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    Af, Books, and Crying: ti skerb Retweeted
 Shan AF RJ mesa 15 - AF SP mesa 71 @ShanaBRX Jun 14
 Fuck everyone who whines about ao3
 News
 All News
 May 2019 Newsletter, Volume 135
 Published: Thu 13 Jun 2019 01:03PM 03 Comments: 4
 Recently, the Archive of Our Own has received an influx of
 new Chinese users, a result of tightening content restrictions
 on other platforms. We would like to extend our warmest
 welcome to them, and remind everyone that our committees
 are working to make AO3 as accessible as possible in
 languages other than English
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wetwareproblem:
wrangletangle:

zoe2213414:

eabevella:

naryrising:

You can read the post hereย for more info, but I wanted to just add a bit about what this entails from my POV, on the Support team.ย  Somewhere between ยผ to 1/3 of all our tickets last month were in Chinese (somewhere upwards of 300 out of 1200 or so), almost all from users just setting up their accounts or trying to find out how to get an invitation.ย  A lot of the tickets are what Iโ€™d characterize asย โ€œintroโ€ tickets - they say hi, list favourite fandoms or pairings, or provide samples of fic theyโ€™ve written. Although this isnโ€™t necessary on AO3, this is not uncommon in Chinese fandom sites that you have to prove your credentials to get in (in fact it wasnโ€™t uncommon in English-language fandom sites 15-20 years ago).ย  We respond to all of these tickets, even the ones that just say hi.ย  We check whether the user has managed to receive their invite or get their account sent up, and if they havenโ€™t, we help them do so.ย  This means taking every single ticket through our Chinese translation team twice, once so we make sure we understand the initial ticket, and then again to translate our reply.ย 
This is a challenging process, although weโ€™ve found ways to streamline it and can normally get a reply out pretty quickly (like within a few days).ย  We do it because this is part of why AO3 exists in the first place - to provide a safe haven where users can post their works without worrying about censorship or sudden crackdowns on certain kinds of content.ย  We do it because this is important, and helping these users get their accounts and be able to share their works safely is why weโ€™re here.ย  We hope that weโ€™ll be able to help as many of them as possible.ย ย 
There have been a few (thankfully few, that Iโ€™ve seen) complaints about these new AO3 users not always knowing how things work - what language to tag with, or what fandom tags to use, for instance.ย  To this I would say:
1. Have patience and be considerate.ย  They are coming to a new site that they arenโ€™t familiar with, and using it in a language they may not be expert in, and it might take a while to learn the ropes.ย  You can filter out works tagged in Chinese if you donโ€™t want to see them.ย  Or just scroll past.ย ย 
2. You can report works tagged with the wrong language or the wrong fandom to our Policy and Abuse team using the link at the bottom of any page.ย  This will not cause the authors toย โ€œget in troubleโ€ (a concern Iโ€™ve heard before, as people are reluctant to report for these reasons).ย  It means the Policy and Abuse team will contact them to ask them to change the language/fandom tag, and if the creator doesnโ€™t, they can edit it directly.ย 
If you remember Strikethrough or the FF.net porn ban or similar purges, please keep them in mind and consider that these users are going through something similar or potentially worse.ย  This is why AO3 exists.ย  We are doing our best to try and help make the transition smooth.ย ย 

I am a Taiwanese and Iโ€™d like to put some context behind the recent influx of China based AO3 users.
China is tightening their freedom of speech in recent years after Xi has became the chairman (he even canceled the 10 years long term of service of chairman, meaning he can stay as the leader of China as long as he livesโ€“he has became a dictator). 
They censor words that are deemed โ€œsensitiveโ€, you canโ€™t type anything to criticize the chinise government. Big social media platform wonโ€™t even post the posts containing sensitive words. You donโ€™t have the freedom of publish books without the books being approved by the government either.
To disguise this whole Ninety Eighty-Four nightmare, they started to pick on the easy target: the women and the minorities (China is getting more and more misogynistic as a result of the government trying to control their male population through encouraging them to control the female population through โ€œchinese tradition family valueโ€ but thatโ€™s another story). 
Last year, the chinese government arrested a woman who is a famous yaoi/BL novel writer named ๅคฉไธ€ and sentenced her 10 years in jail for โ€œselling obscene publicationsโ€ and โ€œillegal publicationโ€ (sheโ€™s not the only BL writer who got arrested. Meanwhile, multiple cases where men raped women only get about 2 years of jail time in China). Itโ€™s a warning to anyone who want to publish anything thatโ€™s โ€œnot approvedโ€ by the government that they can literally ruin you.ย  
Just recently the chinese government โ€œcontactedโ€ website owners of one of their largest romance/yaoi/slash fiction sites 
ๆ™‰ๆฑŸ

and announced that for now on, for the sake of a Clean Society, they canโ€™t write anything thatโ€™s slightly โ€œobsceneโ€. No sex scene, no sexual interaction, they canโ€™t even write any bodily interaction below neck (Iโ€™m not kidding here). 
But thatโ€™s not their actual goal. They also listed other restriction such as: canโ€™t write anything thatโ€™s about the government, the military, the police, โ€œsensitive historyโ€, โ€œrace problemsโ€, which isโ€ฆ you basically canโ€™t write anything that might be used as a tool to criticize the government (as many novels did). 
This recent development really hurt the chinese fanfic writers. They canโ€™t write anything without the fear of being put on the guillotine by the government to show their control. Most of them donโ€™t even think that deep politically, they just want to write slash fictions. But there are no platform safe in China, thatโ€™s why the sudden influx of chinese users to AO3. 
I bet it wonโ€™t be long before AO3 got banned in China, but until then, be a little bit patient to them. As much as I hate the chinese government, I pity their people. 


