if your oshi is not outspokenly transphobic try avoiding associating her image with transphobic messaging to spare her the pain of becoming a target of virtue signaling idiots for the sin of having a transphobic community
Is that going to stop them from just making it up, with a whole suicide story to go with it? Or is Silvervale the exception?
When you censor yourself to conform to the desires of people who will never thank you and never acknowledge you as anything but an enemy, you are doing their work for them.
What I am saying is that they shouldn't be given any special treatment at all, for any reason.
"dont throw your oshi in the gutter" is a controversial take here.
I’d consider everyone submitting to the woke mob and their demands of having certain groups and topics be exempt from jokes and criticism as more damaging and restrictive.
The presence of tailor made, on topic memes around things considered out of bounds by the fun police is one the best indicators of what topics and jokes they can touch on without the community of their
actual viewers throwing them under the bus and feeding them to the Twitter mob, and how far up their ass the stick’s got to be shoved in.
The community, the creators, and the sponsors are all constantly fearing for each other’s safety and refusing to leave the prescribed bounds for the fear of being disowned by each other is exactly how the thought police retains their power. Community members have the least to lose, if anything blows up. Telling off a section of the community and having any targeted members come back with new accounts is vastly easier than the creators or sponsors doing the same. Hence if someone has to go first, it would be the community.
Even beyond community superchats / merch revenue, once sponsors realize that those boycotters aren’t their customers in the first place, and, as evidenced by the HL sales numbers, the masses care about a good end product more than Twitter’s opinion, the financial viability of more “offensive” content will only increase as creators branch off to fill the void and creators won't have to answer to the demands of those that don't even watch them.
I'm fucking sick of it. I'm sick and tired of it. These people will not stop. They will not be satisfied. They can only be given new targets. Time and time again both individuals and companies have taken the same stance; appeasement. They apologize, they kowtow, they suck the feminine penis. It's never enough, because these people hate you. They want to destroy you utterly and leave you insane and suicidal, because you dared at one time say 'no' to them in one way or another. They will never be happy, not even after they've torn you to pieces and then jumped on said pieces.
If there's one idea I'd like to violently crowbar into the heads of every talent out there, it's that you can't treat these people like equals. They don't view you as human. You're not one of the Anointed, the Chosen, the Gnostics, the Enlightened. You are intrinsically, fundamentally evil to them, and you can never be anything else, ever, for any reason. When they come after you, it's not because they've found something they object to. They hate you already. They hate you for being popular and successful, positive and upbeat. All 'evidence' of wrongdoing they bring up is nothing but a public shield, to try and delude the unaligned into thinking they have a point.
I think the behavior comes their role as the professional victims, they
have to be the victim, and thus need to have someone, or thing to blame as their oppressor. Everything else, including the trans issues and slacktivism in this case are merely incidental at best, or byproducts at worse. That’s why the “safe space” journalist mastodon instance failed, because when everyone is the victim, no one is, and so they soon take to cannibalizing each other.
There
must always be someone with problematic behavior that has to change, and said behavior has to
somehow affect them. The focus on the behavior of others works best because unlike actual issues that can be solved with work on their part, all they have to do is demand the change of
others. Then they’ll either throw themselves headlong into whatever “triggers” them so they get to claim that they’re affected somehow, or claim that it’s on the behalf of some unimpeachable minority.
Such methods also gain popularity fastest since it’s simply so easy to type up a post to virtue signal and take credit for
not doing something that they weren’t going to do in the first place, or if they did, do said thing on another account (or hope no one even bothers checking their public profile). Since that’s the main point instead of actually helping the minorities in question, we get movements that end up revolving around things largely inconsequential to whatever they’re claiming to achieve, targeted at seemingly random people and actions, while they congratulate each other for a job well done not participating in something they had originally had no interest in.
That’s why they don’t seem to care about all the free advertising they’re making that's driving up sales, since it isn’t about the sales and proceeds in the first place. In fact, that’s all the better since the more people are publicly playing the game, the harder they can claim they were victimized, all while they’re hard at work not playing it (on their main accounts at least, unless they’re a certain ResetERA admin).
The setup
That’s why they start off with asserting that engaging, or merely associating with some mundane activity is sufficient evidence of causing direct harm to an impeachable minority. It allows them to quickly claim mass victimhood status without having to individually level any claims, accusations, or evidence of actual harm. (KF tier OPs with screenshots, archives, evidence to back up well laid out claims and accusations simply take too much work to put together, not that their target audience are even willing to put in the effort to read and make sense of them.)
The apology
What they then demand is an apology, or acknowledgement of their claimed suffering, to validate their claims of victimhood, using the apology itself as an admission of guilt and proof of victimization, without the need for evidence. To them, that’s the best outcome since that person effectively becomes their walking apology dispenser, with the cycle getting harder and harder to break out of each time as the list of accusations grow.
Rinse and repeat
With the above, combined with silenced being implied offense, they’re able to operate at scale, without even having to vet their targets or ensure they’re able to prove tangible harm before leveling accusations anyway. Should the accused decide to actually fight back and challenge their claims, they’d simply dig through their past (read: Twitter history) for anything they can label as “problematic”, removed from the context and social climate at the time, then threaten them and their supporters with social outcasting.
How does this manifest in the current context?
I’m not going to pretend there’s enough proof that the HL drama caused the graduation.
I’m also not going to change my opinion that any online personality should be ready to have shit thrown their way, deserved or not.
But that’s not the point here.
