“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”

― Edward Abbey

This is a terrifying norm I’ve been seeing in fandom recently, with a lot of people asking for photo ID’s to enter a server or for 18+ commissions or to follow a private Twitter account. While I understand the sentiment and realize that there’s an issue of minors trying to get into adult spaces, this is an incredibly dangerous practice that needs to stop.

I have seen this popping up more and more in the past year and frankly, I’m sick of sitting back and watching it become a social norm. Not to mention, there is a huge difference between a company with a team of lawyers and legal statements with the intention to protect your information and giving this to a random person online.

Here is an article from IAPP discussing more in depth the current difficulties for age verification online.  Thanks to @murmurkins for digging around to find this!

Here is also some resources for Discord specifically on how to moderate and run a server that has 18+ channels and designating a server as 18+. Discord also notes that if you are locked out of 18+ channels, you can appeal this by sending a picture of yourself and either a photo ID or your Discord tag. Again, while not a perfect solution, this is their last resort, not the intial requirement. It’s dangerous to do, and Discord recognizes this, which is why they have a system to protect your information AND they require that all third-party individuals have a privacy policy telling individuals how they will protect others’ information. 

If anyone wants to respond to this post with more information on other websites, feel free! The biggest issue I have seen with this is on Discord, so that is where my information is focused.

I remember when Y!Gallery tried this back in, like, 2012. And most of us flatly refused. This blows my mind. What happened to the never share personal details online mindset of the 90s and early 2000s?

Facebook. Facebook happened.

There is NO VALID REASON for anyone online to ask for your photo ID.

Because - and hey, this is a BIG THING - you show photo ID in person so the viewer can look at it, and you, and say, “yep, those match.”

If you are conversing via email or chat… they cannot look at your face and confirm it matches the card.

If they CAN confirm it matches the card (like you’re meeting in Zoom)…. you can photoshop the damn card to attach your face to it.

You cannot usefully check photo ID online. The vast majority of people asking for “photo ID” are identify fraudsters, and the rest are people who don’t understand tech & security.

Do not share your ID with anyone online.

#my brain deciding what information to retain

thats sick though id love to go cause i collect useless shit

Cinnamon Bear, Bryan Davies - Here is the bedroom we finished for our rescued shelter cat (Wyatt) this weekend. He actually goes in to nap and watch birds on YouTube :). Fame hasn’t gone to Wyatt’s head, even after he got an article by Stephen Messenger @dodo !

Art by Tina Yeh

A comic to try and sort through some difficult feelings about being an artist and a reminder to not forget who you are.

The Appalachian Mountains, Atlas Mountains, Scottish Highlands and Scandinavian Mountains were all once part of the same “Pangea Central Mountain Range” millions of years ago before Earth’s continents split.

People actually boarded flight 666 on Friday the 13th to HEL

Hel yeah

Horror Movies: Behind the Scenes

1. Critters 3 2.Gremlins 3. Aliens 4.Silence of the Lambs 5.Halloween 6.The Shining 7.Nightmare on Elm Street 8. The Birds 9. Child’s Play

This is the greatest progression of events I have ever read, where’s my historical gay romance novel about this

KING JAMES, CAN YOU CHILL?

Local King Cannot Stop Promoting His Boyfriend

where’s the lush period drama about this series of events?

fun thing about king James, this guy was fairly public about his bf (more public than what was acceptable). He threw lots of extravagant parties with his man on his arm. It pissed off the church obviously so to get them off his back, he’s the one that ordered the third translation of the Bible from Hebrew to English (the King James Version aka the Authorized Version) so the Bible every hot blooded all American Christian reads today was literally just written so a very gay king could fuck his boyfriend in peace.

oh my god this is hilarious

“guys, guys. I know this looks kinda gay, and i promise i have a good explanation for all this, but have you considered… that jesus… is also gay? checkmate, heteros.”

Day 1 vashmerylweek indirect kiss

This is honestly better advice than “if at first you don’t succeed, try try again.”

By all means try again. But do that after you figure out WHY you failed!

if i had to watch this bottle of water get cuckolded then so do you

😧😧😧😧

thottled water

it’s been fun, but i think it’s time to delete the internet forever

He still loves them as if they were his own. He carries on, he lives the lie, for them.

October,

IT’S HERE!

What it’s like experiencing the beginning of fall on tumblr. 

EDIT: I know it’s supposed to be “1st”, I just did a dumb. ;3

been waiting months to share it here.  about 30 min to midnight here. and then  ,,,October !!!!!

REBLOGING AGAIN THIS YEAR!!! one of 2 days you can reblog this!!!

I’ll keep rebloging this!!

Told ya´!!

We should be fine as long as we do not reblog bread.

Question.

I’ve rebogged bread.

What?

I have done nothing but reblog bread for the past three days.

Where, where have you been sending it?!

I love how there are more reblogs than likes

This post. This fucking post. I cannot believe after nearly 7 years its still going around. Let alone ON MY OWN DASH! A kid born on the day i posted this would be entering 2nd grade right now.

mud pool fun time

Look at it look at this adorable little guy I adore these little mammal dragons

remade the kissing emoji, with two extra ones! :D feel free to ask for more!!

includes:

' two people kissing while holding eachothers faces, happily ' ' three people kissing, two kissing a person looking up towards both of them, happily ' ' four people kissing, in a loop happily '

This happened in the anime… right?