The creator of Your Fave is Problematic regrets making it

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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

[genbu_no_miko24]

lol I remember coming across that blog a few times back then and it was posted a few times here too.

I always did think it was obnoxious and was always go into the direction it did in the grand scheme. People took it more as a way of being morally superior and "GOTCHA!" moments to fanbase/people- which we still have in the form of stan twitter lol.

[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?

[justkeepgoin]

I'm all for holding people accountable but when the origins of your efforts come from a dark place like this, it can only get worse as it progresses.

[asth77]

"In the years since, I’ve looked back on my blog with shame and regret - about my pettiness, my motivating rage, my hard-and-fast assumptions that people were either good or bad.

Aw, she was a teen working through grief, and she probably used that platform to do so, I think she shouldn't blame herself too much.
I mean the whole tumblr justice warrior thing was full of teens waking up to some kind of left morals or whatever. It was very performative.

[euraylie]

The problem is that a lot of teens have been doing this/are doing this, and their views are being given waaay too much attention. So you have teens who are still learning, whose brains are still forming, determining which direction society is going in (and top of that you have assholes of all ages all over social media)

[kegarawashii]

you say it like it's in the past 😬 it's still there and it's as rabid as ever. the only difference is that it has seeped into and took root in fandom spaces where teenagers preach about morality and doxx people for enjoying wrong fiction. the whole thing has mutated into a full-blown self-censorship movement and it's the creepiest thing i've ever seen

[asth77]

Honestly teens are an echo-chamber of what adults are doing.
And with the way social media have been evolving... it is not so surprising.

[thelxienoe]

i was just telling someone about this blog who asked me something like “well did YOU guys ever consider celebrity’s behavior in high school? the world is more woke now. for better or worse” and i was like actualllyyyyyyy... i think i remember the origins...