Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

[benji]

Honestly, I don't know what better form of direct action people could be taking right now than to sabotage any and all media infrastructure except Disney+ data centers.

[Uncle]

I heard that someone just protested this MJ movie at the white house correspondent's dinner

[Boredfrom]

So just to recap, in the last minute CSPAN says it was a false alarm, CNN says the shooter was killed in the lobby, and the pool report says he's in custody, do I have that right?

God, American mass media is so pointless these days.

 

You fucking retard, that’s what always happens in these situations (shootings). 

ERA hates the journalists as much as Trump.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/potential-shots-fired-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner.1502125/page-6#post-154219606

[benji]

Guy who earnestly believes the mass media was omniscient when he was younger.

[benji]

Let me just say that this seems really sus and would be perfectly in line with a false flag. Possibly to reverse the massive wave of anti-Zionism among the American voter.

[Uncle]

Guy who earnestly believes the mass media was omniscient when he was younger.

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

like people who mourn the loss of being able to trust everything they see and read as being genuine in the age of AI

[Boredfrom]

If the last few years has taught us anything it's that 24 is a bunch of bullshit.

[HaughtyFrank]

Instantly thought to myself "staged"

https://www.resetera.com/threads/potential-shots-fired-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner.1502125/post-154220041

[benji]

If the last few years has taught us anything it's that 24 is a bunch of bullshit.

edit: Guy who earnestly believed James Bond/Jason Bourne/Jack Bauer accurately depicted the day-to-day of intelligence work.

[simiansmarts]

famiboards is having a meltdown and mods are leaving over some stupid fucking trans drama that i can't be bothered to figure out 
 
 

[Mask]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/if-americas-so-rich-howd-it-get-so-sad-or-how-the-2020s-broke-our-brains-article.1499758/page-2#post-154213969

At the same time, I look at how we dealt with it back then and I feel like we were happier. People had a bit more hope and we made fun of shit more. These days people just spend their time arguing with each other and assuming the worst.

If only he had the power to cultivate the community he wants to see. Oh…

B-Dubbers will never learn, huh.

The fact that Clicky posted right after him is the icing on the cake.

[benji]

So trans people can't be transphobic? And it's transphobic to punish trans transphobes?

So this tweet didn't need to be deleted:

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/potential-shots-fired-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner.1502125/page-7#post-154219852

Can we say we feel the ear shot was staged or is that still bannable territory?

[simiansmarts]

https://famiboards.com/threads/famiboards-general-discussion-st55-april-2026-ghostpog.17035/page-85#post-2268242

You know, that's really interesting you should mention that! Why not let people see the problems instead of keeping them private? Because first we have downplaying transphobia...  
 
...and then we have misgendering a fellow member of the forum. 
 
 
...to which his response was to basically bail from the server after he was called out for the incidents.

Now, I earnestly believe what you say here and that you weren't aware of what happened. I get it, it's easy to not pay attention to every server you are in. However, there were two other Famiboards admins in that server that absolutely were aware of what happened. 
 
 
So...some of y'all knew, folks in positions of power over the site. And didn't do anything about it? Bass is only given a self-requested ban now after this all blows up? Curious.

In fact, that same poster was in the Famiboards staff server for quite a bit after the fact! And what was that? He was complaining about how moderation feedback? 
 
And look where we are at now. I guess y'all are gonna vindicate Bass? Because now mod feedback is forever closed, mod decisions are anonymous, and any critique of moderation now has to go to the DMs, where it may or may not be public. Banning Suswave from R&D for being completely fucking correct about mod critiques but instead it being read as personal attacks wasn't enough? Because I guess any critique of moderation is a personal attack, we don't have to publicly listen to people, unless they criticize our website on social media!

And thus, FamiBoards has evolved into smaller ResetEra. Remember when y'all vacted that site because of issues with moderation? I guess not.

And to be extra clear, I don't encourage anyone to harass anyone involved here! That's not right. But let's at least be clear about what this is about, okay.