Iโ€™m crying so loudโ€ฆAs a Chinese, you donโ€™t know how your kindness meant to us. When Iโ€™m young, I read 1984, and I thought this story is so unrealistic, but now, itโ€™s getting tougher and tougher for fanfic and the writer in China. Thank you ao3. Thank you for the people who care about Chinese people. (hope I didnโ€™t spell anything wrong)

The OTWโ€™s account on Weibo, the biggest Chinese social media site, is
 constantly fielding questions from Chinese users about how to get 
invitations, how to post, all of it. Chinese fans deeply want to learn 
how to use AO3. The difference between Lofterโ€™s posting system and AO3โ€ฒs
 is perhaps even wider than the gulf between Tumblr and AO3. But imagine
 if you had to navigate across that gap in a language you didnโ€™t speak, 
using translation programs that donโ€™t understand fan terminology.
This is exactly
 what the AO3 was built to deal with. We just didnโ€™t get a chance to get
 the internationalization done first, so things may be bumpy for a 
while. We are all part of fandom, so letโ€™s take care not to leave 
anyone out.


Just in case it isnโ€™t clear to anyone? This. This right here is precisely why the AO3 doesnโ€™t police content or remove things that are icky or obscene.
Because itโ€™s not you who defines whatโ€™s obscene. Itโ€™s the authorities.

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                Af, Books, and Crying: ti skerb Retweeted
 Shan AF RJ mesa 15 - AF SP mesa 71 @ShanaBRX Jun 14
 Fuck everyone who whines about ao3
 News
 All News
 May 2019 Newsletter, Volume 135
 Published: Thu 13 Jun 2019 01:03PM 03 Comments: 4
 Recently, the Archive of Our Own has received an influx of
 new Chinese users, a result of tightening content restrictions
 on other platforms. We would like to extend our warmest
 welcome to them, and remind everyone that our committees
 are working to make AO3 as accessible as possible in
 languages other than English
 Read more...
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wetwareproblem:
wrangletangle:

zoe2213414:

eabevella:

naryrising:

You can read the post hereย for more info, but I wanted to just add a bit about what this entails from my POV, on the Support team.ย  Somewhere between ยผ to 1/3 of all our tickets last month were in Chinese (somewhere upwards of 300 out of 1200 or so), almost all from users just setting up their accounts or trying to find out how to get an invitation.ย  A lot of the tickets are what Iโ€™d characterize asย โ€œintroโ€ tickets - they say hi, list favourite fandoms or pairings, or provide samples of fic theyโ€™ve written. Although this isnโ€™t necessary on AO3, this is not uncommon in Chinese fandom sites that you have to prove your credentials to get in (in fact it wasnโ€™t uncommon in English-language fandom sites 15-20 years ago).ย  We respond to all of these tickets, even the ones that just say hi.ย  We check whether the user has managed to receive their invite or get their account sent up, and if they havenโ€™t, we help them do so.ย  This means taking every single ticket through our Chinese translation team twice, once so we make sure we understand the initial ticket, and then again to translate our reply.ย 
This is a challenging process, although weโ€™ve found ways to streamline it and can normally get a reply out pretty quickly (like within a few days).ย  We do it because this is part of why AO3 exists in the first place - to provide a safe haven where users can post their works without worrying about censorship or sudden crackdowns on certain kinds of content.ย  We do it because this is important, and helping these users get their accounts and be able to share their works safely is why weโ€™re here.ย  We hope that weโ€™ll be able to help as many of them as possible.ย ย 
There have been a few (thankfully few, that Iโ€™ve seen) complaints about these new AO3 users not always knowing how things work - what language to tag with, or what fandom tags to use, for instance.ย  To this I would say:
1. Have patience and be considerate.ย  They are coming to a new site that they arenโ€™t familiar with, and using it in a language they may not be expert in, and it might take a while to learn the ropes.ย  You can filter out works tagged in Chinese if you donโ€™t want to see them.ย  Or just scroll past.ย ย 
2. You can report works tagged with the wrong language or the wrong fandom to our Policy and Abuse team using the link at the bottom of any page.ย  This will not cause the authors toย โ€œget in troubleโ€ (a concern Iโ€™ve heard before, as people are reluctant to report for these reasons).ย  It means the Policy and Abuse team will contact them to ask them to change the language/fandom tag, and if the creator doesnโ€™t, they can edit it directly.ย 
If you remember Strikethrough or the FF.net porn ban or similar purges, please keep them in mind and consider that these users are going through something similar or potentially worse.ย  This is why AO3 exists.ย  We are doing our best to try and help make the transition smooth.ย ย 

