probably because that post was too good for this world
basically it explained how, back in 2012 when Universal Studios made an animated film rendition of The Lorax, tumblr found this gangly green noodle attractive:
and developed a unilateral obsession with him overnight, spilling into deviantart and youtube in a tidal wave of art, fanfiction, cosplay, etc.
However, Universal made the mistake of providing n o t h i n g for these fans to ship him with. There was nobody attractive enough, relevant enough, in-his-timeline enough, or not-related-to-him enough to have a stable ship. This was the spark of the spiral for the fans looking for romantic or adult content. As I told Ni: “– eventually they reared their heads back, in uniform, like a massive eldritch ouroboros, and began shipping him. With himself.”
Classic Oncelers, Greedy green-suited Oncelers (Greedlers), robot Oncelers, pimp Oncelers, old Oncelers, young Oncelers, the 1972 book version Onceler, AU Oncelers of every conceivable origin – everyone was shipped with everything. “Oncest” was coined. Look. At. This. Shit.
There was also some other golden stuff, including but not restricted to Glovecest, Empted:
and my personal favorite by the mere fact of its existence: “Money on Wheels” – a pairing that is “a personification of money and the onceler’s racecar bed”
This was a fandom scraping the bottom of the barrel and it is one of the most fascinating internet phenomenon I have ever fucking witnessed. I am obsessed with the fact that it even fucking happened at all because I’ve never seen anything else like it.
And the most interesting thing about it? It’s like it NEVER HAPPENED. The fandom just DROPPED OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH suddenly and you can’t help but feel like the whole thing was some surreal jarring nightmare.
“This has become a community crisis, America is in crisis. There is an Once-ler Fetish that has gone out of control.” -
Ed Helms, voice of the Onceler during a Q&A twitter session during the height of the fever. I’m not joking.
This is a good example of what pisses me off the most about these whiny teenagers crying about “men sexualizing fandoms” and allegedly making them “unsafe for children”. Women and teenage girls sexualized a fucking DR. SEUSS CHARACTER. The next time anyone whines about “gross men” making NSFW fan art for cartoons or animated movies, just reply with one word: “Oncest”.
>didn’t kill anyone
>not a single person hurt by this guy
Ah. Yes. What a fool I am. Clearly. This man is not mentioned at all. Obviously because he is white.
(even though if you type in Santa Monica into google the results are nothing except news stories regarding this prick and what he almost did)
(Shhh…. Don’t question the narrative or you’ll break it!)
And how foolish of me. To not realize. That this guy who didn’t actually hurt anyone. IS COMPARABLE TO THE MUSLIM EXTREMIST WHO HURT AND KILLED OVER 100 FUCKING PEOPLE!
I can’t reblog the original post because @myactivism blocked me. Likely because she’s a cowardly old hag, who knows the bullshit she spews is completely false.
A guy who tried to kill a bunch of people and was stopped isn’t going to get anywhere near as much media attention as a guy who successfully killed over 50 people and injured about 50 more, and race doesn’t have a single goddamn thing to do with it.
IT’S CALLED COMMON SENSE.
Tumblr, for the love of God stop turning everything into a fucking race issue, ESPECIALLY WHEN PEOPLE ARE FUCKING DEAD, BECAUSE THIS ISN’T ABOUT YOU!
Please don’t detract from what’s important by bringing race or religion into this because neither of these were about those. The fact of the matter was that both of these people managed to get their hands on many weapons and were targeting the LGBT community. If you keep detracting from that by making this about race or religion then you’re no better than trump who was congratulating himself for his islamphobia.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT RACE OR RELIGION THIS IS ABOUT HOMOPHOBIA AND LACK OF GUN CONTROL.
I want bigots to feel unsafe expressing their bigoted views. I want people to feel like their social circle and family will judge them, I want them to feel like they might lose their job and face financial ruin.
I want the world to be very unsafe and unwelcoming to those who’s “views” undermine the safety and existence of other people.
So don’t tell me not to fight fire with fire, I WANT to burn this shit down. I want to have so much pre-emptive and reactionary hatred for bigots that they feel unsafe, that they taste just a little of what their hatred brings to the lives of others.
I don’t want to Mother Theresa people, I don’t want to hold hands, sing kumbaya and guide people see my viewpoint. I want to create a world where their bigoted viewpoints are seen as inherently disgusting and these kinds of people are pushed to the fringe of society and we all view them with scorn.
I don’t need to change, people don’t need to change who they fundamentally are to fit into the world of a bigot and we don’t need to earth mother this bullshit and lead them there on a cloud of endless patience and internalised screaming.
So I’ll fight hate with hate, fire with fire, I’ll hate every bigot with passion and set fire to the very institutions that shelter them and take pleasure in salting the goddamn Earth with their tears.
It’s ironic that by doing exactly what you are describing makes you appear as a condescending bigot. You don’t make a difference, you make punchlines.
Lol, the “being intolerant of intolerant people is just as bad!” crowd never gets more original.
If your views jeopardise the lives and safety of other people you damn RIGHT I’m going to be intolerant, of course I’ll hate you. You’re a piece of shit and you make the world a more terrible place just by existing in it.
You can fight fire with fire, it’s called a firebreak. You can also drown fire with water, or smother fire with sand, or stomp fire out.
But standing there and asking fire nicely to stop burning all you hold dear doesn’t work very well.
Anyone who still adds onto this post to say that being intolerant of bigots is “just as bad” after what happened yesterday can go straight to hell
there’s a difference between being completely done with bigots and people actually killing us. we have every right to be pissed. we have every right to be absolutely done. We have every right to make homophobes uncomfortable by lumping them with in the same group as the homophobe who killed all our people. To every bigot out ther, we will stop being pissed and making you feel bad for shit when you stop killing us. We won’t stop until we are actually truly safe.
i’m so so sad for other lgbt people (especially youth) who were excited to go their first pride this year and are now terrified to go or are cancelling their plans. i’m sorry that these spaces were taken from you before you could really use them. i’m so sorry that avoiding safe spaces has become a survival tactic.
