East Asian fanartists are starting to migrate back to Tumblr because Twitter is insane, toxic, and dying, and what we’re NOT going to do is let the fucking exclusionists get them, do you hear me? We are not going to let a bunch of feral idiots try to apply the most myopic version of puritanism to foreign artists we’re not we’re not we’re not. Form an armed brigade if you have to, do you hear me. We’re not going to bully the artists who may or may not even speak English because we have our precious standards of moral purity. If we see art that makes us uncomfy we’re going to block the artist and tumblr savior their name so we don’t have to see them again AND WE’RE GONNA MOVE THE FUCK ON.
Important note for mobile users, you don’t actually need tumblrsavior to do this!
All you need to do is go to your account settings, scroll to “Filtered post content” and input their username. This will filter
all their original posts
all mentions of their username
threads where they made an addition
posts that were directly reblogged from them (unfortunately, these get caught up too)
I always thought this option was common knowledge, but apparently it’s not..? It’s especially useful since new users and artists who don’t speak english are notoriously inconsistent about tagging, which normally means their posts slip between the cracks with the “filter tags” settings.
Another thing I recently realized you should do is look up the translation of various ship names in other writing systems, since they might not use the english equivalent. Also, remember that depending on character dynamic and “who tops”, the order of the names in the shipname gets swapped! So you actually have to block two tags per ship. Alright happy filtering MWAH!!
This is important enough to not only get peer reviewed but that I wish it had its own post with a thousand reblogs honestly.
if ur a non-east asian artist or person don’t try to defend or protect east asian artists either, most of the time we’re being criticized rightfully.
You don’t need to bring ur KAWAII JAPAN SUGOII bs into east asian artists and defend white washing, sexualization of children, etc etc because it’s not what it’s like over there. There’s a lot of colorism, sexism, racism and pedophilia deeply rooted in east asian culture that shouldn’t be tolerated by outsiders(because people there also don’t tolerate those beliefs! Surprise surprise!)
Use ur time, energy, and reblogs wisely, and make art that prefers to u, and don’t give them attention/energy, we can take care of it. Just block, and move on. (If u wanna make a funny call out post tho i think that’s fine imo don’t quote me-)
