Lindsey Ellis, the Nostalgia Chick, got an ask after she reblogged that "warning".
enchanted-wild asked:
Lindsay, even if it seems silly to you, there’s no need to mock people who might benefit from a warning that will help them to avoid a prank that is annoying/frightening/mean-spirited or could aggravate someone’s epilepsy. Seriously, why would that anger you?
Uh… going way overboard with valid points tends to cheapen them. Also I’m pretty sure that second person in the post was joking. Just my fart in the wind of an opinion.
I wish I understood how people functioned.
Ironbite-I really do.
Here is the video in question:
There is literally nothing of what the above anon claimed. Nothing. It is literally like any other faux-inspirational commercial you'd see on tv.
The OP made another post:
can I point out that all I did was try to warn people of something potentially triggering? I don’t care if you think those phobias don’t exist because they do. and even then why the hell does the post bother you? there’s nothing wrong with it there’s literally nothing wrong with the post. why have I been misgendered 1000+ times in my inbox today. why have I received 500+ death threats. 500+ suicide encouragements. I got rape threats. why. what did I do. what the fuck did I do besides try to fucking help people.
You know, death/rape threats are inexcusable, especially for a
15 year old. That being said, about the misgendering, the OP's pronouns are 'they' and
'fae'. The only 'fae' I know about is the word meaning 'fairy'. I also know that they haven't turned off anon posting (they posted a friendly anon message they got sometime after all this happened).
All in all, someone who commented on this made an interesting point; this person is probably an "ally" who has none of these phobias and doesn't know anyone with these phobias, but is still "taking a stand" on their behalf with well-meaning, but misguided, posts that don't genuinely help anyone but only serve to make the ally look thoughtful, considerate, and enlightened. In the end, nobody but this ally gave a shit about an inoffensive April Fool's video, and the only problem was the one they manufactured for themselves. In the end, the thing everyone cared about was the top hats for their icons.
