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I think the thing that we hate most about social media is that every time a new tragedy happens, we have to update our filters to block it out, or we will be bombarded by waves of it, multiple times a day, for weeks on end when we are just trying to enjoy our fun fandom leisure time.
We don’t want to be bombarded by terrible news and tragedy porn every time we open our feed. How do people live like this? No wonder everyone is so fucking depressed nowdays. we had to LEAVE twitter entirely years ago because there was no way to block the latest world tragedy from appearing on the sidebar of the site.
We have serious anxiety. We have CPTSD. We cannot be constantly bombarded with reminders of how terrible and cruel the world is with absolutely no way for us to take action against it.
It’s maddening.
No listen to me, it is literally maddening.
It is driving you mad. Existing in a world where your fun leisure time activity is constantly broken into with reminders about the horrible tragedies in the world and how you are somehow personally responsible if you don’t make other people aware of what is happening is literally driving you mad.
Listen to me.
You need spaces that are comfortable for you.
You need spaces that are calm.
You need a place to participate in leisure time activities that is not constantly bombarded by horror.
We cannot all continue like this.
#this is why I ended up back here even tho I left during the serious pornbot issue years ago
#it’s so much easier to just mindlessly scroll here when I need a few minutes
#try that with Reddit
#I was just tired of constantly being so upset and angry every time I tried to take a little distress moment and read some stuff
#and the whole ‘fuck you if you don’t also share and participate in the misery’ thing was literally about to make me throw my phone away
#I am not sorry that I can’t spend all day every day reading/watching/talking about the horrid things we know of everyday#it doesn’t mean I don’t care
#it doesn’t mean I’m not so upset and bothered by these things that I spend a lot of time and energy crying and thinking about them
#it just means I’m here so that I can take a break from that
#like ffs we need safe spaces#we need the ability to take our minds off the atrocities of human nature
#and fuck you if you think we aren’t allowed a moments peace because there are people in the world who don’t have that luxury
#by that logic we should all be on hunger strike
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