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tumblr ceo is having a transphobic meltdown (hexbear.net)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Cromalin@hexbear.net to c/the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net
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completely nuking like a dozen trans women's accounts after tumblr user predstrogen got banned so hard every single image she ever posted got deleted (which isn't how tumblr bans work), and claiming the og ban was because of threats towards him. the one threat he could point to was this

he said tumblr would work with the fbi to investigate this shit

link to his statement. he originally misgendered her, then corrected himself to degender her, then finally used corrected himself to use her actual pronouns

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[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 53 points 8 months ago

Stop letting individuals own things. Private property was a mistake.

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 44 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

this is why its incredibly important for trans people to have their own spaces independent of the corporations. you should plug hexbear, ik its not like tumblr but at least its independent

[-] Raebxeh@hexbear.net 14 points 8 months ago

Is there a Fediverse tumblr clone? I’d be surprised if there wasn’t

[-] Wheaties@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago

don't think so

[-] BatsAreRats@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago

theres a bunch of us using a sharkey/mastodon thing at @transfem.social

[-] Tommasi@hexbear.net 40 points 8 months ago

Why do we wrongly have a transphobe reputation? We did have an external contract moderator last year that was making transphobic moderation

If your website has a transphobe reputation because it did transphobic things, can you really say you wrongly have that reputation?

[-] Cromalin@hexbear.net 30 points 8 months ago

he literally admits in the post that the website has had transphobic moderation policies as recently as last year! that's not wrongful! he doesn't even mention that the website settled when it was sued for transphobic moderation policies back in 2022 as well. tumblr's reputation as transphobic is hard earned

[-] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 5 points 8 months ago

Somehow, the prevalence of SS members in our organization has given rise to the incorrect impression that we are a Nazi organization.

[-] doesntmatter@hexbear.net 5 points 8 months ago

how long ago was last year again

[-] AutomatedPossum@hexbear.net 35 points 8 months ago

he originally misgendered her, then corrected himself to degender her, then finally used corrected himself to use her actual pronouns

Then he misgenders her again in the comment section and blatantly lies about it when confronted.

[-] Cromalin@hexbear.net 23 points 8 months ago

yep! "ohhhh when i said 'it hopes i die' i meant the POST hoped i died," did you? did you mean the post is hoping you die? or did you refer to the trans woman who doesn't use it pronouns as it?

[-] AutomatedPossum@hexbear.net 18 points 8 months ago

It's honestly kinda amazing how good he is at showing his whole ass.

[-] whatup@hexbear.net 32 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It’s weird how Tumblr is always portrayed online as this super SJW, militantly pro-trans website. I practically grew up posting there and ran into a TON of weird reactionary communities (school shooter fan fic writers, proto-trad wives, pedo and rape apologists, eugenicists, ´ironic’ nazis). I didn’t know about terfs until I came across their Tumblr accounts.

[-] Cromalin@hexbear.net 28 points 8 months ago

there's a fairly strong community of communists and trans people on tumblr but like any other website that isn't explicitly designed as a space for trans people and communists there's plenty of reactionary horseshit as well

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 31 points 8 months ago

TUMBLR? You mean...like proto Hexbear and bunkerchan?

Way to alienate your own customer base.

[-] Cromalin@hexbear.net 27 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

like, basically everyone i follow on there is trans! like 70% of posts that make it big these days are by trans people, especially trans women! what a baffling move*

*i mean, it's very obvious why it's happening, but like. if i'm the ceo of tumblr and i see this shit i go "ahh! my users are trans! i should NOT be a transmisogynistic piece of shit!" because i want money and people to use my website

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago

My pet conspiracy theory is that a lot of the "SJWs" who preached revenge against men or shit like that were all feds trying to do full character assassination of the LGBT identity in its entirety. This way, porky has to say that he wants to save the west from the scary rainbow people and that can instill an unshakeable loyalty to him among the lumpens.

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 12 points 8 months ago

I-was-saying men really fuckin suck tho

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago

It seems more like those types moved to Twitter

[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 13 points 8 months ago

Yeah, I would have thought trans people was a huge portion of tumblr regulars (and queer community generally)

[-] laziestflagellant@hexbear.net 29 points 8 months ago

Still fucked up over the reveal that the rampant issue of targeted moderation based transphobic harassment was, in fact, not exaggerated or imagined by the tumblr userbase, and bad enough that even the CEO (as seen above) was forced to admit that a bad actor was given keys to tumblr moderation and used it to be extremely transphobic, for months, despite many users recording and reporting the moderation actions

and the CEO has stated that tumblr staff will prevent this from happening again by uhhh uhhhhhhhhh

[-] Cromalin@hexbear.net 27 points 8 months ago

it's wild that it was literally active transphobia by tumblr moderation! i'd assumed it was all passive stuff, them not caring that terfs had figured out how to abuse the system, but no! it was on purpose!

