Ugh. Always back up your work locally folks, that goes without saying. And it’s probably a good idea to have multiple Google accounts, and not use the one with your real name/normie facade.
I know the article states that she was banned for “spamming” to her alpha/beta readers, but I don’t fully buy it. I’m pretty sure she was flagged by AI long before that. For instance, I can tell you from personal experience that AIs considers depictions of multi-size relationships, even romantic, consensual ones, as inappropriate (because of “power imbalance”, etc.). It’s the same LLMs that are used when parsing and evaluating texts so I wouldn’t be surprised if such a thing could happen to one of us in the future. Google ARE crawling Google Docs to feed their models (opt-out or not), I can guarantee that.
That article reminded me of the LiveJournal purges. LJ was my first ever online blog in 1999, and I’ve never been so involved in a community since. It was mostly about music and programming, but I did shadow drop sizey hints here and there lol. I had even purchased a lifetime membership… the sale to 6A and subsequent sale to that shady Russian company killed LJ, and caused a great exodus second only to the Tumblr purges (this one seems to have recovered?!).
In 2018, Tumblr banned “adult content,” and queer communities warned that losing their spaces online would make things even more difficult for queer youth and others questioning or discovering their sexuality.
I want to add that even though we are not persecuted in the same ways that queer communities are, don’t underestimate the importance having a safe space to discuss SFW and NSFW size stuff online for youth discovering their size kinks. I guess younger members don’t see it because they’ve been lucky enough to grow up in a world already providing those spaces. We should always stay vigilant when things like this happens. Make no mistake, if they come for them they’ll come for us.