Yesterday, after many years of watching it devolve and become more and more painful, I quit Twitter for good. I had spent years connecting with voice actors of Fire Emblem and Persona, and will miss doing so, but I had been posting from Faithful America petitions asking for social justice and was beginning to be mocked as the trending topics turned pro-Trump, pro-Nazi and pro-LGBTQ+ genocide. I began spending less time there and found myself the target of comments the website wouldn't reveal to me, meaning they were likely too extreme for its lack of rules. Musk, or MuX as I call him over his rebranding of the site, removed subscriptions on his birthday, making it hard to see what Tara Platt, Abby Trott and Miley Cyrus were saying.
MuX is, without question, a Nazi. He made charges on the blue checks solely to help fund Trump's campaign, believes Jews are lizard-men from below the Earth's surface, believes the only racism is against white people by minorities and has a trans daughter he deadnames and bought the website solely to punish. In my darker anxiety days, I believe his blue checks are the mark of the beast on the forehead and right hand spoken of in Revelation and soon, Trump will ensure no one will participate in the economy without one, which costs $11 a month. The only ones willing to give him that money are the already rich like musicians, those clinging to their identity like Critical Role and Fire Emblem's Joe Zieja or, of course, fanatical right-wing extremists with genocidal desires. It is sickening to watch these people openly discuss the removal of Jews, Muslims and the LGBTQ+ community and that African-Americans deserve to be second-class citizens. And the richest of them all, MuX, talks with them as one of them, because he is one.
It is through this website I found Tara's calm and Abby's silly side, as well as sweethearts Xanthe Huynh and Jeannie Tirado and Trekkie baseball fan Dorothy Fahn. My last post before my angry goodbye was to Dorothy, Abby and Tara, Funko Pops of Konan, Nezuko and Temari together, remembering Mercedes, Annette and Edelgard. I might've ticked Abby off by bringing up Annette so much, she is mainly focused on Nezuko now and didn't celebrate Three Houses' 5th anniversary, but if that's the case, I look forward to starting anew at a convention down the line. I just feel rotten because I thought me sharing Faithful America and what was important to me would stop the stereotype and make things better. But I can't deal with the genocidal hate on the website, and all I want is for the voice actors to make their BlueSky accounts active so I can see them without the tension of some radical troll trying to gore my innards or some bot giving me a false like.
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