REMEMBER ACE DAY IS ON THE 6th!!! (April 2025 or any year)

UM GUYS. I JUST NOTICED A CRAZY ISSUE W THE TUMBLR UPDATE.

YOU CAN SEE THE ICONS OF ANONS SOMETIMES.

The way I was able to recognize several anons in one of my inboxes bc of this error. Oh my god. Guys. This isn’t supposed to happen.

Weighing in to say:

YES, I SEE THIS ON MOBILE. HOWEVER I DO **NOT** THINK IT'S SHOWING THE ANON'S REAL IDENTITY.

The profile pictures I see next to anon asks are profile pictures that belong to other, non-anon asks in my ask box also. Some info

I think the bug is the inbox INCORRECTLY attributing anons to neighboring, logged-in asks.

Which is still a bad bug! Considering it makes it look like a long-time follower of mine sent me a spam ask.

And is worse if, say, one of these was anon hate.

But it's NOT the anon's real identity. It's a neighboring ask asker's identity

So if you have anon hate in your inbox that looks like it's attributed to your dear friend, who sends you lovely asks all the time, it was Not them.

CONFIRMED THE BUG IS INCORRECT ATTRIBUTION.

Thanks @thepatchycat for being a test subject. As you can see the icon being attributed to this ask is NOT the patchy cat

The pictured icon belongs to @watchingforcomets who sent me a nice ask about nail polish yesterday which I have not yet answered!

encourage LESBIANISM

Ice cold takes from a Transgender Woman:

Anyone can be

Non-Binary, there is no

“look” or requirement

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

"watch tsams game videos y’all. You HAVE to do it for them!"

No, youtube is a plateform of entertainement. If im not entertained, im not watching, its as simple as that

And it may sounds selfish or irritating but i know more than half of the people reading this dont watch their games video either, or not all of them either. Im just sayin out loud what some people dont want to say so they dont sound mean. (Im not og i know some people talked about it too but like only 2 person out of God knows how many people who are begging for redd and davis)

I dont understand this guilt trip so many people are spamming in the #s since 2 days like what?

Also i want to point out something that will give an answer to some people. Tsams is getting less attention because its not getting new fans, most fans are here since one year or more (MOST fans not all of them), so they grow older and have less time to spare to watch the show, or they are getting more interested by others stuff like other fandom, or even stuff in real life. WHICH IS TOTALLY VALID.

Anyways, if it may ring a bell in a better way for some of y’all : forcing or guilt tripping people into watching videos is not fun

Its as simple as that. Dont get me wrong, tsams is a nice show, but people may have not as much free times as you do.

PREACH and thank you

People move on and start having less time and that’s understandable. I’ve been getting a bit less interested in tsams and been forcing more on eaps and fajs (and fandoms outside of that) and it’s pretty refreshing for me. Again people do want you want and have fun

HERE HE COMES

HERE HE COMES

HERE HE COMES

HERE HE COMES

HERE HE COMES

HE HAS ARRIVED

"I want to be a dragon."

Please watch their gaming videos :.) They are always so funny!

im begging please watch the gameplay. they have so much potential for art and animatics...

I love listening to these in the bg while I'm at work and it's gonna suck if they're gone.

davis and reed already expect it to be the final gameplay video and that's soul crushing 💀😭

I feel like the abandonment of the face tracking models was the sign that they were pulling back from the gaming videos. I don’t like the Png tubers. It just looks cheap. Also I’m wondering if the company that backs the channel hasn’t been willing at any point to buy them games to play so it’s just been whatever the VAs had or could afford?

When Game Grumps started to take off they asked the fans to send them stuff to play. And some of my favorite videos of theirs were them attempting NES/SuperNES or old computer games.

It’s too bad they didn’t do an open call like that. Especially when there are all kinds of weird things on Steam that the fans could have gifted them. I really miss the ‘three scary games’ episodes for this reason.

