It's been a little more since the last post on Your Fave Is Problematic, a popular Tumblr from the early 2010s. Since then, criticizing, calling out and "canceling": https://news.knowyourmeme.com/memes/cancel-culture/ celebrities for insensitive, ignorant and even pointedly hurtful behavior has become the norm online. With the connection between fans and celebrities getting blurrier every day, the Is Over Parties never end.

But the person who basically started the party has some regrets.

Writing for the New York Times, Liat Kaplan, who founded the blog in March 2013 and remained anonymous ever since, says that the blog didn't just document the inappropriate behavior of celebrities, but also the worst year of their life.

"The blog started, as so many anonymous online projects do, as vengeful public shaming masquerading as social criticism," Kaplan writes. "I was fine-tuning my moral compass and coming into my own as a feminist. "

"When I noticed classmates making sexist jokes on Facebook, including some about me, I started taking screenshots to post on a Tumblr called Calling Out Sexists. My policy was that I would take down a post only if its author publicly apologized."

a true, genuine gasp at the unmasking of Your Fave Is Problematic, a Tumblr that I personally believe is where all this gestures vaguely started https://t.co/HwfTProeow

— kate lindsay (@kathrynfiona) February 25, 2021

After being threatened with legal action over the posts, Kaplan moved onto celebrity culture. Public figures can't sue you for posting about them, right? She rebranded, posting submissions from other Tumblr users of "screenshots featuring statements from minor celebrities."

In their essay, Kaplan describes that they took a keener interest in the blog following their sister's sudden death. They spent the year away from school, online and posting about celebrities.

The blog was a success, garnering more than 50,000 followers at its peak in 2014 when Liat was a high school senior. However, the popularity of the blog brought with it a dangerous element. Kaplan received threats, including Google Maps photos of a house (not their's) and messages about their IP address.

Kaplan says that the threats decreased their interest in Tumblr, which gave them perspective on their role in the now-neverending celebrity discourse cycle.

this blog literally shaped internet culture in so many ways https://t.co/3TmUpLVaSd

— gauri (@hathasIay) February 25, 2021

"In the years since, I’ve looked back on my blog with shame and regret -- about my pettiness, my motivating rage, my hard-and-fast assumptions that people were either good or bad," Kaplan writes." Who was I to lump together known misogynists with people who got tattoos in languages they didn’t speak? I just wanted to see someone face consequences; no one who’d hurt me ever had."

"My brain wasn’t ready for nuance. I was angered by hypocrisy and cruelty; what I did about it was apply a level of scrutiny that left no room for error. I’m not saying that I should be canceled for my teenage blog. (Please don't!) I just know what we all should know by now: that no one who has lived publicly, online or off, has a spotless record."

However, Kaplan is a realist. Simply deleting the blog isn't going to put Pandora back in the box. Much in the way Kaplan was able to dig up past on celebrities, they know that what's on the blog is likely there forever because as Kaplan puts it, "The internet, after all, never forgets."