I am a Taiwanese and Iโ€™d like to put some context behind the recent influx of China based AO3 users.
China is tightening their freedom of speech in recent years after Xi has became the chairman (he even canceled the 10 years long term of service of chairman, meaning he can stay as the leader of China as long as he livesโ€“he has became a dictator). 
They censor words that are deemed โ€œsensitiveโ€, you canโ€™t type anything to criticize the chinise government. Big social media platform wonโ€™t even post the posts containing sensitive words. You donโ€™t have the freedom of publish books without the books being approved by the government either.
To disguise this whole Ninety Eighty-Four nightmare, they started to pick on the easy target: the women and the minorities (China is getting more and more misogynistic as a result of the government trying to control their male population through encouraging them to control the female population through โ€œchinese tradition family valueโ€ but thatโ€™s another story). 
Last year, the chinese government arrested a woman who is a famous yaoi/BL novel writer named ๅคฉไธ€ and sentenced her 10 years in jail for โ€œselling obscene publicationsโ€ and โ€œillegal publicationโ€ (sheโ€™s not the only BL writer who got arrested. Meanwhile, multiple cases where men raped women only get about 2 years of jail time in China). Itโ€™s a warning to anyone who want to publish anything thatโ€™s โ€œnot approvedโ€ by the government that they can literally ruin you.ย  
Just recently the chinese government โ€œcontactedโ€ website owners of one of their largest romance/yaoi/slash fiction sites 
ๆ™‰ๆฑŸ

and announced that for now on, for the sake of a Clean Society, they canโ€™t write anything thatโ€™s slightly โ€œobsceneโ€. No sex scene, no sexual interaction, they canโ€™t even write any bodily interaction below neck (Iโ€™m not kidding here). 
But thatโ€™s not their actual goal. They also listed other restriction such as: canโ€™t write anything thatโ€™s about the government, the military, the police, โ€œsensitive historyโ€, โ€œrace problemsโ€, which isโ€ฆ you basically canโ€™t write anything that might be used as a tool to criticize the government (as many novels did). 
This recent development really hurt the chinese fanfic writers. They canโ€™t write anything without the fear of being put on the guillotine by the government to show their control. Most of them donโ€™t even think that deep politically, they just want to write slash fictions. But there are no platform safe in China, thatโ€™s why the sudden influx of chinese users to AO3. 
I bet it wonโ€™t be long before AO3 got banned in China, but until then, be a little bit patient to them. As much as I hate the chinese government, I pity their people. 


Iโ€™m crying so loudโ€ฆAs a Chinese, you donโ€™t know how your kindness meant to us. When Iโ€™m young, I read 1984, and I thought this story is so unrealistic, but now, itโ€™s getting tougher and tougher for fanfic and the writer in China. Thank you ao3. Thank you for the people who care about Chinese people. (hope I didnโ€™t spell anything wrong)

The OTWโ€™s account on Weibo, the biggest Chinese social media site, is
 constantly fielding questions from Chinese users about how to get 
invitations, how to post, all of it. Chinese fans deeply want to learn 
how to use AO3. The difference between Lofterโ€™s posting system and AO3โ€ฒs
 is perhaps even wider than the gulf between Tumblr and AO3. But imagine
 if you had to navigate across that gap in a language you didnโ€™t speak, 
using translation programs that donโ€™t understand fan terminology.
This is exactly
 what the AO3 was built to deal with. We just didnโ€™t get a chance to get
 the internationalization done first, so things may be bumpy for a 
while. We are all part of fandom, so letโ€™s take care not to leave 
anyone out.


Just in case it isnโ€™t clear to anyone? This. This right here is precisely why the AO3 doesnโ€™t police content or remove things that are icky or obscene.
Because itโ€™s not you who defines whatโ€™s obscene. Itโ€™s the authorities.

                
            

            
            
wetwareproblem:
wrangletangle:

zoe2213414:

eabevella:

naryrising:

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    America, Community, and Cute: Mira Jacob
 @mirajacob
 Two things I didn't know until I was
 yesterday years old:
 1) Memorial Day was started by
 African Americans honoring fallen
 Union solders
 2) The Statue of Liberty was gifted to
 America to celebrate freed slaves, not
 immigrants.
 Erasure is real, you all. But that part
 we knew.
 7:28 AM May 27, 2019 Twitter for iPhone
 37.2K Likes
 12.2K Retweets
valquainton:

ms-demeanor:

ms-demeanor:

the-barista-who-became-a-rabbit:

meganphntmgrl:

panic-boy-21:

blckrapunzel:

laughingacademy:

interficio-vos:

thatpettyblackgirl:


The White Wash is real.



