snakegay:

strangeauthor:

viridian-sun:

for people who weren’t here 2.5 years ago: xkit guy made xkit, he worked for free and was one of the nicest people on this fucking hellsite

then, due to /one/ anonymous message stating that he was abusing someone, that never got proven to be true, the hellsite crowd had decided to make xkit guy’s life a living hell

without proof. nothing but a single anon that someone might’ve sent because they’re a fucking hate goblin who wanted to score hell points for destroying a guy who had poured his time and energy into making tumblr functional

seeing the atmosphere surrounding mcelroys in today’s hellsite crowd i can say that they are itching for even a faked info of them being insensitive even in the slightest way so they’d have the pretext to drag them down

tl;dr: be skeptical, don’t go with the crowd and check the info.

how many times do we have to tell ya’ll this

the accusation about xkit guy came after he was already left (the real reason why he left was that he was tired of fixing tumblr everytime they fucked up and he wasnt being paid so he left to do other things). the ask that made that claim didnt get a lot of notes and the person who responded to it asked for proof and got none. the only reason that picked up was that a year later a popular tumblr user made a wild guess why xkit guy left and so that story struck on and a bunch of u freaks used this as an oppertunity to attack rape victims

i think a more accurate moral of the story here is that people on here will overtly lie or be willing to believe complete misinfo if it can be used to support their position of “callouts are inherently evil uwu” or as a way to vent their frustration about abuse victims daring to come forward and testify about their faves. 

like i was around when this all went down, a lot of shitty people on here were downright GIDDY about the fact that they could twist xkit guy’s leaving into some kinda goddamn martyr story.

be skeptical, dont just go with the crowd, but also remember that abusers and other kinds of godawful people on here are absolutely Desperate for narratives that make victims who a come forward against their abusers look like ““hate goblins”” who just want to ruin people’s lives because they hate fun and happiness