations were pretty unfounded. And xkit guy apologized every time, as far as I know.
I think what happened in the case of the sexual assault accusation was a segment of tumblr heard about that accusation earlier and harassed him until he left, but it took time before other people learned about it. This makes sense given that most bloggers weren’t aware of x-kit guy’s personal account, and many don’t follow his xkit blog updates closely and that it took a long time for the effects of his absence on the extension to be felt. Also, people seem to underestimate how closed off tumblr circles are. Often times, something will become big news in one circle and other people won’t hear about it.
It’s pretty clear from his posts he was receiving hate. And at the time, when people became more aware of what was going on, we knew it had been a few months since he completely left. And obviously, I have proof the post was made in October.
And this is why I was so angry when that blog deleted the original post. It obfuscates what really happened. They should have added an edit to the post to be held accountable, but the erased the evidence of what happened. So now, after the fact, people are trying to revise history. I identify as a feminist, but even I have seen firsthand that the tumblr SJ community is far from perfect. In fact, it can be quite toxic. We need to grapple with this fact and stop trying to white wash it. Stop spreading misinformation based on circumstantial evidence
Also, want to add that obviously it’s possible the accusation was true, but it was an anonymous accusation made off of tumblr without any back up evidence or substantiation whatsoever. The problem isn’t someone accused xkit guy but how people handled an anonymous unsubstantiated accusation and turned it into a witch hunt.
