The other day I was on reddit and somebody had gone to a subreddit for a hate group about a particular identity, screenshotted a post there, and posted it in a subreddit for people with that identity. Like "Ha ha look at this"
So we asked "Why are you going to subreddits for people who hate us and bringing their posts here for people like us to read?" and they said "Out of spite, to prove we don't care what they think :3"
Okay, but like. I don't want to see that
All of this is to say that I think, if we've grown used to the idea of "digital self-harm", I think we also need to get used to the idea that if you take what you find and bring it back, now you're doing digital others-harm
@amy "to prove we don't care what they think" my sibling in christ you are literally caring what they think
@amy anyway yeah I literally had this exact interaction on the Sonic subreddit but it was someone dunking on an AI art subreddit for posting Sonic AI art
I commented "I hate when people dunk on AI art because it means I still have to see it on my feed"
@wallhackio @amy My hope is to encourage other people to notice this shit sucks and help downvote it.