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Quick'n'Dirty Plural History, part 4 (LJ, the Genic Slapfight, and THE END!)
Quick'n'Dirty Plural History, part 4 (Livejournal and the Genic Slapfight) (see also: Part 1; Part 2; Part 3)
Summary: "All of our multiples out there, we all love you, all three of us!” --doublegearsystem, AKA protomagicalgirl
Word Count: 3000
Notes: IT'S FINALLY OVER! As always, this post was paid for by my lovely Patreon supporters. Honorable mentions for things I wish I could've mentioned but ran out of time/juice: The In Essence Pledge; Blackbirds and their Laymen’s Guide to Multiplicity; the DSM 5 and tumblr's OSDD fixation; the idiosyncratic tumblr interpretation of structural dissociation; how “multiplicity” was originally an umbrella term, only to then get considered too narrow so “plurality” became the umbrella term, only for other people to start defining that too narrowly.
LJ-multiplicity, Pavilion Hall, and Pluralanon
On December 23, 2000, asrai-d, an otherkin (asrai-d, 2004, October 27) non-MPD multiple (asrai-d, 2004, June 16; 2000, November 6) creates the multiplicity community on Livejournal, hereafter referred to as lj-multiplicity (multiplicity, 2020 March 30). As far as I know, it’s the biggest and most active of the plural umbrella groups on Livejournal. It’s a mixed bag: its public tags include “fictives,” “gateway system,” “median,” “midcontinuum,” “mpd/did classic,” “multiples without mpd/did,” “multiples in-system,” “non-trauma multiplicity,” “otherkin,” “self-recognized multiple,” “soulbonds,” and “walk-ins” (multiplicity, N.D.). A lot of Pavilion Hall’s members either come from there, or end up there.
Remember Households United for Equality, that plural activist group that didn’t come to anything? Well, in June 2002, Pavilion Hall is the new activist group devoted to "raising public awareness of healthy multiplicity through positive activism" (Pavilion Hall, n.d. A). Lancers Hill is ostensibly their more active arm, but both Pavilion and Lancers have the same theories, members, and web domain before being merged, so for all practical purposes they are the same group and will be called Pavilion Hall together from here on out. At its dubious height, there are 24 claimed members (Pavilion Hall, 2003 April 23), but apparently at least two were sockpuppets (Amorpha, 2017, September 22); the relevant members for this discussion are Blackbirds (who currently host the Pavilion Hall website), Astraea, and Phoenix, the latter of whom I know nothing about.
Like HUE before them, Pavilion Hall achieves little of substance. They are a Potemkin activist group and while ostensibly still active today with 70+ members (Pavilion Hall, n.d. B), what little they did do mostly takes place from June to December 2002 (Lee, 2019 March 13). Their sole lasting contribution to plural culture online is to erase Vickis and “midcontinuum” in favor of “median,” a shorter word with worse baggage and (eventually) an identical definition.
Part of the loveliness of midcontinuum is its spectrum and fluidity—and that is exactly what Pavilion Hall takes umbrage with: “Mid-Continuum was designed to be loose, and therein lay the problem - it was entirely /too/ loose. […] It was used to describe a massive ‘shades of grey’ area between singlet and multiple. Unfortunately, there was no clear idea of where these ‘shades of grey’ actually ended, though they began at anything more than single[t]" (Phoenix, 2002 December 13). Blackbirds come up with their own definition, “median,” using Pavilion’s abstruse, metaphysical philosophy of fires, or “primal sources of vitality and inspiration. They're your who-you-are, your True Name. [...] People have described fires as sources of creativity, pillars of strength, centers of emotional and spiritual refreshment, places of rejuvenation, people who are inspiring rolemodels [sic] to others in their plural group...in other words, a fire is a source of energy” (Lancers, 2003 August 4). So, in other words, a fire could be anything from a role model to a solar panel. They thus define medians as “one body with many people, [who] also possess a single fire, embodied in a person within the group. [...] Everything in that group is dependent on that one person” (ibid).
