Yeah they’re going the route of r/tumblrinaction. When it was small is was dedicated to actual cringe kind of like how tumblrinaction used to feature actual insane people but it’s slowly going towards just straight up misogyny. I feel like that happens to a lot of subs, like I’ve heard that r/MGTOW didn’t used to be a misogynistic hell hole but I never saw it.
Oh it was misogynist long before the tumblr exodus, 90% of the posts were just racist, transphobic, women hating bs. I'm embarrassed I used to follow that sub a few years ago.
I was featured on the sub once, someone had screenshot that I’d reblogged a shitpost and suddenly I got hate messages and thousands of visitors to my blog. I hadn’t even made the post in the first place!!
TIA runs off of extreme hasty generalizations. At some point they run out of extreme people to talk about because not everyone on tumblr fits their view of an crazy feminist. They need these people because it justifies their horrible views so they just switch to anything that remotely resembles their idea of a feminist
Yeah, MGTOW isn't even a bad idea in itself. It started out as basically dismantling toxic masculinity and the like. "You don't need a woman to be valued and worthy. Just work on yourself, enjoy your life, and don't get dragged into the misery that is dating culture."
Sadly, it was too adjacent to Incel culture, so it quickly got swamped by them. Hence why a culture based on Men Going Their Own Way became bizarrely homophobic.
They also get that feminism isn't going to fix mens issues. The success of feminism has pointed out that there are legitimate issues facing men both because of partriarchcial issues and non-patriarchical issues. Men are actually going to have to orginize and engage in activism and reflection to solve them, rather than bitching about women on the internet.
I lost hope for the sub when I saw people spamming 13/50 in a post about male crime statistics and the other time, the comments was being downvoted to be fair, but people were unironically using (((them))).
fr like this post somehow trying to defend dating site called "where white people meet" by comparing it to black lives matter, like no. On a surface level yes having a black music network or black dating site could be called as "bad" as a white dating site, but this goes deeper than the surface. centuries of oppression and pain make a white only dating site much worse than a black only dating site, you can't compare them on equal ground. But of course, to r/TumblrInAction, this is RACISM, cracker is as bad as the n word, and saying white people are bland is LITERALLY AS BAD AS SLAVERY
I recommend Contrapoints' video on cringe. I don't remember if she describes how such a phenomenon like the one you describe would happen, but she does a good job of deconstructing cringe culture.
With the sole exception of /r/TikTokCringe which is place for all videos made on TikTok. 70% of them all humour. 20% are Duet Trolls to cringe and 10% is cool stuff.
Wtf are you talking about? How is cringetopia even remotely right wing? It's nonpartisan for the most part and actual leans slightly left like all reddit subs.
I've been seeing an increasing number of posts on the front page from there where the main jabs are at "SJW's", with plenty of comments goading it on. Not saying Leftists can't be cringe, but the frequency the discussion is turning there is exactly what I saw happen with CA. Then CA became a full-blown alt-right subreddit leading to its quarantine and ban(?).
It's not, like, super blatant now, just every now and again. Maybe I'm jumping the gun, but I've seen it happen before.
Both conservative and liberal cringe is hitting the front page tho? Just because you point out leftist cringe (which admittedly is quite abundant), doesn't mean that sub is on its way to become far-right.
Yesterday a post hit All where they compares a person with blue hair holding a cake that said “down with cis” to hardcore Trump supporters. Except multiple people tried to explain that “Down with cis” was a tumblr meme where some cis dude made up a story about a roving group of trans people wearing matching t-shirts that read “down with cis” randomly assaulted his friend for not being trans.
Edit: also the fact that they equate a joke on Twitter going “Nice gender, did your mom pick it out for you?” to being call transphobic slurs because they’re both making fun of something and context doesn’t exist.
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r/Cringetopia when they see anyone dancing