“ YOu WAnt A PieCE Of ME?” “YES!” *bites A Bitch*

Redraw

It’s a national holiday

i was originally gonna link to the thread but i know not everyone would go out of their way to click on it so heres this thread i saw. twitch needs to be held accountable for how horribly they have treated people with disabilities. there has been so many stories similar to this one and that should never be the case.

If you support disabled people, please stand with us against Discord’s redesign.

...and do more than reblog this post about it.

Chronic migraines. Dyslexia. ADHD. Autism. Vision impairment. Visual sensory processing disorder. Colorblind. & Neurotypical. Abled.

These are aspects of people that are affected by Discord’s new update to its color scheme and font, and there very well could be more I didn’t mention. Yes, you read it right, abled people and neurotypical people too. You are not immune to eyestrain.

What are the issues?

A font which is both overly uniform and overly squished, with many letters that have essentially the same silhouette as others and could easily be flipped and look the same as another. ▻ This is dyslexic-unfriendly, as well as generally harder to read and an issue for people with visual impairments who may find that letters bleed together or that their eyes ‘skip’ over letters or words at times.

A color scheme that is so highly saturated that it both immediately draws your attention and also makes you want to immediately look away. ▻ This is generally unfriendly, affecting people with sensory issues the most (ADHD/Autism, migraines, processing disorders), but it’s also colorblind-unfriendly. Due to the differences between the colors being exclusively the part that changes the named color (hue; “green” vs “blue”) instead of both that and the colors being different intensities (saturation; “neon green” vs “leaf green”), they look practically identical.

Aren’t there more? No. This is pretty much all that was changed.

Discord changed TWO THINGS and pretty much managed to land every single person possible to genuinely hurt with a visual design change that doesn’t add or remove any elements. Including abled and neurotypical people!!!

Discord is currently a good number of people’s lifeline and way to connect with others. And with this change, they just made using their app hurt. They know that we can’t leave their app without leaving our friends and communities behind. They know that if they can just sweep this under the rug, they won’t have to do a thing.

...So we can’t let them.

Why would Discord do this?

It’s actually fairly simple. Discord was hemorrhaging money from its very conception. Discord only exists because investors think it’ll make money in the future. If Discord doesn’t do as well, investors will push to make it “better” or they’ll drop their funding. Discord was probably forced into this situation, they probably knew exactly what would happen.

We have to show their investors that Discord was right.

What can we do to fix this?

DON’T:

Reply to Discord’s tweet about the design change. ▻ It gives Discord more attention, and if any complaints are acknowledged they are directed to Discord’s accessibility forums.

ONLY post on Discord’s accessibility forums. ▻ It gives Discord stats to work with, but it also means the outcry isn’t public. We need everyone to see this, not just Discord.

DO:

Reblog this post. ▻ Spreads the awareness, and all.

Retweet, reply to, and/or like this tweet: https://twitter.com/KarklesMarx/status/1393223369571586053 ▻ This tweet is part of our and our friends’ initiative to get this big and get this public.

Make your own posts about it on different social medias. ▻ Tumblr, Twitter, Discord servers, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, whatever ground you have, use it. You can help make this change too.

Find other people doing the same thing. ▻ One initiative is never enough. Look for other people making posts like these and boost their posts too.

IF YOU KNOW ANOTHER LANGUAGE, MAKE POSTS OF YOUR OWN BOOSTING IT IN OTHER LANGUAGES. ▻ Please. There are probably a lot of people we haven’t reached because this is an all-English post.

Wait, don’t you have pictures of what’s going on?

We do. They’re under the cut, to prevent causing issues for people reading the post.

This compilation post of the smaller problems: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/1500001066342-Fix-Your-Stuff-or-ALLOW-CUSTOM-CLIENTS-or-BOTH-

Images that show some of the changes:

[Two screenshots of the Discord icon on an IOS device. One is a cool indigo gradient, the other is a solid, brightly saturated indigo.]

[The words “gaming central” twice in Discord’s new font. One is bold, the other is not.]

[The words “reddit fart reddit smell” in Discord’s new font. Underneath, the highly saturated indigo as seen in the icons, stretching across the screen to indicate new messages.]

[Discord’s old indigo, icon, and stylized font displayed above Discord’s new indigo, icon, and stylized font.]

[Incorrect Grian, sam and Taurtis quotes]

( based on: incorrect-quotes-generator.neocities.org)(not exact quotes)

Taurtis: I love you two, you're basically the best thing that's happened to me

Sam: we're the best thing that's happend to you?

