"people show their true colours in life threatening situations" no, they show you what they act like when they're mortally terrified, an emotion notorious for literally turning your entire brain off to the point where people who go into those situations as a profession need to be literally trained on how to not have that happen

If you can acknowledge that you're not yourself when you're hungry, you can acknowledge that you're not yourself when you're scared.

people show their true colors when they have safety and freedom and can do anything they want without fear of being hurt or punished or anything, and some of them are horrible, and some of them are absolutely amazing.

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Always ask permission before posting a picture of someone else online or just generally posting about them.

Some people don't like having their image or their business all over social media, or they're very cautious or particular about what they want to have on social media. They also might have more serious and personal reasons for wanting to keep their social media presence minimal such as having someone who's been tracking or monitoring them too much who they're trying to avoid giving too much information to.

If someone online requires you to share personally-identifying information in order to interact with them, you’re better off not interacting with them.

I keep hearing about fandom spaces requiring photo ID in order to gain access, and I can’t emphasize enough how bad that is.

Giving someone your ID, even with everything but the date of birth blacked out, is still giving them information.

Government-issued ID is still identifiable based on fonts, colours, backgrounds etc. That means someone could use your ID to track you to your country or region. People who are determined could then use other information that you’ve shared to track you further.

The issue isn’t just them being able to show up at your house (or send someone else), either. It’s the fact that they could sign up for credit cards in your name and trap you in thousands of dollars of debt that impacts your whole life. They could steal your identity.

Anyone who wants some kind of “legal protection” against minors seeking out NSFW materials should just do what the porn sites do. “By checking this box, you acknowledge that you’re 18 years of age or older.” Much simpler and safer for everyone involved.

Anyone you provide personal information to needs to be able to both protect that information and reliably destroy it.

In the words of Gandalf, “Keep it secret. Keep it safe.”

⚠️⚠️ATTENTION⚠️⚠️ This is a serious post and I feel the need to talk about so let’s go. This is Ezra Weiz the Voice director (I think that’s the word?) of Miraculous Ladybug. He basically casts all of the lovely voices to the English cast of miraculous. I’m pretty sure everyone by now knows that everything from every script, to episode, to storyboard of season 5 has been leaked. The leaker has NOT ONLY decided to leak all of season 5 BUT HAS ALSO decided to leak all of the miraculous staff INCLUDING winny, Jeremy, Ezra AND the creator Thomas’s phone numbers and possible addresses. It’s one thing to leak a show but to completely dox a whole miraculous cast is wayyyy to far. Whether you like them or not this is NOT okay and will NEVER be justified. It’s plainly wrong. While there’s nothing that we can do it’s important that we are educated on stuff like this. Please do nothing but send love and support to everyone and let’s all hope they are safe and sound.

If your friends brag about:

You should tell them they’re wrong . Not rudely, just “hey, that’s really not cool and you should stop.” If they get mad at you, then you know the kind of person they are . 

Ending toxic fandom culture starts with YOU .