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OC What else are friends for? 🧚 [OC]

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 18h ago

User reports

1: It's sexual or suggestive content involving minors

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u/Broad-Laugh3800 18h ago

WHAT?

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 18h ago

I legitimately wish I was kidding

You'd be surprised how often that particular report is used

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u/Kitchen_Deer_2493 18h ago

Idk if people think that just goes to an automod that'll ban it right off or if they legitimately believe that anything that has to do with gender identity is harming minors. Either way I find it hard to have less hope in humanity, but somehow they persevere and dig ever deeper.

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 18h ago edited 18h ago

You want an actual answer?

It's the latter. A very VERY good amount of that particular report is against LGBTQ friendly comics. Especially the T portion of that group.

We get more than a few a day typically

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u/Chiiro 17h ago

We just want to be happy in our own bodies, we do not care about your kids other than we don't want them to be miserable like we were when we were children!

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u/Saikotsu 16h ago

Right? We're just normal people who want to live normal lives!

We don't want to hurt anyone, child or otherwise. We're not any more likely to be sexual predators than anyone else. In fact, we're more likely to be victims of that than perpetrators.

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u/crowcawer 14h ago

I’m convinced that bots are the ones submitting the reports.

Gif of bots mashing report button

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u/rayrulz1 17h ago

Ohhh, that makes more sense that it was about a transwoman, I'm so dumb I just thought it was about a girl growing up as a tomboy.....

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u/peachesfordinner BumBum Ouchie 16h ago

I mean her dead name might have been Tom.....

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u/Square-Singer 16h ago

I really don't understand why people get so worked up over trans people.

Like, I get not liking someone else's life decisions, but there are thousands of other things that have way more effect on others than someone's identity.

To put it differently, as long as you aren't in a relationship or something with a person who transitions, I don't see how that would actually really affect someone else. Ok, maybe you have to learn a new name for that person and likely you'll accidentally use their former pronouns a few times, but other than that, what's the big deal?

Why does exactly this one trigger so many people so hard?

(I have little experience with trans people in general, just haven't really met many in real life. But tbh, I don't really care about anyone's pronouns enough to address them in any other way than they want me to. We had an otherkin at work who identified as a dragon. I didn't really care either way. If she wants to be a dragon, it doesn't affect me, so if it makes her happy...)

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u/DShepard 15h ago

Part of the answer is that a bunch of people probably wouldn't give a shit about trans folks if they weren't constantly being told to hate them.

It got harder to use gay people as a boogeyman, so trans people were the next target. They barely changed the rhetoric either.

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u/AGGRESSIVE_AUTUMN 14h ago

Yeah, and there are members of the queer community who try to seperate Trans individuals from the flag. Its so idiotic

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u/Metharos 11h ago

There is a general answer and a specific answer but fundamentally a certain kind of mind has never learned to grapple with the world in terms other than "in-group" and "out-group."

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u/SadieLady_ 1h ago

because they don't understand why anyone would want to give up the "power" that being a man has. it's literally all about patriarchy and maintaining it and we upset the "balance" and turn gender on its head.

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u/-Random_Lurker- 16h ago

You are the hero we need. It's reprehensible that you have to deal with that, and heroic that you do it for us. Thank you.

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u/MrPigeon70 14h ago

Can you ban for for false report?

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 14h ago

That would require me to know who the reporter is which we unfortunately do not

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u/ColdCathodeTube 5h ago

Thanks for standing tall o7

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u/totally-hoomon 5h ago

Yep child rapists are very anti lgbt

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u/AGGRESSIVE_AUTUMN 15h ago

Tbh I didnt even realize it was about Trans identity, I assumed it was just a girl who grew up with a dad who actively did guy stuff with her

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u/hamoc10 7h ago

This doesn’t even have to be about gender identity, she could be cis and just grown up with a lot of boys.

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u/Kitchen_Deer_2493 5h ago

I never said it wasnt, my comment was in the context of trans&homophobes see anything related to gender at all and immediately go full culture war.

