hi, i want to talk about what has been happening on everskies these past two days. i've seen a lot of unacceptable behaviour and i think we should talk about it. this is a long post so i hope you still read it. please refrain from arguing in the comments, i don't want this forum to be locked. the paragraphs have each been made a different colour to make it easier for neurodivergent people to read it because i know that i struggle to read long things and colour makes it easier!

firstly, i'd like to talk about the overwhelming amount of posts being locked. it is very disappointing to see that forums that are clearly being racist or transphobic or ableist are being locked for other things such as advertisement and crossposting. a lot of these posts are not being respectful to people of colour especially. it is disgusting and should never be condoned, especially by the everskies staff. it should not be the jobs of people of colour to educate you all, there are many ways to educate yourself and they are easy. there is no excuse for the racist actions that have been happening on here and a lot of the "apologies" are not good enough.

the ableism that i have seen in the past two days is also unacceptable. people are mocking tone tags and putting /srs in titles when the posts are not about the title and it is being used for click bait. while i understand that people are not clicking on all of the forums about the situation, a lot of people have good reasons for not. a lot of things in the whole situation are very overwhelming for people and sometimes they need to take a break from reading the forums therefore creating "normal" forums. being overwhelmed isn't "babying" or "infantilising" neurodivergent people either. i have been told this and it really hurts because we are trying but it can be very hard for some of us. it would be a different story if we weren't also trying.

there is a user called usagi who is an ex-moderator and she has been very racist over the past day or so. she is not apologising for her actions nor is she even acknowledging how disgusting her actions are. despite her being so awful, the moderators are unbothered. her racist thread was locked not for racism, but for "advertisement", and she is yet to be muted or banned from the site. she has mocked people of colour, especially black people and has even mocked them by making monkey noises. i'll include a screenshot of her saying this at the bottom of this post. a lot of people feel as though the moderators are letting her pass because they may still be friends with her. after all, she is an ex-mod. usagi has also openly been ableist and transphobic. she has admitted that she was forced into apologising and that her apology was not sincere. in this apology she mentioned that her friends (and her , i don't remember exactly) , "suffer" from adhd and autism. this is extremely harmful because it gives a very negative connotation to these disorders. i have got both autism and adhd and i think that it is awful that she said that ; in an apology especially. as well as this, i have received a warning for telling her to log out. apparently this is "bullying and harassment" but her many actions aren't?

next i want to talk about a user called pine-sol. last night , this user went into a transgender safe space and decided to say something along the lines of "cisgender people aren't all bad". i haven't seen screenshots of this so i am going off of what other people have said however it is obvious that this did happen because they have made 3 forums after it. they apologised and took some accountability for their actions however it was obvious that the apology was not thought out and was not sincere. in this apology, a lot of people noticed how rushed it looked. they called them out. after the user was called out, they decided to start arguing with people. they were generally just digging themselves deeper into a hole. i submitted many comments telling them to take some time to educate themselves properly however they argued and said they were already educated. it takes longer than 2 hours to be fully educated. they excused their actions as a "mistake" however transphobia is a mindset. it takes more than 2 hours to change a whole mindset. after this i'm not completely sure if the thread was locked or if it was deleted.

now let's talk about the mods. most of the mods are wrongfully banning and muting people and locking forums. there are a lot of evidence of this and you can find them in the first carrd at the bottom of this post. if a post is talking down on everskies in any way, they are most likely banned very fast. a lot of threads are being locked because they are "false". one good example of this was when a user had made a post warning people about the national r*pe day that was being spread around tiktok , and how people can protect themselves and stay safe. this was taken down because it was a "hoax". yes , you read that right. screenshots of this are also included in the first carrd.

ciaga, i am so sorry about what has been happening to you over these last few days. your set is so good and it should never have been taken down. the racism you have received as well is truly disgusting and you did not deserve to be treated like that. i hope you are feeling at least a bit better now after everything that has happened. i'm sending you lots of love and hugs. you are so brave for speaking out about your mistreatment.

finally, i'm going to talk about another problem. in 2020, (i'm not sure exactly when) the everskies discord server put up a poll. this poll was asking whether users wanted to see hijabs bin the catalogue. this should never be something that needs to be asked. everyone deserves to be represented and hijabs should be accessible to all users. this is an example of their islamophobia . it is unacceptable.

while there is so much more left to be discussed, i am going to leave it here for now. if i end up being banned or muted , just know that it proves every one of my points that i have made in this post. i have spent a lot of time writing this so i really hope it is enough for people to see how effed up things are here. i want to say, if any of you have been affected personally by these things, i'm so sorry that you were treated like this. you do not deserve it. every one of you are amazing and deserve the entire world. just in case this forum does get locked , i am going to put this in a carrd.

links :

1- carrd with screenshots and explanations
https://whyeverskiesisbad.carrd.co/

2- carrd by @cynophobia
https://cynophobia.carrd.co/

3- my carrd

4- google doc about some actions
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JOJgkKyqALDk7hZBp-j9ajrsFxA-nri9T3Qw549M/edit?pli=1#slide=id.gc75287ac139_13

5- presentation about some actions with detailed explanations
https://prezi.com/view/e2I5YaiNzO9wRrvNI10f/

here is the screenshot of my warning and usagi mocking people of colour by making monkey noises and a forum by a user who is being racist :

( Made with Carrd )