remember the post that was like ‘youre going to regret who you were when you were 14’ and someone replied woth ‘what? regret being a superwholockian tumblrer >:3. i dont think so’
do you think they regret it yet
I hope they don’t. I don’t know the person who left that comment on that post, but I don’t see how a large community goading someone based on their age/interests and then widely mocking their ‘no, I like who I am!’ response is anything other than bullying? Like, I was a fourteen-year-old in fandom, and I don’t even want to think about what might have happened if that someone had decided it was funny to publicly shame me for being a child and liking myself and some popular TV shows?
Um, yeah, it’s really gross, made even grosser by the fact that grown adults participate in it. Please stop.
i made this post literally laughing at a mindset I had three years ago calm the fuck down.
Ok, I’m not going to get overly involved in this since your bio says you’re sixteen and I’m nearly thirty, but I see nothing wrong with a mindset saying – what’s the original quote from that post – ““Being a tumblrian and superwholockian and generally pretty good? I don’t think so”
-because that was the mindset I had at fourteen, and I still have it, and I loathe the part of internet culture that quashes all enthusiasm and confidence in children. It sucked thirteen years ago and it sucks now.
Kids can like whatever they want but tbh that post had a really gross superiority vibe to it and thats exactly what im lajghing abt seeing as when i was 13 i was supernonto the ‘tumnlr makes me special’ bullshit and its gross that kids are growing thinking theyre better than everyone for being on a website.
I see more of a superiority vibe in “everyone is embarrassed of their fourteen year old self trust me if
you’re fourteen right now you will regret whatever it is that you are
doing at this moment”, from the original post. That’s…I dunno what that is? Depends on the age of the person who said it, I suppose.
But even without that, I’d rather kids had the ‘superiority vibe’. I’d rather kids felt special, even if it is just for being on a website. Being a child sucks – it sucked for me, it sucked for my friends, it sucked for many of the kids I used to teach. (That being said, I’ve yet to meet anyone – child or adult – who
actually, genuinely thought they were superior for having a Tumblr
account. Ever.)
I still hope, very much, that that kid wasn’t made to feel too shitty after having 1000+ teens and grown adults pile on them. Even if it’s done to take them down a peg or two, etc, I still don’t see how it isn’t bullying. Yet it’s absolutely rampant on this website and most other ones.
(And I want to reiterate: this is largely the fault of grown adults who should know better. I am a grown adult – but I can’t do anything about it except rage and lecture.)