I've actually seen blogs on tumblr dedicated to reporting Ao3 to the feds and trying to bring this site down because they don't like the content posted... I mean, there's filters for a reason.
I'm guessing it's people who oppose the existence of fics about rape, abuse, pedophilia, torture, murder, etc etc. People like that have always been around and are half the reason the OTW exists in the first place.
The issue isn't that they don't know how to use filters or just "don't like, don't read". The issue, for them, is that the content exists *at all*. It's a moral purity crusade against anything they deem "problematic". The most hypocritical part of it is that they'll see no wrong in sending death or rape threats or telling people to kill themselves as long as the target is somebody who likes whatever they've deemed worthy of crusading against.
They also like to chuck "pedophilia" as an accusation at any kind of ship they don't like that involves any degree of age gap, regardless of if it's actually pedophilia. It's their catch-all "gotcha!" card they use because they assume nobody can fight back against that kind of accusation.
This website has an "underaged" tag thats often used for explicit works, that's pretty pedophillic. I might be a user of this site but it does have problems.
I've never seen these people send rape threats or death threats, but if they do then they're hypocrites and go against everything they want to stop.
And if that is true, Anti-Antis are just as bad as Antis with death threats, believe me lmao
[For some reason this refused to recognize I was logged in, replying again because I'd rather my actual username attached to my commentary]
The issue isn't that they don't know how to use filters or just "don't like, don't read". The issue, for them, is that the content exists *at all*. It's a moral purity crusade against anything they deem "problematic". The most hypocritical part of it is that they'll see no wrong in sending death or rape threats or telling people to kill themselves as long as the target is somebody who likes whatever they've deemed worthy of crusading against.
They also like to chuck "pedophilia" as an accusation at any kind of ship they don't like that involves any degree of age gap, regardless of if it's actually pedophilia. It's their catch-all "gotcha!" card they use because they assume nobody can fight back against that kind of accusation.
As others have said, this is one of the reasons the AO3 was created and 'we own the servers' was a rallying cry, was that no one could go on some kind of crusade against fanworks and get them pulled down (as actually happened on LJ more than once, and not just there; Dreamwidth had a lot of trouble getting credit card payments set up for similar reasons).
One person's 'weird and creepy' is another person's 'teenagers doing normal teenage things' and yet another person's 'thoughtful exploration of difficult issues and trauma.' I'm really glad the AO3 doesn't set itself up as any kind of moral arbiter of what those things are. That's what the required labels/CNTW are for, so I can make that call myself.
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