mwagneto:

I can’t believe the angel is the one who makes random objects explode and says “fuck” and possesses random people while the demon is the one who worries abt the other and talks to his plants and runs into a burning house to save someone like wow

taco-bell-rey:

Porn blogs still posting porn until December 17th is the equivalent of the band playing while the Titanic was sinking.

jadelyn:

O.o

o.O

O.O

officialwadewillson:

thecybersmith:

memehumor:

Swipe RIGHT

Be honest though, the temptation to remove her other arm would always be there in the back of your mind.

Symmetry has an undeniable appeal.

henstomper:

im not gonna like stop using this site or anything but i can pretty confidently say this is one of the dumbest moves ive seen a site make in a while. instead of fixing the actual problems with their website ie pornbots on every fucking post, actual pedophiles, theyre just going to ban everything horny which most likely isnt going to solve those problems and is going to hurt lots of sex workers and artists as well as drive people off the site

gadsbys:

lockrum:

gadsbys:

computers are so fucking dumb in general i wouldn’t be surprised if everyone got permabanned for having pictures of armpits or some shit

AJDFDKL; FUCKING LITERALLY

A History of Fandom Purges

tsuki-chibi:

whitmerule:

liz-squids:

pearlmaser:

elfwreck:

olderthannetfic:

unclutterme:

olderthannetfic:

I’m curious how many related deletions we can come up with.

2002 – FFN bans porn

2002 – FFN bans RPF

2004 – FFN bans script format

2005 – FFN bans CYOA, Readerfic, 2nd person, Songfic

2007 – Strikethrough, Boldthrough

2009 – GeoCities shuts down, taking old fannish websites

2010 – FFN forums deleted

2011 – Delicious destroyed by Yahoo’s incompetence

2012 – major FFN crackdown on porn

2014 – Quizilla shuts down

2015 – Journalfen’s servers become fully robust, deleting Fandom Wank

Didn’t quizilla have purges before finally shutting down? And I know basically every vidding home hot destroyed, repeatedly taking out the entire history of vidding online.

… they deleted Fandom Wank???

Well, not specifically. Journalfen failed completely and has never come back. FW was on Journalfen, so while you can see some entries on the Wayback machine, I think (?), the long comment threads aren’t archived.

2007 – Youtube starts using its “content ID” system to identify (and block) works that include copyrighted material in their database.

2009 – Greatestjournal shuts down, taking down fandom’s biggest collection of blog-style RPGs

2012 – Megaupload shut down by FBI; some (many?) fanvid archives lost

I thought there was also some kind of purge at Deviantart, but I don’t recall the details.

I’d like to remind folks that there was literally wank last month about why do we need the OTW.

Well, this would be why: we sincerely believed in the internet values of a decade or two ago, which involved owning our own servers if we wanted to see our projects remain stable, in the long term, online.

Worth mentioning: Yahoo purchased GeoCities, and was behind the decision to shut all those sites down.

Yahoo’s incompetence destroyed Delicious.

Yahoo owns Tumblr.

1356: 50% of monks.

People just… completely forget. I was there for all of the bans on fanfiction.net. You don’t know panic until you go to log in one morning and find out a bunch of your works have been deleted, gone forever, because some asshole arbitrarily decided that they wanted to ban something.

AO3 IS IMPORTANT. IT MATTERS.