@p @anonymous @ins0mniak The first thing that I notice is about campus rape accusations. It's crazy how fast things change but not really. Now the hot shit is getting a sex change and calling people bigots online for not caving, and making up drama over fake suicides and "this store oppressed me."

Tumblr had a lot of things boosting memetics aside from the reblog and inline comment functionality (seen today with quote posts and tweets), like anon asks which could either be used to run crazy blogs/horny blogs, or to shit talk people without them knowing who. I remember fucking with people with anon asks, and they'd be trying to figure out who you were like some prank call victim, good times.

>Every community on Tumblr somehow gets enmeshed with the people most devoted to making that community miserable. The tiny Tumblr rationalist community somehow attracts, concentrates, and constantly reblogs stuff from the even tinier Tumblr community of people who hate rationalists and want them to be miserable (no, well-intentioned and intelligent critics, I am not talking about you).

A lot of it actually was because Tumblr users came from a website also notorious for such a userbase, Livejournal, which was populated by that kind of internet garbage. They were doing callout posts before Tumblr, and the infamous Final Fantasy House post was one such post. I vividly remember now deleted blogs that also would read like ED pages or KF threads on people they really hated (there was one about the infamous furry webcomic Jack and it's creator, along with ones on a major Pokemon community with a pedo problem and the whole PurpleKecleon/GlitchedPuppet saga).

I also remember that there were LJ posts on people that really reeked of such, especially from furries. It all comes down from the idea of "mob justice", and the only thing that scares them off is if you lawyer up (this happened with Vinesauce Vinny).