Obviously, this is confusing nonsense, and even Pavilion Hall seems to have realized it. Within a few months of Pavilion Hall’s defining the term, Astraea puts the term "median" in their copy-paste of Dark Personalities’ glossary, copy-pasting the Anachronic Army’s definition for midcontinuum and reapplying it to the new term (compare Anachronic Army, 2001, May 19 to Astraea, 2003, January 11). In a perverse twist, they then complain that even though the terms are defined identically, midcontinuum isn’t fluid enough. “Midcontinuum is helpful, but it's rather too limiting [...] you're still left with plurality as a linear continuum, with singlethood at one end and multiplicity at the other. The concept is thus two-dimensional" (Astraea, 2007, June 26). Perhaps they realize how absurd this complaint is, because later, they change their story: "The reason we chose median, a word suggested by the Blackbirds, was that it seemed to encompass multiples who did not dissociate in addition to those who did" (2008, May 11). This is equally nonsensical; I’ve never seen anyone arguing that “midcontinuum” is only for dissociatives or non-dissociatives—while I have encountered multiple medians who felt they didn’t count because they didn’t have the “one main person everyone else relies on” set-up. So the creation of “median” seems to be more about erasing Vickis’ contributions and claiming credit for their work, rather than any logic.
In similar mean-spiritedness, Pavilion Hall also lifts Vickis’ use of “plural” as an umbrella term, but attempting to redefine it (unsuccessfully) as only applying to multiples without MPD/DID. “Plurality and MPD should not be confused for one another. [...] Plurality is a functional, non-disordered state of being: MPD is a nonfunctional disorder, which may require therapy and perhaps integration" (Pavilion Hall, 2003, July 15).
Whatever the reason Pavilion Hall were gunning for Vickis, but in this one petty way, they succeed. “Median” has spread, while “midcontinuum” (and its originator) has been mostly forgotten. Vickis mysteriously disappear from the Internet, and we’re all much the worse for it.
(Sidenote: Strikethrough)
On May 29, 2007, Strikethrough happens. Other people have gone way more into depth about Strikethrough (see Fanlore, n.d.), so I won’t rehash in detail, but the short version is: a right-wing Christian group calling themselves Warriors for Innocence get on their high horse about Livejournal being a haven for child pornography. In the interests of “protecting children,” they get Livejournal to mass-delete over 500 accounts for having sexual crimes (like “rape”) listed in their interests, which includes sexual abuse survivor groups and Harry Potter porn fanfic writers. Ten years down the line, pretty much everyone agrees that Warriors for Innocence (and LJ’s complicity) was far more successful at scaring off writers and sexual abuse survivors than protecting children in any way. A lot of people bolt for Dreamwidth, which is created by former Livejournal staff using the site’s old open-source code.
This does not directly influence the plural communities on Livejournal, as far as I know, but it’s considered the start of the end of Livejournal, and a lot of plurals leave in the general exodus.
Gee, thank goodness everyone learns their lesson and this never happens again!
Pluralanon
Lj-multiplicity is already starting to lose steam due to Strikethrough, but the coffin really shuts with pluralanon, in January 2011. But before we talk about pluralanon itself, we have to talk about the lj-multiplicity social norms.
By 2011, Astraea is the head moderator and the sole maintainer of lj-multiplicity, but even though they’re passivity personified, not to mention abusing all the other moderators at this time (personal communications; Plures 2020), the group culture that results is far from an Astraea-only or Livejournal-only problem. Any plural who’s been in enough of groups has encountered an atmosphere like that of 2011-era lj-multiplicity, where a facade of get-along chumminess conceals a sea of seething resentments, patrolled by sharks who everyone knows are problems but don’t dare boot (either because they run the place or attack those who they catch warning about them), leaving newcomers to fend for themselves. Except in the most flagrant, obvious cases, if a problem gets reported, the mods do nothing; at best, they encourage everyone to get along. The victims, realizing there’s no point in turning to the mods, mostly go silent and disappear, though a few become cage-fighters who rip the face off of anyone who looks at them funny. (After all, the mods won’t stop them!) Others learn exactly who they’re allowed to bully and how, knowing that they’ll never face consequences. Everyone else just looks away and pretends nothing’s happening, trying to avoid the negativity, not realizing that their avoidance contributes to it. Most people pretend that as long as they keep their heads down and don’t make waves, they’ll be safe, and the unpleasantness is mostly suppressed… until, of course, an outlet appears.