I'll be honest, I still hold sympathy for mods. I've been critical of their actions, particularly recently, but as recent discussions showed, it seemed that we actually recognized that, indeed, the problems were systemic. Honestly, I was feeling at least a little optimistic for the site, especially listening to @Tangerine_Cookie's suggestions, seeing all of us grapple with what the structure of the site should look like. And I do feel for Splunkog in particular! We were friends, and I'm sorry this all hurt so much. If you ever read this, I hope you can find peace away from this site.

But instead, a fellow ex-moderator from my cohort decided to accuse other ex-moderators of transphobia, including a trans woman. In the face of folks calling out an actual transphobe. One that they noted was being transphobic, by the way! 
 
But I guess that doesn't matter now. So, @xghost777, congratulations. I'm sure Famiboards will be a very successful community now that many of its most passionate members have been driven out. I'm sure people will adore Famiboards for becoming more closed off, more insular. Because upholding a false sense of civility is more important than actually taking action and doing the right thing. 

  
 

[HaughtyFrank]

famiboards is having a meltdown and mods are leaving over some stupid fucking trans drama that i can't be bothered to figure out 
 
 

I can't find details in this thread, it's all just people crashing out with weird essays

I... don't know how to answer. I feel mostly delirious. kind of still standing on a bed of nails. maybe a little surprised. like a black and white freeze frame of something falling on a town and it's a human body, or it's an atom bomb, and I won't know what tricks the eyes are playing on the city or the body for a while now yet.

I don't really know where anyone's opinion stands on me and that's the least important thing. but I've been scared to answer anything particularly earnestly for a good while now and don't see a world in which I shouldn't be. in my world, my small slice of world, the powers that be are aiming to take even more of the little I have. you can't know what that's like until you live it. and surely, many of us are.

I feel desperate. to protect those I love. and painfully aware of my powerlessness. my dead friends are appearing in my dreams more and more. the stress of the real world is horrific on me, and the stress of this — as like, I'll be honest, the one public place I was or am — is making me flare for weeks in ways that have left me sleepless, exhausted, and outright hallucinating.

regardless of anything else, I tried because I love this place. I love people here. some of them even love me.

some of them hate me, or have always hated me, or maybe hated me for a minute and came to love me later, or maybe everyone will hate me and there was never any point and just because I watched this thing get born and it changed my life doesn't mean I get to think I can leave an imprint for good.

but I couldn't normalize it with care, I couldn't normalize it with direct earnest apology, and I couldn't normalize it with lighthearted shitposty jokes. the point will be missed and for some I will be forever a caustic symbol, and it makes me want to die.

I know someone must be feeling it acutely and caring because some actions I did not expect were taken.

it also took one of the kindest people I've ever known breaking, with receipts.

it's also taken a bunch of the other kindest people I've ever known getting torn apart in ways you can't imagine while desperately trying to bridge this.

I am not accustomed to people valuing my life, but it drives me deep into despair that the people who most do are constantly punished for it in one of the only spaces they have.

like for a lot of you, you can do something else. for a lot of us, this was the last place.

and I'm seeing that play out in the awful depths and brushes with mortality playing out for the kinds of folks I always vowed to speak up for, and did, until I was no longer allowed.

But I also don't think any good can come of me answering this. I think a lot of people feel burned by me and angry by me and still don't know what the fuck I was trying to say, which is fine.

I just don't think there's any trying left in me. I've been tossing pebbles instead of letting my whole heart pulse through here. I'm broken, more or less, and a turn that I was glad to see still has me very, very on edge.

I feel a single scrap of heard. which might honestly also put me in more danger. I don't think there's anything like "winning" here in the long run.

I'm waiting to see where a lot of cards land and what kind of blowback will become my new baseline.

but I'm more of a shell, more of a moon now. I can't not care. but without question, I think many people here think me caring is violence, or irritating at best, and I'm already bracing for how many people are going to be infuriated by this post and double-down on hating me.

I think the mods have found a moment of peace and I'm glad some of y'all can catch a breath now.

