Good afternoon, I'm making a blog because I've been seeing users, new and old make comments about Tumblr 'going down hill', 'it is so toxic' and other negative comments yet not one that I've seen ever elaborates on why. If you're from that format, I genuinely want feedback on what you're experiencing that makes the space so awful. I've been on and off over the years with Tumblr, and found the toxicity right here on RpR is way worse than the other format.
The website is constantly updating and changing and breaking our beloved xkit, which was an extension for Tumblr that allowed you to reply to a post and trim your previous reply so you didn't have a Santa list like share of posts on dash. The website is 'hard to rp there'. I did digging that took me all of about five minutes to download xkit rewritten, and have Trim which fixes the problem.
An intolerance for RPF. Real person fiction. RPR is as a whole does RPF fiction with the rare exception of places that are OC here, where you are not playing a character with the same name as the actual person. There's a wikipedia page about it that shares it's widely frowned upon, that link right here. So I'm not sure if people are having their bubble bursted when they leave the safety of RPR or what.
Playing as Korean Idols. This goes hand in hand with RPF. There was also a looong span of time and it's still used today, the use of a race by tag. Kpop rp, krp to name a few. Majority of, that know if it, Koreans have expressed discomfort in the use of having a race specific tag, and feel disrespected let alone if you put anything else in front of it, it's racist. White male rp, white indie rp, black rp, you get the picture. The use of krp as a tag is also believed to express izing a specific race, and that's kind of weird. I can see where people would get that feeling. (People do rp korean face claims on Tumblr, i have several partners that play them, as well as other asian backgrounds, they just dont play as an idol and dont use the real name of the faceclaim.)
Bullying. I've seen someone 8 years ago get bullied off the platform because she was engaging in non-con with a consenting writer. Someone came across the blog or someone who was a mututal of someone else went and seen it and claimed my friend who was writing the non-con condoned which is the biggest line of BS I've ever seen. lol However, the bullying effected her greatly and despite my efort as her friend to tell her how to handle and block people so she wouldn't be attacked (because the block does something on tumblr verses here) she personally couldnt handle it, and left. Outside of that one experience, I've never seen it. I've experience some hatred many years ago in my ask box, but if i take off the option to go anon and 'leave hate', it magically stops because noone wants to be seen when talking. So, I've found this to be a very easy fix.
What have you experienced? Share it with me.
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