tbh it's very difficult to take any opinion on callout culture on tumblr seriously if it fails to acknowledge how it arose out of necessity
The very first callout post I saw on this site was of a cis man in Florida who had abused his position as a ~cool educated anarchist~ to rape several women.
The first callout of a transfemme I didn’t see until years later and it was directed at monetizeyourcat for financially abusing and pressuring young trans women into sex.
Callout posts did have a purpose - there were indeed many people using their online persona as a means to abuse people.
did writing about these people on the internet provide any healing to their victims, change their behavior, or meaningfully reduce their access to new victims?
if they kept doing it, #2 and #3 are automatically answered with "no," btw.
you're fucking daft if you think any real community has benefitted from this hyperonline mean girl sherlock holmes ass horseshit.
Those people actually did stop and could no longer have a public presence where they were abusing their social position online to lure in victims.
But whatever helps you sleep at night being a rape apologist.
two months ago i accidentally discovered the legal name and address of my rapist from 10 years ago and i chose to do nothing with it, about 40% because i knew the police's reaction would be unhelpful to my healing, and about 60% because i knew the community's reaction would be unhelpful to my healing, because of people like you.
go fuck yourself.
Those people likely stopped being on that platform and/or no longer have a public presence under that username.
Chances are, they're still doing what they did, just found somewhere else to do it.