But the gaming videos were the reason I started watching TSAMS! It was Eclipse’s little peek out during the Teardown vids that enticed me to give the lore part a shot. And abandoning that part of the channel also means more pressure on the writers because they never get a break from the lore videos. >:(

And the constant pressure from the VA being "if we don't get a trillion views on this gaming video within the first five minutes, I guess we'll never play another game ever again and it'll be your fault" ain't helping.

I get their own bitterness, being on pressure to entertain and have to obey the directions given to them for max algorithm, ain't fun. Not when also getting chewed out by fans too, while not getting the numbers required. It makes it all less fun to do, while they scramble to just stay productive.

But the tone getting passed on to the viewers gets to me sometimes

Also they can't keep shaming/blaming and soliciting their audience for views even if the company tells them that's something they need to do. It's directly against YouTube's terms of service.

And directly blaming the audience is a very bad look.

I remember once during a Livestream they said "just mute the video and play it on repeat at 2x speed"

This is directly against the terms of service to ask your Audience to do that.

It's called soliciting for views.

Not only that it's deeply unprofessional and it says to me "we don't care what we make for this channel at all, as long as your watching it "

I'm sure that wasn't the intention. It's just deeply unprofessional and disrespectful to their audience and I really hope they stop saying things like this that can get their channel terminated if they're not careful.

Is not a funny gag, is annoying and disrespectful.

I'm sure they are under a lot of stress and very frustrated with getting the same messages over and over again. Both from the company above and the masses of fans.

Venting your frustrations by blaming the viewers and try play it off as a gag and character trait of being "rude for lolz" ain't really excusable.

It just alienates the fans

what.

how i'm handling my students using AI to write papers:

-don't accuse them on using AI from the get-go and instead ask them to informally define all the huge words that they used in their essay which i know they don't know the meaning of

-ask to see their original file where they "wrote" the essay. go to version history to see if it was just copy and pasted and then just edited a bit. i keep an eye out for the shit like "certainly! here's an essay about...."

-if they own up to it, they can re-do the assignment for a higher grade even if there will be an automatic penalty. if they don't, i process it like plagiarism and get my supervisor involved.

And this is much better than the immediate accusations. Some students have a good vocabulary. Stop accusing them of faking their essays without proof, and this is a good way to check.

Fellow students please stop using AI, go back to promising not to kill the school nerd if they do all your homework or something.

Farewell online privacy

What happened?

Trump happened.

just get a VPN?

You can’t just tell people to ‘get a VPN (Virtual Private Network)’. Buying a VPN is like buying a house. It’s very very important. Having no VPN or having a ‘wrong’ one can seriously damage your life. Especially for Americans because their privacy laws are garbage. I am going to try explain why you should get a VPN but bare with me, I am from Germany and my English is far from perfect. 

Let’s start with a simple test. Click this link here: https://whatismyipaddress.com/ It will tell your IP adres, your ISP (internet service provider), and your location. The location might not be very accurate, but then again, it’s just a simple website. Imagine what the government can do!

So basically, everyone can find out where you live. But there is more danger. Your ISP. Your ISP logs your every move online and they are required to keep it in case the government wants access to it (or if a 3rd party wants to buy your data (yikes). They have everything. What websites you visit. How long you stay on a website. What you download. Your search terms. European laws are more subtle on this but if you are from the US you are #@*#&, especially because Trump doesn’t support the open internet. It’s scary but maybe in the future you can’t get a job because the recruiter knows your searched on ‘how to deal with depression’ or anythings else that’s supposed to be private because it’s your f*cking right. Or you get a $100k fine because you pirated a movie 15 years ago. You need a VPN. You’re dumb for not using one. but what does a VPN do?

A VPN encrypts all your data so if it were be intercepted no one can ‘crack the code’ and damage your privacy. 

Usually being online goes like this (simplified): Your computer —-> ISP (—–> keeps data —–> sells it)

But with a VPN it goes like: Your computer —–> VPN (encrypts data)—–> ISP (ISP can’t see shit)

Furthermore, a VPN hides your IP address and location by giving you another IP address located in Spain for example (you can often choose from a list and change as many times as you want).  

