Honestly, even if what Predstrogen had said was a grotesque, genuine death threat, the fact that Matthew is surprised by the Tumblr userbase defending a “death threat” (in his eyes, anyway) shows just how truly disconnected he and the Tumblr Staff are from the userbase. I mean, if he’s shocked Tumblr users are fine with death threats, despite it being a relatively surface level inside joke on Tumblr for years, then there might just be a flickering chance that he and Staff genuinely didn’t know about the TERF problem and Automated Moderator abuse simply by how absolutely numb and ignorant they are towards the site’s general users and discussions.