Pluralanon is an anonymous Livejournal account created supposedly to be an anonymous place to discuss plurality; instead, all the festering resentment that’s been seething under the surface of lj-multiplicity erupts in a geyser of blood, bile, and suicide jokes. (No, I won’t cite those; go to pluralanon.livejournal.com and trawl it yourself.) After all, everyone knows they’re unlikely to be caught and that the mods won’t stop them. And while previously, people were able to believe in an us-vs.-them of singlet trolls harassing plurals, pluralanon makes it clear that the harassment is coming from within. Some of the personal attacks are vague or could’ve been gotten from public sources, but others are specific and personal enough that I feel safe saying there was at least one inside man—after all, how would anyone know or care of a random new account’s existence without someone playing herald and telling lj-multiplicity about it (and then members of lj-multiplicity joining the fray, giving pluralanon momentum)?
A healthy community could’ve shrugged off pluralanon; instead, all hell breaks loose. Trust in the community and the mods is broken, and a community like lj-multiplicity can only exist with trust—otherwise, why not just hang out with the trolls and cut out the middle man? Despite lj-multiplicity pulling on more moderators and trying to correct course, the comm is killed, and though it still exists, it’s now only a shadow of its former self.
Nowadays, it seems unfathomable that lj-multiplicity made it a whole decade before something like this happened. But that’s because in the wake of Livejournal’s demise, everyone flees to tumblr (after a short stop at Dreamwidth). (Except the tulpamancers, who are busy building on 4chan and Reddit around this time.)
(Sidenote: Tulpamancers)
Okay, this is another huge gap in my knowledge. The concept of a “tulpa” was apparently an obscure Tibetan term, yoinked about a century ago by the theosophists, which through a long game of Western occultist telephone became this very western concept of a sentient thoughtform (or headmate) deliberately created for labor, companionship, and so on. There’s also pop culture influence—a 1999 X-files episode called “Arcadia” and a 2006 Supernatural episode called “Hell House.” So the tulpamancer community probably has roots further back than I know, especially seeing as they may have spawned up around the 4chan /x/ board. The best date I’ve been able to get in a quick rush is “2009ish.” They really like My Little Pony. On October 3, 2009, the Reddit tulpa board is created. On 2012, I see them on Livejournal, but only in X-Files or Supernatural fandom terms (into-the-woods, 2012); they never appear on lj-multiplicity, as far as I know, perhaps because the community was mostly dead by that point.
This is the extent of my meager knowledge of the tulpa community. Probably an actual tulpamancer has made a much better history, sorry.
The Genic Slapfight
No, I won’t dignify the Genic Slapfight by calling it a war. On the surface, it’s just another silly plural sandbox fight, this time fought over the legitimacy of how one became plural. The suffix “-genic” is used here as a synonym for “-originated” or “-based.” Thus, “traumagenic” plurals source their plurality to trauma; “endogenic” plurals don’t. (This is an oversimplification; I’ve seen a lot of logical contortions as people try to redefine the terms so as to keep themselves comfortable in the face of changing realities.) So on one level, the Genic Slapfight seems to be just another iteration of tensions between “empowered multiples” and “survivor multiples,” or “natural multiples” and “trauma-based multiples,” or “MPD/DID/DDNOS/OSDD multiples” and “those fakers over there.” However, unlike other online turf wars, the Genic Slapfight grows legs and somewhat spreads off tumblr, where it originates.
I’ve met people who are under the impressions that the Genic Slapfight is longstanding and global, but that’s bull. It started on tumblr, and I’ve found no sign of its existence earlier than August 2014.
On August 7, the Lunastus Collective (formerly known as Trash Can Collective) post on Tumblr that they are "being told that using those terms [multiple and multiple system] is appropriative of the DID community [...] Being told [natural multiplicity] can’t possibly be a thing, and it’s trivializing DID folks to say it happens" (2014, August 7). To avoid spurious claims of cultural appropriation (and oh, we’ll get to that), they come up with "words to use for 'multiplicity', without using the word 'multiplicity', 'plurality', or anything relating to that" to describe plural experience, by necessity abstruse and esoteric. The most successful of these terms was "endogenous," which at some point later was changed to "endogenic."
Unsurprisingly, the trolls claiming trivialization and appropriation aren’t satisfied. They promptly use Lunastus Collective’s own terminology to create the term “traumagenic” and then continue claiming that any other existence of plurality is ableist/appropriating/trivializing/otherwise proof that the plural making the claim is a Bad Oppressor.
