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monsterqueers) wrote2019-01-05 11:57 am
monsterqueers) wrote2019-01-05 11:57 am
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[PSUEDO-ESSAY] 'Do Not Interact If NSFW'
On tumblr there is a particular brand of posts that have a banner or text description that says something like 'DNI kink/nsfw/pedo/terf', usually on gifs, moodboards, videos, and pictures of 'childish' things or stim things. This is a psuedo-essay on the origins, messages, and impact of these banners.
The banners first came about somewhere between 2015 and 2016, and gained critical-mass notoriety by 2017. The banners have a complicated history that requires some backstory to properly understand.
Tumblr has a very particular issue where children as young as 13 were(and in non EU countries still are) allowed to make an account without asking for their age, but often may sign up as young as 10. Though the app was rated 16+, the site stated 13+.
Tumblr also used to allow pretty much everything under the sun, especially nsfw. Tumblr was known for porn and adult content and had massive communities of kinksters, amateur porn creators, nsfw artists, and sex workers. Porn made tumblr as big as it is today. This kind of polarity understandably had issues.
Sure, tumblr had a filter, blogs were supposed to flag their blog for adult content, and the courtesy custom was to tag with 'nsfw' if the post was nsfw, but not everyone did. There was a very vocal minority of kink blogs that would start commenting and roleplaying on other peoples posts very explicit things. Everyone worth their salt in the kink community fucking hated them and frowned upon such behavior, but radfems would tell impressionable young children that all kinksters were like that and they would believe them.
It really was a problem, though. These people would not flag their blogs explicit because there 'was no naked people/genetals' or they would refuse to tag their blatantly nsfw posts as nsfw when they tagged their post as 'princess' or 'puppy' or 'cute' (thus placing the untagged porn in the tag- making it unsafe for minors and people who wish to avoid such content).
This was further exacerbated by tumblr making /search the default 'tag search' on tumblr mobile. This made any word in the body of the post, not just the tag, show up in the '''tag'' even if it wasn't in the actual tag- making even a post that was totally untagged show up in sfw tags.
In addition, porn bots were everywhere. Tumblr swiftly got infected with porn bots, making nearly half of all new followers bots that would eventually send you explicit messages or reblog your posts advertising their porn sites. These bots would often be infected with viruses and would follow even blogs marked sfw. This also was a serious problem. People took to blocking anyone who didn't have a description or had vaguely suggestive rl pictures as their avatars.
This culture is very important to keep in mind.
Sometime in 2015-2016, a blog called ptsdsuggestions(a blog since defunct) began talking about kink, minors, and trauma.
The mod was apart of the CGL community, but loathed it and wished for a space that was not kink that would be totally sfw and not focused on the power dynamic, but rather the 'child culture'. The mod expressed, as well as many followers, that as traumatized people, they wanted a space for people with headmates/DID alters who were much younger than the body, a community to have the childhood they didn't get to have(wether they 'regressed' to a younger mental age or not). The kidcore tag already existed, but it was mainly for aesthetic posts, and was not geared towards the 'younger than the body' aspect that sometimes tends to happen when you are excessively traumatized in childhood.
So the mod (Wolfie, if I recall) then devised the community ChiRe- short for Child Regression. It was to be 100% sfw, no links to kink or other nsfw content whatsoever and intended to be open to minors and child-safe.
The first few blogs were up and running very quickly, and also very quickly they hit the people outlined above. The community first tried putting 'this post is sfw' under it in text and putting 'not nsfw' in their bio. Kink blogs followed them anyway, because this was back when we could snip text off of picture posts and people did that for images and moodboards. In retaliation, and probably instigated by the many baby radfems now in their midst, they started putting 'no kink/nsfw' banners. Some meant it and expressed it with banners such as 'no nsfw/kink interactions', some meant it and expressed with banners such as 'dont like reblog from an nsfw/kink blog', and others began the 'no kinksters/nsfw or people who let them reblog from you' train.