One of the Earliest Memorial Day Ceremonies Was Held by Freed Slaves
The Statue of Liberty was created to celebrate freed slaves, not immigrants, its new museum recounts



Just wait until you google what the original Statue of Liberty(that got refused by America)looked like


For those of you who donโ€™t want to look it up yourselves:
Lady Liberty is a black woman.

Guys, this has been thoroughly debunkedย sinceย 2000, and it does the statue on the left there a huge disservice to treat her as an unwanted copy. Thatโ€™s Lady Liberty of St. Maarten, an homage from 2007 (post-dating the debunking, even) that was dedicated to the anniversary of the ending of slavery there:
The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor is a representation of Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, with bonus American iconography:
HOWEVER: Lady Liberty in New York is not based on a white woman, either.ย 
Sheโ€™s a Muslim Arab woman, at least in terms of the modeling of her face. Her face was reused from an abandoned project to build a colossal statue of a modern Egyptian Arab peasant woman near the Suez Canal (as verified by the Smithsonian, no less).
While she wasnโ€™t originally dedicated specifically for immigrants, the poemย โ€œThe New Colossusโ€ was added specifically because of the position she occupied in the harbor and the symbolic visual power she would have to immigrants coming in. The author, Emma Lazarus, was Jewish.
Itโ€™s important to fight back on the whitewashing of history, because it happens left and right, but it shouldnโ€™t happen at the cost of misinformation that treats Lady Liberty of St. Maarten as an unwanted prototype rather than a powerful monument in her own right and, ironically, claims that sheโ€™s now a white woman when sheโ€™s not while also ignoring the powerful influence of the Jewish-American community on the final version.

Geez, Iโ€™m really tired of people trying to spout false shit all over tumblr. Like, this post has 37K notes, But I assure you, that like many other false posts, ยพ of the notes are from people who saw the false bit and prefered to reblog it that way and be mad, instead of just making a simple google search

Hi Darling Friends of Tumblr.
Iโ€™ve been taking too long to do data entry and Iโ€™m not good at actually doing analysis so itโ€™s time to start naming and shaming.
@thatpettyblackgirl is a blog that Iโ€™ve been observing for a while that has a really interesting pattern of behavior. 
Namely, posting a bunch of shit like this. 
Remember that tweet about Olive Garden supporting Donald Trump that was debunked? Well when it circulated on tumblr two weeks ago it was because of @thatpettyblackgirl
You know the misreported post about the school lunch program that refused donations from a local businessman? That was a different blogger but thatpettyblackgirl has circulated another version of it. 
That other blogger has a posting history thatโ€™s full of the same kinds of things thatpettyblackgirl posts - lots of reposts from twitter, lots of screenshots from other sites, not a lot of commentary, and things that are decontextualized enough to make them seem worse than they are or to totally misrepresent the actions depicted (like this reposted video and tweets indignant about a man being arrested when the very specific purpose of his protest was to get arrested).
It reminds me of that post about coconut husks as a wood alternative thatโ€™s been circulating recently - a screenshot of a white man above a news article is posted with the complaint that white people โ€œdiscoveringโ€ coconuts after disregarding them as useless when the article is about a new method of processing coconut husks that allows them to be put to new uses. 
That blog is fascinating. And has a lot in common with thatpettyblackgirl - both of them reblog their own posts at a rate thatโ€™s higher than Iโ€™ve seen on most tumblrs (btw, you should know that a while back I asked for volunteers who would let me explore their tumblrs and while my research sample isnโ€™t random it is a collection of small and large blogs and none of them have *checks notes* reblogged their own post of a bunch of screencaps of a tweet storm five times in the last couple of days). Both of them tend to post screencaps, neither one really writes much. They reblog a lot of memes, and both have some pretty big textposts that are just straight rip-offs of tweets (โ€bi folks have you eaten today? answer quick and iced coffee doesnโ€™t countโ€ is one of thatpettyblackgirlโ€™s recent popular textposts and itโ€™s ripped off from twitter.) They also reblog eachother a fair amount - along with @whyyoustabbedme and @endangered-justice-seeker, who ALSO have really weird posting patterns.
Also all four of those blogs are part of a group of nine blogs that were created in a three-week period of 2017 that Iโ€™ve been watching that donโ€™t seem to follow a pattern of normal tumblr behavior and that also post an awful lot of incorrect viral posts and are staggeringly popular (for clarity: blackqueerblog is not one of the nine created in that time period). 

