Snowflake Challenge Day 3

[autodach]

Challenge #3

In your own space, Scream Into the Void. Get it all out.



The fucking Anti-shippers.

Klantis ruined the Voltron fandom for me for years. Even now, I stick mostly to Sheith fandom and vet every Klance shipper carefully - even though I actually ship it myself! But there's just so many of them! Everywhere!

I found a rec post for Twitter artists on Tumblr - all but one were Antis, openly, stated it right in their Bios!

Just yesterday I joined a Discord server, only to find it's run by the purity police. The source material is exactly the kind of 18+ problematic shit antis hate, what are they doing running a fan discord?!

SO infuriating. Fuck these people.

Comments

[autodach]

I think it has a lot to do with many younger people never actually being taught online navigation and/or safety as skills.
They are assumed to learn by osmosis as "digital natives". Except that's not working so great.

[obstinatecondolement]

Yeah, it really isn't! Even with stuff like where a lot of Gen Z are entering the work force/higher education and not being given help with learning necessary computer skills because it's assumed that they can figure it out/already know this stuff, but they're more likely to be used to phones and tablets than desktop computers.

[autodach]

Exactly! It’s often assumed that being younger automatically means being better with technology.
But then why do I have to help my 20-year-old colleagues with operating their laptops?

App-based mobile systems are very different from desktop PCs. There are people who don’t know how to copy a file, or make a folder – because phones try their very best to prevent you from doing such a thing!

[obstinatecondolement]

Yeah, it's really unfair on everyone assuming that this is something that people don't need training or official support with! Like, even among people my age (mid-thirties) who are often considered the original digital natives, not everyone is au fait with computers! I grew up noodling on the family desktop and figuring out how to do things by myself, but my parents were early adopters and I was a nerdy introverted kid. I was also specifically taught how to touch type when I was seven by my dad, but, again, not everyone had this experience!

[autodach]

I'm a couple years younger and had a similar experience on the family PC :)
But we also had actual computer literacy classes at school - I wonder if that's still a thing.

[obstinatecondolement]

It might depend on the school, would be my guess.