Leaving Meta Platforms

Leaving Meta Platforms

Hey everyone. With Meta's new guidelines on fact checking and LGBT content, I will no longer be posting on any Meta owned platforms. I may even delete my accounts on there, or at the very least deactivate / private them.

I want to be a light in the darkness for queer youth and adults alike, but I also want to preserve my personal safety. I am an openly queer content creator, and during these next four years my main objective is to just survive.

If you are a queer teen or young adult in the United States, what I really want to say to you.. is that you are loved. You are special. You are strong. You are cherished. Your main objective right now is to survive. Please stay safe, these are very scary times; I normally would ALWAYS advocate for being yourself unbashedly. To be bold and brave and proud. I want that for everyone, but please do what you can to remain safe right now.

When I was a kid the internet was a more wild and free place, but it was still a safe haven for us when we stuck together. ..Things are not like that right now. Zuckerberg and Musk are doing whatever it takes to take any safe spaces away from us- and they are emboldening far right extremists under the guise of "free speech". It's not free speech. Because if it were REALLY about that, LGBT people wouldn't get posts flagged or repressed for talking about our lives and truths.

I don't know exactly when i will be deactivating and privating my instagram and facebook, but for now I will always be here until this ship burns too. (Let's hope it doesn't. I love this place 😭)

We are strong people. We will get through these next four years together.