Reviews for Shinigami Eyes
Shinigami Eyes by Shinigami Eyes
Review by Firefox user 18701018
Rated 1 out of 5
by Firefox user 18701018, a year agoThis was once useful for flagging bigots - it is now itself exclusionary.
1,256 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by GPOfr, 7 hours agoA trans woman who has done nothing but uphold trans rights and fought for the right of trans women will get flagged red for saying she isn't engaging in transandrophobia discourse. She gets back to green after a while, but she mentions that she thinks that shinigami eyes is unhelpful. She gets marked red, leading to people disengaging with her and harassing her. She doesn't even say transandrophobia is real (imo it's not), she just doesn't engage in it, and then is rightfully not trusting an addon that has negatively affected her online safety and life. This isn't some hypothetical I made up, this is a real tumblr user I won't use the name of to not get her harassed.
nowadays, I see a lot more trans women marked red than actual radfems. Most of the times unless they are REALLY well known radfems or transphobes (think JKR of Ben Shapiro) their name won't be red. But a trans woman who would die for other trans women, who actively uplifts other trans women, and often did more good for the trans community than most people, will be marked red because disagreed on terminology or because she might not have the full information on some terms (thinking cagab was created by intersex people when it was created by a trans woman, for example). When I see someone marked red, more often than not they check one of those boxes: trans woman who disagreed with a more popular transfeminine blogger, intersex person, or trans person of color. The purpose of a system is what it does: shinigami eyes is used mostly to tell whether a trans woman, an intersex person or a trans person of colour has argued with other trans women about intersectionality theories and terminology, and people will be marked green as long as they disagree with those people, so this is what it's used for. The rare instances of a radfem/actual transphobe being marked red are still somewhat useful as a prompt to check their account to see if there is an actual problem in their behaviour or if she is a trans woman that got mass reported for saying shinigami eyes was not safe, but that's about it. To use wisely, don't let it be your only judge. I'm marked green and some people who do far more than me are marked red. - Rated 1 out of 5by Aonaka, 16 hours agoThis add-on *used* to be super helpful. But recently the developers have decided to start wrongfully flagging trans masculine people and generally queer people of color red. Absolutely useless to normal people now.
 - Rated 1 out of 5by galaxygummy, a day agoNo longer useable as over half of the red accounts, on a manual check, are trans friendly/actually transgender. Attempting to rectify this isnt affective. It is much better to use your own judgement.
 - Rated 1 out of 5by LVTB, 2 days ago
 - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19551740, 2 days ago
 - Rated 5 out of 5by Dailybugler, 4 days ago
 - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17694475, 5 days agoserious racism problem - for some reason a lot of black trans folk and black trans-positive folk get marked red for calling out racism. meanwhile users who claim that being nonbinary is fake, suicide-bait trans women, and state that transmascs should detransition or die are marked as green.
i kinda doubt anything will be done about this. people just dont seem to care about racism and just focus on punishing people for calling it out. i have no doubt in my mind that the creator of this extension is either anti-black themself, or simply permits anti-blackness because it does not impact them personally - Rated 2 out of 5by sharpie, 5 days agoused to be useful but over the years a bunch of queer infighting has lead to a lot of trans-friendly spaces and people getting marked red because they're not trans in the "right way" or something.
 - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19548780, 6 days ago
 - Rated 1 out of 5by Mojo, 7 days agoWhile it was never 100% accurate, the current state of the extension is pretty dire. I appreciate that it can be logistically difficult or even impossible to manually verify every report, as well as emotionally draining, but letting it remain in this a confusing and potentially defamatory state is worse than it not existing at all. The young trans people I support in a queer youth group are pessimistic enough about life already without being made to be paranoid about things they needn't be or tricked into viewing potentially traumatic content as a result of a poorly moderated extension.
Transphobes famously spend almost all of their free time trolling anything remotely related to being trans online, you cannot run something like this without having safeguards in place to prevent interfernece. I sympathise, but I think it's time to admit that it's become too big for you to manage and to retire the extension. It's kinder than allowing people to believe it will give them any kind of control over their online experience and being let down. - Rated 1 out of 5by Elisavet, 8 days agoMy experience is that almost every trans individual who is intersex, POC, and/or nonwhite and who speaks openly in favour of trans rights has been marked red in this app.
Abuse of the app is rampant and uncontrolled to a point that it feels it is by design. I'm really tired of seeing actual trans activists getting put in the same boat as JKR. It's demoralizing how much this app exacerbates intra-community tensions by allowing petty users to mark anybody whose vibes they just don't like as "anti-trans". - Rated 1 out of 5by Vriska, 9 days ago
 - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19539583, 12 days agoUsed to be very helpful but is clearly being used to target people someone doesnt agree with. I say that as a transfem who is hating seeing it used against my trans siblings.
 - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19537223, 13 days ago
 - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19057933, 14 days agoIt's a good addon, but it would be really nice to see exactly why some accounts or websites are marked red, also gives people complaining about being marked red for anti-feminist sentiments less wiggle room.
 - Rated 5 out of 5by lesbiannerd640, 14 days agoIgnore the review bombers. They are straight up transmisogynists that are angry at being called out. Trans women and transfems can be transmisogynistic. There is a huge wave of intracommunity transmisogyny lately. I have NEVER seen a false positive, and *maybe* one false negative - and SO MANY people who are marked red who are objectively unsafe to be around as a trans woman.
I have been marked green on multiple accounts. Each time it happened after I said something that demonstrates an understanding of what transmisogyny is, what it is like, and how to *not use it against people*. Never in my lifetime of using this have I seen someone marked green who didn't clearly deserve to be. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19535359, 14 days ago
 - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19534951, 15 days agoin theory useful but the people who currently decide who is and is not "transphobic" for this addon are hateful people who want you to trust their information unquestioningly. there is no way to see why someone is marked red or green, and many outspoken transgender people and activists are marked red for no apparent reason. do not use this extension if you actually want to avoid transphobes
 - Rated 1 out of 5by Liskar, 15 days ago
 - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 19533346, 16 days ago
 - Rated 1 out of 5by Delta_Nyx, 17 days ago
 - Rated 5 out of 5by SnowyFoxy, 18 days ago