Woody's Roundup

About

Woody's Roundup refers to a series of Toy Story roleplaying blogs that took the name of several deactivated Nazi, pedophile, and TERF blogs on Tumblr and shitpost under the names lines said by the character Woody, such as "Howdy, Pardner" and "You're my favorite deputy." It is occasionally is referred to as "Woody Collective" or "Woody Hivemind."

Background

The beginning of the event has its origins in Spring of 2017. On April 20th, Tumblr user kagrenacs^[1] first brought the raid to light in a post discussing how a Tumblr user called neonjude deactivated after getting mad at kagrenacs' Elder Scrolls Headcanons. kagrenacs later got a notification from a user called nucleic-asshole that simply said "Yerma favrit deputee." After doing some digging, kagrenacs discovered many posts where long threads featuring usernames that previously belonged to Nazi, pedophile, and TERF blogs simply replying "Pardner."

These blogs all changed their profile image to a screenshot of Woody from an early test-screening of Toy Story (shown below) and many of the blog titles simply read "Howdy, Pardner."

On June 27th, 2017, Tumblr user snoopingasusualisee^[5] admitted that they started the Woody Collective "about a year ago."^[5]

Developments

The roundup continued to grow over the next two months, as more and more blogs were claimed. Woody's Roundup generally responds to posts in which people proffer negative opinions either in reference to fandoms or real-life events by reblogging the post over and over with different taken usernames, adding the same content on every reblog (example shown below).

Roleplaying also takes place on these blogs. There are over 40 of these blogs and the number is rapidly growing as more and more blogs are being overtaken.^[2] Many wide-spread blogs known for their racism or general nastiness have been claimed by the Roundup. The blogs claim to "keep the Wild West safe from bandits and varmints." On June 21st, the account woodysroundup,^[3] since deactivated, set forth the "rules" of the hivemind, nothing that only blogs that are considered problematic can be taken into the hivemind.

The response on Tumblr has been positive, as many on the site appreciate the trolling of blogs with problematic content. The event began getting covered by memedocumentation^[4] on June 29th.

Aquafresh Tumblr Banning

On April 29th, 2019, a Tumblr account parodying the Aquafresh Toothpaste brand with various shitposts (examples shown below) was deactivated by Tumblr moderators for alleged hate speech.

The account was relatively popular, with about 11,000 followers.^[6] Followers assumed that the ban was due to Aquafresh posting Avengers: Endgame spoilers and blamed Tumblr's moderators for having a faulty system.^[7] However, this was not the case. The person behind the Aquafresh Tumblr account was snoopingasusualisee, the person who started the Woody's Roundup trend. He, real name Josh, reported to New York Magazine^[6] that he had received an email stating Aquafresh was banned for impersonation and that other accounts of which he owned the URL, hate speech blogs he had taken over during Woody's Roundup such as bayareanazi and fuhrerofgermany were deactivated for hate speech. Josh stated that he was glad Tumblr was finally doing something about the hate speech blogs, which in itself was the original point of Woody's Roundup.

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