being online is so scary aren't you guys worried about the world wide spider
*terrible French accent* I am, eh, how do you say….sleepy eepy.
the sexiest video game character ever created is literally artemis hadesgame everyone else can stop trying
*eminem voice* *falls into a hole in a sewer grate before saying anything*
oosie (don’t tell her she’s badass, her ego will grow legs and leave)
I don't think I'll finish this one
i'm not going to sit here and call anyone a bad person for not sharing fundraisers on their tumblr blog because i don't think anyone is obligated even a little bit to use social media as the avenue by which they attempt to do good in the world. but something i do think is incredibly crass is the amount of blogs i see who insist on having long bios or pinned posts telling you they will never ever do this and block anyone who asks them to. you know you can just keep your mouth shut and quietly proceed with your regular blogging right? you don't have to announce you are going to block anyone who asks you to help. you don't need to talk about how really you just have too many problems to be able to be concerned with the suffering of people objectively much worse off than you. you don't need to subtly or not-so-subtly perpetuate the unsubstantiated dehumanizing racist talking points about how these people are probably all spambots anyway. you can just choose not to make yourself look like a complete asshole yknow?
I don’t think I have anything in my blog about this so I’m not really your target? But are these not just spam bots which actually don’t have any real backing? These are all in my dms in like the last week. Some of them are identical messages.
IMO, the real work gets done by established aid organizations. The ones Israel is blocking from access. This stuff won’t do anyone any good.
"But are these not just spam bots which actually don’t have any real backing?" why don't we take a few minutes to actually look into this and see if we can find out instead of just guessing. All of the information I am about to provide is immediately very accessible within the bio and first post or two on the first page of each account.
the first one links to Abdullah Salem Abdullah's campaign and claims to be vetted by the gazavetters team. the gazavetters are a grassroots team here on tumblr who have been assisting to verify the legitimacy of peoples' campaigns for quite awhile now. you can see in their pinned post, written in both arabic and english, what exactly their standards and process are for verifying a campaign and decide if it's rigorous enough for you. Abdullah's post says his post is number #641 - let's go see what that number says in the gazevetters master spreadsheet
it looks like this campaign is no longer being backed by the gazavetters due to spam behavior.
that next message is for Shaima's campaign, which is #62.
i believe this means they have not heard back when asking for updates regarding this campaign, which tracks with the account not having been updated since the end of september. The fourth account is also one of Shaima's providing the same information and linking to the same campaign, and, similarly, has not posted since the end of september.
The third one is Mohammed Yousef's campaign. This one is #88
They give it the okay. The campaign linked on the blog matches the link on the spreadsheet. This campaign was also shared by 90-ghost, a longterm tumblr user who is a gazan palestinian who has been helping platform fundraisers since the beginning of the war. there's no reason to believe this is not a legitimate fundraiser.
So that's where this stands: one spammer, one ambiguous situation, and one very real person asking for help.
If you think about the fact that most of these people are communicating in a language they might either speak without full fluency or not at all, the fact that some of them are using identical templates might start to make a big more sense.
Now, here's a question I have for you: If the established aid organizations are having their entry blocked by Israel, how are they getting "real" work done? These things can not both be true at the same time. You don't have to give your money to anyone you don't want to, but if you're going to call people bots you might want to do the smallest amount of due diligence before making that claim publicly. You don't have to speak on a subject you have done zero work to acquire information about. Like i said before, you're free to just keep your mouth shut and quietly proceed with your regular blogging.
If you would prefer to donate to aid groups rather than individual families, here are some legitimate operations doing important work that could use your support.