repeteoffender53:

paintscroll:

viridian-sun:

for people who weren’t here 2.5 years ago: xkit guy made xkit, he worked for free and was one of the nicest people on this fucking hellsite

then, due to /one/ anonymous message stating that he was abusing someone, that never got proven to be true, the hellsite crowd had decided to make xkit guy’s life a living hell

without proof. nothing but a single anon that someone might’ve sent because they’re a fucking hate goblin who wanted to score hell points for destroying a guy who had poured his time and energy into making tumblr functional

seeing the atmosphere surrounding mcelroys in today’s hellsite crowd i can say that they are itching for even a faked info of them being insensitive even in the slightest way so they’d have the pretext to drag them down

tl;dr: be skeptical, don’t go with the crowd and check the info.

The argument I’ve seen used to defend attacking the guy was that ‘it was better to defend if there really were a victim than to not at all’, as a ‘better safe than sorry’ kind of method.

What people don’t realize, is that they’re creating their own victim of internet abuse, this guy who actually exists visibly being at the end of it, being told awful things by people who knew nothing at all, because of a hypothetical, unclaimed “victim”

Some people prefer to be safe and guarded more than anything, to the point of hurting others and telling them to go kill themselves. Well you’re probably not gonna read this in a million years but I’m sorry xkit guy. You didn’t deserve that. No one does.

OMG THIS POST IS CURSED TRYING TO MANUAL REBLOG IT CRASHES THE TUMBLR APP O.o

I had to Fast Reblog it, then Edit my reblog to even add this text