Have you or a loved one been a victim of yaoi?

A tournament for all the female characters mistreated due to popular m/m ships

[victimsofyaoipoll]

No active polls, now just a general blog for fandom misogyny

[parakeet]

just saw a 'comments' tab on someones blog you know where the following and likes tabs would be if enabled and it was just showing all the replies theyve made on peoples posts. this is fascinating when did this feature come out

[parakeet]

EMERGENCY - ITS AUTO ENABLED!

if you've made replies on posts there is now a tab on your blog showing every post youve replied to and your reply.

if this is not what you want, either go to your blog and click comments and disable it from there or just go to your individual blogs setting pages. just change it from blue to grey if you dont want everyone to see your replies AND the post you're replying to

PLEASE BE ADVISED that it is set to disabled for blogs that have not made any replies but it will turn ON if you reply with that blog in the future.! i just tested it with my main, which was greyed out but it turned on the moment i left a test reply

figured i'd get the word out bc i have not seen a single mention of this and i'm sure there are plenty of people who maybe comment on things they don't want on display for everyone to see on their blog lol. you can still look at your replies with it toggled off just no one else can, like locking the following and likes list

[parakeet]

so for some reason this feature was actually announced on the tumblr engineering blog. interesting choice not to reblog it to the staff or tumblr blog, esp considering they asked for user input on how to implement it, but i suppose considering the response to the last update maybe the replies would be too overwhelming...

so couple of clarifications. comments are disabled as default for primary blogs that have their likes disabled. they are seemingly enabled for all other blogs that have replied to posts

posts you comment on may show on your followers 'for you' page if you leave your replies publically available. they may, in the future, show in on your followers dashboard if your follower goes to their dash settings and enables this. apparently, if your likes are enabled, your followers can already see those on the dash if they've gone into preferences and selected to do so, which I was unaware of, and that seems to be disabled at default, but it's possible i disabled it previously and forgot about it ig

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[preheville]

sorry i'm still angry about this but if your excuse for not caring about female characters is because you're not sexually attracted to them you are exactly 0 degrees of rhetorical separation from a redditor whining about how his favourite video game is now "too woke" because the women don't show enough skin

[depsidase]

[barkingbarghest]

Here is an article from NPR about it (May 22, 2026):

Carolina Milanesi, an independent technology analyst, said Google is trying to make its cash cow business — search — richer and more personalized, and it will make shopping easier. But there is a risk that users may have fewer choices about what to click. "Right now it's: I ask a question, I get a bunch of answers and I feel that I'm in control as to which answer I take, or if I'm looking for something, which product I'm going to end up buying. That is going to be less so going forward," she said. Milanesi envisions AI-enabled search and agents proposing products to consumers — perhaps even those they have requested — but with less clarity or choice around where it's coming from. "If you're going to say: 'I want a pair of Jordans, go find them,' you're not necessarily sure what steps have been taken and whether the AI has used a source or a store that was paid for and therefore came up in the search results," she said, "or if AI actually went and did their due diligence and picked the best for me as a customer."

And here's one from Time magazine (May 20, 2026):

While Google already has “AI Mode,” the company will now power the whole search bar through its new Gemini 3.5 Flash model.  Instead of the classic list of blue links, Google Search will now also generate a custom page with an AI-generated summary of what you’re searching about, which will then trigger a conversation with AI Mode on the main page, allowing users to ask follow-up questions—similar to the kind of layout you would see when opening ChatGPT.

And a little more from Time's article on how this may affect the websites that we are trying to search for:

When Google first started implementing AI-assisted results, news publishers warned of “catastrophic” impacts on the industry, much of which relies on Google search to drive users to their websites.  Last year, news websites saw significant traffic declines as chatbots increasingly replaced Google search as the primary way to find sites and ask questions.  Small businesses also noted drops in traffic to their sites from Google, which has traditionally delivered customers.   Lily Ray, vice president of SEO strategy & research at Amsive, a digital marketing agency, warned as early as last year that Google’s planned changes to search are “going to have a devastating impact on the Internet.”  “It will severely cut into the main source of revenue for most publishers and it will disincentivize content creators who rely on organic search traffic, which is millions of websites, maybe more,” she told Technology Magazine.  

[the-crying-bitch]

[evilselfishfool]

Heh Fine so it’s time to stop using it completely. I hope were all serious though and they will face a decrease of use of their search at least the size of this post’s note count?

Stop. Using. It.

[stephexmachina]

tbh in my eyes this kind of thing is inexcusably pathetic like it's not cute it's not funny it's not forgivable it's misogyny plain & simple. if you can't connect with female characters as full people with thoughts & emotions you're a loser & i have no respect for you #notsorry

[natnormalatall]

roald dahl was antisemitic and misogynistic. george orwell was openly homophobic. edgar allan poe married his 13 year old cousin. dr seuss cheated on his wife (and was racist as well as antisemitic!). hp lovecraft was racist as fuck. anyways they’re fucking dead it’s not like you’re enabling their behaviors in the afterlife or something. then again I think they bleed into the books so uh keep an eye out for that

the difference between these old white guys and jk rowling is that the former group is all dead. jk rowling is alive and using your money to oppress trans people

[bisexuel]

[deepseasmetro]

if you think for even just a second how fucking crazy bonkers it is that women are so frequently kept from being protagonists or important or fully realized characters when its like. That is literally 50% of the world population. Half of all people (more or less. hopefully more as time marches on!) are women. And you look at media and think about how many protagonists are men and their best friends are men and the ensemble cast is 80-100% men and the fandoms are about men and the romances are about men. well. YOU GO INSANE

[problematic-character-tournament]

Problematic Character Tournament

Welcome! This is a tournament intended to find Tumblr's Favourite Problematic Guy (/gender neutral).