This argument is nonsense, and it shouldn’t pass a basic sniff test. So how does it manage to spread off of tumblr, to the point that I now have to field personal questions about my origins in real life conventions? Well, first, let’s talk about the design of tumblr itself, and its contrast with Livejournal.
Livejournal is designed to be a diary on the Internet; there was no one-click reblogging (at least, while we were there, from 2007-2014), and by the time we joined it in 2007, users could control exactly who read what. Tumblr, however, is designed to share something as quickly as possible, and privacy was never a consideration. There are no filters, no locks; it’s all public 24/7 (until it adds chat capacity and locked accounts, the latter of which never works well). Due to tumblr’s reblogging system, removing a post is nigh-impossible; even if the original is deleted, the reblogs will still exist.
Furthermore, tumblr throws people together in a way Livejournal never did. Livejournal Lars can easily run his blog without ever encountering other people; indeed, that’s the default starting state. On tumblr, however, other people’s posts and accounts are constantly getting recommended through the algorithm; avoiding other people is hard. And a post that gets big (for instance, by evoking outrage) gets spread to more and more people, even when it’s wrong, and the more people reblog and try to correct it, the higher its profile becomes.
On Livejournal, reblogging wasn’t a thing. Even the biggest, most popular post required active searching, while if a tumblr post went viral, there was no escaping it!
The Genic Slapfight, at its base, is another iteration of, “the only legitimate plurals are traumatized/medicalized.” However, it adds a new twist to the business by dressing this idea up in pseudo-academic terms that can only come from the stuff-in-a-blender kludge that is Tumblr “social justice.” Now the argument is roughly, “the only legitimate plurals are traumatized/medicalized, and anyone who claims otherwise is appropriating, ableist, or otherwise a Bad Oppressor.”
This is nonsense. A diagnosis is not a culture, and ergo, it can not be culturally appropriated. And if one uses “appropriation” as a euphemism for theft, it still isn’t applicable, because you can’t steal a diagnosis or disease! You can fake it, lie about it, be wrong about it, but you can’t steal it. And to consider an entire state of being, itself with a long, variegated history, to be oppressive to the disabled unless it is experienced in a medically-authorized manner… needless to say, this flies in the face of everything the disability liberation movement strives for. Ditto the idea of “trivialization,” which implies a certain level of suffering must be performed in public for the sake of disabled people everywhere.
But breaking all that down, as I’ve just demonstrated, requires a long dragging explanation of things like cultural appropriation and disability liberation. It’s clunky, and it risks the (much shorter, snappier) response of, “that you are arguing with me only proves my point.” Who wants to read three paragraphs of grinding academic theory that isn’t even being cited correctly in the first place?
But the Genic Slapfight isn’t just cynical, twisted, and theoretically incorrect; it’s factually incorrect. “Traumagenic” as an identity couldn’t have existed before 2014, because the Lunastus Collective hadn’t created the -genic terms until then! And the older terms like MPD/DID/DDNOS/OSDD and “trauma-based” are not the same as “traumagenic.” The cultures around them are different, the identities are different. (Just try going to a DID conference like Infinite Mind or IGDID and say the word “endogenic.”) These jerks are the newcomers to the party, and here they are claiming they own the whole place!
But they don’t. Plurals have existed for a long time, in all sorts of different ways, from all sorts of walks of life. The claim that we are solely created by trauma is a recent and far from universal social belief, and it isn’t supported by any research that I know of.
At least the pendulum seems to be swinging a bit in the other direction. On January 18, 2019, a Youtuber with the handle of hbomberguy runs a livestream of him playing Donkey Kong 64 to raise money for charity (and to spite a transphobic comedian). In it, a speed-runner going by protomagicalgirl (now doublegearsystem), discloses their plurality to thousands and thousands viewers, saying, “We should do a formal introduction—for those who don’t know us, hi! We’re protomagicalgirl, a plural trans speed-runner, […] I see some plural gang in the chat! Can we get some more plural gang in the chat? All of our multiples out there, we all love you, all three of us!” (Harvey, 2019)
#Pluralgang becomes a hashtag on Twitter, side-stepping the genic slapfight, and creating its own plural umbrella, building on the legacy of Vickis twenty years prior. May we continue building in that direction.
