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[shamanicshaymin]

Things I did NOT want to see on my dash while looking up the "chinchilla" tag: a gory picture of a flayed chinchilla.

GODDAMMIT I was trying to find cute chinchilla pictures and .gifs, and that was NOT something I wanted to see ghdsjkhdsjkgsgd. Why the hell isn't there a block button, gdshjgksdgdsg. I am well fucking aware of the horrible chinchilla coat business I DID NOT NEED TO FUCKING SEE THAT. Especially when I'm trying to show cute stuff to my Dad. Thank god he missed the picture at least.

Comments

[sarajayechan]

Why do people think it's okay to post animal gore NOT under a readmore or a cut? If they like that sort of thing that's their business, but it's seriously uncool to force other people to see it.

[masu_trout]

Eeech. That sucks, sorry. :( That's one of the frustrations I have with Tumblr's way of sorting tags - so many people have different ideas of what's okay to post under the central tag, and there's no real way of knowing beforehand if someone's going to post something on the tag that will be absolutely horrifying to you.

(And then there's the people who are fully aware that posting uncut gore in animal tags is not good, but do it anyway because spreading awareness about animal abuse is ~so important. I know it's important! I agree with you! That doesn't mean I need or want to see it when I'm looking for cute animal pics!)

[shamanicshaymin]

And it's not like I can blacklist the animal abuse tag completely. What if there's a very important government petition going around that could save an endangered species?

I despise posts that use gory photos of abused animals as shock value to force people to care about their cause. The chinchilla coat business is a despicable practice that deserves to be stopped, and I did NOT need pictures of flayed chinchillas to convince me of that.