The creator of Your Fave is Problematic regrets making it

[gumby]

The creator of the popular Tumblr Your Fave is Problematic, Liat Kaplan, penned a piece for the New York Times about why she regrets doing the blog, which gained steam in the early 2010s. The Tumblr chronicled celebrity transgressions that were racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic and ethnophobic.

Your Fave is Problematic, a popular blog

Comments

[sluttyroyals]

ah, the 2011-2014 era of tumblr. yourfaveisproblematic, thisiswhite/maleprivilege, and the crackerhell crew... what a time! nowadays it's called twitter, but still.

[kwoneunbi]

the moment I realized current day twitter (esp stan/fandom twitter) is just a bad rehash of 2010-2015 tumblr, that's when I knew it was time to abandon that site for good. never thought current day tumblr would be the more tolerable social media platform out of the two in 2021, but here we are!

[sadteenager]

I feel like social media sites are always only good before they get big and then for the brief time when they've become passe. I used to stan MySpace and be anti-facebook and when everyone moved to Facebook and MySpace started trying to compete by adding statuses, etc. it was actually nice because all the drama and fame whores moved on to other social media. then it just became dead as fuck lol. I wonder what the next big thing is going to be. Do we think club house is going to catch on?

[kwoneunbi]

To this day, I still don't know what the hell clubhouse is. Is that like...secret Twitter?

[sadteenager]

it's an app where there are "rooms" that people chat in with their voices. it's like an app version of a party line I guess idk

[angriest_girl]

Wouldn’t that just be a bunch of people talking over the top of each other?

God I’m old.

[kwoneunbi]

so like discord? got it

[sadteenager]

is that what discord is??? i thought it was just a group chat app or smth lmfao

[eatmydustbinns]

Lol like LJ. This place is the only LJ I still visit, but wow we've shrank so much since our heyday.

[sadteenager]

yeah I remember it was the cool hip place to be ~in the know about hollywood and now we just repost tweets and instagrams from the new cool spots lol.

[verschreibsel]

I wish I got an invite to clubhouse so I could also shun it after trying it but sadly I am not cool enough

[meow_tan]

its worse seeing every social media platform retread tumblrs mistakes but with even more visibility. tumblr discourse and bullying and the cycle of worship and cancellation was really bad. but tumblr was the last truly anonymous social media platform, there was no pressure to use your real name or post real photos of yourself.

on twitter, lots of people go by their real names, post their jobs and schooling in their bio. and on tiktok? people are posting their actual faces. i've seen some really really nasty discourse on twitter/tiktok worse than ive seen on tumblr. recently, i saw a black woman harassed for saying she liked to watch gay porn, i saw a white woman accused of cultural appropriation for wearing an ao dai to celebrate lunar new year with her Vietnamese husband and family.

and tiktok harassment is really bad, i know the woman harassed over gay porn had to disable comments across multiple videos because people flooded them with harassment demanding she apologize for fetishizing gay men.

[sluttyroyals]

Yeah. i'm honestly happier with tumblr being "dead" now. there is way too much pressure to post every detail of your life on twitter now (kind of reminding me of the old days when listing every privilege and mental illness on a tumblr post was expected), there's too much focus on making catchy and controversial tweets than actual dialogue and spreading awareness over things. i never really appreciated the anonymity of tumblr until i started seeing celebs engage in Discourse. i don't even want to know what goes on on tiktok - i just stick to talking animal vids and that's it.

[kwoneunbi]

Going back to Tumblr and deciding there's shit in my life that I'd rather keep far, far away from social media is the best thing I've ever done for my own mental health. I've had to list whole autobiographical essays so that people wouldn't mess with me online when I was younger only for that to come back and bite me in the ass. Now, I realized people who need a fucking essay about my life to take me and my opinions seriously will never be worth my time and I probably won't remember them a year from now, so no point in revealing shit I don't feel comfortable making public.

[meow_tan]

the new prevalence of carrd links and "before you follow" and "do not interact if" links worries me. it feels like the current gen is going to kill any final thread of anonymity social media has. they list their age, name, sexuality(ies), gender(s), ethnicity, races, mental illnesses, disabilities, traumas right off the bat to strangers online.

[dumpweeds]

Accidentally stumbling upon discourse tiktok was the worst. All the adults who came out of the wreckage of tumblr on top (aka they were always the ones leading the charge) went to twitter and continued to spew garbage for teenagers to see and read