Using the word 'asshole' to describe someone who would delight in a slow animal death and a partly decomposed body as 'part of the beauty of nature' is not bullying. And I still sort of do to keep things simple.) 'Pike the dyke' didn't bother me as much as the insults about my eyesight I acknowledge that was bullying. I did identify as bisexual for many years. Especially demi, which I only, in recent years, realized I am. But not much was commonly known about aesexuality back then. When rumors started about my sexuality in the mid-90s (I was fifteen) I was 'Pike the Dyke.' (Ironic since I'm not sexually active. Bookbags stolen and re-appearing later with the word 'Cyclops' written across the front in permanent marker. NOT literal blindness) I can share a few stories. I am borderline legally blind (that means very poor eyesight. I often said this twisting of the word is what killed the Stomp Out Bullying campaign of a few years ago because it resulted in kids throwing around the word bully to anyone they don't like and therefor justifying how they treat them.Īs someone who has dealt with actual bullying in the 1990s it angers me that calling those who condone animal abuse 'asshole' is now 'bullying' to far too many people. Simply calling those who would willingly post such things asshole is now 'bullying.'Īnd you know what that means? The moment you are labeled 'Bully' that means it's a free-for-all to do what you want to the person who has been branded bully because 'Bullies deserve what they get.'

And who was I bullying? Who did I use these 'mean, mean' words on? People who posted tortured dead bats that died in agony. There is a large number of people in the Batty for Bats group who have decided to label me with Bully for using the words Asshole and stupid SOB (I remember the stupid part but not the SOB but I don't mind the idea of calling animal abusers SOB so I'll let it slide). I really don't like how loose the word Bully has become. Catch on yet, fifty-somethings trying to sound cool? You should have tried to make yourselves more like Discord, not Twitter. If I am forced to use this version I will stop using IMVU all together and just role play on Discord. It is as if the current tech team don’t even know about these features. You cannot drag and slide furniture items when decorating rooms. Speaking as someone who is visually impaired, it is very hard to see my own products in my inventory since it is just a blank, white maniquin wearing the item and you cannot zoom in.ġ0. It falsely detects Internet connections as slow when they are not and then won't allow text to appear on the chat room box, meanwhile I have the classic IMVU open on the same computer along with Discord and both are working just fine. In the 'Classic' IMVU app you can do this and it allows you to check your avatar KB, something many newer users don't even realize they are capable of and the new app isn't capable of at all.Ĩ. You cannot move avatar names to under the avatar. Again, this manages to make IMVU of 2006 look high tech.ħ. It's nothing more than a thinly disguised and very crude web browser that can only take you to the IMVU Next website.

IMVU of 2006 should not feel more advanced than present day IMVU.Ħ. If I buy a book case I should be able to put it in all my rooms if I so choose and duplicate it as many times as I wish. You cannot duplicate furniture that is already in use in one room. How do you even publish a public room on this version? It's not intuitive.ĥ. It makes it difficult to log RP sessions.Ĥ. Using 'talk bubbles' in the chat box is not cute or clever. Again, this is very distracting as the talk bubbles are redundant when you are reading the chat room.ģ. You do not allow 'Control and B' to remove talk bubbles anymore. Why are you trying so hard to be Twitter? If we wanted to be on Twitter we would be on Twitter. Why are you trying so hard to be like Twitter? No other social media site imitates Twitter's very short character limitations.

Most of the people who use your public chat rooms are role players.

You only allow 120 characters in any given chat room. I write this as if I am addressing IMVU staff directly in the hope someone with some sanity might actually see this.ġ. Why I despise the new IMVU next version of the desktop app (You can still get IMVU classic.

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