Watched a 3 hour plot summary of the Dream SMP just to see what all those teenagers in 2020 were on about and I've come away from it with the conclusion that, corollary to my joke that The Locked Tomb is "Homestuck if it was good", the Dream SMP is Homestuck if it was bad
If your first thought when you see twitch post a video talking about Shubble's years of content creation and influence in the mcyt community is to comment "ok then when are you banning her ex" then you need to realize you're way more invested in punishing this guy you used to have a fixation on than lifting up Shelby. Don't make it seem like everything that happens to her career from now is in some way connected to that man
Brooke, Tina and Hannah have all now cut ties to the Dteam or called them out. Men should not be shielded from the consequences of their behavior and this is a good first step.
Now that Caiti has spoken up there's rumblings of other young women and content creators who either noticed or have been victim to how that trio treated women in their spaces.
She's talking about the Dteam specifically here, but this applies to both sides of the pond. Wisp finally being openly called out as the man who abused Lexie has other smaller content creators quietly reminding people that you might hear more troubling things soon. There were cc's that had a vested interest in making sure their buddies were not exposed and that's fucking awful.
We're in the middle of a big upheaval in a community that had a rotten core and I think more people that were put on a pedestal are going to be thrown off.
there's the little 2020 part of me that still wants the ccs to be good people, but i'm seeing caiti fight on her own (with a few wonderful, but unfortunately small, ccs on her side) and i just. Where's all the ccs who were all up in arms for victims? the jaded part of me can't help but think it's because there's no possibility for a slam dunk reply, easy positive pr, like there was under wilbur's tweet.
Dream taking hi 6 page essay defending George pretty much confirms that, doesn't it?
He had a snappy reply ready to drop on Wilbur's tweet to promo his charity donation from his last video and farm goodwill. Then when it comes to his bestie he writes an essay about how This Is Really About How Everyone Hates Him and literally the exact opposite of every sentiment he expressed in that comment to Wilbur.
And he puts it on Reddit for his more diehard sycophants so that no one can do the same to him.
I've been grossed out by it all day.
But yeah, George and Dream definitely learned from Wilbur's blunder and refused to give people a rallying place to throw their hit tweets on him.
I feel bad for Caiti. I feel bad for that other really young streamer guy that keeps talking out too. They're so young. They shouldn't have to stand up when there's whole adults in their community that have been around long enough to have seen these problems for years.
id: a set of 5 photos from alice (twitter handle alicenyanya.)
the first image is a screenshot of alice's tweet. it reads: "These past few years have been difficult but I finally feel safe enough to speak out about my experience with Wilbur."
the second image is a graphic titled "MY EXPERIENCE WITH WILBUR" with two selfies of wilbur and alice together underneath. there are trigger warnings for emotional abuse, domestic abuse, alcohol, self harm and sexual assault.
the next three images are alice's account of the relationship. the first one reads: "Hello, I'm Alice, I dated Wilbur back in 2019 and I want to speak out about my experience.
I felt like I couldn't talk about this sooner because I was scared of his public influence and the potential backlash from fans but now after hearing Shelby's story, seeing the support she's been shown, and admiring her bravery I finally feel safe to break my silence on our relationship.
Back in 2019 at the beginning of the relationship, I was immediately shown a lot of affection very reminiscent of love-bombing. One of his close friends at the time warned me in confidence to "be careful" as if they had seen people get hurt in the past but I believed he was good inside. After a month the honeymoon period was over and it was like I was dating a completely different person. I was told to keep our relationship a secret, but was framed in a way that implied that it was for my safety, as if it was in my best interest to keep this a secret despite my own feelings. I believe that he enjoyed having control in the relationship."
the second image reads: "I would have to hide as he streamed, and sit silently in the corner of his room waiting for him to go offline. He would say condescending things to me about my interests and the type of content I created as if he just didn't take it - or me - seriously and would only be enthusiastic about his future plans with music and desire for fame. I never felt like he was encouraging towards me or any of my goals and in the last few months he made me feel extremely unloveable and unwanted. I had suffered with self harm tendencies in 2019, he ignored the marks on my body and only took interest in retelling his own life struggles. I also experienced the biting habit, which has already been elaborated on by Shelby.
