roachpatrol:

kmclaude:

bethgreenewarriorprincess:

fandomisnotyoursafespace:

yourshipisfine:

Y’know, if I were an adult in fandom who was looking to get close to a bunch of kids and teenagers for grooming/manipulation/power game purposes, I’d totally do it by being a Protective Fandom Mom/Dad in a fandom aimed at young people.

Set up a blog about how against the various problematic ships in that fandom I am, how the other adults in the fandom clearly aren’t taking the concerns of younger fans seriously, while I obviously DO take them seriously because I’m not one of those gross problematic adults.Maybe help the young people lead a witchhunt against other adults to drive them out of the fandom.

I wouldn’t be surprised if someone did that at all.

You can tell from the reaction of the antis to this post that it hit a big damn nerve.

It’s not uncommon that someone who’s been vehemently vocal against harassment, rape, CSA, etc. turns out to be a missing stair. I wonder how many antis will have been outed as abusers a few years down the line.

Several of my loyal haters fit this description all too well. Also if you are one of the young people on here lurking to report back to your “fandom mom” what the big bad BGWP has said now, then they’ve already done their job. You’ve already been groomed to support their toxic behavior. And that’s disturbing to me. You should be disturbed too. Antis are NOT your friend.

I repeat, antis are NOT your friend.

I’ve a friend who’s an ex-anti and who also knows former antis and…yeah. I’ve witnessed antis online and also heard first hand how insidious the behavior is and it genuinely disturbs me.

yeah, cronusamporaa, who got their underage friend to kick off the ‘roach is a pedo’ thing in the first place, was later found to be emotionally abusing and having sexually explicit conversations with kids as young as 13. as well as being well into his twenties, despite trying to portray himself as ‘one of the kids’. to absolutely no one’s surprise who was paying attention.

antis in their early-to-mid teens are understandable. you can sympathize with their innocent desire to make the world a better place, and at least shrug off their not-so-innocent desire to be the bully instead of the bullied. but antis in their twenties? keep a sharp eye on them, because something’s gone really wrong.