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People who grew up really poor: what's something middle-class people say that instantly reveals they've never struggled?

‘I do not respect this false advertising’ So fun fact. It’s not advertising, it’s a tagging system, and it’s up to the discretion of the author. Also, you’re not a customer. I’m not getting paid. This isn’t an airport, no need to announce your departure.

The Zoomer hatred of AO3 - a very popular fanfic archiving site - is pretty hilarious. Basically, AO3 was created by Gen Xers in response to a massive adult fanfiction purge on LiveJournal. Its entire mission statement is to avoid moralistic censorship. And many Zoomers, as the New Puritans, periodically get into these spirals of mouth-frothing moral outrage about how it allows for all sorts of immoral (fictional) content. So, when they's a donation drive, they try and browbeat people into not participating. (While still using the site, naturally, because this sort are ungrateful parasites of the highest order.) But AO3 always surpasses their donation targets, and I suspect at least some of those donations are made out of spite towards to pearl-clutching scolds. Revealed preferences in action. I can't say I don't understand where some of this outrage is coming from - while most of the content there is harmless, there's a small pool of truly depraved stuff. But the nonprofit who runs the site explains their reasoning as wanting to avoid a slippery slop. And now that Zoomers (and some Millennials) want to report otherwise perfectly innocuous content for featuring characters visiting Israel or whatnot, you can see why the Organization of Transformative Works hold so firm. They'd rather some truly heinous (and generally very unpopular) works get put up than have moralizing TOS that can be abused by bad faith actors. Naturally, they accuse the OTW of being "Zionists". For the crime of having principles that resist their totalizing moral outrage, presumably, and definitely not because one of their co-founders (Naomi Novik, a very accomplished American fantasy author who got her start writing fanfic) is half Jewish.

No its not the phones there are no places for young people to hang out anymore it isnt the 2000s anymore

i had this fic in my bookmarks to read and one of my friends told me that there is abuse in this fic, where ilya yells at shane and even shoves him. i hate to be this person but that is not tagged AT ALL. as a DV survivor, abuse and DV are insanely triggering to me. that’s why tags exist. Please make sure you’re tagging correctly so people see staying safe. learn how to tag correctly or don’t post fics.