They did nothing wrong and the people making fun of them had a significant overlap with the Anita Sarkeesian hater crowd that later morphed into G*merGate.
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2026
72 points (97.4% liked)
chat
8558 readers
76 users here now
Chat is a text only community for casual conversation, please keep shitposting to the absolute minimum. This is intended to be a separate space from c/chapotraphouse or the daily megathread. Chat does this by being a long-form community where topics will remain from day to day unlike the megathread, and it is distinct from c/chapotraphouse in that we ask you to engage in this community in a genuine way. Please keep shitposting, bits, and irony to a minimum.
As with all communities posts need to abide by the code of conduct, additionally moderators will remove any posts or comments deemed to be inappropriate.
Thank you and happy chatting!
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
Many of them unironically expanded our understanding of gender on a theoretical and practical basis. If there is to be a 4th wave of feminism, its roots were probably in the SJW mines.
I always assumed the hate against Tumblr was misogyny/homophobia. A lot of complaints always boiled down to "OMG are you seeing this? Someone called a tumblrsexyman CUTE?! My favorite media franchise is RUINED!"
Meanwhile the same dudes would be posting bigbooba waifus on Reddit or whatever.
I think it was also just general hatred of The Youths. Tumblr skewed young, especially in the 2010s. Society hates to see kids care about things.
Considering most of the tumblr sjw crowd was literal children and teens with some early 20s young adults they were way more politically literate and aware then some, if not most adults these days are. Most if not all of the criticism against them was either edgy teens or manchildren who wanted to protect their bigoted views. Hell, I even see some principled commies there now, it's by far one of the least toxic social media and no celebs or rich fucks posting their shit too. It played a part in my own opening eyes to social issues which eventually lead to me researching marxism so I'm grateful to it.
I can understand the reasoning, but I've always seen this place as being LF but with a twitter attention span and active word filter. I remember a thread during federation where someone tried to call us a "SomethingAwful ripoff" as an insult and people took that as a positive thing.
I've always seen this place as being LF
Not nearly ableist enough
I don't think "SJW" tumblr was poorly articulated. I think poor articulation from it was emphasized. I suppose those are kinda the same thing, but I think it's an important distinction.