on June 3rd i saw this post on my dash, with every single gif removed for ‘violating community guidelines’. reading through the caption and notes, and just two weeks after another r*cky gerv*is “comedy” special was released on netflix, it was pretty obvious that the original post was gifs of this bit:
it’s a comedian making jokes about lazy bigoted comedians like ricky gervais. this was the content so heinous that not a single gif could stay up on this site. what community guidelines were broken here? was james bullying ricky fucking gervais?? there’s not even a curse here so it can’t be language. or are you no longer allowed to call transph*bes what they are?
many sites (like twitter and instagram) are now banning words like “tr*nsph*be/tr*nsph*bia/tr*nsph*bic” but they don’t even show up in this gif set. is transgender a bad word now? are we allowed to say ‘transgender people’ and ‘little cis boy’ on tumblr or will our posts be taken down?
i wish i could go back and get more information but not only were all the gifs taken down, the original post no longer exists. they have completely erased it.