Taurtis: Yup!

Grian: Bud I am staring to feel a little sorry for you

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Taurtis: who thinks I can fit 15 marshmallows in my mouth!?

Grian: you're a hazrd

Sam: and a coward, do 30!

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Grian, crossing his arms: Taurtis, I know Sam forecabally snuck you out last night

Taurtis:

Sam, whispering: play dumb!

Taurtis: who's Taurtis?

Grian, furrowing his brows: excuse me

Sam, shaking his head: not that dumb!

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Taurtis, looking at Grian: how's the cutest one here~

Grian: I dont know how are they~

Sam, standing up: I am doing great

Grian: that was directed at Taurtis you mindless prune

Taurtis:

Taurtis: wait what?

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Taurtis: Sam are you sure this way, is the right one?

Sam: about as sure as my honesty

Grian: In that case we are lost, also I am taking Taurtis.

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Not the best will redraw later but enjoy :D

Reason To Love Taurtis (thank you @mysticalfriendlyintrovert for the amazing idea)

He is absolutely hilarious!! I mean watch any of his videos or the videos he is in. He never fails to cheer me up or plenty of other people with his goofy personality.

He puts so much love, passion, and time into his videos. Whenever he uploads a video (for example the To The End series), you could feel the passion and love he had to put it out. You can tell that he really has a huge passion for making videos, and these are the types of people we need as content creators, people who are genuinely making videos not for fame but because they actually have a passion for it.

His editing is out of this world! THIS!! One of the biggest reasons he deserves more recognition, he is a literal god at editing and its such an experience to watch whenever he puts any highly edited video out. Like the skill this guy has blows my mind. He makes all of these videos by himself, he doesn't hire an editor he does it all by himself because he has a passion for editing and making videos for people to enjoy and hopefully make them happier. Like seriously if you haven't watched anything from him besides the stuff he did with Grian (and the person who I won't name because ew) I really recomend checking him out and giving his content a chance.

He cares about his fans!! The amount of times he just takes to interact with his fans is just amazing, he make each and every single one of his fans feel like they are welcomed. He interacts with his livestream chat a lot and that makes the livestream experience with him so much fun and more enjoyable.

Just this whole stream! This whole stream is a reason to love him.

6. All the times he played with his fans on Hypixel! I cannot express this enough with how much I love how much he interacts and does stuff with his fans. He makes us all feel like his friend.

7. In his private Members only Discord server we were all in voice chat playing on the Members only Minecraft server when Taurtis joined the voice chat and joined the server and hanged out with us for a while. It was so much fun and really proved to me how amazing Taurtis really is.

8. He says the most iconic things, "Friendship is stronger than bacon". I mean there is just so much iconic lines from this man that I may have to make a whole seperate post for that.

9. HE CREATED TORITOS!!! I mean if this isn't iconic I don't know what is

10. His personality is just so sweet and can literally cheer you up in a instant!! Like no matter how many times I rewatch his vidoes they never fail to cheer me up, it is like some sort of magic. (Taurtis has powers confirmed)

11. He has helped edit or even edited a couple of Grians vlogs and they were so amazing.

12. He loves ice cream!! And we love a person who loves ice cream!!!

13. In his Evo episodes, or just any of his highly edited videos. He has this whole part of this video with music and shows everyones fanart and credits each and every one of them. This guy literally out here giving artists the attention they deserve.

14. He tries his best to avoid drama and does a very good job at avoiding it. Even though he has so much comments asking where so and so is he still remains calm and ignores them and when he does awknowledge them he handles it in a very mature way.

15. You can tell he is an amazing friend to Grian and every friend he has ever had. He cares about them and the amount of times he has appreciated Grian in a stream makes my heart melt.

16. In one of his No Mans Sky streams he literally name planets and even solar systems after people who have donated or became a member to him.

17. In his Coming back home video he was talking about how he didn't know if people would even want him back if he wasn't doing evo. Rewatching that breaks my heart because that is not true at all at least to me. I love him for him and I would watch anything he makes. I am not only here for a video series I am here because of how amazing you are Taurtis.

So this is what I wrote down and have been able to think of so far if I think of more or if any of you people think of anymore please do not be afraid to reblog and mention them. I am happy to be using this blog as mainly a place to appreciate or fangirl over Taurtis, he has helped me a lot and I just cannot ever thank him enough so why not try and give him some love and appreciation.