buckyballbearing:

buckyballbearing:

At the risk of pissing off the entire internet again (and it’s not even Tuesday), at this point I’m genuinely wondering if Antis will go the way of GamerGate

As in: a few asshats start a harassment campaign, wind up attracting a whole group of ideologues, and eventually cross into political action because nobody took them seriously enough

I mean seriously, it’s no longer Voltron fandom pairing drama or whatever

This week’s Target Du Jour appears to be AO3

For anyone who lived through Strikethrough, Boldthrough, or the Big Buyout on LJ, this should raise alarm bells

And I can’t help but wonder, in five years, are these going to be the people campaigning for free speech restrictions on the internet?

Cause let’s be real, if antis really wanted to solve the problems they purport to have, they could be out there doing it already

They could put energy toward teaching fans how to use AO3 filters to hide content that isn’t safe for them, or even setting up their own moderated archives

They don’t want a safe space of their own though, they want everyone else’s spaces to stop existing, and they don’t seem to care what tactics are required

And I can’t help but worry this will only pick up steam while a huge, oblivious chunk of us continues to laugh it off as “fringe weirdos”

I was going to amend this post with the note that at least antis aren’t backed by sexism (like gg) but then I realized I’m not even sure that’s true

Coming into a female and nb dominant space and demanding that we all enforce moral values and Think of The Children feels a hell of a lot like that old time push for women to be the purity champions of the world