#determinators

[shadow-generations]

Does anyone remember that UTDR blogger Determinators? They had a fuckton of detailed theories and analysis posts but one day they deactivated their blog suddenly. Idk if they were a big name to other UTDR fans or not, but if anyone knows what happened to them I’d love to be enlightened

[micajestr]

i just found out the determinators blog is gone i feel so sick to my stomach what the hell

[friendship-propaganda-archive]

Hang on, what happened to their blog???

I didn't check on this blog for a while, so I'm sorry for the late reply!

As for the question, I'm not really sure either. Since their profile picture turned blank and we can't visit their blog anymore, I assume that they deleted their blog and presences (or at least all that we know of) on tumblr.

This is just me speculating, but I think this might had to do with those horrible people on 4chan who kept harrasing them and sending them dead threats on their inbox. I remember seeing them addressing this issue on january (they turned off the reblog feature so there's no trace of it) and they made the decision to stop posting any new utdr posts and just reblogging/adding things to other people's posts.

That went pretty well for a while, so I assumed that things were going a little better for them, but I guess that wasn't the case. One day I just realized that they disappeared, no notice or anything. Tried to search up and visit their blogs, nothing. Tried to search for anyone who notice the same thing, nothing. It felt like they silently disappeared one day without anyone realizing.

With that being said, I respect their decision and hope that they live their best life without all the drama and harassment. It's just such a shame that we lost a lot of their utdr analysis and friendship propagandas over the years. Most of their long posts with the 'read more' feature can't be fully seen anymore, but at least there are shorter ones that survived due to people reblogging them. I'm trying my best to archive all of the remains here, so people can find them easily in one place.

Also, those 4chan people can go fuck off. Congrats, you just ruined something that's supposed to bring fun and enjoyment to a lot of people. If that's your idea of what happiness is, go get some help.

[ellyvator]

@determinators: "Anything with Pumpkin in it!" I present to you my Very First Pumpkin drawings ever! I'm... actually proud of them and how quick they were. I never knew I needed to draw Pumpkin until now. 🎃 Thank you for the suggestion!

[kakujaeto]

determinators replied to your post “selling merch”

I'd be half-tempted by the calendar but I'd draw mustaches on all the furuta ones so I really can't

that would be such a good use of the calendar

[nyctosaurid]

The reason Zuke got bullied so badly is actually in large part BECAUSE they're queer. 4chan was the place that "leaked" that blog and bullied them mercilessly in the months leading up to it. The blog was either faked (as an anon later claimed they'd done) or it was incredibly personal and NOT for other people to spread around, particularly in a way that demonized lesbians for their sexuality. (1)

4chan was also the place that made sure the "leaked" blog made it to both reddit and tumblr, and the guy who made that "Zuke is leaving!!" roundtable video before deleting it was a guy from 4chan. And then for weeks after that, and probably still now, they've been calling Zuke names like "autistic fatty tranny", misgendering them, etc, and then the constant in-joke for them for a while was "when the suicide video would be".You have people on tumblr who psh-tosh the idea that their bullying comes from homophobia and transphobia, but it absolutely does, because tumblr doesn't exist in a vacuum. And the people who spread the rumors of that blog that originated from 4chan, that made zuke out to be a joke, //that made it so future employers would see the incident when they google her name//...just participated in the potential destruction of a nb lesbian's career, who did nothing "problematic". As per 4chan's wishes. 

i was going to talk about this because the whole thing was one of the most blatant examples of homophobia and transphobia ive seen directed at a creator online... the initial ‘leak’ of the blog that was possibly lauren zukes basically came down to “ahah look at this lesbo! what a cringefest i hope they kill themselves” because whoever owned the blog made comments about being depressed and gay... the spreading of it by 4chan was absolutely tied to that and i still see people act like it was zuke’s fault

[secret-tacos]

determinators replied to your post “yknow iv seen som ppl justify lauren zuke implying that rupphire isnt...”

dude they never even implied that. you can have more than one queer rep. stop reaching so fucking hard to drag queer artists.

noah fence but im also a queer artist and im not ‘dragging’ lettuce zucchini for that? im criticizing her bc she made herself out to be the savior of the gays who single handedly provided the ‘obvious’ queer rep in su by essentially having to make two great characters ooc and cliche as heck and force them together for her shitty fanfic, among other things

u literally cant make a queer artist exempt from criticism on the base of being queer and if u rly think so then u have no right to criticize me by ur own fuckin rules my pal