[-] TimeTravel_0@hexbear.net 27 points 8 months ago

tumblr still exists? I thought they vaporized after banning porn?

[-] Cromalin@hexbear.net 27 points 8 months ago

it sucked that it kicked off so many sex workers but yeah, tumblr was going strong

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 26 points 8 months ago

Business as usual

[-] Cromalin@hexbear.net 16 points 8 months ago

yep

[-] theposterformerlyknownasgood@hexbear.net 25 points 8 months ago

Now I'm not one of them there tech guys. I'm just a humble poster, and am neither a tech or a guy. But. Were I the public face of the website tumblr.com there is precisely one group of people with whom I would not engage negatively, and it would be gender and sexual minorities. I'm just putting it out there. After that it would be homestuck fans.

[-] pooh@hexbear.net 21 points 8 months ago

Bizarre that he’s even publicly engaging other users in this way. Like, if you’re the CEO, it’s maybe not the best idea to be getting into arguments, shitposting, telling the world your shitty opinions, etc.

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago

Were CEOs trying to be “personal” with their customers? Or did this only occur after social media became the primary way of communication. Usually these people would just hire a PR agent and ghost write their statements.

[-] Sopje@hexbear.net 10 points 8 months ago

They probably think that they are so endearing that can best handle these things themselves. It’s just a symptom of inflated ego

[-] theposterformerlyknownasgood@hexbear.net 11 points 8 months ago

That is literally what ceos do now. They've realised golf sucks or something

[-] citrussy_capybara@hexbear.net 18 points 8 months ago

instead of doing something to prevent harassment of trans people, he actively contributes to harassment

he is responsible for the deaths of trans people, getting people murdered in the streets

he has cissues cissues about a couple people making mean comments online? he thinks a couple venting comments are bad and should be punished, but won’t do anything about the deluge of the same directed at trans people on his fucking platform? let’s print out all the comments on rice paper and and drop them on the trans people, and similarly print out every harassing comment, dm, post from tumblr users and drop them on the CEO so he gets paper cuts and bleeds out while being crushed under the weight gayroller-2000

[-] Cromalin@hexbear.net 18 points 8 months ago

careful he's going to call the fbi for this very real and actionable death threat

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's been so weird to see the perception of Tumblr shift from the "SJW platform" to the CHUD platform in the past few years. I don't know if it has actually changed, or if all the decent people just left, leaving the worst folks still there, but its been weird to see.

[-] Cromalin@hexbear.net 16 points 8 months ago

honestly it feels like far more of a leftist website then it used to. like, people used to talk a big game but now there are more people who actually know what they're talking about and care about like. imperialism and stuff

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 8 months ago

That's good to hear, I guess banning porn would've gotten rid of a lot of the CHUD audience there, people said the website was "finished" when that happened, but it's kept going just fine without that particular audience.

[-] babushkot@hexbear.net 16 points 8 months ago

this sucks so hard we need an alternative to tumblr's format but using tech like lemmy

[-] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 8 months ago

That'd be cool! I wish there was more weird shit being made with lemmy. Like, we don't have to cater to advertisers or sponsors so why do we design our platforms the same way that capitalists do? Surely we can do better than be a reddit clone

[-] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago

instead they federated to much less backlash than facebook

[-] Pisha@hexbear.net 16 points 8 months ago

I just want to note that from everything I've read about this, it's specifically trans women being targeted, not just trans people in general. It's not (just) transphobia, it's transmisogyny. And some of the online discussions I've been seeing about this are using the chance to complain about how trans women talking about their specific oppression are the real transphobes anyway, which is infinitely infuriating to me.

[-] Cromalin@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago

that's very much true, and the woman who got targeted at the start was well known for (among other things) talking a lot about transmisogyny. which makes the people bitching and moaning about how people talking about it are the real transphobes even more infuriating if that was at all possible

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 15 points 8 months ago

What banning sex does to a mf

[-] Wheaties@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago

:hentai-free:

[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 13 points 8 months ago

WordPress founder? How about we GangPress you into the Barbara Pit, Matty.

barbara-pit

[-] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

tumblr is still a thing? jesus.

also of all the bigger and older online social networks I would've assumed Tumblr would be the most accepting of the transcommunity since they seemed to be so welcoming of sexuality-based content iirc. I never had an account there nor did I visit it on purpose, but from time to time I'd follow a link to tumblr and it almost always ended up in sexual content

edit: i guess my pi-hole blocks tumblr, so i probably haven't seen the site in at least 4 or 5 years

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