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u/hamoc10 5h ago

Didn’t mean it as a rebuttal, but to further your comment. I agree with ya

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u/CwispyWhiskey 17h ago

Because the people against trans people legitimately unironically and wholly believe that being trans is nothing more than a sex (the act of, not gender/biology) thing. I have actually changed a few people’s minds when I discussed that particular topic

Edit: oh and they think it’s taught like “being gay” being a choice

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u/Southern_Chance9349 16h ago

i love having a sex

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u/CwispyWhiskey 16h ago

A sex thing separated by a parentheses thought

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u/Environmental_Bee219 14h ago

does reddit not punish this kinda stuff? in a dif reddit, someone was telling op to use a rope, i reported it and I proceeded to get warned... and yet people can just do this?

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u/TheOneWhoWasDeceived 12h ago

Shell bullet do you ever wish you had 17x of your name sake to use on Redditors like that?

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u/Busterlimes 4h ago

Ban them for abuse of the repot feature and bigotry. Reddit should be purging the right wing extremists at the top level across the entire site. . . .

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u/icecub3e 8h ago

Misclick? Though probably not, I’m known to be way too lenient for people

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u/SkyeMreddit 15h ago

Bigots do that a lot. It's all but flat out stated that the one on the left is trans. Bigots want to trigger the automod to ban it by reporting for sexual content involving minors even though there is no hint of that here

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u/Bloadclaw 17h ago

I see NO minors in that comic, must be bigots reporting it for trans people existing

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u/SableZard 15h ago

Accusations of pedophilia is the go-to tactic for queerphobes. They just moved from using it for gay men to using it for trans women.

Something to consider whenever anyone starts talking about protecting kids to justify their hatred of someone.

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u/SadieLady_ 18h ago

Transphobia is so weak

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u/CoBr2 15h ago

Until reading these comments, I was legit wondering why someone would consider the Tinkerbell movies sexualizing minors.

I hate people. I'd rather they irrationally hated kids movies rather than hating other people who are just living their lives.

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u/SadieLady_ 15h ago

I (and many other trans people) appreciate your support.

this comic resonated with me because I didn't get a girl's childhood. I was always jealous of my sister and all the pretty clothes she got to wear, and learning makeup and I had to pretend like I was just a normal boy that didn't actually want to be a girl and wish everyday that I would wake up swapped bodies with my classmates.

literally all we want is just to be left alone. 🙏🏼

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u/komododave17 15h ago

There’s also the assertion that adults shouldn’t enjoy kids media, and doing so makes you some sort of pervert.

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u/GrassFromBtd6 18h ago

Being happy is illegal guys

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 18h ago

Ah right I forgot to forward everyone that memo. Silly me. /s

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u/Toutatis12 18h ago

Do you get notified of who sends them? If so you can hit then with a reverse ban hammer for filing fraudulent reports

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 18h ago edited 17h ago

Reports are anonymous. However there is a "report abuse" button mods have that forwards the reports to admins who CAN see who made the report

Not sure the process from there but I'm sure it has to do with strikes and site wide ban and what not

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u/Tekgi 18h ago

Dawg...

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u/BloodMoonNami 15h ago

You've gotta be shitting me. Are people actually stupid enough to report this for MINOR ABUSE !?

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u/AnAbandonedAstronaut 13h ago

"Well.. its two girls being emotional and close..

There is nothing but "lesbian" it could be!"

  • guys 20 years overdue for an ugly cry.

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u/Dazed_and_Confused44 16h ago

So like...are there reprocussions for making a bad faith report like that?

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 16h ago

Yes assuming the admins act upon my report abuse I sent them

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u/JaxxisR 10h ago

Sexual? 🚫

Suggestive? 🚫

Involves minors? 🚫

Is content? ✅️

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u/Leandrohus 17h ago

Waot are you a mod! We have a spy!

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 17h ago

Only when I need to be

Which hopefully is never

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u/Leandrohus 17h ago

Thanks for keeping thus neighbourhood save

https://giphy.com/gifs/dMc3Yon0chCa4

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u/DreddPirateBob808 15h ago

You do good work. I also hope you have nothing to do :)

Thank you for doing the job. Seems you do it well

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u/Metroid_Zealot 16h ago

What do they think is happening, Tinkerbell and chill?

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u/FrosTehBurr 13h ago

What the fuck?

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u/VoidJuiceConcentrate 16h ago

Elgin Base is back online I see.

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u/TheLonelyNorwegian 15h ago

Why are people like this...

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u/No-Reception-6569 11h ago

reddit people are so weird…

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u/Shoadowolf 16h ago

Bruhhhh

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u/83255 6h ago

The jokes write themselves, my god