full disclosure: I'm "friends" with DTWPS/Riley on tumblr (as much as anyone can be tumblr-friends with someone) but didn't know they were GNN until reading this and never would have given them the time of day had I known they were the same person.

I really don't know how to feel about this. I've been following Arkh from the beginning (as in I remember the original post about it) and tbh the original calling out of Arkh had some decent points but it was couched in so much grudge against Riley that it was hard to take on merits. You also have to understand that this is the first time there's really been any legit criticism of the project. It's mainly been "baw haw what about teh straight white menz?" So that explains some of the pushback you're seeing on this. tumblr POC/allies tends to be a small and insular circle and very protective of one another by necessity, just dealing with the garbage we get on a daily basis. You don't even necessarily have to be an ~SJ crusader~, just be a POC calling out racism and you'll get all kinds of abuse (a friend of mine literally had an entire day recently with anon message after anon message calling her the N word all day long). Racist assholes on tumblr are so perpetually wretched that someone like Riley/GNN can thrive in that kind of environment and not look unreasonable at all. Which is how I suspect they suckered a lot of us in. Mix all of this together and it's a toxic cocktail for awful things.

Knowing what I do of GNN's history though, it seriously makes me sick to my stomach. Mostly I just feel had, and furious because Riley has a lot of really good and decent POC (particularly WOC) followers on tumblr that don't deserve this kind of shitty betrayal. Also because Arkh is a great idea that deserves better than all of this. Much better.