yeah they're right. "multiplayer"? "singleplayer"? get that out of here. zero-player games only. hardcore gamers only play Conway's Game of Life with a randomised start
"we're going to moderate better i promise" is all well and good, and i do think it comes from an honest attempt to do better, but i gotta say it's kinda cold comfort now that we're several harassment-induced minor exoduses deep this year.
not to be the most cynical bitch alive or anything . but the fact that this lesson was not learned from any of the previous situations (including The Other Time Racists Dogpiled Renkon, Like, Less Than Two Months Ago) doesn't really paint a flattering picture. taken in the best faith possible, this is still pretty major incompetence and a clear failure to properly investigate situations they have support tickets for.
moving forward it seems they understand that this is a workload that is entirely impossible to shoulder on one person without them spontaneously combusting, but "volunteer moderator" is a dangerous badge to be potentially handing out, in particular when the new policy is literally presented as "get off my website, asshole". it's also sort of a hornet's nest of ethical concerns but like. we're already so far past the pale of that as it is.
i dunno. i hope that things meaningfully improve and the website becomes less hostile, but it feels a little late imo .
Someday there'll be a place online where black and brown people can talk without getting censored by mods or harrassed by other people on the site. If you wonder why POC build their own spaces all the time this is fuckin why
this shit has really been burning me out on jungle lately. i will love it forever but seeing it coopted into this bullshit has been so depressing. seeing this shit get turned into buzzwords by people like me like... jungle is one of the most revolutionary art forms in music history.
if youve never engaged with the first wave of jungle i encourage you too, this documentary is a good place to start:
you should also know there is huge revival scene bringing back the og sounds. people and labels like Tim Reaper/futureRETRO, Green Bay Wax, Scientific Wax, Deep Jungle, Infrared (to name a few among many many others) have been holding it down for years now. i may be like autistic but searching this shit out is not hard. jungle old and new deserves your respect. and it makes me mad that i have to tell you all this. it is much more than "peshay studio set 1996" and far far more than any number of youtube ps1 jungle compilations. that music is good and great but treating it as the be-all-end-all turns this art form into a meme. and it deserves far more than that.
if you don't know what Jordana did for jungle, or the price she paid for being Black and trans in the 90s, i got some history for you! (there's even an easter egg about this track in there~)
she's rejoined the seattle scene in the past few years and that alone brings me so much joy i cannot express it.
Tee Vera
DJ Asexual
(she primarily makes techno music but more recently has been venturing into Jungle ("part-time junglist," in their own words))
andrea_andrea
Qube Honey
Jungle and by extension Drum n Bass would not be what is without its black and queer artists like Jordana. The scene is alive and thriving and I hope more ppl can get acquainted with what the scene has evolved into~