To be fair, this person has her chronology all messed up, but she& #39;s discussing a very specific infrastructural trauma that happened around ~2014, and I haven& #39;t seen anyone talk about this with recognition of that.

That was when Tumblr broke its tagging and search system. https://twitter.com/theswordwizard/status/1199929165824380929">https://twitter.com/theswordw...

Before that point, tags were exact strings. If you posted art and tagged it "dirk strider nsfw" it would NOT show up in the "dirk strider" tag.

Similarly if a character& #39;s name appeared in a post but not in tags, it wouldn& #39;t be searchable.

Then the code intern nation attacked

Being a young teen/preteen on that site at that time must have been AWFUL, honestly.

I witnessed it, watched Tumblr break down boundaries between people& #39;s spaces. Talked about it at the time. But there wasn& #39;t anything we could DO about it.

Corporations do harm and then get us to fight each other about it.

That& #39;s how capitalism stays in power.

Believe people who say they were harmed

But always ask how it happened, and find out who benefited from it.