Artists, there’s a scam going around on Twitter at the minute, and you never know, someone might try it over here.
This guy is messaging commissioning artists and attempting to gain access to their PayPal by pretending to need a code to pay the bill. Obviously we all know that’s bull, but if someone isn’t paying attention, is unfamiliar with PayPal commissions as a whole, or is just desperate enough for that commission money? They might fall for it. OP’s tweet here.
PayPal will not require a code for someone to complete payment.
It’s just not how it works, I know it, you know it, the scammer knows it. But he’s gambling on the potential that someone (and that someone is mostly likely to be a young, new artist without much commission experience under their belt, let’s be honest) doesn’t know it. Let’s make sure everyone does. So if you’d be so kind, please boost the everliving hell out of this. Don’t let anyone fall prey to this shady, shady individual, either here or on twitter or anywhere else.
if youre an adult and still worried about aphobia in 2018 i am asking you to go get some help because if a nonexistent form of oppression youre RPing gives you that much stress i dont know how youll manage when confronted with actual problems in your life (or how youll confront the problems that are mislabeled as ‘aphobia’). and like if it were just you wasting your own time i wouldnt care but adults in the community using their positions of authority to scare impressionable kids into thinking the world hates them for not having sex is really nasty. like i know theyre convinced that theyre doing good but its still really fucked up regardless of intentions and everyones got enough to worry about as is
Aphobes really have deluded themselves into thinking they’re righteous, haven’t they? The word of some lonely, bitter 20-year-old white blogger is held up to be the revolution of the hour. Complete with the wrong definition of asexuality.
Your ‘ace discourse’ has devolved to the point where you mock “young people who don’t want to have sex” as if there aren’t any very dangerous, very real problems that might arise from that. If you had any shred of human compassion, you’d recognize them. But no, all you’re concerned about is circulating the same few tumblr fake-aspec troll posts as if they’re the epitome of aphobia.
Meanwhile, the real apec community is teaching ourselves how to combat intersectional oppression that your white ass couldn’t understand. Don’t talk like you know ‘oppression’ when you say us professionalhistorians, lgbt+newssources, activists of color, and university funded doctoratedissertations are delusional. I heard words exactly like yours when I was identifying as nonbinary and bisexual. I didn’t believe them then, I won’t believe them now.
It doesn’t take more than a little digging to find professional activists that talk about facing and researching institutional aphobia. You’d know that, if you weren’t locked in your echo chamber of internet edginess. But it takes a lot of toxic gall to tell people suffering from aphobia to ‘find help’, because funnily enough, that’s exactly what we’re doing. Just not the way you want.
It’s easy enough to claim something doesn’t ‘count’ as oppression. People do it all the time, whether they’re conservative incels or edgy radicals. But as an activist against aphobia, I’ve spent many painful years healing from a lost childhood, navigating through a world that hunts me, and preparing for an unsafe future. And I’ve decided to share what I’ve learned with the world.
Because face it - what you really want is for aspec people to straight up not exist. And your way of achieving that? Trying to erase the growing number of aspec people bonding together, creating and sharing important resources, and helping each other grow. If you can look at the small fraction of aspec media I’ve included in this post, and still think ‘adults worried about aphobia’ should be ignored, you’re the one that needs help.