Within a month the community had instigated rules that one couldnt reblog posts that had nsfw or kink sources nor reblog from blogs who posted such content, expanding the banner to often include pedophiles, due to the fake 4chan creation of 'clovergender'. The banners started regularly having pedophile/MAP and TERF in them.
Soon after, the first faction split off of ChiRe to create their own regression community 'ReKids' because due to misunderstandings in their dialogue, believed Wolfie was gaslighting them and they deemed Wolfie an evil irredeemable abuser and that people should jump ship to their community, where they were much stricter, though ChiRe was VERY strict already. This started the slow decline of ChiRe, as it hemorrhaged split off communities, some who allowed interactions from anyone -provided they stayed sfw, some who didn't allow one to have a nsfw/kink blog or follow any, even if it was never going to touch the regression blog, and yet others with outlandish rules that required one to allign perfectly with their politics in order to join under the pain of anon hate and blocking. Toycore took up the banners, and some toy collector blogs did as well- particularly LPS and MLP blogs.
Stim blogs also became popular at the same time, and ended up borrowing the banners. It is at this point that the banners became divorced from their original intention of flagging a post as sfw in terms even a total jackass couldn't get plausible deniability from and moved into a BYF page but for posts. Acecourse and Shipcourse both became very prevalent and soon specific ships made their way onto some banners, and both Inclusionists and Exclusionists would put the other stance on them. Blogs other than stim, toy, and regression communities soon started using them, at which point the memes started.
At the same time, Wolfie was stalked and found to have a secret coping and trauma blog where he allegedly reblogged 'shota-like' art of adult characters and 'abusive ships' as well as was found to still participate in 'CGL-like' dynamics with his romantic partner. People then dogpiled him and send much anon hate, made many callout posts, and forced him to make all of his blogs but ptsdsuggestions private. Within a few weeks he gave up ChiRe completely and left tumblr, the ptsdsuggestions blog was then in the hands of only the second mod, and soon stopped posting altogether.
The regression blogs soon started disappearing or turning into stimblogs one by one by the end of 2016, and the original intentions became but a memory. A know this because I was following ptsdsuggestions at the time. I was lurking amongst the first wave of ChiRe at the time and watched everyone burn the whole place down around me.
It is my firm belief that most of these banners are so mired in radfem cool-aid now that they are unsalvageable. Even keeping in mind the above history, the way many of them are worded, the useless 'swiper no swiping' vibe, and the way connotations of their historical use have made them tacky and useless at best, and at worse, blatant bludgeons to wield against minorities under the guise of performative social justice.
The standard DNI banner now states something like 'DNI if kink/nsfw/MAP/NOP/TERF/abuser/LGBT-phobe or supporter'. This banner says if you support kink or porn in any fashion you cant touch the post, and by extension, are just as bad as a TERF or a child molester. It reeks of radfem. This banner also is the same flavor of performative as putting 'no TERFS' in your bio only to reblog shit like 'q*eer is a slur and female socialization is a thing!!!' It doesn't ACTUALLY stop anyone from touching your post.
Im sure many people who use these banners are now clamoring to say, 'But Silver!!! That's not fair!!! The banners mean no kink/nsfw blogs!!!! We just dont want porn commenting gross things on a video where I, a minor, knead slime around!!'
First of all. No they don't. They state no kink/nsfw or supporters. Not nsfw BLOGS. That absence of blogs changes the meaning.
It's says a wildly different thing than what you the poster is intending for it to say. If there is not room for 'blogs' than consider getting rid of the other things on the list because they do literally nothing.
The only one that can be possibly argued to do anything is flagging the post as sfw and requesting no nsfw interaction. It passes no value judgement of having a kink or interest in porn, simply makes it clear you don't consent to being in a dedicated kink/porn blog.
Because when you leave off the blog it became radfem-ey.
Because hypersexual kinksters like me, who cannot stop being 'nsfw' or 'kink' by nature, no matter how sfw our blogs are, are left off. Are told we are evil for existing. Because teratophilia and bdsm is more a part of my orientation than gender preference, because I had the misfortune to be traumatized into hypersexuality and being incapable of keeping my thought train 'clean enough' to count as sfw I cannot participate in communities meant for my autistic ass.