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Summary: "All of our multiples out there, we all love you, all three of us!” --doublegearsystem, AKA protomagicalgirl
Word Count: 3000
Notes: IT'S FINALLY OVER! As always, this post was paid for by my lovely Patreon supporters. Honorable mentions for things I wish I could've mentioned but ran out of time/juice: The In Essence Pledge; Blackbirds and their Laymen’s Guide to Multiplicity; the DSM 5 and tumblr's OSDD fixation; the idiosyncratic tumblr interpretation of structural dissociation; how “multiplicity” was originally an umbrella term, only to then get considered too narrow so “plurality” became the umbrella term, only for other people to start defining that too narrowly.
LJ-multiplicity, Pavilion Hall, and Pluralanon
On December 23, 2000, asrai-d, an otherkin (asrai-d, 2004, October 27) non-MPD multiple (asrai-d, 2004, June 16; 2000, November 6) creates the multiplicity community on Livejournal, hereafter referred to as lj-multiplicity (multiplicity, 2020 March 30). As far as I know, it’s the biggest and most active of the plural umbrella groups on Livejournal. It’s a mixed bag: its public tags include “fictives,” “gateway system,” “median,” “midcontinuum,” “mpd/did classic,” “multiples without mpd/did,” “multiples in-system,” “non-trauma multiplicity,” “otherkin,” “self-recognized multiple,” “soulbonds,” and “walk-ins” (multiplicity, N.D.). A lot of Pavilion Hall’s members either come from there, or end up there.
Remember Households United for Equality, that plural activist group that didn’t come to anything? Well, in June 2002, Pavilion Hall is the new activist group devoted to "raising public awareness of healthy multiplicity through positive activism" (Pavilion Hall, n.d. A). Lancers Hill is ostensibly their more active arm, but both Pavilion and Lancers have the same theories, members, and web domain before being merged, so for all practical purposes they are the same group and will be called Pavilion Hall together from here on out. At its dubious height, there are 24 claimed members (Pavilion Hall, 2003 April 23), but apparently at least two were sockpuppets (Amorpha, 2017, September 22); the relevant members for this discussion are Blackbirds (who currently host the Pavilion Hall website), Astraea, and Phoenix, the latter of whom I know nothing about.
Like HUE before them, Pavilion Hall achieves little of substance. They are a Potemkin activist group and while ostensibly still active today with 70+ members (Pavilion Hall, n.d. B), what little they did do mostly takes place from June to December 2002 (Lee, 2019 March 13). Their sole lasting contribution to plural culture online is to erase Vickis and “midcontinuum” in favor of “median,” a shorter word with worse baggage and (eventually) an identical definition.
Part of the loveliness of midcontinuum is its spectrum and fluidity—and that is exactly what Pavilion Hall takes umbrage with: “Mid-Continuum was designed to be loose, and therein lay the problem - it was entirely /too/ loose. […] It was used to describe a massive ‘shades of grey’ area between singlet and multiple. Unfortunately, there was no clear idea of where these ‘shades of grey’ actually ended, though they began at anything more than single[t]" (Phoenix, 2002 December 13). Blackbirds come up with their own definition, “median,” using Pavilion’s abstruse, metaphysical philosophy of fires, or “primal sources of vitality and inspiration. They're your who-you-are, your True Name. [...] People have described fires as sources of creativity, pillars of strength, centers of emotional and spiritual refreshment, places of rejuvenation, people who are inspiring rolemodels [sic] to others in their plural group...in other words, a fire is a source of energy” (Lancers, 2003 August 4). So, in other words, a fire could be anything from a role model to a solar panel. They thus define medians as “one body with many people, [who] also possess a single fire, embodied in a person within the group. [...] Everything in that group is dependent on that one person” (ibid).
Obviously, this is confusing nonsense, and even Pavilion Hall seems to have realized it. Within a few months of Pavilion Hall’s defining the term, Astraea puts the term "median" in their copy-paste of Dark Personalities’ glossary, copy-pasting the Anachronic Army’s definition for midcontinuum and reapplying it to the new term (compare Anachronic Army, 2001, May 19 to Astraea, 2003, January 11). In a perverse twist, they then complain that even though the terms are defined identically, midcontinuum isn’t fluid enough. “Midcontinuum is helpful, but it's rather too limiting [...] you're still left with plurality as a linear continuum, with singlethood at one end and multiplicity at the other. The concept is thus two-dimensional" (Astraea, 2007, June 26). Perhaps they realize how absurd this complaint is, because later, they change their story: "The reason we chose median, a word suggested by the Blackbirds, was that it seemed to encompass multiples who did not dissociate in addition to those who did" (2008, May 11). This is equally nonsensical; I’ve never seen anyone arguing that “midcontinuum” is only for dissociatives or non-dissociatives—while I have encountered multiple medians who felt they didn’t count because they didn’t have the “one main person everyone else relies on” set-up. So the creation of “median” seems to be more about erasing Vickis’ contributions and claiming credit for their work, rather than any logic.