The optics of going after Pikamee, of all people? Bad. The announcement of her leaving after cancelling the stream? Even worse. And as much as it’s just optics,
that’s all that matters to them, It’s their own game, a game where it’s all about association and image instead of actual impact and evidence.
I’d consider the HL streams being cancelled the actual, tangible impact. It’s one of the few IPs that have permeated into the childhoods of both the eastern and western audience, now made into a playable experience that doesn’t have bugs constantly disrupting gameplay or being chock full of microtransactions, which for some reason in this day and age is considered an achievement.
But that’s irrelevant to the slacktivists because they don’t care about any of it, since it doesn’t put attention on them or affect their image. They’re only worried about their image as victims. What hurts them is the fact that they’ve effectively ruined their own victim image by revealing that they blindly fling accusations at innocent people, with a shotgun guilty by association approach. This is the best point to push against them, as it wins them at their own game by tarnishing their reputation and victimhood status, and is what got them to reverse course and deny responsibility.
she has made no effort to dispel rumours about it being related to her recent harassment. She's under zero obligation to do such a thing, but there's no possible way that she wouldn't have known her extremely dedicated fans wouldn't instantly start looking for reasons.
The best part? Pikamee didn’t instigate, or even participate in any of this. The entire fiasco was entirely their own doing. The abject lack of action or participation on her part deprives them of any point to even launch their mental gymnastics off of to pin blame on her or allude to any responsibility to even clean up the mess, and the amount of precedent set by other streamers playing the game, with the subsequent lack of mass deaths from the claimed impending genocide doesn’t help their case.
Usually, this isn’t a problem for them anyway. For anyone else, they could just blindly hurl accusations first, and when those don’t stick, they could start digging through past tweets post-facto to find any reason to label them “problematic” anyway. This is what makes Pikamee their worst kind of enemy.
There’s nothing for them to find. That’s why they’re panicking, all their usual strategies no longer work.
She has made no efforts to dispel the rumors because maybe she knows that doing so will only cause the retards on Twitter to go for her harder. Why even bother explaining things when the people you are trying to explain things to already made up their minds? To them not only is she a "transphobe" she is also now a "pedophile"
The usual alternative of issuing some statement is only going to give them more ways to victimize themselves, with any negative reaction being construed as directed against their protected minority group. (See their reaction to Silvervale’s “Twitter freaks” statement, and related attempts to make it about trans people. Or the framing of AutoMod censorship as damage control without even bothering to look up how it works in the first place. Or how getting timed out for randomly derailing chat with trans rights issues is an attack on them.)
I have to wonder where the right wing false flag conspiracy theory is supposed to start. Way back when political activists were targeting Hogwart's Legacy while it was still in development? When Troy Leavitt resigned from the project? When it came out and the twitter activists started seething over the fact everyone who wanted it was ignoring their boycott? When they decided to switch to a harassment campaign against streamers (since the boycott was an abject failure) with the "Are they Streaming THAT wizard game" Website? Or just when they started harassing vTubers like Silvervale and Pikamee? Or just Pikamee?
I mean, I know that conspiracy theories don't have to make logical sense, but if I really narrow it down, do they think "Are they streaming THAT wizard game?" Website was a right wing op itself?
That’s why they’re having trouble trying to either deny, or blame the harassment on someone else. Their previous outspokenness, “allyship”, and perpetual activism of things that don’t directly affect them has come back to bite them. They’re going to have trouble convincing others that they were just sticking to their own business when the storm was brewing even though sticking their nose into other’s business and policing their speech and actions is the entire basis of their activism.
Additionally, for a group that specializes in setting themselves apart with the profile and bio flags, ever so eager to divide their community up into classifications and subgroups, The only reason I can guess as to why they don’t loudly set themselves apart from the alleged falseflaggers before any of the fallout is that they don’t oppose those strategies on a fundamental level, only when the results aren’t in the favor.(Once again notice how the KF community reacts poorly to fedposting / poo touching BEFORE issues blow up?)
I know everyone's angry and coping with jokes like this but I really don't think, on the whole, actual trans people are to blame here. There's just not that many of them even in this fandom. They're outnumbered at least ten-to-one by the Twitterbrained who have to show everyone just how right-think they are by attacking Pikamee and other wizard game players on the trans people's behalf, whether they like it or not. I think most people have been a member of a minority group of one form or another and some idiot pops up and starts being a jerk to other people on behalf of that group and you have to go, "excuse me, but who are you and who made you my voice? This person does not speak for us."
As for the actual trans people who wish to live their lives in peace, I think it’s unfortunate that the culture that’s associated with them, one of avoiding internal criticism, mockery, and ridicule with the reluctance to entertain unpopular ideas via threats of offense or cancellation has basically set them up for this mess. I’m more willing to ascribe this as a religious style mentality (probably) installed by those seeking attention than the politics though. Whatever the case, it would greatly aid them to accept the realities of the open marketplace of ideas, where they will have to contend people who hate them for no reason and run into unpleasant, dissenting opinions, rather than stay in whatever “safe space” created by those who basically use them as props and shields to garner attention and power.
As much as it’s unfortunate that they are the minority that the attention seekers have chosen to use as cover, the reality is that given how they’re vastly outnumbered, it’s simply more practical for them to distance themselves, escape the line of fire or distinguish themselves from the attention seekers than expect to not to be caught up as collateral.
), after transitioning she just never brings up the fact, doesn't label herself as trans, and doesn't use it for attention or pity points.