I struggle to see the long term as sustainable, or not just creating the terrors we made this place to flee from. not even out of malice or intent. out of the nature of it. out of still having to balance respectability, in spite of the efforts to allow for that.

it kinda makes me think we're fucked. like I know no institution will save me but between this and COVID, I'm pretty clear that those who would fight for me will be drained, starved of resources, and chewed through, and I'll have done nothing more than use them as human shields because my defenses are already threadbare.

I do not want this.

I never wanted this.

it's making me feel like even beautiful devout trans anarchists, bound together and having each other's backs, don't stand a goddamn chance when the majority of the world is a massive rabid dog thrashing at the netting we've wound 'round our shack.

it's easy to feel hopeful if you're not as far in the pit as some of us have gotten.

maybe you'll all prove me spectacularly wrong.

I think a great many of you care, even those who have drained me intentionally or not.

I do believe you.

but I hope that the shape of the things I describe, while seeming esoteric and invisible, untenable in their blasé expression, not worth the risk of glancing at, let alone peering into... I hope the machinery and layers are kinder to you. even for the amount they haven't been.

I hope your bodies don't have to feel like this.

I hope you don't have to feel death like I have.

I hope something snaps into place, and the smallest pocket of your world is as beautiful and fulfilling as the largest, and that no one else has to die for that.

but idk.

that's not our world.

it's something different.

https://famiboards.com/threads/famiboards-general-discussion-st55-april-2026-ghostpog.17035/post-2269119

[HaughtyFrank]

https://famiboards.com/threads/famiboards-general-discussion-st55-april-2026-ghostpog.17035/page-85#post-2268242

You know, that's really interesting you should mention that! Why not let people see the problems instead of keeping them private? Because first we have downplaying transphobia... 

Oh there's the juice!

[benji]

 

 





Sigh.

[benji]

SUPPORT 👏 TRANS 👏 WOMEN 👏 BUT 👏 NOT 👏 CLASS 👏 TRAITOR 👏 TRANS 👏 WOMEN 👏

[Uncle]

I love how there's always equal rage from people who thought the site had too much stifling moderation/was too woke and people who think the site didn't moderate hard enough/wasn't woke enough

[simiansmarts]

something something HRT hitting online male nerds like crack hitting low income neighborhoods in the 80s

[HaughtyFrank]

https://famiboards.com/threads/famiboards-general-discussion-st55-april-2026-ghostpog.17035/page-85#post-2268242

You know, that's really interesting you should mention that! Why not let people see the problems instead of keeping them private? Because first we have downplaying transphobia...  
 

  
 

It took me five minutes to figure that the user "bass" is supposed to be downplaying transphobia here

[benji]

I'm glad they outright explained that they hate this guy for other reasons and are using him using "they" instead of "she" as the critical offense since nobody would support them on the others.

[benji]

The Bire is harboring a known transphobe known as @benjipwns.bsky.social. He is chummy with staff and are aware of his actions.

Every single staff member is complicit in what's happening.

[benji]

"What's happening?"

"A bunch of weirdos are losing their shit and writing dramatic incoherent essays on a video game forum."

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/potential-shots-fired-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner.1502125/page-10#post-154221295

I can't believe this might actually be a false flag, just so he can push his stupid ballroom.

Edits:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/potential-shots-fired-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner.1502125/#post-154217662

Assuming this isn't fugazi like the ear.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/potential-shots-fired-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner.1502125/#post-154217914

Hmmmm.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/potential-shots-fired-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner.1502125/page-3#post-154218538

I call bullshit. Trump will do anything to not be made fun of.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/potential-shots-fired-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner.1502125/page-4#post-154218616

if he comes back to speak, this was staged 100%. That's pure stupidity.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/potential-shots-fired-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner.1502125/page-4#post-154218745

I'm just glad he didn't not have his ear hurt again.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/potential-shots-fired-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner.1502125/page-4#post-154218763

Video looks like a stunt to gain sympathy.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/potential-shots-fired-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner.1502125/page-5#post-154218961

Why does this guy have to make me a conspiracy theorist? Because this whole thing is damn fishy.

