Happened to me last night. I blocked all of them. I think they’re trolls or bots. Maybe Elon’s evil minions. I’ve decided not to respond - just block. They claim I said things I didn’t say. It’s gaslighting 101. Just block them and move on.
Made that mistake a few days ago (in a reply to your post, sorry 😬) and it was like a beacon was sent out to the most annoying online guys. Never again.
After 30+ years of being a Too Online Person, my default position on spotting an anime avatar is to assume the person is an absolute shithead and/or an outright racist.
This is a little bit more anecdotal, but IME the trend of people using dead Black figures like MLK Jr, James Baldwin, Nelson Mandela, Patrice Lamumba etc. is pretty reliably *not* an actual Black person, but someone doing digital blackface.
just two days ago a white “anti racist” liberal was main character for accusing someone of doing digital blackface and it was a Black person who just don’t agree with her on something. so let’s also be careful to not give white people more passes to decide who is and isn’t Black
as a casual anime enjoyer i can confirm at least 80% of people with an anime profile picture cannot be trusted. Seriously I've heard some CRAZY stuff from some people
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Vegeta? Douchebag.
Spike Spiegal? Douchebag with massive insecurity.
Gendo Ikari? Douchebag with enormous insecurity.
Sailor Uranus? Get in my DMs this instant, uwu
This impulse is rarely proven wrong!
Almost always has some Nazi views