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WANTED THE UPMARSEYS BEFORE Y'ALL REALIZED WILL EDIT WITH MORE INFO + DRAMA
This is what a burger would see before the app shutdown
Visiting TikTok in the US now leads to the following:
(website)
(app)
The ban relies on your tiktok account's region. Using a VPN won't do anything unless you're signed out.
Rising posts are a great place to find nice dramamines, it's currently full of ban screenshots but there's also gems like this:
https://old.reddit.com/r/rant/comments/1i4od06/the_fact_people_are_more_enraged_about_tik_tok/
VARIOUS DRAMAMINES:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Tiktokhelp/
https://old.reddit.com/r/TikTok/
https://old.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/
https://old.reddit.com/r/Tiktokhelp/comments/1i4pk5g/how_to_get_around_the_ban/ (links to a groomercord that supposedly teaches how to "get around the ban", not joining cuz r4 but ik some of y'all are secret groomercordians)
https://old.reddit.com/r/TikTok/comments/1i4nh5y/does_anyone_else_think_this_is_all_propaganda/
https://old.reddit.com/r/TikTok/comments/1i4fjd6/just_my_thoughts/ (doesn't talk bad about reddit for some reason 
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Apple has removed TikTok from the U.S. App Store βΌοΈ pic.twitter.com/YFpa2g1BJ6
β Apple Hub (@theapplehub) January 19, 2025
BREAKING: TikTok has officially shut down in the US pic.twitter.com/vbxbiMwyJq
β Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 19, 2025
π¨#BREAKING: TikTok has officially been banned and shut down in the United States.
β R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) January 19, 2025
π#UnitedStates | #USA
Just moments ago, TikTok released a message to its users announcing that it has been officially banned and shut down in the United States. Upon opening the app, all 170+β¦ pic.twitter.com/IJliuF5IVb
TikTok has officially shut down in the U.S. pic.twitter.com/jbgayWYUFo
β Dexerto (@Dexerto) January 19, 2025
Nature is healing pic.twitter.com/OMNTbObkZr
β Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) January 19, 2025
TikTok has officially been banned in the U.S.π³βΌοΈ pic.twitter.com/BsBfZJBHHa
β RapTV (@Rap) January 19, 2025
BRAND NEW UNTAPPED DRAMAMINES:
Breaking : CapCut has been shut down in the US TONIGHT after TikTok Banned pic.twitter.com/hNBg9jnKqU
β Raphousetv (RHTV) (@raphousetv2) January 19, 2025
TikTok has officially been removed from the App Store in the U.S.πΊπΈπ³π pic.twitter.com/fCK0inALrd
β Raphousetv (RHTV) (@raphousetv2) January 19, 2025
π¨#BREAKING: Here are the following apps shut down in the United States tonight:
β R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) January 19, 2025
β’ TikTok
β’ CapCut
β’ Lemon8
β’ Gauth
β’ Hypic
β R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) January 19, 2025(XITTER SPACE NEED TO BE LARGE ACCT TO SPEAK)
well tiktok is gone now ππ pic.twitter.com/5676UcpKAy
β πHOURLYπ shitpost (@hourly_shitpost) January 19, 2025
VARIOUS THINGS THAT I FOUND THAT I FIND FUNNY:
https://old.reddit.com/r/TikTokCringe/comments/1i4ph8x/the_last_video_i_got_to_watch/
They finally soyjakked the America is Fascist for banning TikTok girl pic.twitter.com/XAMxcwrF9F
β Spinachbrah π₯ (@basedspinach) January 18, 2025
First Tik Tok now calculator appβ¦ this day canβt get any worse pic.twitter.com/MpURFLcOfA
β greg (@greg16676935420) January 19, 2025
MrBeast, Kai Cenat, and Soulja Boy failed to save TikTok. pic.twitter.com/d608wXy2wf
β DramaAlert (@DramaAlert) January 19, 2025
Unsurprisingly, all the bot nsfw tiktok subreddits are not talking about the ban.