In similar mean-spiritedness, Pavilion Hall also lifts Vickis’ use of “plural” as an umbrella term, but attempting to redefine it (unsuccessfully) as only applying to multiples without MPD/DID. “Plurality and MPD should not be confused for one another. [...] Plurality is a functional, non-disordered state of being: MPD is a nonfunctional disorder, which may require therapy and perhaps integration" (Pavilion Hall, 2003, July 15).
Whatever the reason Pavilion Hall were gunning for Vickis, but in this one petty way, they succeed. “Median” has spread, while “midcontinuum” (and its originator) has been mostly forgotten. Vickis mysteriously disappear from the Internet, and we’re all much the worse for it.
(Sidenote: Strikethrough)
On May 29, 2007, Strikethrough happens. Other people have gone way more into depth about Strikethrough (see Fanlore, n.d.), so I won’t rehash in detail, but the short version is: a right-wing Christian group calling themselves Warriors for Innocence get on their high horse about Livejournal being a haven for child pornography. In the interests of “protecting children,” they get Livejournal to mass-delete over 500 accounts for having sexual crimes (like “rape”) listed in their interests, which includes sexual abuse survivor groups and Harry Potter porn fanfic writers. Ten years down the line, pretty much everyone agrees that Warriors for Innocence (and LJ’s complicity) was far more successful at scaring off writers and sexual abuse survivors than protecting children in any way. A lot of people bolt for Dreamwidth, which is created by former Livejournal staff using the site’s old open-source code.
This does not directly influence the plural communities on Livejournal, as far as I know, but it’s considered the start of the end of Livejournal, and a lot of plurals leave in the general exodus.
Gee, thank goodness everyone learns their lesson and this never happens again!
Pluralanon
Lj-multiplicity is already starting to lose steam due to Strikethrough, but the coffin really shuts with pluralanon, in January 2011. But before we talk about pluralanon itself, we have to talk about the lj-multiplicity social norms.
By 2011, Astraea is the head moderator and the sole maintainer of lj-multiplicity, but even though they’re passivity personified, not to mention abusing all the other moderators at this time (personal communications; Plures 2020), the group culture that results is far from an Astraea-only or Livejournal-only problem. Any plural who’s been in enough of groups has encountered an atmosphere like that of 2011-era lj-multiplicity, where a facade of get-along chumminess conceals a sea of seething resentments, patrolled by sharks who everyone knows are problems but don’t dare boot (either because they run the place or attack those who they catch warning about them), leaving newcomers to fend for themselves. Except in the most flagrant, obvious cases, if a problem gets reported, the mods do nothing; at best, they encourage everyone to get along. The victims, realizing there’s no point in turning to the mods, mostly go silent and disappear, though a few become cage-fighters who rip the face off of anyone who looks at them funny. (After all, the mods won’t stop them!) Others learn exactly who they’re allowed to bully and how, knowing that they’ll never face consequences. Everyone else just looks away and pretends nothing’s happening, trying to avoid the negativity, not realizing that their avoidance contributes to it. Most people pretend that as long as they keep their heads down and don’t make waves, they’ll be safe, and the unpleasantness is mostly suppressed… until, of course, an outlet appears.
Pluralanon is an anonymous Livejournal account created supposedly to be an anonymous place to discuss plurality; instead, all the festering resentment that’s been seething under the surface of lj-multiplicity erupts in a geyser of blood, bile, and suicide jokes. (No, I won’t cite those; go to pluralanon.livejournal.com and trawl it yourself.) After all, everyone knows they’re unlikely to be caught and that the mods won’t stop them. And while previously, people were able to believe in an us-vs.-them of singlet trolls harassing plurals, pluralanon makes it clear that the harassment is coming from within. Some of the personal attacks are vague or could’ve been gotten from public sources, but others are specific and personal enough that I feel safe saying there was at least one inside man—after all, how would anyone know or care of a random new account’s existence without someone playing herald and telling lj-multiplicity about it (and then members of lj-multiplicity joining the fray, giving pluralanon momentum)?
