I'm not super informed but I think it may be about the beauxcaleb art liam liked accidentally and Also the horrible stuff that's going down in the fjorester discord, lots of homophobia and transphobia towards fans and cr characters
Note: Thanks for everyone who informed me about what's going on. I'm choosing to not focus on the Liam stuff because it appears to have been resolved? Anyway:Oh boy. Holy shit. So, that call-out post that kicked the whole thing off was pretty bad, but the twitter thread by one of the victims made me physically ill. I cannot believe this kind of absolutely vile behaviour happens in our community. I had no idea, and I’m left horrified that I didn’t know. Look, I know people can be horrible. And that having a community like CR doesn’t automatically keep them out. I’ve advocated for block lists in the past. In fact, I’ve done so multiple times, made lengthy posts about it every time I saw some fandom discourse heating up. It was a way to encourage people to disengage from content they didn’t like and just leave others in peace. But now I’m beginning to question my own strategy. My block list is long – but I honestly thought I still had a pulse on this community. There’re occasional idiots out there, but they’re outliers, right? I thought I still knew what was going on in the community at large, but apparently, I absolutely have no fucking clue. What the hell happened? I remember when we were a tiny community. Is this new, or was this seedy underbelly always there? Apparently, I’m not the one to ask because I know fuck all. Did I just not look, or did we all choose to ignore it? Why must the burden of calling out abusers always fall on victims? Have we all failed each other by turning the other way and putting fingers in our ears when we don’t like what we see or hear? I am not kidding when I say I’m feeling sick about it. Chanting how we’re such a loving family when things like this happen right under our noses. I know the majority of us still love each other. I know. It’s what I choose to believe. We CAN be a force for good. But maybe, I don’t know, there’s a lesson in this for all of us who deeply identify with this community. I’m not saying someone making a small comment should get harassed – we all make mistakes (boy, I’ve made some big ones), but we should steer people in the right direction. Because if we ignore and tolerate the small stuff, the big stuff slips through the cracks - in vile, anonymous DM’s to those most vulnerable in our community, sent by cretins who feel emboldened in their opinions because we never corrected the small stuff. This got long, and I’m sorry… I’m tired. I still love y’all, a lot. I’m just sad and disappointed in all the things I never noticed, and the fact I never noticed.