!burgers !chuds !coomers !fartneighbors !g*mers !humans !pantspoopers !pinggrouplovers !pings !transphobes !wincels
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Yes hello I am treating myself to a low-effort post-trump 
post 
I plan on leaving the country or offing myself when my birth certificate gets changed back
Very masculine response 
I currently live in a blue state with a republican nut-job governor. He will likely take Trump's side with every executive order he signs that can be enforced by the state, so my birth certificate and gender markers are likely to be changed back to 'F'.
ahhhh shit neighbor they gon change a single letter on a meaningless piece of paper, better crash out 
What happens then? When other countries realize the US's attack on freedom of expression, will they let us in? I'm considering my emergency fleeing options right now.
oh yeah you're going to 'flee' the US are you bud?
Thank you for pointing out that Afghanistan is a 'no-go' I had no idea 
This person uses ChatGPT as a therapist, manly behaviour 
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A classic is on our hands
Game : Street Fighter Alpha 3 - SFA3
PRIZE POOL : 20k MB [1st place 12k; 2nd place 6k; 3rd place 2k] Graciously provided by Trap and Cammy, what a beautiful couple 
Feel free to donate for the cause!
Date : 22nd of February, lucky number 222 
Back to fightcade games 
Not like that changes anything for most of you neighbors.
Alpha 3 is a classic with footsies, cute girls and... borderline TOD custom combos galore. Considered by many, including Daigo Umehara to be their favorite Street Fighter of all time 
. Although I must say that I myself prefer 3rd strike 
This one is very unique for a street fighter game, due to 3 versions present for every character, Dhalsim being top tier, and of course the hallmark of Alpha, air blocking, so there should be a taste of anime here for those of you who are deeply subhuman 
Hope to see you nigs this month, stream issues are hopefully fixed, praying to the cell towers. 
Sign-up link: https://www.start.gg/rDrama
LEARN THE GAME HERE:
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GET YOUR DOWNLOADS HERE:
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!fightclub @Horned_waifus_shill and !g*mers
@KongEnjoyer Aevann carp pls pin
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The USAid programs were weaponized against people and politicians who werenβt woke.
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) February 3, 2025
The Biden team spent US taxpayer money to support left wing programs and candidates around the world.
Conservatives around the world were targeted.
Romania is the latest example.β¦ https://t.co/cmPqYojRzs
Will we ever get our elections back? Or at least hold new ones? Nobody knows 
Bur EU is determined to follow our steps for some reason 
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Singer said some typical supportive stuff that included the phrase: "They will never take trans joy away". Joyless seething ensues.
Who the frick cares about "trans joy" or how it's really scary for you heccin vxlid guys right now. We have fricking nobody and nothing. No hate to chapppell personally, I just hate this stupid bullshit that this class of person is circulating. So out of their depth here. And maybe I'm just harping on the easy target because I can't do anything about the real problem, but it's still annoying.
It's designed and screened to satisfy her dipshit audience, which has no relevance to our community's well being as they are insta warriors
I love trans joy it's so fricking valid girlie
I'm so glad I get to be a
couldn't be me. i hate her. she knows she has a huge platform and the safety net of being cis so she just parrots useless optimism. no one is looking out for us, especially not the fricking pop music industry
i do appreciate her for doing the bare minimum. but ngl she gets under my skin anyways. the whole divine feminine schtick and "doing drag but as a cis woman" irks me
More in the comments. Can't imagine why the trains are short on allies.
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They're still seething 
so... you were able to do it in an hour, you're just used to it taking ten to twelve weeks 
just 16 hours! give these poor babies some slack
DHS spooks parked at the little TSA booths 
Also
How can blurmpf expect elite government functionaries to work in these compliant but outdated spaces 
If they're so critical, why are "data calls" needed to determine who and where the frick your employees are 
/u/el-corneador don't let the door hit your culo on the way out esΓ© 
We banned their app, now they hate us 
Bonus content
https://old.reddit.com/r/AskWomenOver40/comments/1i7v7g3/what_are_we_going_to_do_about_this/
Last but not least, the smartest pooner:
"no"
So masculine 
Important poll !chuds !nooticers
A nation of cucks prepares to surrender 
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Canada becomes a US territory.