Now that you know why you should get a VPN and what is does it is important to educate yourself because people often choose the wrong VPN. VPN providers are also businesses and have to obey the law. If you choose a VPN provider located in the US then you are throwing your money away because the laws in the US shits on your privacy. If the US gov wants the provider to give all their logs they have to obey.  The ISP  still can’t see what you are doing online and sell your data but the US gov can interfere with your VPN provider so NEVER CHOOSE A PROVIDER LOCATED IN THE US. 

I just wanted to make that very clear so my followers don’t buy false security.

There is still more danger!  Who says your VPN provider isn’t selling your data? You need to check their logging policy. Do they keep logs? If yes, what for? For how long do they keep them? Tip: Choose a provider who doesn’t keep logs

More about law  The US is part of the Five Eyes program (the worst):  

The Five Eyes, often abbreviated as FVEY, is an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. These countries are bound by the multilateral UKUSA Agreement, a treaty for joint cooperation in signals intelligence (source)

There is also a Nine Eyes (bit better) and Fourteen Eyes Program (better).  You don’t want a VPN provider who is located in one the Five Eyes countries.  If you had to choose go for a provider located in a country that’s part of the Fourteen Eyes Program or even better, go for a country that isn’t part of any program! 

I know this is a shitty explanation and please pardon my english but now it’s time to do your own research. Take your privacy seriously. Maybe WWIII breaks out and you get killed for liking the ‘wrong’ FB-page.  

Go to this website: https://thatoneprivacysite.net/simple-vpn-comparison-chart/

Make sure that your future VPN provider both has green boxes for Privacy Jurisdiction and Privacy Logging. 

I recommend ovpn.se and trust.zone. ovpn is located in Sweden so they are part of the 14 Eyes Program and they keep minimal logs. Their business ethics, however, are alright. 

Trustzone is located in the Seychelles. No country can interfere and their privacy jurisdiction is the best you can get. The US want your data but needs to get it from Trustzone? The Seychelles will simply give them the finger and wave them goodbye. However, this makes this provider very appealing for people who torrent and criminals because they keep no logs (and that is how it shoud be) Also,  there are almost no marketing efforts so this provider is one the cheapest)

Also, often providers such as ExpressVPN are being called ‘The Best’ on websites about VPNs but know that this is just marketing which also makes those provider more expensive (and they too shit on your privacy)

This must be the worst article you have ever read but please, please take your privacy very seriously.

EDIT: I got many people asking me which provider I use. For those who want to know, I use Trust Zone. They offer a free 3-day trial with no strings attached. But still do your own research! 

I am also with Trustzone but I think you forgot to explain one of it’s most important features. It protects you when you are using someone else’s Wi-Fi. If you are at Starbucks and you use their Wi-Fi your privacy is at risk. Anyone with ill intentions could steal your information. Especially if you are using an unsecured Wi-Fi hotspot. With a VPN your data gets encrypted so no one can steal it. 

Wait, what’s going, on? Did trump destroy internet privacy with a bill or something? Where’s the news? Oh wait, why am I getting visions of Alex Jones and selling water purifiers?

He hasn’t yet but he says he wants to. And if he is serious about it it would be really easy to do. Since all our data is already recorded, as the person above explained.

Trump wants more surveillance of Muslim Americans. This in a country where internet privacy is already close to non-existent. 

Trust.Zone has a free trial. Use it. 

btw this post only has 11k notes? That’s quite disappointing for something this important. 

Don’t reblog this post to save a life. Reblog this to protect an entire family!

@earth-ruins @writing-prompt-s Should I get trustzone for my mobile device?

If you use public Wi-Fi, then yes. Which VPN you use is up to you, amigo. Take @earth-ruins advice. Do your own research first. 

@elvesfromthedeep​ just brought the current situation in the US to my attention (March 30, 2017). 

Sources

To all my friends in the US, please read this entire post. Making everyone aware of VPNs is going to be my mission. Your privacy matters. Please reblog this post.

Don’t tell me you just wanted to scroll past this. Stop looking at pictures of cats for a moment, okay? Don’t you realize how important this is? This is dangerous! ‘America, the best FREE country in the world’ my ass.

