Enigma Uncensored

Never in my life did I believe things would get to this point, but here we are.  While I wholeheartedly miss the comradery and friendships built on the blogs, I do not miss AFF. I miss the blogging with everyone, for sure. I do not miss the inconsistent moderation, gaslighting by SiteSupport, and toxic culture currently being created by the site's actions.  Criticism is good when given constructively. We all gave constructive criticism for months and were ignored. Then, they banned us, when not one of us broke the Terms of Service. Yet, there are countless criticisms of the site still left up. They banned us because we have large followings, and they wanted to shut us up rather than fix what was wrong. I say no, I won't take this anymore. I'm done being muzzled. There are HUGE problems with AFF, and no one there seems to want to improve user experience. They just seemingly want to monetize more, take away gold privileges and charge extra for them, fix less, and rely on new ...

Normally, I’m what I like to refer to as an optimistic realist. I see things for what they are but hope they can get better. However, as of late, my cynical side is taking full hold of my thoughts in terms of this site. While I enjoy the relationships I have built with my fellow bloggers, I lack the zeal to provide content to a site that prioritizes stolen porn and hookup ads over original content. The content moderation hellscape that allows rampant transphobia to fly by without a second thought while deleting jokey responses between blog friends en masse. The hours of moderation limbo. Followed bloggers posts not being in my feed. The nightmare that is my inbox. Over familiar strangers commenting gross come ons and dick pics on HNW posts. Where I was once excited to blog here, enchanted by the new community, the abandonment of the original policies of this side for the Craig’s list/porn hub feel of it now just depresses me. It leaves me in a spot where I’m going to continue reading t...