ANYWAY this is all reminding me very strongly of bellygangstaboo and lagonegirl. 
I know I probably sound like this image:
But there are excellent, thoughtful bloggers who discuss police brutality, racism in the US, class warefare, and institutional bias who arenโ€™t ALSO unflaggingly committed to having their own dedicated Snopes pages. @odinsblog, Franchesca Ramsey, @antifainternational, and @mostlysignssomeportents might be a good place to start. 
My dudes, I donโ€™t want to be depressing so Iโ€™ll let Vanity Fair do it for me:

That Russian operatives could so effectively engage Americans with 
tactics as simple as Facebook ads, fake-news postings, and Twitter 
trolls, shows how dangerous misinformation is in the social-media age, 
when propaganda can be so easily amplified. More important, it 
highlights how primed Americans already were for manipulation. 
When the ICE raids started up again a few months ago thatpettyblackgirl was posting about how shameful it was that there was nothing that could be done. A lot of these blogs are writing about how itโ€™s impossible for black people to succeed in America, theyโ€™re writing about how voting is always rigged and you canโ€™t fight the system.
And you know what that goes against every fucking principle of my cold little anarchist heart. These blogs are full of despair - they look like theyโ€™re full of cute memes and fresh news but theyโ€™re a poisoned pill telling you not to bother because you canโ€™t fight the system. Theyโ€™re not offering help, theyโ€™re training you not to bother fighting for your rights (there was a popular post about how the Hong Kong protesters are light years ahead of US protesters - that post didnโ€™t talk about mutual aid or sharing tactics, it just said โ€œpeople in the US would neverโ€ and left it at that, like we canโ€™t learn from each other and share information across borders)
Fucking. Anyway. Iโ€™ve been fairly quiet about this because Iโ€™ve been trying to be all good and data sciencey about it but Iโ€™ve seen this post on my dash fifty times this week. 
Keep your eye out for @thatpettyblackgirlย  @uncommonbish @whyyoustabbedme and @blackqueerblog - all of them have large followings and are known to post tweets and news articles out of context and if youโ€™re considering reblogging information from one of their blogs please make a point to fact-check the post yourself. 
Not everything they post is wrong. I donโ€™t know if these are real bloggers who donโ€™t care about the potential negative impact of their tweet thievery or if theyโ€™re weird psyops blogs that are intended to make you feel hopeless about your place in the political process. Whatever they are it doesnโ€™t matter when they continually post misinformation and donโ€™t seem to care about stopping so please be cautious.
Anyway, Iโ€™m cataloguing these sorts of posts at @psyops-redux so if you want to keep an eye out for stuff thatโ€™s debunked Iโ€™ll tag by originating blogger over there.
Stay safe, buds. 

Dammit, I got all fired up and I forgot to add:

THEREโ€™S A GAME THAT HELPS YOU RECOGNIZE WHEN PEOPLE ARE POSTING MISINFORMATION AND MAKES YOU LESS SUSCEPTIBLE TO THIS KIND OF PROPAGANDA AND YOU SHOULD ALL GO PLAY IT.


Ah.  The number reposts from their own blogs had puzzled me in the past.  I assumed it was something to do with the way Tumblr runs that I wasnโ€™t tech-savvy enough to understand.  But this makes a lot of sense.  Unless someone tells me otherwise, Iโ€™m gonna go ahead and unfollow the blogs listed.  Any recommendations for actual historical/current affairs poc blogs to follow instead?

    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                America, Community, and Cute: Mira Jacob
 @mirajacob
 Two things I didn't know until I was
 yesterday years old:
 1) Memorial Day was started by
 African Americans honoring fallen
 Union solders
 2) The Statue of Liberty was gifted to
 America to celebrate freed slaves, not
 immigrants.
 Erasure is real, you all. But that part
 we knew.
 7:28 AM May 27, 2019 Twitter for iPhone
 37.2K Likes
 12.2K Retweets
valquainton:

ms-demeanor:

ms-demeanor:

the-barista-who-became-a-rabbit:

meganphntmgrl:

panic-boy-21:

blckrapunzel:

laughingacademy:

interficio-vos:

thatpettyblackgirl:


The White Wash is real.



One of the Earliest Memorial Day Ceremonies Was Held by Freed Slaves
The Statue of Liberty was created to celebrate freed slaves, not immigrants, its new museum recounts



Just wait until you google what the original Statue of Liberty(that got refused by America)looked like


For those of you who donโ€™t want to look it up yourselves:
Lady Liberty is a black woman.

Guys, this has been thoroughly debunkedย sinceย 2000, and it does the statue on the left there a huge disservice to treat her as an unwanted copy. Thatโ€™s Lady Liberty of St. Maarten, an homage from 2007 (post-dating the debunking, even) that was dedicated to the anniversary of the ending of slavery there:
The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor is a representation of Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, with bonus American iconography:
HOWEVER: Lady Liberty in New York is not based on a white woman, either.ย 
Sheโ€™s a Muslim Arab woman, at least in terms of the modeling of her face. Her face was reused from an abandoned project to build a colossal statue of a modern Egyptian Arab peasant woman near the Suez Canal (as verified by the Smithsonian, no less).
While she wasnโ€™t originally dedicated specifically for immigrants, the poemย โ€œThe New Colossusโ€ was added specifically because of the position she occupied in the harbor and the symbolic visual power she would have to immigrants coming in. The author, Emma Lazarus, was Jewish.
Itโ€™s important to fight back on the whitewashing of history, because it happens left and right, but it shouldnโ€™t happen at the cost of misinformation that treats Lady Liberty of St. Maarten as an unwanted prototype rather than a powerful monument in her own right and, ironically, claims that sheโ€™s now a white woman when sheโ€™s not while also ignoring the powerful influence of the Jewish-American community on the final version.