You create splash damage when you try to do things like that.
And these banners are innefective slash damage, plain and simple.
And, well, if you think its a good thing to 'purge the icky kinksters' then your radfem ass has nothing more to say.
The banners first came about somewhere between 2015 and 2016, and gained critical-mass notoriety by 2017. The banners have a complicated history that requires some backstory to properly understand.
Tumblr has a very particular issue where children as young as 13 were(and in non EU countries still are) allowed to make an account without asking for their age, but often may sign up as young as 10. Though the app was rated 16+, the site stated 13+.
Tumblr also used to allow pretty much everything under the sun, especially nsfw. Tumblr was known for porn and adult content and had massive communities of kinksters, amateur porn creators, nsfw artists, and sex workers. Porn made tumblr as big as it is today. This kind of polarity understandably had issues.
Sure, tumblr had a filter, blogs were supposed to flag their blog for adult content, and the courtesy custom was to tag with 'nsfw' if the post was nsfw, but not everyone did. There was a very vocal minority of kink blogs that would start commenting and roleplaying on other peoples posts very explicit things. Everyone worth their salt in the kink community fucking hated them and frowned upon such behavior, but radfems would tell impressionable young children that all kinksters were like that and they would believe them.
It really was a problem, though. These people would not flag their blogs explicit because there 'was no naked people/genetals' or they would refuse to tag their blatantly nsfw posts as nsfw when they tagged their post as 'princess' or 'puppy' or 'cute' (thus placing the untagged porn in the tag- making it unsafe for minors and people who wish to avoid such content).
This was further exacerbated by tumblr making /search the default 'tag search' on tumblr mobile. This made any word in the body of the post, not just the tag, show up in the '''tag'' even if it wasn't in the actual tag- making even a post that was totally untagged show up in sfw tags.
In addition, porn bots were everywhere. Tumblr swiftly got infected with porn bots, making nearly half of all new followers bots that would eventually send you explicit messages or reblog your posts advertising their porn sites. These bots would often be infected with viruses and would follow even blogs marked sfw. This also was a serious problem. People took to blocking anyone who didn't have a description or had vaguely suggestive rl pictures as their avatars.
This culture is very important to keep in mind.
Sometime in 2015-2016, a blog called ptsdsuggestions(a blog since defunct) began talking about kink, minors, and trauma.
The mod was apart of the CGL community, but loathed it and wished for a space that was not kink that would be totally sfw and not focused on the power dynamic, but rather the 'child culture'. The mod expressed, as well as many followers, that as traumatized people, they wanted a space for people with headmates/DID alters who were much younger than the body, a community to have the childhood they didn't get to have(wether they 'regressed' to a younger mental age or not). The kidcore tag already existed, but it was mainly for aesthetic posts, and was not geared towards the 'younger than the body' aspect that sometimes tends to happen when you are excessively traumatized in childhood.
So the mod (Wolfie, if I recall) then devised the community ChiRe- short for Child Regression. It was to be 100% sfw, no links to kink or other nsfw content whatsoever and intended to be open to minors and child-safe.
The first few blogs were up and running very quickly, and also very quickly they hit the people outlined above. The community first tried putting 'this post is sfw' under it in text and putting 'not nsfw' in their bio. Kink blogs followed them anyway, because this was back when we could snip text off of picture posts and people did that for images and moodboards. In retaliation, and probably instigated by the many baby radfems now in their midst, they started putting 'no kink/nsfw' banners. Some meant it and expressed it with banners such as 'no nsfw/kink interactions', some meant it and expressed with banners such as 'dont like reblog from an nsfw/kink blog', and others began the 'no kinksters/nsfw or people who let them reblog from you' train.
Within a month the community had instigated rules that one couldnt reblog posts that had nsfw or kink sources nor reblog from blogs who posted such content, expanding the banner to often include pedophiles, due to the fake 4chan creation of 'clovergender'. The banners started regularly having pedophile/MAP and TERF in them.
