i love how you bring up sites where trolls and bigots congregate to make memes and spread misinformation to marginalize communities as a valid source.
it’s like saying “i read on the news about so and so” and then citing the onion.
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pimento64@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago“What is truth?” The only thing that matters in terms of establishing a group’s (very much permanent) reputation is what percolates to the general cultural zeitgeist of people who don’t know what the word hypertext means. When the insular furry communities of the Y2K era kicked out the weird freaks who were actively hostile to the ideas of kink consent, consent in general, and non-white people continuing to draw breath, they descended on 4chan and SomethingAwful and various other forums and pretty much instantly solidified the unsuspecting public’s idea of furries as being creepy Nazis. It’s not fair, but you only get one shot at establishing an eternal reputation and it’s more or less completely out of your control.
HatchetHaro@pawb.social 1 day ago
pimento64@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
Also known as the most widely-used sites on the WWW during years that I strongly suspect predate your birth. Try to keep in mind that feeling upset doesn’t mean you’re being lied to, it just means reality sucks.
Korne127@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I have absolutely no idea what you think is the “public’s idea” (well, besides your description). But for the record, what you describe may be your idea, but that isn’t even remotely representative and definitely isn’t the general idea or definition. I think the votes here tell that as well.
pimento64@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
Votes are meaningless, people vote emotionally and my instance doesn’t show me post or comment scores unless I use a specific app that I no longer have installed. I’m sorry you don’t have your finger on the pulse of normal socks-and-sandals slobs but for various reasons I do
EonNShadow@pawb.social 1 day ago
Yeah this sounds like a you problem.
Reputations are anything but eternal and public opinion can change. Sounds like you need to get with the times
pimento64@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
“This is what I any many others observed” ≠ “These are the values I hold”
Be attentive to what you read instead of selectively interpreting it to match your emotional reaction to the general idea.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 1 day ago
On 4chan?
pimento64@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
By my recollection: appreciably felt on 4Chan, SomethingAwful, several Zelda forums, a Lucasarts games forum, at least one Star Wars forum and approximately 50% of all human contact I experienced on IRC and ventrilo. People said the same about IGN and NeoGAF but I wasn’t eligible to post on the former because my head isn’t all the way up my own ass and latter didn’t come online till 2006, a little after I lost interest in forums. I did get TF2 at launch and my impression of the first couple years was that the only way to not see Nazi furry guro shit was to uninstall it.