rainbowloliofjustice:

I think that it’s pretty clear that Tumblr is not a healthy site for content creation. 

Minus all of the faults and glitches with the site, a bigger issue is how people on this site seem so entitled to the content someone else creates combined with the fact that so many people are eager and willing to jump on a content creator and call them a pedophile, abuser, abuse apologist, pedo apologist, racist, sexist, etc. They will talk about respecting a creators wishes and reblogging their work, respect and boundaries, etc. and the next they’ll be making fun of a creator for not wanting their work tagged as “kin” or anything else despite it making the creator uncomfortable. They talk about wanting LGBT+ and minority representation and then turn around and attack minority characters and creators for not being 100% pure little angels.

All this serves to do is to cause creators to basically be slaves (don’t get me wrong, you shouldn’t be afraid to listen to your fans and their requests but you shouldn’t feel obligated to do it) to their creation and become afraid to create because they don’t know which eggshell they’ll step on and break and get attacked over it. 

Regardless of whether “It doesn’t happen much” or “It hasn’t happened to them.” it still happens. Even though Ive grown pretty numb to the usual tumblr buzzwords, even I feel reluctant and not inclined to post my works on tumblr or even deviantart because which wrong person with enough influence will see it and decide to basically ruin my reputaton? What incident is going to happen and cause people to suddenly hate it even if it was only a concept? How many fanartists (or hell even original creators) are going to get harassed, sent death threats, etc. and basically not be able to apologize or explain the situation enough? Even if it was something innocent? The fact that people who create triggering content either because they find it interesting or base it off of their own trauma and hardships aren’t allowed to do so because otherwise theyre “apologizing” or excusing it even when they correctly label it as triggering content? The fact that they’re putting themselves at the firing squad for not creating a perfect coffee shop story?

It’s why I consider this site to be unhealthy for content creation. The level of entitlement disuised as progressiveness can cause fear and reluctance for content creators.