A healthy community could’ve shrugged off pluralanon; instead, all hell breaks loose. Trust in the community and the mods is broken, and a community like lj-multiplicity can only exist with trust—otherwise, why not just hang out with the trolls and cut out the middle man? Despite lj-multiplicity pulling on more moderators and trying to correct course, the comm is killed, and though it still exists, it’s now only a shadow of its former self.
Nowadays, it seems unfathomable that lj-multiplicity made it a whole decade before something like this happened. But that’s because in the wake of Livejournal’s demise, everyone flees to tumblr (after a short stop at Dreamwidth). (Except the tulpamancers, who are busy building on 4chan and Reddit around this time.)
(Sidenote: Tulpamancers)
Okay, this is another huge gap in my knowledge. The concept of a “tulpa” was apparently an obscure Tibetan term, yoinked about a century ago by the theosophists, which through a long game of Western occultist telephone became this very western concept of a sentient thoughtform (or headmate) deliberately created for labor, companionship, and so on. There’s also pop culture influence—a 1999 X-files episode called “Arcadia” and a 2006 Supernatural episode called “Hell House.” So the tulpamancer community probably has roots further back than I know, especially seeing as they may have spawned up around the 4chan /x/ board. The best date I’ve been able to get in a quick rush is “2009ish.” They really like My Little Pony. On October 3, 2009, the Reddit tulpa board is created. On 2012, I see them on Livejournal, but only in X-Files or Supernatural fandom terms (into-the-woods, 2012); they never appear on lj-multiplicity, as far as I know, perhaps because the community was mostly dead by that point.
This is the extent of my meager knowledge of the tulpa community. Probably an actual tulpamancer has made a much better history, sorry.
The Genic Slapfight
No, I won’t dignify the Genic Slapfight by calling it a war. On the surface, it’s just another silly plural sandbox fight, this time fought over the legitimacy of how one became plural. The suffix “-genic” is used here as a synonym for “-originated” or “-based.” Thus, “traumagenic” plurals source their plurality to trauma; “endogenic” plurals don’t. (This is an oversimplification; I’ve seen a lot of logical contortions as people try to redefine the terms so as to keep themselves comfortable in the face of changing realities.) So on one level, the Genic Slapfight seems to be just another iteration of tensions between “empowered multiples” and “survivor multiples,” or “natural multiples” and “trauma-based multiples,” or “MPD/DID/DDNOS/OSDD multiples” and “those fakers over there.” However, unlike other online turf wars, the Genic Slapfight grows legs and somewhat spreads off tumblr, where it originates.
I’ve met people who are under the impressions that the Genic Slapfight is longstanding and global, but that’s bull. It started on tumblr, and I’ve found no sign of its existence earlier than August 2014.
On August 7, the Lunastus Collective (formerly known as Trash Can Collective) post on Tumblr that they are "being told that using those terms [multiple and multiple system] is appropriative of the DID community [...] Being told [natural multiplicity] can’t possibly be a thing, and it’s trivializing DID folks to say it happens" (2014, August 7). To avoid spurious claims of cultural appropriation (and oh, we’ll get to that), they come up with "words to use for 'multiplicity', without using the word 'multiplicity', 'plurality', or anything relating to that" to describe plural experience, by necessity abstruse and esoteric. The most successful of these terms was "endogenous," which at some point later was changed to "endogenic."
Unsurprisingly, the trolls claiming trivialization and appropriation aren’t satisfied. They promptly use Lunastus Collective’s own terminology to create the term “traumagenic” and then continue claiming that any other existence of plurality is ableist/appropriating/trivializing/otherwise proof that the plural making the claim is a Bad Oppressor.
This argument is nonsense, and it shouldn’t pass a basic sniff test. So how does it manage to spread off of tumblr, to the point that I now have to field personal questions about my origins in real life conventions? Well, first, let’s talk about the design of tumblr itself, and its contrast with Livejournal.
