[gunfighthacksaw]

> Tumblr was often criticized for its purity culture—conversations could go nuclear as soon as someone was deemed “problematic,”

I remember reading about a user called Vade (since inactive) while catching up on internet drama. They successfully weaponized that tendency to frightening effect and IIRC had the power to summarily deplatform challengers within their various fandoms.

As a 4channer I’m not quite sure how cliques form and authority/status is brokered on tumblr, but it was a big thing at the time.

[burnished]

Sauce? I'm always interested in tales of social engineering

[gunfighthacksaw]

There is no good source, only old tumblr posts directed towards the drama and some pages written by people who document this stuff.

Nothing extra decent I can link you that you won’t find from a search engine.