All right I'm getting my tinfoil hat. Posted way too fast. This reeks.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/potential-shots-fired-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner.1502125/page-5#post-154219006

Yeah something about this stinks. And it ain't his Depends.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/potential-shots-fired-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner.1502125/page-5#post-154219042

everything is sus with this.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/potential-shots-fired-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner.1502125/page-5#post-154219081

lol, they're resuming? So nothing happened.

this is wildly suspect

https://www.resetera.com/threads/potential-shots-fired-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner.1502125/page-5#post-154219192

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tfcawkdipcjayj22baxcseyw/post/3mgxqau5oxc2z?ref_src=embed

It's so fucking obvious it hurts

https://www.resetera.com/threads/potential-shots-fired-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner.1502125/page-5#post-154219294

After the ear thing, I'm super skeptical.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/potential-shots-fired-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner.1502125/page-6#post-154219396

Yeah this was totally a way for trump to get attention and get out of the room

Man that shits prob staged. He prob didn't wanna get ripped on at the dinner + garner sympathy and distract from his Iran fuck ups.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/potential-shots-fired-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner.1502125/page-6#post-154219615

Why do I feel this was him hoping to repeat the FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT moment..I just don't trust anything from this administration and I hate it .

https://www.resetera.com/threads/potential-shots-fired-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner.1502125/page-6#post-154219735

LMAO. You can't survive shit that didn't happen.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/potential-shots-fired-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner.1502125/page-7#post-154219900

Schrödinger's shooter. No one saw him and he doesn't exist, but he is also in custody, and quite dead.

I am sure they will find "I love dems and dei" written on the weapon.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/potential-shots-fired-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner.1502125/page-7#post-154220020

What in the publicity stunt are these "attempted assassination"s, dawg.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/potential-shots-fired-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner.1502125/page-7#post-154220302

Another staged event huh

https://www.resetera.com/threads/potential-shots-fired-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner.1502125/page-7#post-154220329

I wonder what messages they'll find on the bullet casings

https://www.resetera.com/threads/potential-shots-fired-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner.1502125/page-8#post-154220443

I bet they don't actually redo this event. Then it'll be really obvious that it was staged so that Trump didn't have to sit there looking bored or falling asleep.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/potential-shots-fired-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner.1502125/page-9#post-154221139

Goddamn I'm so sick of this fucking loser taking getting shot at.

He didn't react once to the gunshots.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/potential-shots-fired-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner.1502125/page-10#post-154221664

Except he staged the whole thing and it has gone remarkably well.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/potential-shots-fired-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner.1502125/page-11#post-154221892

IMO the biggest case of this whole shit being staged: Trump is rambling about ballrooms and the country being hot at 11pm like he didn't experience the third attempt at his life in the past decade. I don't think this mf has that kind of nerves of steel.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/potential-shots-fired-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner.1502125/page-12#post-154222558

I smell bs.

[benji]

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

*four burgers*

Some fat fuck: "That's a normal amount of food for one average sized person"

[Alpacx]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/potential-shots-fired-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner.1502125/page-10#post-154221295

That thinking on this is all over the online left spaces I've been looking at after this. 

Insanity.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

Whatever happened to the Bronies?

They transitioned.

[HeavenIsAPlaceOnEarth]

When you really think about it, all movies are a scam. You've contributed all your life in ways that help a movie industry to exist. You've contributed in other ways to help insure that all the actors and directors and executives have an infrastructure that allows them to have careers not just in movies but by providing education, food, roads, electricity, etc. Then despite all that they expect you to pay AGAIN to see their movie. And you don't get paid anything for any of this emotional labor. Total scam. The contradictions of capitalism, colonialism and white supremacy laid bare yet again.

they're also inherently a form of misinformation, the events being shown in films didn't even really happen the way they're being shown even in a biopic, and don't even get me started on fantasy films

what if someone actually believes that star wars took place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, and this contributes to a faulty worldview? there's no disclaimer stating that this is an intentional falsehood to frame the fiction

Please Uncle, don't manifest this into reality! 

see: the "I hate the first person perspective in books because I didn't do those things" bullshit