Livejournal is designed to be a diary on the Internet; there was no one-click reblogging (at least, while we were there, from 2007-2014), and by the time we joined it in 2007, users could control exactly who read what. Tumblr, however, is designed to share something as quickly as possible, and privacy was never a consideration. There are no filters, no locks; it’s all public 24/7 (until it adds chat capacity and locked accounts, the latter of which never works well). Due to tumblr’s reblogging system, removing a post is nigh-impossible; even if the original is deleted, the reblogs will still exist.
Furthermore, tumblr throws people together in a way Livejournal never did. Livejournal Lars can easily run his blog without ever encountering other people; indeed, that’s the default starting state. On tumblr, however, other people’s posts and accounts are constantly getting recommended through the algorithm; avoiding other people is hard. And a post that gets big (for instance, by evoking outrage) gets spread to more and more people, even when it’s wrong, and the more people reblog and try to correct it, the higher its profile becomes.
On Livejournal, reblogging wasn’t a thing. Even the biggest, most popular post required active searching, while if a tumblr post went viral, there was no escaping it!
The Genic Slapfight, at its base, is another iteration of, “the only legitimate plurals are traumatized/medicalized.” However, it adds a new twist to the business by dressing this idea up in pseudo-academic terms that can only come from the stuff-in-a-blender kludge that is Tumblr “social justice.” Now the argument is roughly, “the only legitimate plurals are traumatized/medicalized, and anyone who claims otherwise is appropriating, ableist, or otherwise a Bad Oppressor.”
This is nonsense. A diagnosis is not a culture, and ergo, it can not be culturally appropriated. And if one uses “appropriation” as a euphemism for theft, it still isn’t applicable, because you can’t steal a diagnosis or disease! You can fake it, lie about it, be wrong about it, but you can’t steal it. And to consider an entire state of being, itself with a long, variegated history, to be oppressive to the disabled unless it is experienced in a medically-authorized manner… needless to say, this flies in the face of everything the disability liberation movement strives for. Ditto the idea of “trivialization,” which implies a certain level of suffering must be performed in public for the sake of disabled people everywhere.
But breaking all that down, as I’ve just demonstrated, requires a long dragging explanation of things like cultural appropriation and disability liberation. It’s clunky, and it risks the (much shorter, snappier) response of, “that you are arguing with me only proves my point.” Who wants to read three paragraphs of grinding academic theory that isn’t even being cited correctly in the first place?
But the Genic Slapfight isn’t just cynical, twisted, and theoretically incorrect; it’s factually incorrect. “Traumagenic” as an identity couldn’t have existed before 2014, because the Lunastus Collective hadn’t created the -genic terms until then! And the older terms like MPD/DID/DDNOS/OSDD and “trauma-based” are not the same as “traumagenic.” The cultures around them are different, the identities are different. (Just try going to a DID conference like Infinite Mind or IGDID and say the word “endogenic.”) These jerks are the newcomers to the party, and here they are claiming they own the whole place!
But they don’t. Plurals have existed for a long time, in all sorts of different ways, from all sorts of walks of life. The claim that we are solely created by trauma is a recent and far from universal social belief, and it isn’t supported by any research that I know of.
At least the pendulum seems to be swinging a bit in the other direction. On January 18, 2019, a Youtuber with the handle of hbomberguy runs a livestream of him playing Donkey Kong 64 to raise money for charity (and to spite a transphobic comedian). In it, a speed-runner going by protomagicalgirl (now doublegearsystem), discloses their plurality to thousands and thousands viewers, saying, “We should do a formal introduction—for those who don’t know us, hi! We’re protomagicalgirl, a plural trans speed-runner, […] I see some plural gang in the chat! Can we get some more plural gang in the chat? All of our multiples out there, we all love you, all three of us!” (Harvey, 2019)
#Pluralgang becomes a hashtag on Twitter, side-stepping the genic slapfight, and creating its own plural umbrella, building on the legacy of Vickis twenty years prior. May we continue building in that direction.
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One minor detail: hbomberguy did the donkey kong stream to spite Graham Linehan (aka glinner), who is a comedian, not a politician! He is a very sad man who's so obsessed with hating trans people that he got banned from twitter for being such a raging transphobe, and certainly not remotely funny. But before that, he did some transphobic shit, so hbomberguy owned him by raising over $340,000 for Mermaids, a UK charity for trans kids
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