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

[obstinatecondolement]

Oh god, feel you so hard on the Voltron stuff. I also ship Keith/Lance but like... the well is so fucking poisoned, crol. Re: Discord servers, I remember I was briefly in one once that was both strictly 18+ only and didn't allow you to talk about, or link to, nsfw stuff of any description. Like... what? They also had bizarre rules about the appropriate way to greet the mods and interact with them that felt lowkey cult-y, so I noped out of there pretty soon.

[autodach]

Oh yes, I feel like I'm wading though mud looking for grass on Klance Twitter.

That sounds like big red flag, better nip that cult shit in the bud and leave asap.
I also heard some Discords make people send scans of their ID to the mods. I don't get why anyone would consider actually doing that, but god help them.

[obstinatecondolement]

Yes! I've heard about that too. Jfc, I cannot believe that within my lifetime we've gone from "It's not safe to tell strangers on the internet your real name and location" to "The only way to ensure that we're all safe is to send strangers on the internet information that they could use to steal your identity"

[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.