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Damn Anon, before speaking you must learn to read a website's TOS. AO3 does not host this kind of content. It's literally written:

The Archive of Our Own is a place for fanworks. Content may not be uploaded to OTW's servers if it contains or links to child pornography (images of real children); warez, cracks, hacks or other executable files and their associated utilities; trade secrets, restricted technologies, or classified information; or if it consists entirely of actual instruction manuals, technical data, recipes, or other non-fanwork content, including non-fanwork creative work

Unless, of course, they're talking about fanfictions with fictional characters who experience fictional events…

You and I both know very well they were talking about fictional characters who experience fictional events within fictional literature. We also both know very well they cannot read.

Anyway. Death to Wattpad and long live AO3.

"AO3 is a broken site" is one hell of a way to admit you're too dumb to figure out how the filtering system works

Skill issue confirmed.

I love that no matter what social website you go on (except Facebook fuck you) has a Haiku bot. Its just universal. Your website is not worthy of its internet presence until you have one.

Virtue signalling becomes "bad" when it becomes weaponised or used in place of actual activism. There's absolutely nothing wrong with signalling your stances, virtues and morals to other people or expressing support for something or someone.

Unfortunately, a lot of people use virtue signalling as a means of pressure, targeting, and other unpleasant behaviors.

For example; "if you don't use this Facebook profile frame you're clearly a horrible person who doesn't give a fuck about veterans and can't be bothered to do one tiny thing to show support!"

Or; "if you're too lazy to tell everyone all the time that you're not a pedophile I'm going to automatically assume you're a pedophile."

When people use virtue signalling to harass others, apply pressure to them to conform to expectations or to be awarded basic decency is when virtue signalling becomes something that is harmful rather than something that is beneficial.

Virtue signalling in terms of things like profile frames and window stickers is a fun, sweet way of showing support and raising awareness, but it isn't a moral obligation nor is it paramount activism. Especially when it becomes a consistent expectation that you absolutely must participate in every single public signalling trend or be condemned.

Am I the only person who doesn’t think ‘virtue signaling’ is inherently bad/useless? That post talking about FB frames is so bizarre to me because to me that’s like. Walking past a business with a rainbow flag flying. That was genuinely incredibly important to me as a terrified closeted teen! And someone having a Facebook frame for the same reasons is like - hey that’s one person who doesn’t want me to change or die! I don’t think that’s ’doing nothing’.

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I hate Instagram

Every social media platform has muppets like these. I usually just report their comments as spam and false information then block them.

Honestly, if you get these kinds of comments on any of your posts, don't engage. Literally just delete them and block the commenter. They're looking for an argument. They're looking for an opportunity. They want to grandstand and virtue signal. Just don't let them. Trap them in their own little sandbox where they only have each other to sound off against.