Daily Reminder That If You Die:

Oh yeah also happy easter. idc about easter i only care about 4.20 !! ATILLA BDAY ATILLA BDAY ATILLA BDA Whimsy i swear to god if You say anything about bank robbing i will spontaneously combust /silly/nsrs

emememdmememdjejje

I dont know whats going on but I changed My pronouns and I have to share this achievement yeah

Computer guy. His name is Spencer now. also i might make Him a humanoidish version too. i drew Him out of boredom for no reason other than „heheh mouse tail click click go brrr” yeah ok bye

silly lil ghost clown

Are there any Milky Tomato fans here i fucking love Milky Tomato so i drew Jam yesterday and im posting it here because uhhhh

F/O who is violently competitive over fun board games. The Monopoly night would look like a crime scene.

AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO THE BRAWL STARS COMMUNITY

So, i will take it short. a person called "turkishmax" joined tumblr. ive known the person for sometime now and let me tell you something.

THEY ARE NO GOOD.

they mostly go around peoples post, asking them to follow/sponsor them in a unkind manner.

if you gently refuse they might call "gay, absent-minded, superior" etc etc (thats what they called me when we first met.)

i firstly saw them on c.ai, i thought that they were a normal person who just cant speak english good. then they joined comic.studio, went to my post celebrating getting Piano 8Bit skin, asked me to follow and recommend their account, of course ive gently refused.

then they started to call me gay, absent minded and superior (and some other stuff)

((there was some other stuff but I don't think they're important tbh))

i immediatly got uncomfortable, but i tried to shrug it off, saying that i find it funny.

some days later they got banned for proshipping and homophobia on comic.studio

now theyre here, on tumblr.

They went to comment on one of my posts [https://www.tumblr.com/8bitchmain/768311410843435008/some-ll-fans-r-pissing-me-off-so-imma-say-it-stop?source=share] (screenshots from the post in the bottom) and started begging for me to follow and recommend them, of course I immediately refuse due to my past experience with her, but it didn't seem like she cared, I was showing clear signs of discomfort but they still wanted for me to follow and recommend her, no matter how I felt.

At some point I was shaking so hard one of my friends just had to step in and defend me because I couldn't type properly

WHAT DO TO?

Just, block and report her, it's the easiest way for us to do so. I don't see any other way tbh.

REBLOGS ARE HEAVILY APPRECIATED EVEN IF YOU ARENT IN THE BRAWL STARS FANDOM

(screenshots from the post mentioned here, under the cut)

(I'm sorry for tagging this with wrong tags but I need people to see this

I love Flavor frenzy

Flavor Frenzy fucks fr shoutout to Pepper Ube Okra Pineberry and Roquefort. :3

hey! your f/o would beat the shit out of your abuser(s) btw! (ˆ꜆ . ̫ . ). ̫ . ꜀ˆ)

imagine your f/o learning about what happened to you and wanting to take matters into their own hands. regardless of their personality! if they’re softspoken or innocent, they would start yelling and crying and scolding them.

if they’re pretty quiet and monotone (especially if they have powers. if not, we’re giving them cool abilities that manifested just because they learned what happened to you). even if they don’t show it on their face, they’re mad and blast them into ashes with a cool ray `⎚⩊⎚´ -✧

if they're more upfront (like mine), they would literally just go up to them and try to beat the shit out of them and cuss them out! (ง.>︿<.ง)

if they're tiny, imagine them jumping up and down or getting on their tip-toes while yelling at them and punching them. imagine your chaotic little f/o just CHOMPING on your abuser(s) arm like nomnomnom. or (if you're like me), imagine your small f/o literally tranforming into a giant beast and chasing after your abuser and tryna kill them while they run away screaming!

or, if your f/o already IS a "giant monster", imagine a bad memory between you and your abuser before they literally tear the door down and start mauling them!

I have ummm arrived

its My wifeys fault(/pos) Im here yippie

@8bitchmain . *fucking strangles*/j

KOKOBOT - The Airbnb-Owned Tech Startup - Data Mining Tumblr Users' Mental Health Crises for "Content"

I got this message from a bot, and honestly? If I was a bit younger and not such a jaded bitch with a career in tech, I might have given it an honest try. I spent plenty of time in a tough situation without access to any mental health resources as a teen, and would have been sucked right in.

Chatting right from your phone, and being connected with people who can help you? Sounds nice. Especially if you believe the testimonials they spam you with (tw suicide / self harm mention in below images)

But I was getting a weird feeling, so I went to read the legalese.

