I really don’t get why this is a big deal. Been following Chy for like, a year? Also why should it matter if I’m a proshipper or not? It’s not like I ship myself with kids or anything, tf.
Just more of the same. Antis policing their own through intimidation.
Out in the real world if you have a friend who tries to tell you what people you’re not allowed to talk to, we call that person abusive and controlling, but for antis it’s just a normal Tuesday.
In order to moderate a community, you have to have a space where you can actually decide upon and enforce the rules.
There is no moderating a community through social media like Tumblr, or Twitter, because you aren’t in charge of who can sign up, and you don’t make the rules.
The only people who can moderate spaces on Tumblr or Twitter are the staff. They are essentially public spaces, anyone can sign up and anyone can say anything and you can’t do anything about it.
This is why Tumblr tags aren’t “communities”; the only one who can make rules about who can post what in the Tumblr tag for a fandom is Tumblr, and tumblr’s answer is that anyone can use it as long as it’s relevant.
The only way to moderate a community is to create a community that you can moderate. Where you control what the rules are, and who gets in.
Which is exactly why I’m creating a proship forum!
Unfortunately currently Twitter is the only marginally safe social media website for smutty artwork of any kind, including of characters drawn in a soft and cute art style.
In about 10-14 days we will be debuting a proship and self ship themed forum with adult oriented server hosting where this kind of art will be welcome.
Edit: oh there’s also pixiv but that’s primarily Japanese and not really social media like.