With this new law your ISP can sell your Internet history which could include passwords, usernames, religion, credit card numbers, race and much more to the highest bidder. So here is what I want you to do. You are going to read the whole thing and before you think ’this is so important. Let me reblog this real quick and go back to admiring cats again-’ NO! Don’t reblog this. Take action first. Then reblog. Sign up for a free trial! Trust.Zone offers one (here). Yes. It might be difficult to set up a VPN for some people. But is that going to stop you from protecting yourself and your family? 30 minutes. 30 minutes is all that it takes. 5 if you know how to install software. The problem with some of you is that you see ‘difficult’ as something negative. I want you to see difficult differently. I need you to push through this stuff. You are going to protect yourself. There is nothing negative about that. VPNs are fun and costsaving too! A VPN bypasses geographical restrictions so you can access websites you normally can’t or you could start Netflix’s one month free trial over and over again- forever. And it’s legal! (unless you use it to buy weapons etc.,) Don’t tell yourself that you are too tired and that you will do this tomorrow. Because that isn’t going to happen and you know it. You have to do this right now. You only have to click on it. Don’t let this/shit/life just happen to you. Take yourself seriously. Get a VPN.

Privacy is not a privilege, it’s a fundamental human right

Hey is thatoneprivacysite still good? The link works and it does take me to an article about vpns, but it just looks like an ad for expressvpn with extra steps.

No they switched to https://thatoneprivacysite.xyz/#simple-vpn-comparison a couple years ago

I had Trust.Zone when this post first started making the rounds on Tumblr and I forgot about it after Biden took office. I recently sent them an email asking why my subscription wasn’t automatically renewed and why their website hasn’t changed since 2017(?). Their answer:

Shady people, good people, this company only cares about privacy and doesn’t care who it serves. But now with Trump and Musk this is the only VPN I’ll use.

I understand some people might not want to use this VPN on moral grounds, but it’s genuinely one of the very few VPNs set up in a way that no authority can touch you. ExpressVPN and other ‘popular’ options operate in jurisdictions favorable for profits but their privacy is just a band-aid our government can easily rip off if it demands information. I’m a trans man, I’m afraid of our government, and at this point, I simply don’t care anymore.

For a second I was like noooooo, not this long post again! Haven’t seen it in years and I always thought it was a bit extreme and exaggerated. Now that we are in 2025, I am like, nahh, these people knew what they were talking about all along. First time I am reblogging this.

Also I don’t think anyone has said this yet but the free trial only requires an email address. No credit card details or anything. Refreshing.

Could someone please put the link to the free trial here? I don’t want to scroll back up 10 miles. Thank you.

here you go @foxbridgeni

Trust.Zone Free Trial

The argument against VPNs has always been, “but I have nothing to hide.” Now that an unpredictable lunatic is in charge, purging based on whatever whim strikes him, that sentiment is quickly fading. VPNs aren’t just about hiding personal secrets; they’re about protecting freedom, autonomy, and your basic right to live without unjust scrutiny or arbitrary persecution.

Reblogging again bc this is important

*Scrolls past*

*reluctant sigh*

*scrolls back up*

*rebogs*

Deadly Nightshade

The base:

HOT TAKE UNDERNEATH CUT SORRY

never really thought about this but you're right. I never finished the video bc i got busy, but they haven't genuinely complimented a game in quite a while. I kind of feel bad for the developers who see someone play the thing they've worked so hard on only to make fun of it and say how boring it is. I'd be crushed if that were me.

I miss three scary games. That's always been my favorite mini-series, even if the idea wasn't original I would always get extra excited to see them play some silly horror games and just have fun.

That ties back to the whole "keep it lighthearted" thing which i completely agree on. It's more fun for them to play and it's more fun to watch. I want more games like super super fun world and less games like fnaf reanimated because they can laugh with the game, not at it. The silly things always got more views anyways, from what I can tell, so that'd be a win-win for everyone :)

I give you my persona spinning :] 🖐

It's not that good, but I tried 🥲