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It's odd to me that anyone whose used social media and experienced harassment knows at a small scale it can be horrible and feel hard to manage. I don't know why we'd think it's possible to address that concern with people who are reaching potentially millions of people with their content. (Lorenz, who've talked to before and think is chill, is basically asking for mods.) It's like saying I need to be concerned about the mental health of the Pepsi brand, since people make fun of it on Twitter. I'm not saying people should be awful to famous people and that folks shouldn't take responsibility. But just that it's hard to conceive of having a platform being a two way street with that much traffic.

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I don't think it's annoying! And I tried to send this her way bc I don't think it's aggressive/combative-- what we're seeing with celebrities is just the tip of the iceberg. It's fanned out to any dissenter in the public eye, these days.

My working theory has been that stans are ideologically/spiritually driven, so it makes sense that it would spill over. I think the media/celebrity infrastructure has exacerbated the problem as well--with marketing and fandom management being a huuuge reason for the chaos. But it's not really acknowledged. I don't know if there's an answer, I don't think mods are it at all.

(sidenote, re: pepsi, I find it alarming that brand/corporate accounts are treated as more human than actual people's accounts these days. like we somehow prefer that package over the messiness of a real person.)

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Yeah, my gut reaction is always circuit breaker like solutions of limiting online usage or stuff like that but yeah the flattening of brands with real people accounts on social media is something I've grown more disgusted by over the years.

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