I Am Completely Serious

The conversations in question have been taking place in Homestuck-fandom-related circles, which are, in fact, mostly teenagers. If you can point out some adults who are making remarks you consider "hostile," I'd be interested in seeing it. But I really don't think that's what the people I'm vagueblogging about have been vagueblogging about.

(That is the best sentence I've typed for days. I am proud of that sentence.)

To break the toxic cycle, I'll go ahead and say that I've been making cruel fun of JumpingJackTrash, The-Real-Seebs, and VastDerp. VastDerp and JJT have themselves been vagueblogging - I have seen no names mentioned when they complain that people on Tumblr are doing activism wrong - and I think Seebs has been as well. I've only skimmed his last few posts.

So, I don't know exactly who they've been complaining about so strenuously. However, in my capacity as an experienced criminal investigator in Nintendo DS games, I fear I must point the finger at davekat/Jude and their followers. The profile fits: PoC transgender Homestuck fan with many followers; yells at the top of their lungs about racist/homophobic/transphobic stuff; also makes lots of inflammatory exclusionary statements about white people, cis people, straight people, etc etc; has been reblogged very heavily recently, and frequently by other people in Homestuck fandom whose posts my targets may be expected to have seen.

Jude is twenty years old, and when I've clicked through to look at who's reblogging their stuff, most of them appear to be that age or younger. The roleplaying of outsized anger expressed via pseudonymous Tumblr posts and aggressively-posed selfies strikes me as a relatively healthy thing for someone their age and in their apparent RL situation to be doing.