— Zachary Tisdale π¨π¦ (@ztisdale) February 2, 2025
The tariffs end.
Federal taxes are scrapped.
We become US citizens & gain the US Constitution.
We can preserve Canada's history & the Canadian identity within the Union.
Just like how Texans or Floridians or Californians have a unique culture.
I think the Tariffs start on Tuesday, so the Canadians 
are mentally preparing for their surrender on Sunday 
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whyareyou
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nobody uses the site search, either
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ΠnΠ΅ sΠ΅nds mΠ΅ thΓs
ΠnΠΎthΠ΅Ε sΠ°Ρs tΠΎ mΠ΅ hΠΎw mΠ°ΡΠΎ Γ Π°m
r/GrimDank, a sub about manchildren posting about painting action figures in the 40k 
doomposts about Trump. The sub has been violently overthrown and systematically colonized past 18 months, but never before has such obvious yank propaganda been astroturfed. SOY all around! 
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Reddit commies truly are a blight upon mankind !anticommunists
some are confused
OP is giga cringe
"LABOUR IS JUST PINKO TORIES" 
"MEDIA LITERACY! MEDIA LITERACY! MEDIA LITERACY! MEDIA LITERACY!" 
These reddit lunatics are genuinely more dogmatic than the religious fanatics in the 40k universe
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— Aella (@Aella_Girl) January 29, 2025
Some music while you read:
and/or the original:
(ctrl + v):
Zizian Murdercult summary, for those out of the loop
I know a bunch of people who were involved or adjacent, including someone who accidentally got some footage.
The summary below is based on talking to these people, looking at court documents, reading blog posts, etc. (I was also at the protested CFAR reunion and knew Daniel)
More info at the bottom (especially for journ*lists who would like interviews)
Pre-2019
Curtis Lind allows people to live in trailers and containers on his Vallejo, CA property, initially offering affordable housing to artists, woodworkers, and electricians. Over time, some tenants stop paying rent and are later referred to as "The Cult" by neighbors. The cult consists of Ziz (Jack LaSota), Emma Borhanian, Somni (Alexander Leatham), and Gwen Danielson.
Separately, at some point Ziz attends a workshop by CFAR, which is a nonprofit focusing on behavioral psychology and AI.
2019
November 2019: CFAR bans Ziz and Gwen from their alumni reunion, partly due to fears of violence.
November 2019: Ziz, Emma, Somni and Gwen protest at the reunion with accusations of bad decision theory (it's complicated) and transphobia. (All four of them are trans).
The protestors get arrested for blocking entrances (while there are children on the grounds) and wearing Guy Fawkes masks. They're released on bail.
2021
August 2021: Ziz advocates for "airlocking" (a sci-fi term for killing) various people in blog comments and claims many people seek "suicide by Ziz." Ziz runs a blog which appears to be the primary attractor for this community. They claim that people have two hemispheres, and are either non-good, single-good, or double-good (very rare, which Ziz herself is). Ziz advocates for a ruthlessly enforced altruism towards all living creatures, and to follow the principle that it's never valid to surrender. She promotes the punishment of "non-good" people, particularly those who are not vegans.
2022
February 2022: Jamie Zajko, a close friend of Ziz, claims that Ziz threatens to kill Jamie, if Jamie does not kill Jamie's girlfriend and provide proof of it.
April 2022: Gwen Danielson, one of the protestors, stops appearing for court hearings, and their lawyer suggests they have died.
July 2022: A different friend of this group commits suicide and cites ideas from Ziz's blog in their suicide note. Ziz appears to suggest their ideas caused the suicide.
August 2022: Ziz fakes her own death in a boating accident and stops showing up to court hearings. The Coast Guard conducts a search for her, but finds no body. An obituary is released.
