I dunno, bud, there don’t seem to be many publications that take notice of fandom drama except to make fun of it, and there are even less who would look to see what’s going on in a foreign-based shipwar where the wronged party is f/f.
Autostraddle might be the most likely to write about it but they don’t really hold much sway. The Mary Sue would have more but they’re so random with which angle they take, HuffPo is even more hit or miss. I don’t know about any of the others who’d pick this up.
Regardless, in the time since you’ve sent this, hours ago, some heroes have showed up.
Kinda randomly (to me) Dana Piccoli tweeted!
Like, fair point. These are accounts people have curated over years, and I’d feel like crap if I lost my Tumblr because I participated in something while following the rules.
Then, Maca showed up!
I can’t help but adore that, seeing all these fans go crying to her and she’s like oh nooo, don’t worry, Mama’s gonna fix this. And she has seemed to call in whatever help she can. A few of her friends have tweeted, but best of all, my new favorite person, Andrea Escalona, one of the hosts on Hoy.
A whole bunch of tweets like this:
But you’ll notice what she DOESN’T mention? Any other fandom. And yet, they flooded her with accusations.
Which was pretty awesome of her, lol, but has now made her a major target of them.
Anyway, that’s where we’ve landed at for now. I think another thing that would make it hard for this to get picked up by media is that we don’t actually know what happened. Exactly who got suspended, how many accounts, why? It does look super suspicious, though, how many of ours specifically got suspended and they’re provably not bots, they’re huge fandom accounts and small personal ones, like…it’s ridiculous to say these accounts were bots, and it’s ridiculous to say they were spamming when others have been doing exactly the same thing, or even better.
Here’s a more comprehensive list of the suspended accounts and their hopefully temporary replacements. Reading down the list, gosh, that’s a lot: https://twitter.com/altduraznito/status/1129074989947346945