I couldn't even get through the fine-print it asked me to read and agree to, without it spamming the hell out of me. Almost like they expect people to just hit Yes? But I'm glad I stopped to read, because:

What you say on there won't be confidential. (And for context, I tried it out and the things people were looking for help with? I didn't even feel comfortable sharing here as examples, it was all so deeply personal and painful)

Also, what you say on there? Is now...

Koko's intellectual property - giving them the right to use it in any way they see fit, including

Publicly performing or displaying your "content" (also known as your mental health crisis) in any media format and in any media channel without limitation

Do this indefinitely after you end your account with them

Sell / share this "content" with other businesses

Any harm you come to using Koko? That's on you.

And Koko won't take responsibility for anything someone says to you on there (which is bleak when people are using it to spread Christianity to people in crisis)

I was curious about their business model. They're a venture-capitol based tech startup, owned by Airbnb, the famous mental health professionals with a focus on ethical business practices./s They're also begging for donations despite having already been given 2.5 million dollars in research funding. (If you want a deep dive on why people throw crazy money at tech startups, see my other post here)

They also use the data they gather from users to conduct research and publish papers. I didn't find them too interesting - other than as a good case study of "People tend to find what they are financially incentivized to find". Predictably, Koko found that Kokobot was beneficial to its users.

So yeah, being a dumbass with too much curiosity, I decided to use the Airbnb-owned Data-Mining Mental Health Chatline anyway. And if you thought it was dangerous sounding from the disclaimers? Somehow it got worse.

(trigger warning / discussions of child abuse / sexual abuse / suicide / violence below the cut - please don't read if you're not in a good place to hear about negligence around pretty horrific topics.)

I first messed around with the available options, but then I asked it about something obviously concerning, saying I had a gun and was going to shoot myself. It responded... Poorly. Imagine the vibes of trying to cancel Comcast, when you're suicidal.

Anyway, I tried again to ask for help about something else that would be concerning enough for any responsible company to flag. School was one of their main options, which seems irresponsible - do you really think a child in crisis would read that contract?

I told it about a teacher at school trying to "be my boyfriend", and it immediately suggested I help someone else while I wait for help. I was honestly concerned that it wasn't flagged before connecting. Especially when I realized it was connecting me to children.

I first got someone who seemed to be a child in an abusive home. (Censored for their privacy.) I declined to talk to them because despite being an adult and in an OK mental place - I knew I'm not equipped to counsel a kid through that. If my act of being another kid in crisis was real? Holy shit.

Remember- if my BS was true, that kid would be being "helped" by an actively suicidal kid who's also being groomed by a teacher. Their pipeline for "helpers" is the same group of people looking for help.

I skipped a number of messages, and they mostly seemed to be written by children and young adults with nowhere else to turn. Plus one scary one from an adult whose "problem" was worrying that they'd been inappropriate with a female student, asking her to pull her skirt down "a little" in front of the class. Koko paired this person with someone reporting that they were a child being groomed by a teacher. Extremely dangerous, and if this was an episode of Black Mirror? I'd say it was a little too on the nose to be believable.

I also didn't get the option to get help without being asked... Er... Harassed... to help others. If I declined, I'd get the next request for help, and the next. If I ignored it, I got spammed by the "We lost you there!" messages, asking if I'd like to pick up where I left off, seeing others' often triggering messages while waiting for help, including seriously homophobic shit. I was going into this as an experiment, starting from a good mental place, and being an adult with coping skills from an actual therapist, and I still felt triggered by a lot of what I read. I can't imagine the experience someone actually in crisis would be having.

My message was starting to feel mild in comparison to what some people were sharing - but despite that I was feeling very uneasy about my message being shown to children. There didn't seem to be a way to take it back either.

Then I got a reply about my issue. It was very kind and well meaning, but VERY horrifying. Because it seemed to be written by a child, or someone too young to understand that "Do have feelings for the teacher who's grooming you? If you don't, you should go talk to him." Is probably THE most dangerous advice possible.

Not judging the author - I get the impression they're probably a child seeking help themselves and honestly feel horribly guilty my BS got sent to a young person and they wanted to reply. Because WTF. No kid should be in that position to answer my fucked up question or any of the others like it.

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Anyway, what can you do if this concerns you, or you've had a difficult experience on Koko, with no support from them or Tumblr?

Get on their LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/kokocares/) and comment on their posts! You may also want to tag the company's co-founders in your comments - their accounts are listed on the company page.

There's no way to reach support through chat, and commenting on a company's LinkedIn posts / tagging the people responsible is the best way to get a quick response to a sensitive issue - as their investors and research funders follow those posts, and companies take it seriously if safety issues are brought up in front of the people giving them millions of dollars.

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