November 2022: Emma Borhanian is killed by Curtis Lind during a violent altercation at his Vallejo property. Somni stabs Lind with a sword, and Lind shoots both Somni and Emma. Lind is stabbed dozens of times and loses an eye. Lind's account is that they had been threatening him for some time, and one day requested he come fix a leak. They hit him from behind, and when he woke up they were attempting to cut off his head (he has scarring consistent with this claim). He then shot Emma and Somni in self defense. His friend claims upon entering the trailer afterwards he found surgical equipment and chemicals he believes were intended to dissolve Lind's body. Somni and Suri Dao are arrested. Ziz and Gwen are seen at the scene, alive. It seems likely Gwen had faked their own death earlier to escape court appearances, much as Ziz had.
November 2022: Somni attempts to escape from jail (twice).
2023
January 2, 2023: Richard and Rita Zajko are found dead from homicide in their Pennsylvania home from gunshot wounds. Their daughter Jamie Zajko was associated with Ziz, and we suspect the homicide was an attempt to gain money (several million dollars) from inheritance. Police also suspect Ziz is involved in the murder. Police also suspect Daniel Blank, an associate of Ziz, is involved in the murder. Blank has not been seen since and we suspect he's dead.
January 13, 2023: Ziz is arrested in Pennsylvania for "obstructing administration of law" and "disorderly conduct." Ziz eventually makes bail (in June) and stops showing up to court. We suspect that the arrest was indirectly related the murders, and that the police didn't have enough evidence to make a full charge.
2025
January 17, 2025: Curtis Lind (who was set to serve as the primary witness in his assault case) is stabbed to death outside his Vallejo property. A man named Maximilian Snyder is later arrested for this murder. The previous year, he applied for a marriage license with a woman named Teresa Younblut, who was in contact with Ziz.
January 20, 2025: Teresa Youngblut and a man named Felix Baukholt are stopped while driving by U.S. Border Patrol in Vermont. They end up in a shootout, and Baukholt and a border patrol agent dies. Police find tactical gear, firearms, and burner laptops in the car. According to the police, an unnamed person who purchased the firearms used in this shooting is also a suspect in the Pennsylvania Zajko murders. We think this is likely to be Jamie Zajko, given that the shooting is in the same town that Jamie Zajko has a registered address (Coventry, Vermont).
That's it so far. We still don't know the whereabouts of the people in this story who aren't either dead or in custody, and we sort of expect them to continue doing murders.
1. If you're a journ*list and want to get in contact with people around the community/rationalist scene who knows the people involved, you can fill out this form and your contact info will be shared around our networks
2. My friend, trying to interview Lind about something else, ended up getting a bunch of footage of him talking about the attack. If you're a journ*list or documentarian interested in this footage, please reach out to him here
3. The above timeline is collected from sources the community has accumulated here.
It also has some high-confidence guesses made by people familiar with those involved. Please doublecheck all claims yourself.
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48th president of the united states
no trans women are women
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-biden-pardons-brother-james-biden-4-other-family-members
https://old.reddit.com/r/centrist/comments/1i5hoze/exclusive_trumps_day_one_executive_order_on_male/
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traverse390 asks:
Are we at risk of censorship of LGBTQ+/adult material re: U.S. 2025 federal policies?
The short answer to your question is yes. Of course, there is a risk of increased censorship of LGBQT+ and "adult material" in 2025 and beyond for those of you living in the United States.
The worrying trend of banning books in schools and public libraries across the United States will worsen before it gets better. The Comic Book Journal reported in September that:
"The American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom, which tracks book challenges and bans around the U.S., recorded that 378 different graphic novels were threatened with bans or challenges in 2023, with a total of 1,020 total censorship attempts. In the last three years, the numbers have seen a huge jump β 2023's total censorship attempts are twenty times what they were just three years ago in 2020."
In March last year, The Guardian reported on the recent American Libraries Association report covering all of 2023's known book bans. Amongst other things, the report detailed "Seventeen states [that] saw attempts to ban more than 100 books: Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Wisconsin."
Why is the banning of books so prevalent across American public schools and libraries?
Sadly! The banning of books and the occasional outright burning of them has been a regular occurrence throughout American history. Despite its relatively young age as a country, the USA has been banning books pretty much from the get-go. Think about it this way. The first white Europeans arrived in the country and settled in Jamestown, Virginia in 1607 and these same "Founders" banned their first book in 1637.
