Me But With Thomas And Tugs Characters. I Already Named Quaxly Montigue And A Rookidee I Named Gordon,

Me but with Thomas and Tugs characters. I already named Quaxly Montigue and a Rookidee I named Gordon, and a Garodos I named Hercules, and a Ralts I named Dutchess.

Red doesn't choose the red option! Everyone is surprised. Time to name everything after Thomas Characters

I got trapped by one of these and am now labeled as a racist, which sucks because a few people who I thought were friends suddenly blocked me without looking into the actual context. Granted I feel like I deserve it because I didn't know any better at the time but still, these things are crappy. If you have a real issue, talk about it in a DM or don't use annon. Make learning not hate, something might be a genuine mistake and you suddenly pay the price of it in bulk.

Hey, let's talk about anons like this, because I know some people haven't been in a position to see the patterns these play out in on broader scale and may indeed not spot the trap.

And it is a trap.

An ask like this has several purposes.

First, it uses social justice language in passive aggressive and manipulative ways to try to coerce a behavior. In this case, the desired behavior is usually for the recipent to participate in community shunning and/or harrassment. The language above is intended to put the recipient on the defensive where, in the haste to disassociate themself from the Bad Thing, they quickly disassociate themself from the bad person, often with no particular fact checking or evidence.

The message is also intended to create a sense of being surveilled and judged by an unknown amount of people with unknown amount of social power and an unknown amount of relevance to your life.

Notice that these asks are usually framed as if they are coming from a follower or potential follower, someone who is addressing you personally and who cares about your opinion and who your blog has an effect on. However this is usually.... very much not the case. If you've ever had the misfortune to watch a gossip campaign from like this from the outside, you will very quickly notice that messages like this get sent in mass batches to dozens and dozens of strangers. (You can often turn these up with a tumblr search, if you look.)

The sender does not know you and probably does not follow you. They have a person they don't like (possibly for their stated reason and possibly not), and they are going through the reblogs of a post from that blog and mass messaging *everyone* with a form letter. They will not see your response and they will probably never even see your blog again.

Which brings us to the second goal of whisper campaigns like this:

Notice that I blacked out the names above? That's because when the recipient answers anonymous asks like this, they provide a platform for the opinion on their blog. An anonymous message like this that gets posted doesn't just spread gossip and apply pressure to the recipient, it is spread to the recipient's entire community.

The *goal* is to get access to your community. The *goal* is to use you as a soapbox.

Is the information accurate? Did anyone check? Does the anon have an ulterior social motive? BIG SHRUG

If you go into the comments on one of these whisper campaigns you will see that *most people never bother to check.*

They assume good faith from a follower, they're off balance defending themselves, and they jump straight to conciliation.

It's a really, really effective form of social manipulation, and really really commonly misused.

I just got back from a job interview from late in the afternoon and I had to go into the city to get to it. I saw so many trains!

The one with grey sides is a Comeng electric, and the purple one is a VLocity electric. And I saw so many "Electric Spencer's" (HCMT for the actual name.)

I hope I get the job just to see all the trains again every day! And now I have to wake up tomorrow for an RSA class (Right to Server Alcohol), wish me luck!

1000 posts!

I doubt a few people on this list would agree with you but thank you very much regardless, ur a saint! *hugs*

Welcome to whatever this is!

Hey I'm Al and this is my little circus

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ttte human au general info: https://www.tumblr.com/expresscomingthrough-rebooted/681179069626417152/ects-back

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OMG. Gordon the iron ninja!!

he secretly like to do it