Geez, Iโ€™m really tired of people trying to spout false shit all over tumblr. Like, this post has 37K notes, But I assure you, that like many other false posts, ยพ of the notes are from people who saw the false bit and prefered to reblog it that way and be mad, instead of just making a simple google search

Hi Darling Friends of Tumblr.
Iโ€™ve been taking too long to do data entry and Iโ€™m not good at actually doing analysis so itโ€™s time to start naming and shaming.
@thatpettyblackgirl is a blog that Iโ€™ve been observing for a while that has a really interesting pattern of behavior. 
Namely, posting a bunch of shit like this. 
Remember that tweet about Olive Garden supporting Donald Trump that was debunked? Well when it circulated on tumblr two weeks ago it was because of @thatpettyblackgirl
You know the misreported post about the school lunch program that refused donations from a local businessman? That was a different blogger but thatpettyblackgirl has circulated another version of it. 
That other blogger has a posting history thatโ€™s full of the same kinds of things thatpettyblackgirl posts - lots of reposts from twitter, lots of screenshots from other sites, not a lot of commentary, and things that are decontextualized enough to make them seem worse than they are or to totally misrepresent the actions depicted (like this reposted video and tweets indignant about a man being arrested when the very specific purpose of his protest was to get arrested).
It reminds me of that post about coconut husks as a wood alternative thatโ€™s been circulating recently - a screenshot of a white man above a news article is posted with the complaint that white people โ€œdiscoveringโ€ coconuts after disregarding them as useless when the article is about a new method of processing coconut husks that allows them to be put to new uses. 
That blog is fascinating. And has a lot in common with thatpettyblackgirl - both of them reblog their own posts at a rate thatโ€™s higher than Iโ€™ve seen on most tumblrs (btw, you should know that a while back I asked for volunteers who would let me explore their tumblrs and while my research sample isnโ€™t random it is a collection of small and large blogs and none of them have *checks notes* reblogged their own post of a bunch of screencaps of a tweet storm five times in the last couple of days). Both of them tend to post screencaps, neither one really writes much. They reblog a lot of memes, and both have some pretty big textposts that are just straight rip-offs of tweets (โ€bi folks have you eaten today? answer quick and iced coffee doesnโ€™t countโ€ is one of thatpettyblackgirlโ€™s recent popular textposts and itโ€™s ripped off from twitter.) They also reblog eachother a fair amount - along with @whyyoustabbedme and @endangered-justice-seeker, who ALSO have really weird posting patterns.
Also all four of those blogs are part of a group of nine blogs that were created in a three-week period of 2017 that Iโ€™ve been watching that donโ€™t seem to follow a pattern of normal tumblr behavior and that also post an awful lot of incorrect viral posts and are staggeringly popular (for clarity: blackqueerblog is not one of the nine created in that time period). 

ANYWAY this is all reminding me very strongly of bellygangstaboo and lagonegirl. 
I know I probably sound like this image:
But there are excellent, thoughtful bloggers who discuss police brutality, racism in the US, class warefare, and institutional bias who arenโ€™t ALSO unflaggingly committed to having their own dedicated Snopes pages. @odinsblog, Franchesca Ramsey, @antifainternational, and @mostlysignssomeportents might be a good place to start. 
My dudes, I donโ€™t want to be depressing so Iโ€™ll let Vanity Fair do it for me:

That Russian operatives could so effectively engage Americans with 
tactics as simple as Facebook ads, fake-news postings, and Twitter 
trolls, shows how dangerous misinformation is in the social-media age, 
when propaganda can be so easily amplified. More important, it 
highlights how primed Americans already were for manipulation. 
When the ICE raids started up again a few months ago thatpettyblackgirl was posting about how shameful it was that there was nothing that could be done. A lot of these blogs are writing about how itโ€™s impossible for black people to succeed in America, theyโ€™re writing about how voting is always rigged and you canโ€™t fight the system.
And you know what that goes against every fucking principle of my cold little anarchist heart. These blogs are full of despair - they look like theyโ€™re full of cute memes and fresh news but theyโ€™re a poisoned pill telling you not to bother because you canโ€™t fight the system. Theyโ€™re not offering help, theyโ€™re training you not to bother fighting for your rights (there was a popular post about how the Hong Kong protesters are light years ahead of US protesters - that post didnโ€™t talk about mutual aid or sharing tactics, it just said โ€œpeople in the US would neverโ€ and left it at that, like we canโ€™t learn from each other and share information across borders)
Fucking. Anyway. Iโ€™ve been fairly quiet about this because Iโ€™ve been trying to be all good and data sciencey about it but Iโ€™ve seen this post on my dash fifty times this week. 
Keep your eye out for @thatpettyblackgirlย  @uncommonbish @whyyoustabbedme and @blackqueerblog - all of them have large followings and are known to post tweets and news articles out of context and if youโ€™re considering reblogging information from one of their blogs please make a point to fact-check the post yourself. 
Not everything they post is wrong. I donโ€™t know if these are real bloggers who donโ€™t care about the potential negative impact of their tweet thievery or if theyโ€™re weird psyops blogs that are intended to make you feel hopeless about your place in the political process. Whatever they are it doesnโ€™t matter when they continually post misinformation and donโ€™t seem to care about stopping so please be cautious.
Anyway, Iโ€™m cataloguing these sorts of posts at @psyops-redux so if you want to keep an eye out for stuff thatโ€™s debunked Iโ€™ll tag by originating blogger over there.
Stay safe, buds. 