The first book ever to be banned in the United States was New English Canaan by Thomas Morton, who established an early colony in Massachusetts where settlers and native people co-existed fairly harmoniously. Morton espoused a more pragmatic approach to colonization with the land's original inhabitants. This was seen as a threat by the Puritan settlers, and Morton was subsequently twice exiled back to England, where he wrote New English Canaan. He was not a white savior of any kind. He was a fur trader and businessman, and most of the book describes the "opportunities" the New World presented to entrepreneurial readers. Nonetheless, his pragmatic views on peaceful co-existence with native people were seen as a threat to the fabric of the new society the Puritans were attempting to build, and he was punished for it.
It is the fear that certain types of ideas, practices, and beliefs can "undermine" the cultural fabric of America that drives book bans. So! It comes as no surprise that graphic novels that depict "non-traditional" romantic and erotic relationships and/or characters who are non-conformist to the hetero-dominant culture will be targeted by censorious organizations and individuals.
While I wish to focus specifically on the type of material that matters to you in your question, I would like to remind everyone that it isn't just LGBTQ+ material that is being banned. Far from itβ¦
The most recent high-profile case of statewide book banning, including comics and manga, happened last year in Tennessee when the state legislature brought in the HB843 mandate. Books in school libraries must be suitable for the age and maturity levels of the students. Some of the types of content deemed inappropriate for school-age children include any type of nudity, "descriptions or depictions of sexual excitement," excessive violence, and of course, LGBTQ-related subjects.
ANN reported on the mandate at the time that includes the first eight volumes of Assassination Classroom, Jujutsu Kaisen, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, My Hero Academia: Vigilantes (volumes 1 and 3), all of Attack on Titan, and Akira, which really pisses me off. Rumiko Takahashi's Inuyasha is also on the banned books list in Tennessee, which is a perennial favorite of many younger readers. It contains some sexually suggestive moments, and some of the key characters, including the protagonist, possess an element of what one could argue is gender fluidity, but it is incredibly subtle, and I am genuinely surprised it made it onto this list.
The depiction of LGBTQ characters in manga is not uncommon, and so you have every right to worry about whether more works could be banned in the future. Manga like Sailor Moon, Claudine, Hunter X Hunter, and Rose of Versailles vary in their depictions of same-s*x couples and/or openly trans characters. Some depictions are more overt, others are more subtle, coded even. Some are serious and core to the story. Other characters provide light relief. Nonetheless! They exist and they are featured in some of the most popular and important works of the past forty years, which I find surprising because Japan is also a socially conservative country. For these works and for these characters to exist, and be known and popular with readers is remarkable and a testament to the fact that the majority don't have major issues with depictions of "alternative lifestyles" in literature, contrary to what much of the media and some politicians tell us.
ScreenRant reported in November that Richmond County School District in North Carolina recently banned (pending a review) Unico: Awakening Volume 1, the new reimaging of Osama Tezuka's classic manga by Samuel Sattin and illustrator, Gurihiru following a complaint from a "concerned parent." The parent's six-year-old son purchased a copy of the manga at a local Scholastic Book Fair, and she was "shocked to discover depictions of animal cruelty (I hope they never read Tezuka's Buddha Volume 1. That poor bunny!) and gun violence".
The book ban movement in the USA over recent years has most definitely grown, and as The Guardian reports it is "particularly prevalent in Republican-led states, as religious-political activism gains strength," but the canceling, boycotting, and banning of pop culture in your country is something that unfortunately is a "both sides" issue, and it cuts to the bone of your First Amendment rights. The more organized book banners know this, and while many of us may wonder whether your federal law-makers might seek to increase the scope of these bans, it isn't necessary to achieve the ultimate goal of reducing access to what they may consider to be "dangerous" and/or "unsuitable" reading material for children and young adults. The market will ultimately decide what reading material you can have access to, and unfortunately, book banners know this.
