Unfortunately fandom has always had to deal with this for certain pairings, for as far back as I can remember.
Tumblr just makes it worse because it's right there in a tag all the time, so it's not like you can get away from it whereas on forums on journals, bashing and trolling still happened, but there was at least some level of moderation and posts were easily deleted.
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Tumblr just makes it worse because it's right there in a tag all the time, so it's not like you can get away from it whereas on forums on journals, bashing and trolling still happened, but there was at least some level of moderation and posts were easily deleted.