i hate seeing a name that i recognize on the internet and my brain trying to check the database of "people i really shouldn't be following or reposting."
like, there are some people that i would not want to repost, regardless of the content of the specific post. there are legitimately bad people out there!! and i don't want to be associated with them or have their dumb shit in my brain!!
but the list of people who i vaguely associate with unspecified "abuse" is much much longer than that and because all of the information i got was from vagueposting on twitter, it's (a) not reliable, (b) not specific, and (c) not even something i remember that well!!
and the problem is that some of it is definitely true!! there are some bad people out there!!! but the internet has filled my head with rumors and misinformation so i never know when to actually believe the little alarm in my head that says "this person bad." and so i default to Just Not Doing It which isn't that big of a deal but like
it just sucks. i just hate that the toxicity of tumblr and twitter has formed a base camp in my head that i can't safely expunge because there's actual, real data in there that's useful.
anyway just like, a weird internet-specific problem, or maybe not i dunno maybe this was something that happened before the internet too.
also this isn't about anyone specific, it's just something that occurred to me. i am not vagueposting about a specific incident at all. i just randomly got annoyed about it lol