The Unico manga is a case in point. School libraries never used to hold graphic novels or manga in them. Public libraries barely did either. Unico is a flagship manga title for Scholastic's Graphix imprint, which is dedicated to publishing creator-owned graphic novels for early, middle-grade, and young adult readers. Graphix launched in 2005 with Jeff Smith's epic series, BONE #1: Out From Boneville. This imprint came about in part because of the huge shift in boy's reading habits starting in the late 90s. This is when I, as a 15-year-old, first discovered "edgier" books like Alan Moore's V for Vendetta and The Killing Joke in my local library.
This recent ban, "pending review," of Unico is noteworthy because Scholastic is the world's largest publisher and distributor of children's books and a major supplier of books to school libraries. They have a better understanding of what is and isn't acceptable when it comes to age-appropriate literature for school-age children than almost any other publisher. Censorship is a slippery slope, and what one parent may find unacceptable for their six-year-old to read is not necessarily the same as another parent who also monitors what content their kids are consuming. I wanted to use Unico as an example of censorship that isn't driven by an organization, and which doesn't seem politically or religiously motivated.
America's moral majority has been at war with comics as a corrupting influence since the early 1950s and what is now commonly referred to as the "Moral Panic," which was a reaction by the press, religious groups, and politicians against what many considered to be the gradual decline in standards of decency and morality in the media and the arts. Especially film-making and comic books. This moral panic also coincided with a rise in reporting around juvenile delinquency. Senate hearings were held, and miles of column inches were printed, resulting in the voluntary implementation of the Comics Code Authority, which was a self-policing and self-censoring program committed to by all of the major comics magazine publishers at the time. Unbelievably, "The Code" continued well into the 2000s with the final holdouts, DC and Bongo Comics, discontinuing their carrying of the unmistakable CCA badge on every comic cover they printed.
What concerns me is that with your country's rightwards political momentum when it comes to issues of identity and culture, alongside its anti-globalization economic policies, increasing downward pressure on manga and comics publishing will impact readers well beyond the USA's borders. If America sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold. Less than 21% of comics, manga, and graphic novels are currently printed within the USA. If aggressive tariffs are brought in against the majority of America's major international trading partners, including China, where 24% of domestic publishers print their books, the price of the average tankoban is likely to increase considerably. This will mean lower print sales. Combine this with potentially more states banning more manga, and it isn't out of the question that some books may be discontinued and others not printed at all. And sorry, Canadians, Aussies, and Brits, but if fewer books are published in the USA, that means fewer titles for you, too.
I abhor the idea that a book can be dangerous, and I find it ridiculous to believe that a comic or a book can fundamentally change the reader's sexual or gender identity. I've read a lot of books in my lifetime, and none of them caused me to become a straight, cis-hetero male. I am just one, and that identity has, in all likelihood, influenced what types of comics, books, novels, etc. I like to read, as well as what types of movies, series, animation, etc. I like to watch the types of video games I like to play. I feel seen all day long by the culture I inhabit. Erasing what little pop culture is available that recognizes those of us who are not part of "the norm" seems unnecessarily cruel to me.
Based on the strength of some of the aforementioned LGBTQ-friendly manga brands, it could be commercially damaging for some of the biggest names in manga publishing, too. I believe that a change is coming, and it may well impact the print publishing of manga and comics in a significant way. With English-language digital manga and comic sales barely representing 20% of all graphic novel sales currently, perhaps these changes will signal a significant increase in digital manga sales.
References:
Deb Aoki report re: impact of tariffs on manga imports⦠"In The Comics Journal, Gina Gagliano explains how new tariffs will likely affect comics/manga publishing in 2025 (spoiler: it's not good for readers or publishers)."
"What will potential tariffs mean for comic publishers in 2025? "We'll likely have less customers." - The Comics Journal
"The state of comics and censorship during Banned Books Week" - The Comics Journal, September 2024 [Source: The Comic Book Journal "The state of comics and censorship during Banned Books Week", Gina Gagliana, September 23, 2024
"Books bans in US schools and libraries surged to record highs in 2023 - Though the list is broad, many of the 4,240 books were targeted because they related to issues of LGBTQ+ communities or race " - The Guardian, March 14, 2024
Choice quotes from the forums:
Well, censorship of adult or controversial content is already happening.Whether it's Japan doing this to itself or due to social changes around the world.
This is absolutely drop dead terrifying.
