Hi all!!
In the years I’ve been on this site, my heart has been warmed by how kind and empathetic the community and staff are- which is why I was stunned and honestly disgusted to see this ad just now.
Yeah, an ad trying to bribe us to side with genocide for… an enamel pin? As I’m sure most people know, more than 35,000 Palestinians have been killed in what all valid sources define as a genocide. As someone with loved ones who have been lost to this, not only did this upset me beyond belief, but it made one of my favourite websites suddenly less safe.
I believe this is an issue of the ad service they use, not them personally, but that doesn’t negate the fact that the ad is terrible and shouldn’t be shown here, especially considering it leads to a site that’s by definition propaganda on a website that boasts its child safety. While I don’t actually have any images of this, I’ve also seen ads trying to convert the viewer to religions with threatening subtext and other somewhat sketchy subject matter- just generally a lot of ads that don’t belong here.
But yeah… this isn’t okay. I apologise if any of what I’ve said has been presented in a way that’s against site rules or isn’t clear, but I’m a little emotional while writing this.