Reviews for Shinigami Eyes
Shinigami Eyes by Shinigami Eyes
Review by Anomaly
Rated 1 out of 5
by Anomaly, 2 years agoI've seen a lot of discussion about this extension online recently, so I wanted to make a review giving my thoughts on this.
As other reviews have stated, the creator is liable to flagging intersex advocates and people who are anti-transmed as transphobic. There have also been incidents in the past where transphobes have worked together to create false flags.
At its core there is an issue with tools that either label people as good or bad with zero context. You don't know if someone who's transphobic on a tool like Shinigami eyes -or even blocklists for that matter - is on there for harassing trans people, is on there because of an intra-community disagreement, or a blacklist creator or submitter personally decided to put them on there for an unrelated reasons. These types of tools can be used to isolate people from their community and smear names.
I truly do understand why people flock to a tool like Shinigami Eyes. We are a group of people that are burnt out of being in danger and having to deal with harassment and want a way that we can easily know who to avoid. It sounds great in theory, but in practice, these types of issues are always liable to happen whether it's with Shinigami Eyes, a curated blacklist, or the callout of the week.
The best you can really do is curate your online space. Check people's posts yourself before you follow them, quietly block whenever you see something you want to avoid, and don't over rely on face-paced social media.
As other reviews have stated, the creator is liable to flagging intersex advocates and people who are anti-transmed as transphobic. There have also been incidents in the past where transphobes have worked together to create false flags.
At its core there is an issue with tools that either label people as good or bad with zero context. You don't know if someone who's transphobic on a tool like Shinigami eyes -or even blocklists for that matter - is on there for harassing trans people, is on there because of an intra-community disagreement, or a blacklist creator or submitter personally decided to put them on there for an unrelated reasons. These types of tools can be used to isolate people from their community and smear names.
I truly do understand why people flock to a tool like Shinigami Eyes. We are a group of people that are burnt out of being in danger and having to deal with harassment and want a way that we can easily know who to avoid. It sounds great in theory, but in practice, these types of issues are always liable to happen whether it's with Shinigami Eyes, a curated blacklist, or the callout of the week.
The best you can really do is curate your online space. Check people's posts yourself before you follow them, quietly block whenever you see something you want to avoid, and don't over rely on face-paced social media.
1,453 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Alice, 6 hours agoGenuinely the most important add-on you can have as a trans woman. The one star ratings are transphobes raiding it and trying to ruin its reputation. It helps identify known transphobes online incredibly quick so you know to block and avoid.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 20215632, 12 hours ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Void of Nothing, a day agoFor all the reviewbombing and hate from people who would presumably send me death threats on tumblr dot com, ive never seen a user marked as anti trans who didn’t hold some sort of transmisogynistic views. it legitimately never misses. i also like how you can change the colors, i personally like purple and yellow. good extension 👍
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17628811, a day agoIt's interesting how an app made by and for trans women, to help easily spot/avoid transmisogynists, is being review-bombed and smeared as a "dangerous" "fascist" app.
And by interesting I mean oh my god you people can't let trans women have anything without throwing a huge hissy fit. Get over yourselves. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16876736, a day agopeople thinking theyre being marked incorrectly are absolutely marked correctly and are just transmisogynist in ways they couldnt even concieve of as bigoted because they are not transfem or they have internalized transmisogyny. this tool keeps trans women safe in ways that a lot of others simply cannot do.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18528934, a day ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by shitsass, 7 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Kayn, 10 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Morgan, 15 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by normalgirl, 23 days agoit filters out the brainless whiny dickhead bigots you see throwing a tantrum in this review section
- Rated 1 out of 5by Raven, a month agoThis extension claims to help keep trans people safe, but users of it mark random intersex people red in order to cut them off from community. There are also mental health resources marked red not for trans-related issues at all, but because they are for "controversial" conditions like DID and OSDD.
Signed, a trans woman with OSDD. - Rated 1 out of 5by ANP, a month agoI've seem people who post rhetoric that is incredibly intersexist and exorsexist marked green (e.g., arguing that someone who says they are transfem and transmasc are actually just transmasc).
Not to mention any black queer person who dares to be vocal about anti-blackness in the white queer community, gets marked red — regardless of how supportive of trans people they are.
I saw this all the time back when I used the extension on Mastodon. And it's just as bad on Tumblr.
In addition to the above, it's frequently misused on those critical of the use of TMA/TME terms, especially on Tumblr.
Said terms force trans men and enbies to reveal their gender assigned at birth, and ignore the fact that bigots *do not care* if someone is actually a trans woman or not when discriminating against them. "Misdirected" transmisogyny towards a trans man being mistaken for a trans woman can still get him killed just as easily. Yet if said trans man identifies with this term based on real experiences, he is seen as misappropriating it.
The guidelines were very clear on how to label people; green is for people who advocate for trans people. It doesn't require subscribing to a specific subset of ideas within transgender activism.
This extension is arguably worse than useless depending on what sites you're using. If you do use it, do not blindly trust the labels, and do not trust anyone telling you that all criticism of the extension is based in bigotry.
This is a reminder that anyone can submit a label, whether they got angry at someone in a media debate, or meticulously scrolled through someone's profile before deciding how to label them. Do not crowdsource your decision-making. - Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 20150932, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 20150463, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by fjfhdhdhdh, a month agoThis used to mark actual transmisogynists and actual transphobes in general as red, now the extension just marks trans people, non-binary people, intersex people, and people of color as red for no reason. If you hate marginalized groups, this is the perfect extension for you. If you really want to see if someone is actually transmisogynistic or not just check their blog instead. Relying on this extension to always be correct is like relying on ChatGPT to always be correct. And for the positive reviews, it's not transphobic nor misogynistic to call out this extension for what it is. Stop watering down words used to describe people's oppresion. It's obvious the users supporting this extension are just TERFs pretending to care about trans rights.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17511759, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Gaardus, a month agoIn my experience, those marked red tend to fall into two categories: "person/group so outwardly transphobic that the marking, though accurate, is unnecessary" and "trans/nonbinary/intersex person who got into argument with a(nother) trans person but showed no evidence of transphobia, even when I went looking for it." Not every marking falls into those two categories, but the latter happens frequently enough that I don't trust Shinigami Eyes to be accurate when it actually matters.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Krusnov, a month agoI thought all the 1 star reviews were just a bunch of transphobes but no this thing just randomly marks people, basically anything that talks about trans people will be marked red regardless of context
- Rated 1 out of 5by Star, 2 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by bababooey, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19710293, 2 months agoGreat way to avoid anyone who isnt a transfeminist. I always check and it's yet to be wrong
- Rated 5 out of 5by faken, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 20091312, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by windowsxp, 2 months ago