The focus on library bans seems geared toward the all-ages LGBTQ+ side of the question, but don't forget that the same forces are pushing for blanket criminalization of pornography. There are already multiple states that companies releasing adult manga/anime won't ship to.
Mod note: don't conflate libertarianism with LGBT. This is your only warning.
Also, I mentioned that if the book ban goes beyond anime/manga, is that going to escalate to targeting Asian-American/AAPI communities. I asked because a few days ago, I read an article from KQED (a local PBS in San Francisco) about the local Japanese-American communities are going to protect undocumented immigrants and come to the defense of the larger immigrants communities due to their experience of the Japanese internment during WWII. So that is my biggest worries as a anime/manga fan, if Japanese-Americans are building a big resistance toward Trump's treatment to the immigrant communities and the wider AAPI communities, is this going to lead to Trump and MAGA attacking not only the Japanese-American communities, will the MAGA/Trumper dare go after anime/manga and the fandom as an act of retaliation, is that going to lead to more manga ban in the school and public libraries? Is that going to lead to the FCC going after companies like Crunchyroll, Netflix, and other streaming companies that stream and license anime, what about manga publishers like Viz Media, Kodansha USA, etc...
The only thing really saving us from censorship and the other crazy things that these Christo-fascists want to do are the judges and courts blocking the orders and lawsuits being made and present right now which will only increase as time goes on at this pace and will be an astronomical amount.
literally not a single judge will defend queer cartoon kiddie porn sweetie
As a straight person, I feel like the opposite has been in effect on Reddit for a few years now. Unless you're towing water for Left leaning causes, you'll get downkongd or your comment will be deleted by a mod. If platforms would stop censoring opposing viewpoints, that would be great. This applies to both Left (Reddit) and Right (X) dominated platforms.
chud whining about chuds being censored on reddit in unrelated topic award 
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this is the natural conclusion of diversity politics. when you elevate foids and every other demographic to positions on the basis they are foids or whatever else, people become less trustworthy.
was this woman a competent pilot? probably, but it doesn't matter - diversity politics ruined any respect she might have.
i've been reading a lot of sirpings blogs and learning a lot from him, and I think he might be a genius.
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βI don't really care, Margaret. I don't want that person in my country.β
— iamyesyouareno (@iamyesyouareno) January 26, 2025
A perfect response. pic.twitter.com/K8HqNi1hEz
goes full communist 
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"I'm literally having a panic attack."
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I've been a US Government employee for almost 25 years. We had our "Return to Office" meeting today. They have even gotten rid of episodic/situational telework. I have two kids in braces and one of them is in counseling twice a month. I was hoping they would still let us work partial days off but they aren't. I'm going to have to take a full day off every time one of them has an appointment. I don't know how I'm going to do this. I'm also in the process of getting divorced and I can't even get their dad to do the dishes so he's not going to help just to punish me.
From her post history:
The comments:
I didn't vote for Trump if that is what you're asserting. I have never voted for a Republican actually. I support policies that make sense. Not talking out of both sides of your head. One side says "save money" and the other side says "and we will rent more office space or pay for people to relocate if we have to just to make people come in".
Trump is the cumination of years of work done by Republicans to undermine our democracy, from gerrymandering districts to the push for anti abortion rights that started over 40 yrs ago just because you didn't vote for one Republican doesn't mean you didn't help put him in the white house. And now you come to us whining about your problems. I for one do not feel a bit sorry for you. You have been anti government for most of your life while sucking at the government tit for the last 25 yrs. About time you found out what side your bread was buttered on.
Ooooo looks like the leopards are eating well here
These reddittors are so annoying, I almost feel bad for the OP.
(In particular, to get women to quit)
This is it right here. Once again women will be forced to decide between economic leverage and their children.
Christo-fascism requires strict gender roles/hierarchy. We'll see a lot more of this kind of sh%t over the next four years.
Preach. It's too often women who have to sacrifice their careers for their families.
yep, my male coworkers would rush off to happy hour to brownnose the bosses while my female coworkers rushed home to get their kids from daycare. guess who gets considered for the promotions?
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