Perhaps the Arseholes reported the accounts (bc there were 5 accts that were obviously using IFTTT which is a business tool. But the max you can get is 100 per day) I noticed 3 of theirs doing the same. (GAGA fans are using these too.) Assuming there weren’t more.. they reported spam based on 200 tweets a day. However when you report something for spam.. you are reporting the # tags, so every account that uses those # a lot…. get suspended. (like mine even tho i had A fans blocked)
Yeah, they probably reported a bunch of tweets/accounts and it caught the tag, which punished everyone who used it.
All joking aside. I can’t figure out the logistics of this twitter thing. There’s plenty of bots. Russian bots. Normal bots. Bots all around. Also lots of people being assholes on Twitter. Ie, Donald Trump. Nothing of that nature or not very often are there suspensions and purges. It’s just really hard for me to wrap my head around all of this.
Yeah, it’s hard to think it was by accident. That many accounts, and from mostly one group. I mean…
This legitimately felt evil because twitter is a safe space for so many people. It’s a place they are allowed to be gay and can communicate with other gay people. To cut that off because of an MTV poll is just demonic flavored
To give them the benefit of the doubt, maybe it was just a few people, and maybe they only thought of it as a clever ploy in a poll war, not fully realizing the repercussions of people losing their accounts. Maybe. It is crossing a line and so unnecessary. Over a damn poll.
Is good to have the support people is giving the fandom right? Like is a shitty situation but still we are not alone. More and more people are showing to help. That’s kind of nice and never happen before to me
I know! That’s how I feel too! It’s a terrible situation but it’s been really heartwarming to see people, people in the public eye with those blue checkmarks who have nothing to gain and possibly something to lose from seeming to pick a side supporting us. This experience continues to be the wildest. 🙂
Is there any media outlet that covers fandom/geek culture that might be willing to write about this mess? That could help get it on the radar of MTV or make it harder for them to ignore.
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
Alternate accounts after the suspensioning
As you probably know by now, a whole slew of Juliantina accounts have been suspended from Twitter. No naming names but certain rival fans in the MTVMIAW polls did mention reporting them, so.
Here are some alternate accounts:
? ANNOUNCEMENT!
The account @BarbarenaUpdate is now, temporarily located at @BarbarenaUp @JuliantinaINTL is operating from THIS account ?? @JuIiantinaNews is now @juliantinavote
There’s also @JuliantinaFansO, the current account for JuliantinaFans, the biggest of the fan accounts.
I love that you’re into killing eve too because scrolling down your tumblr is a treat, pal. You’ve seen so many diverse femslash things, what’s your favorite thing about KE?
Ah, thanks!
Ooh, okay, so the first time I read this, I thought it was a more general question but favorite thing about KE specifically in the context of watching a lot of f/f? Hmmmm. There’s so many things to pick from, but I think what I’d go with is what encompasses all of it: that it has presented itself as a very fun, very good show about two women with a really unique dynamic and that I can trust it to be that?
Like, no doubt, it is a very good show, it has the cast, the writing, the budget, it wins awards and is regarded as prestige TV. But it’s one of the few shows like that where it gets to be irreverent and funny and most importantly, all that and about women. And with a clearly something f/f thread running through it. How rare is that (I ask as Gentleman Jack, the second show like it, is currently airing, lol)? I keep seeing people amazed at being considered the target audience for once, and really, it’s such an incredible experience. To have talented people with the support of their network say, for once, we see this in the same way you do. We’re almost never on the same page as the creators with resources. The more money that seems to be involved, the less we’re considered.
And when I say trust, I don’t mean I expect a happy ending, or not in a traditional sense anyway, but that’s not what it’s promising us. And maybe that even adds to the experience? It feels so comforting to be genuinely interested in what’s happening but not afraid, because of everything behind this, the quality, the focus on these two women as the leads, the understanding of what the show is.