Soon after, the first faction split off of ChiRe to create their own regression community 'ReKids' because due to misunderstandings in their dialogue, believed Wolfie was gaslighting them and they deemed Wolfie an evil irredeemable abuser and that people should jump ship to their community, where they were much stricter, though ChiRe was VERY strict already. This started the slow decline of ChiRe, as it hemorrhaged split off communities, some who allowed interactions from anyone -provided they stayed sfw, some who didn't allow one to have a nsfw/kink blog or follow any, even if it was never going to touch the regression blog, and yet others with outlandish rules that required one to allign perfectly with their politics in order to join under the pain of anon hate and blocking. Toycore took up the banners, and some toy collector blogs did as well- particularly LPS and MLP blogs.
Stim blogs also became popular at the same time, and ended up borrowing the banners. It is at this point that the banners became divorced from their original intention of flagging a post as sfw in terms even a total jackass couldn't get plausible deniability from and moved into a BYF page but for posts. Acecourse and Shipcourse both became very prevalent and soon specific ships made their way onto some banners, and both Inclusionists and Exclusionists would put the other stance on them. Blogs other than stim, toy, and regression communities soon started using them, at which point the memes started.
At the same time, Wolfie was stalked and found to have a secret coping and trauma blog where he allegedly reblogged 'shota-like' art of adult characters and 'abusive ships' as well as was found to still participate in 'CGL-like' dynamics with his romantic partner. People then dogpiled him and send much anon hate, made many callout posts, and forced him to make all of his blogs but ptsdsuggestions private. Within a few weeks he gave up ChiRe completely and left tumblr, the ptsdsuggestions blog was then in the hands of only the second mod, and soon stopped posting altogether.
The regression blogs soon started disappearing or turning into stimblogs one by one by the end of 2016, and the original intentions became but a memory. A know this because I was following ptsdsuggestions at the time. I was lurking amongst the first wave of ChiRe at the time and watched everyone burn the whole place down around me.
It is my firm belief that most of these banners are so mired in radfem cool-aid now that they are unsalvageable. Even keeping in mind the above history, the way many of them are worded, the useless 'swiper no swiping' vibe, and the way connotations of their historical use have made them tacky and useless at best, and at worse, blatant bludgeons to wield against minorities under the guise of performative social justice.
The standard DNI banner now states something like 'DNI if kink/nsfw/MAP/NOP/TERF/abuser/LGBT-phobe or supporter'. This banner says if you support kink or porn in any fashion you cant touch the post, and by extension, are just as bad as a TERF or a child molester. It reeks of radfem. This banner also is the same flavor of performative as putting 'no TERFS' in your bio only to reblog shit like 'q*eer is a slur and female socialization is a thing!!!' It doesn't ACTUALLY stop anyone from touching your post.
Im sure many people who use these banners are now clamoring to say, 'But Silver!!! That's not fair!!! The banners mean no kink/nsfw blogs!!!! We just dont want porn commenting gross things on a video where I, a minor, knead slime around!!'
First of all. No they don't. They state no kink/nsfw or supporters. Not nsfw BLOGS. That absence of blogs changes the meaning.
It's says a wildly different thing than what you the poster is intending for it to say. If there is not room for 'blogs' than consider getting rid of the other things on the list because they do literally nothing.
The only one that can be possibly argued to do anything is flagging the post as sfw and requesting no nsfw interaction. It passes no value judgement of having a kink or interest in porn, simply makes it clear you don't consent to being in a dedicated kink/porn blog.
Because when you leave off the blog it became radfem-ey.
Because hypersexual kinksters like me, who cannot stop being 'nsfw' or 'kink' by nature, no matter how sfw our blogs are, are left off. Are told we are evil for existing. Because teratophilia and bdsm is more a part of my orientation than gender preference, because I had the misfortune to be traumatized into hypersexuality and being incapable of keeping my thought train 'clean enough' to count as sfw I cannot participate in communities meant for my autistic ass.
You create splash damage when you try to do things like that.
And these banners are innefective slash damage, plain and simple.
And, well, if you think its a good thing to 'purge the icky kinksters' then your radfem ass has nothing more to say.