I am so out of the loop that I just found out about the SPN tumblr trolling that had been (is?) going on--anon(s) trolling depressed fans and encouraging them (apparently with some small success) to commit suicide.
Has that been limited to SPN? I've seen tweets from Osric Chau and Mark Sheppard about #spnfamily trying to boost up fans.
Jilli got hit. And responded in the Jilli-set way possible.
The last I heard about it is, it's a set-up by a "fan", doing it for the lols. Fidiots.
Suzi, link!
Do you have a cite for that I can read, Beverly?
I'll scroll back--I noted but didn't reblog. It may take a little while.
Here you go. Opinion, but it makes sense to me.
My main question about the opinion is that it's motivated by "No one is paying attention to my tumblr!"
It's plausible, but so is the idea that one anon is running around being a grade A douchewad. It's not like suicide and tumblr never intersect.
True.
Honestly, I haven't seen it myself. But I'm not in the middle of fandom, so I don't see a lot of that stuff.
Don't know if this was a direct part of the hate in tumbler or if it just coincided timewise - [link]
I think it just coincided timewise.
I haven't seen any of this particular SPN flavor of douchtastic behavior, but I am only on the very fringes of SPN fandom.