Not sure if I saw many paths forward being presented lol, but ok. I'll be interested to see how it shakes out...from a safe distance I think
Gribbli
joined 1 year ago
Was a long time HB member since the subreddit days. Autistic, black, nb, so none of the accusations of cishet white male vibes applied to me - that was annoying. The flippant dismissal and joking around with this entirely irony poisoned energy with mods still doing bits and lying about shit was straight up aggravating. Ate the perma because like a few people there, I don't think I could trust the mods/admins after that. It's not a high stakes thing for me but that means it's also low enough stakes that I really don't want to deal with that attitude any more.
Eh, never really interacted with TC69 or the cult around her, except once during the post-pronouns shitstorm. A friend, who is trans, ND, long time user and friend to many, asked if the daily "I love my trans comrades" felt "a tiny bit rote/performative" and got fuckin murder-dogpiled and banned instantly. Called terf, chud, etc., by the TC69 adjacent crowd. Was pretty upsetting and she never came back even after the ban was lifted :(
Part of the reason I really don't like the power user/celebrity culture on HB