Fave Is Problematic News Today

Appreciating art or artists who offend can complicate the idea of cancel culture, especially when others use that as a weapon against your personal values.

Puritanism took over online fandom — and then came for the rest of the internet.

If you were on the blogging platform Tumblr in the mid to late 2010s, social justice blogs like This Is White Privilege and Your Fave Is Problematic were inescapable. They introduced a generation to concepts like microaggressions and colorblind racism and the fallibility of celebrities but in bite-sized digestible nuggets that, in hindsight, seemed tailor-made to go viral. Now even the creators of these Tumblrs will admit that the blogs were also ground zero for a sort of oversimplified self-ri...

What was I trying to accomplish with my anonymous Tumblr? Credit...Paige Stampatori Feb. 25, 2021 If you were on Tumblr in the early 2010s, you may remember a blog called Your Fave Is Problematic. If not, its content should still sound familiar to you. The posts contained long lists of celebrities’ regrettable (racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, ethnophobic, ableist and so on) statements and actions — the stuff that gets people canceled these days. That blog was my blog. I spent hours...