Dammit, I got all fired up and I forgot to add:

THEREโ€™S A GAME THAT HELPS YOU RECOGNIZE WHEN PEOPLE ARE POSTING MISINFORMATION AND MAKES YOU LESS SUSCEPTIBLE TO THIS KIND OF PROPAGANDA AND YOU SHOULD ALL GO PLAY IT.


Ah.  The number reposts from their own blogs had puzzled me in the past.  I assumed it was something to do with the way Tumblr runs that I wasnโ€™t tech-savvy enough to understand.  But this makes a lot of sense.  Unless someone tells me otherwise, Iโ€™m gonna go ahead and unfollow the blogs listed.  Any recommendations for actual historical/current affairs poc blogs to follow instead?

                
            

            
            
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    Target, Traffic, and Trash: SUPPORT ARTISTS ON TUMBLR
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 BY REBLOGGING THEIR ARTWORK

 LIKES ARE SEEN BY...
 REBLOGS ARE SEEN BY...
 YOU
 THE ARTIST
 THE ARTIST
 FOLLOWERS
 TUMBLR.COM/LIKED/BY/USERNAME
 ...AND ANYONE
 ...AND ANYONE WHO
 CAN ACCESS YOUR LIKES
 VISITING YOUR BLOG

 LIKES
 REBLOGS
 APPRECIATION
 RECOGNITION
 ASSURANCE
 EXPOSURE
 +

 WITHOUT
 EXPOSURE
 AN ARTIST BECOMES
 INVISIBLE

 THE EASIEST WAY TO SUPPORT
 AN ARTIST ON TUMBLR
 AND HELP THEM GAIN EXPOSURE IS TO
 REBLOG THEIR WORK.
 SUPPORT YOUR FAVOURITE ARTISTS.
 LIKE+REBLOG THEIR ARTWORK.
my-flourish-and-blotts:
nocturnenebulaโ€Œ:

EDIT: This post is inclusive to ALL art forms.
Likes can only go so far for artists.ย Artists may exclusively upload their artwork to tumblr, or donโ€™t have the time to use other sites and prefer tumblr over deviantART due to its simplicity, but the tagging system can make it harder to navigate.ย Many artists on tumblr tag with high-traffic tags or use their own tags to prevent tag clogging which eventually become lost. Thatโ€™s why itโ€™s very important to reblog an artistโ€™s work.ย 
Iโ€™m not trying to push you to ruin your blogโ€™s aesthetic or something, nor am I saying that โ€œyou must absolutely reblog your favourite artistโ€™s work or youโ€™re trashโ€, all Iโ€™m saying is if you truly want to support your favourite artist, instead of just liking their posts, try to reblog them once in a while. The more reblogs they receive, the more exposure/notes/followers they may receive, and itโ€™s just one of the easiest ways to show you care about them.
*This does not mean to reblog unsourced artwork or works reuploaded to another personโ€™s blog without permission (re:stolen). Nor does this mean to reblog artworks without the artistโ€™s consent, even if this case is slim.


    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
                Target, Traffic, and Trash: SUPPORT ARTISTS ON TUMBLR
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 LIKES ARE SEEN BY...
 REBLOGS ARE SEEN BY...
 YOU
 THE ARTIST
 THE ARTIST
 FOLLOWERS
 TUMBLR.COM/LIKED/BY/USERNAME
 ...AND ANYONE
 ...AND ANYONE WHO
 CAN ACCESS YOUR LIKES
 VISITING YOUR BLOG

 LIKES
 REBLOGS
 APPRECIATION
 RECOGNITION
 ASSURANCE
 EXPOSURE
 +

 WITHOUT
 EXPOSURE
 AN ARTIST BECOMES
 INVISIBLE

 THE EASIEST WAY TO SUPPORT
 AN ARTIST ON TUMBLR
 AND HELP THEM GAIN EXPOSURE IS TO
 REBLOG THEIR WORK.
 SUPPORT YOUR FAVOURITE ARTISTS.
 LIKE+REBLOG THEIR ARTWORK.
my-flourish-and-blotts:
nocturnenebulaโ€Œ:

