In lieu of putting up a film review this Friday (as is tradition, an old charter, or something), I have breaking self indulgent news that nonetheless could have an impact on this site. For reasons unknown, I have been banned from X (Twitter as it will always be to me)! I went to stick up my latest review post and link and recieved a message saying 'After careful review, we have determined your account broke the X Rules'. Further investigation (well...a dive into my junk email) revealed the following:
I've read through their 'authenticity' guidelines and really can't see that I have broken any of them. I do find it a bit insulting I have been accused of being inauthentic, when this site is entirely written by me, and provides my personal thoughts and feeling on whatever media I cover. It could also be (as it says) due to me having been reported by someone (perhaps someone unhappy with a negative review!), but I go more towards it being randomly done by a bot scrapping the site for spam accounts and inadvertently flagging my poor account.
In one respect it is a bit of a relief to be off of X, even if it wasn't by my own choice. I joined Twitter just before it got big, and due to that, I had by far the most followers on that platform (over 4000). In recent years it has become full of hate speech (that the rules ironically state is forbidden), and more unappealingly, it is owned by a petty man-child who thinks it is perfectly fine to do Nazi salutes and meddle in elections. It has been a legitimate private concern of mine to be using a platform such as that, but due to the biggest follower count, I felt I had to use it.
In one respect it is a bit of a relief to be off of X, even if it wasn't by my own choice. I joined Twitter just before it got big, and due to that, I had by far the most followers on that platform (over 4000). In recent years it has become full of hate speech (that the rules ironically state is forbidden), and more unappealingly, it is owned by a petty man-child who thinks it is perfectly fine to do Nazi salutes and meddle in elections. It has been a legitimate private concern of mine to be using a platform such as that, but due to the biggest follower count, I felt I had to use it.
This is all to plug the other social media sites I use to promote my blog. I'm not saying these are perfect sites either, but at least they have a slightly less dirty feel than X did. I don't know if being off that platform will reduce review and news requests sent my way. To be honest, I have zero idea how anyone finds their way to my site! Thankfully, this isn't a business here, I do it as a fan of horror, and as an excuse to practice my typing skills.
Anyway, if you could see it in your heart to follow me on any or all of the following it would be greatly appreciated. If you can't be bothered; well that's fine also!
Facebook: The Rotting Zombie
Threads: the_rotting_zombie
Bluesky: @therottingzombie.bsky.social
If you are really desperate then you can also check out my barely used YouTube channel also:
Anyway, that is it, moan and shameless plug over. Next week I will be travelling to Melbourne and then returning home to good ole blighty, so I likely won't be able to get any posts put up until the week after when I am safely nestled back in The Rotting Zombie HQ.
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