Characters with all levels of "problematic" are allowed, but the general baseline is they have to... well, not be a great person. Maybe they're an asshole. Maybe they committed a genocide or two. As long as they've done something that would make people slap the word Problematic on them, send them on in!

Obviously, bad characters who did bad things are going to appear here, and they'll likely have some level of fondness expressed for them in the notes. If you're someone who thinks someone's taste in fictional characters reflects their real-life morals, this probably isn't the blog for you. Other than that, everything will be tagged with the names of characters and fandoms, so easy to avoid anything you have a specific issue with!

A similar tournament for problematic ships is something I'm likely to do once this concludes (unless people have other ideas that drum up more interest first), but that's a topic for later!

Please submit characters via the Google Form and not the askbox!

Note that it's required to specify why a character is problematic and why you like them/why they're a compelling character - just throwing in the name and nothing else would make it very hard for me to figure out who counts and why, plus it gives people unfamiliar with the characters something to go on when it comes to voting :)

You can call me Blue and despite the topics appearing here I'm very friendly I promise! Feel free to ask questions or send in feedback about anything at all and I'll do my best to help <3

@tournament-announcer

[susandsnell]

reuploaded bc ykw i'm fed up. fandom misogyny bingo

[ashenmind]

truly breathtaking just how many series would be massively improved if the author gave a shit about women

[proxima-bee]

can you imagine how good shows would be if writers thought of women as human beings

[cleric-chono-is-my-everything]

can you imagine how good fandoms would be if fans thought of women as human beings

[mockiatoh]

Saw several people angrily responding to this one & all I can say is she’s 100% right

[amnesiacbracket]

SEMIFINAL, MATCH 1

Yami Yugi/Atem (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

Shouichi Tsugami (Kamen Rider Agito)

Voting ended onMay 16

YAMI

Reason for amnesia: Sealed himself and an evil god away in an ancient item, using his own name as a passcode and erasing his memories/erasing the name from history / Being trapped in the Millenium Puzzle for 5000 years

Do they get their memory back?: Not sure, he learned his true name and regained most of his memory by reliving it / Yes

“Fun” facts: His favourite food is Egyptian falafel / He's the King of Games

SHOUICHI

Reason for amnesia: Accident that led him to washing up on a shore. The details of said accident are a major spoiler.

Do they get their memory back?: Yes, towards the end of the series.

“Fun” facts: Shouichi has complicated feelings around knowing who he once was, and tries to be positive but he is scared of knowing. He likes to cook, garden, do magic tricks, ride his motorbike, clean, and generally does a lot of housework. Not very good at math, but he's very strong and tries to be there for the people he cares about.

[mortalityplays]

you see fanfiction broadly ignores women and women's internal worlds and struggles and aspirations and personalities and relationships because most fanfiction writers are straight women or bi women or bi men or gay men, and they all want to fuck men, so all their creative focus and attention is on men's internal worlds and struggles and aspirations and personalities and relationships.

why don't straight men engage more with fanfiction and write comparable stories about women? well because they just want to fuck women so they have no interest in women's internal worlds and struggles and aspirations and personalities and relationships. it's simple and natural and inevitable. I'm not a misogynist btw.

[lifesgrandparade]

I want you guys to all start making a bigger stink about Tumblr's Age Verification Horseshit.

[lifesgrandparade]

Like they tried to change Reblogs and people rightfully got up in arms, this is a LOT worse. In order to have access to any sort of thing dubbed mature, and We haveALL seen what they think is mature, Everything from a black and white photo of a black woman's arm, to posts about IUD recalls, to a nude painted by a 17th century artist, to anything involving the word Trans; you have to send your personal information to a third party site that WILL get hacked, and you will be doxxed. And they can say "Oh shit, well it wasn't us who sent your name address and gender identity to Moldovan teenagers, here's a couple extra minutes in the ball pit.

That's bad enough!!!!!!!! But the entire idea of needing permission from state authorities to access anything labeled mature by our friendly AI overlords is some fucking Boll shit. Die Gedenken Sind Frie baby. This is all a reaction to people getting uppity about their lowly lowly rights and is being propped up by the same bad actors tht have made life unlivable. Fuck that shit.

"Well it's only being rolled out in Brazil and UK" Yeah, to start. "Well they're being forced to do this by laws." YOu know it's always really funny when these tech giants (Or whatever you call owning tumblr dot com) get really antsy about laws considering they pick and choose which ones they abide by.

This is a breaking point and it's going to be very interesting to see how we proceed from here.