kendrasaunders:

i’ll level with you guys. i work in tech and im a longtime user on this hellsite, and i have some predictions. these could be completely wrong so please don’t take my word for it but:

– they will not be looking for loopholes in their AI, which is what they’ll use for erotic content. i see those loopholes becoming well known and exploitable, quickly

– we currently don’t have another site for gifs and other kinds of fan content. unless something else comes up quick, that can handle a large migration, we’re all still kind of stuck here

– they’re not going to want to lose their long term traffic. i can see them using this ban as a large blanket fix for more precise problems, then loosening up the rules or no longer enforcing them when they feel they’ve done their jobs and “fixed” it

– i would refrain from comparing this to livejournal; the way content is shared on here vs livejournal, even in its heyday, is wildly different

– we’ll be seeing more closed fandom spaces on other sites, but we will not see the same massive audience we see here

– this site defies predictive analysis because it is, i think, the sixth circle of hell. fuck it, you know? we all die eventually