EDIT: This post is inclusive to ALL art forms.
Likes can only go so far for artists.ย Artists may exclusively upload their artwork to tumblr, or donโ€™t have the time to use other sites and prefer tumblr over deviantART due to its simplicity, but the tagging system can make it harder to navigate.ย Many artists on tumblr tag with high-traffic tags or use their own tags to prevent tag clogging which eventually become lost. Thatโ€™s why itโ€™s very important to reblog an artistโ€™s work.ย 
Iโ€™m not trying to push you to ruin your blogโ€™s aesthetic or something, nor am I saying that โ€œyou must absolutely reblog your favourite artistโ€™s work or youโ€™re trashโ€, all Iโ€™m saying is if you truly want to support your favourite artist, instead of just liking their posts, try to reblog them once in a while. The more reblogs they receive, the more exposure/notes/followers they may receive, and itโ€™s just one of the easiest ways to show you care about them.
*This does not mean to reblog unsourced artwork or works reuploaded to another personโ€™s blog without permission (re:stolen). Nor does this mean to reblog artworks without the artistโ€™s consent, even if this case is slim.


                
            

            
            
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    Cute, Gif, and Hockey: CASINโ“ฅ RAMA, N RTON ROSE
 RESERVE Y
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goaliesarethebest:

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trees-and-videogames:

animentality:

itsacpsideblog:

ilyagoalvalchuk:

nellyemily:

I like how everybody is paired off haha

#this looks more like an awkward sixth grade slow dance than it does hockey

I FINALLY FOUND OUT WHY THIS HAPPENS. You see this all the time when thereโ€™s a fight or a scrum and suddenly everyone pairs up with a member of the opposite team and they just sort of โ€ฆhold each other.
Someone on reddit asked about it. And it turns out thereโ€™s a logical-ish reason:

all of the other players pair off with their man to prevent anyone else entering into the fightย โ€ฆ so itโ€™s a form of self policing.ย 
[โ€ฆ]ย The players basically want to prevent 2 on 1, etc. fights and by finding a โ€œhuggingโ€ partner so thereโ€™s no ganging up on one guy, even on accident. They do it because itโ€™s fair. And itโ€™s kind of cute sometimes.

so now we know! itโ€™s fairโ€ฆand cute.


Aw best part is no ones left out at this dance





#hockey hugs #more or less #:))))))))ย #whereโ€™s that one of Karlsson and Mike Green #that oneโ€™s priceless


=DDD 

#pure

NHL: You need to prevent other playerโ€™s from joining in the fight, make sure to hold them back
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                Cute, Gif, and Hockey: CASINโ“ฅ RAMA, N RTON ROSE
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goaliesarethebest:

whoatetheramen:

arrghigiveup:

legotheeggo:

trees-and-videogames:

animentality:

itsacpsideblog:

ilyagoalvalchuk:

nellyemily:

I like how everybody is paired off haha

#this looks more like an awkward sixth grade slow dance than it does hockey

I FINALLY FOUND OUT WHY THIS HAPPENS. You see this all the time when thereโ€™s a fight or a scrum and suddenly everyone pairs up with a member of the opposite team and they just sort of โ€ฆhold each other.
Someone on reddit asked about it. And it turns out thereโ€™s a logical-ish reason:

all of the other players pair off with their man to prevent anyone else entering into the fightย โ€ฆ so itโ€™s a form of self policing.ย 
[โ€ฆ]ย The players basically want to prevent 2 on 1, etc. fights and by finding a โ€œhuggingโ€ partner so thereโ€™s no ganging up on one guy, even on accident. They do it because itโ€™s fair. And itโ€™s kind of cute sometimes.

so now we know! itโ€™s fairโ€ฆand cute.


Aw best part is no ones left out at this dance





#hockey hugs #more or less #:))))))))ย #whereโ€™s that one of Karlsson and Mike Green #that oneโ€™s priceless


=DDD 

#pure

NHL: You need to prevent other playerโ€™s from joining in the fight, make sure to hold them back
Hockey players, hugging: Got it.

                
            

            
            
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Group photos!!art tag // commission info
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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First batch of wedding photos for the wedding on my ask blog! The pets!art tag // commission info
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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    Target, Tumblr, and Blog: bubblyernie:
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    Target, Tumblr, and Blog: Authing you can do.
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I can do better!
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                Target, Tumblr, and Blog: Authing you can do.
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I can do better!
Some OC doodles from a very very old project I made when I was 12.
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I can do better!
Some OC doodles from a very very old project I made when I was 12.
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    Target, Tumblr, and Blog: bubblyernie
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I drew @lyghtbulbโ€˜s Crowley from their Adam in Wonderland AU and its SPOOKY TIME, MY DUDES
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I drew @lyghtbulbโ€˜s Crowley from their Adam in Wonderland AU and its SPOOKY TIME, MY DUDES
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I drew @lyghtbulbโ€˜s Crowley from their Adam in Wonderland AU and its SPOOKY TIME, MY DUDES
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    Love, Meme, and Target: |Last-Star's Outfit
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Send me a Character + a letter and number! Id love to see if you guys use these! Tag me @last-star or tag it as #starsoutfit?ย 
    

        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
    

    

        

            
            

                
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Send me a Character + a letter and number! Id love to see if you guys use these! Tag me @last-star or tag it as #starsoutfi...