After a while I noticed that it was always me putting the effort into the relationship so I decided one day to not be the one to message first, just to see what would happen and he never spoke to me again so the relationship dissolved."
the final image reads: "Skipping ahead to 2021, we had spoken briefly over an instagram DM about the relationship and meeting up for closure on how things went in 2019, I gave him a second chance and met up hoping to get some answers. We walked through densely populated areas of town where we got stopped multiple times by his fans. In hindsight this felt very intentional, almost as if it was to flaunt his influence and desirability to me. We went to a bar to talk and he then proceeded to get me very drunk. He got us an Uber back to his house, I ended up blacking out in his bed due to the alcohol but the last thing I remember was him nonconsensually removing my clothes. The next morning he proceeded to tell me that I must be a lesbian because I wasn't interested in him.
These past years have been extremely difficult to navigate because of this, I couldn't go online without seeing him everywhere and being adored as this soft boy who heroically respects women and mental health issues. I couldn't even go to conventions and enjoy my own hobbies without seeing people dressed up as him.
Shelby was right, Staying quiet wasn't bringing me any peace, it was only keeping his."
I know I said I was going to distance myself from this piece of media because of all of its terrible connections, but these characters seem to have taken root in a permanent place in my heart, and I can't let them go.
Anyway, here's some character design notes below the cut for the one person out there who's obsessed with these characters as much as me.
Early DSMP: the era of childhood innocence
Bandanas: They sport each other’s bandana’s (they’re hidden in the design for every era). I love character designs with complementary colors (and I love how red and green are also cranboo’s colors)
Disks: Early on, cat and mellohi represent the peaceful moments ctommy shared with his favorite people, but they went on to be a symbol of victory and independence from the people who have hurt him.
Flowers: Ctubbo collects flowers and tries to memorize the meanings and symbolism tied to each type of flower. He also collects them for his bees.
L’manberg: the era where children became soldiers
Horns: Ctubbo’s horns start to grow in here.
Pogtopia: the era of an exile and a secretary of state / spy
You can tell I joined the fandom at the end of this era because I don’t have many notes here or for the l’manberg era.
Exile: the era of an exile once again and and a president too young
Hair: Ctommy’s hair starts to grow longer as he neglects taking care of himself.
Clothes: Ctommy’s clothes are tattered; one shoe is destroyed and he took to wearing cwilbur’s (f-ck ccwilbur btw!!) trench coat.
Bandages: Ctubbo’s wrapped in bandages from his recently earned firework burns. He’s gone blind in his right eye, and he’s missing the ring and pinkie finger on his right hand.
Compasses: They share their matching ‘your tommy’ and ‘your tubbo’ compasses
Hog Hunt: the era where one sought to kill the blood god while the other sought refuge there
Stolen goods: Ctommy’s has his antarctic empire outfit plus all the goods he stole from ctechno like the turtle helmet, golden apples, and the axe of peace.
Bedrock: Ctommy wears his counterpart piece matching techno’s from his ear.
Prosthetic: Ctommy’s right foot had to be amputated after he loses it to frostbite in the trek to cemeraldduo’s cabin. Ctechno gives him a simple prosthetic.
Disc Finale: the era of mended relationships and a final stand
Headband: Ctommy begins to wear a devil headband to fit in more, as he’s one of the few humans on the server. The devil horns were chosen to resemble ceryn’s real ones.
Patchwork: Ctommy learns to sew, and he fixes his tattered clothes from exile.
Post Revival:
Devil horns: Ctommy’s devil horns (plus a tail) become real after revival, and he gets a white streak in his hair to match his pseudo brother.
Prime cross: The bad things that have happened to them both that they survived strengthen ctommy’s faith in prime, whereas they weaken ctubbo’s faith.
Sweater: Ctommy makes himself a sweater from friend’s wool.
Mechanical inventions: Ctubbo pursues his passion for engineering more as he makes mechanical bee drones and studies nuclear physics. He also makes himself prosthetic fingers, and he upgrades ctommy’s prosthetic foot.
Marriage ring: Ctubbo marries cranboo platonically and wears the ring on his horn. He also founds snowchester so he can have a place to protect his loved ones and raise his son. He grows out his hair to avoid eye contact for cranboo and to cover his scars.
Body type: Ctubbo gets chubbier and gains some muscle as he gets a bit happier in life.
Post DSMP:
The prison break and everything after it never happened. These are my OCs, and I make the rules because every actor/writer who played a part in their creation either abandoned them or turned out to be a terrible person. Cbenchtrio live happily ever after and begin their journey of healing while cdream rots in prison forever.
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