Telling your kids “You have to obey me because I’m feeding and housing you” is just gonna train them to never ask for or accept help as adults because the attached strings just aren’t worth it. I believe parents who say this also send their friends a bill when they pay for lunch.
If you get a new blog following you and immediately sending you an ask requesting help with vet bills for their cat, that is a scam. It is always a scam.
This time, the blog in question was created yesterday and reblogged a ton of stuff to seem legit.
Don’t fall for this shit.
also
THERE IS NO DOG
THERE IS NO SICK PARENT/CHILD
bc i’ve been getting repeated instances of this kind of thing too.
Ways to help determine if a request is a scam;
This is not a thing people asking for help on tumblr actually do. If someone really needs help they’ll make a post, and MAYBE ask some mutuals that have larger followings to reblog it, usually by @‘ing NOT by sending an ask.
Go to the blog the ask is from. Scroll down as far as you can. Usually for scam requests, the blog will be very new, and the oldest reblogs only a day or two old. I’ve heard of some waiting a bit longer to break out the scam, but haven’t seen it myself.
There usually won’t be any tags on the posts either, aside from the pinned post, which will be a copy of the help request.
Genuinely fucked that cultural perception of aging is getting warped to the point where people in their twenties are considered old at the same time that all the constructed milestones of independence and self sufficiency that have become expected of adulthood are getting further out of reach for the majority of people. Like, no, you haven’t missed out on anything, no one has “wasted” their 20s, or 30s, or any stretch of time, it’s just that a lot of things really fucking suck right now. There isn’t anything important you can do at, say, age 21 that you can’t also do every other age after that.
