storiesonline.net major changes - updated

[KiTA]

The update confirms what I thought this was -- zoomers have discovered moral panics and they get clout for participating in them, and are targeting sites for cancelation. They've come for storiesonline now.

Out in the ether, many art sites are experiencing the same thing, as are anime and manga forums and the like. It's absurd to the point that shows like Uzaki Wants to Hang Out, a comic book and cartoon about a supremely annoying extroverted college freshman with breasts the size of her head annoying her introvert classmate, was flagged as the same content by these types, because "she has big eyes that means she's child coded." It's laughable on it's face, but that doesn't stop hosting companies -- or their ISPs -- from capitulating the second they're threatened with "brand damage" (a fancy term for a bunch of losers on Twitter whining if they don't get their way).

I don't have a solution for this. Culture has become far more puritanical and almost diametrically opposed to the concept of free speech in the past 15 years, and it's not going to change anytime soon. These activists get asspats and attention for these moral crusades, be it fighting imaginary racism, sexism, or in this case, "problematic content." Long gone are the days of "don't like it, don't read it." We are now in the era of "I don't want to read this and I'll decide what you should be allowed to read, too."

The irony of this are the groups doing it are almost always, exclusively, grooming gangs in the strictest sense of the word. 30-40 year old activists pushing this panic onto 14-20 year olds via chat systems like Discord, where not only do they push each other into this fanatic activism under the guise of being a "good person" but also actively groom them into far darker things at the same time.

I don't have a solution for this. Ride it out and hope they move on to the next target to show what virtuous, pure of heart, saintly crusaders they are by charging at, and hope the Internet reverses course from this constant shrinking and capitulation, so these kinds of attacks become impossible.

[KiTA]

https://storiesonline.net/d/s1/t13288/relief

He actually posted this a little bit earlier today. It appears that they found new hosting.